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SpaceX Launching First-Ever Astronauts Over Earth's Poles Tonight

Futurism

The mission commander is the same person who's financing it: Malta-based crypto entrepreneur Chun Wang, who founded the Bitcoin mining pool F2Pool. This is a private mission. It's "a notch above gimmick," Combs told CNN , "but not exactly a groundbreaking milestone."

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Malta’s energy storage tech to stabilize electricity grids reliant on renewables gets $50 million

TechCrunch

That’s why technologies coming from companies like Malta , an energy storage technology developer that just raised $50 million in new financing, are attracting attention and venture capital investment. That modified design is what’s now being developed by Malta, which spun out from X in 2018.

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This Microsoft AI Studied 7 Years of Video-Game Play. Now It Dreams Up Whole New Game Scenarios.

Singularity Hub

Whole New Worlds Generative AI has already swept our existing digital universe. Microsoft spent seven years collecting data and training these models to demonstrate that you can actually do it, Georgios Yannakakis at the University of Malta told New Scientist , But would an actual game studio afford [to do] this?

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A year on from Russia’s invasion, Ukrainian startups show astounding resilience

TechCrunch

Sigma Software Sigma Software Group includes a VC fund, business incubator, University, and R&D centers. Before the war, UnderDefenese had a team of 60 in Ukraine, opened offices in Malta and Poland, and increased its presence in the USA to guarantee the continuity of its operations.

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The Station: Tesla’s rough week, China’s AV strategy and Joby’s air taxi play in South Korea

TechCrunch

Spin further investigated this by partnering with the University of Florida to conduct a survey of D.C. The research also found riders connect with public transit before or after about a quarter of their e-scooter or e-bike trips. travelers, almost 60% of whom have used e-scooters to connect to public transit at least once. .

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Why the global chip shortage is making it so hard to buy a PS5

The Verge

GlobalFoundries built that fab in Malta, New York, at relatively good speed. I had just been to the GlobalFoundries fab in Malta, New York, and they had spent $15 billion to get 30,000 wafer starts per month at 14 nanometers — so it’s not even leading edge, but it’s a nice fab. There’s a lot of emphasis on this problem.

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