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Readings Show Evidence of Huge Ocean Under Mars' Surface

Futurism

The InSight lander's Seismic Experiment for the Interior Structure (SEIS) instrument observed seismic waves generated by Marsquakes and meteorite impacts to create a map of the planet's interior. We haven't found any evidence for life on Mars, but at least we have identified a place that should, in principle, be able to sustain life."

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Google workers across the globe announce international union alliance to hold Alphabet accountable

The Verge

The structure allows AWU to include Google contractors as well as full-time employees, but it also means the union isn’t currently recognized by the National Labor Relations Board, and can’t force Google management to negotiate. Minority unions like AWU get their power by building worker solidarity.

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COVID was the best thing for Kitty, as insurance apps for pets boom

TechCrunch

The proceeds will be used to scale the business beyond its home base of Sweden. Some seven in 10 pet parents take their pet’s physical and mental health more seriously than their own, so Lassie’s pitch is that it reduces not just vet costs but also prevents injuries from happening in the first place.

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Vivino raises $155 million for wine recommendation and marketplace app

TechCrunch

A lot of the building blocks are in place to make big improvements there, not least of which is the wine database that Vivino spent a decade building essentially from zero. billion pictures of wine labels right now, so building that mass of data in a good and structured way really is 10 years of work.”

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Autonomous and electric truck company Einride raises $500M in equity and debt

TechCrunch

The cash injection constitutes an equity-based $200 million Series C portion from backers including Northzone, EQT Ventures, Temasek, Swedish pension fund AMF, Polar Structure, and Norrsken VC. These vehicles are already available to shipping companies and carriers in Sweden and in the U.S. Expansion drive.

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Nordic neobank Lunar raises $77M at $2B valuation, launches crypto trading platform and B2B payments

TechCrunch

That number has now grown to 500,000 across a footprint that includes Denmark (its home base is in Copenhagen), Sweden and Norway. Crypto trading, in that context, occupies a funny place in the Nordics, Villum Klausen told me. When it raised the first tranche of the Series D, it had 325,000 customers. ”

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Jobandtalent tops up with $108M for its ‘workforce as a service’ platform

TechCrunch

Germany, France, Sweden, Mexico and Colombia); while 750+ employers are signed up to “recurrently manage a large part of their workforce”, as it puts it, including XPO, Ocado, Saint Gobain, Santander, Bayer, eBay, Huawei, Ceva Logistics and Carrefour.