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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. They’re targeting the cycling market first with their METL tire, which is set to become available to the general public by early next year. Image Credits: NASA.

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

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Instead, the Great Barrier Reef Foundation, which also received a separate $1 million donation from Oceankind, took public credit for the robot research. Moreover, Oceankind itself is not a nonprofit, which are required to open their books every year in public filings to the IRS.

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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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The company’s last public fundraising announcements were more than a year ago. 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.