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Hands-on with a WiSA wireless home theater system

Digital Trends

Soundbars promise great sound without the headache of wires, but they can't always compete with dedicated systems. With WiSA, you get the best of both worlds.

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Monte Carlo raises $135M Series D at $1.6B price, showing that unicorn rounds are still a thing

TechCrunch

The analogy is reasonable as both software niches deal with flagging issues with software systems in motion, if somewhat rosy for Monte Carlo — application monitoring has given birth to hugely successful companies like Datadog, which is worth just under $30 billion as of the close of trading yesterday.

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Daily Crunch: GoMechanic lays off 70% after investors discover ‘founders knowingly misstated facts’

TechCrunch

Leaning into that midday energy : Noon Energy brings Mars tech down to Earth with carbon-oxygen battery system , Tim writes. There’s a bunch more stuff happening in the world of startups today: Well oil’ll say : Kirsten reports that Shell snaps up EV charging operator Volta for $169 million.

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Candela’s hydrofoiling electric boats attract $24M investment in a bid for cleaner seas

TechCrunch

Although he compared it to a fighter jet, it might be easier to think of an all wheel drive system constantly monitoring for slip and anticipating such factors during a car’s turns. So the foil moves constantly, in real-time, to balance the boat,” explained a company representative in response to my question.

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Pear hosted its invite-only demo day online this year; here’s what you might have missed

TechCrunch

Expedock is looking to transform the freight forwarding industry by digitizing and automating the processing and inputting of unstructured data into various local partner and governmental systems, including via a “huan in the loop” AI software service. Founders: Pierre Thys (CEO) , Robert Monaco (President).

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