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Startup founded by ‘Survivor’ champ debuts airless bike tires based on NASA rover tech

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Engineers at NASA’s Glenn Research Center assemble the new shape memory alloy rover tire prior to testing in the Simulated Lunar Operations Laboratory. You’ll hear firsthand how some of the most successful founders and VCs build their businesses, raise money and manage their portfolios. Image Credits: NASA.

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Inside the secretive Silicon Valley startup trying to save the oceans with tech

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With money from the Queensland University of Technology, where he is a professor of robotics, Dunbabin’s team developed a prototype underwater robot to reseed dying reefs with tiny coral larvae. The mystery of Oceankind’s money. Page and his family are reported to have spent much of the pandemic in Fiji.

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The Station: Uber’s new battles in the UK, Lucid Motors’ second life plans and Cruise acquires Voyage

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SMART’s co-founders, Survivor: Fiji” champion Earl Cole and engineer Brian Yennie, are targeting the cycling market first with their METL tire, which is set to become available to the general public by early next year. In addition to its fourth-floor lab, Ford will have access to a high-bay garage space to test autonomous vehicles.