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TechInnovation – Yandex Self-Driving Group partners with GrubHub to bring robotic delivery to college campuses (Rebecca Bellan, TechCrunch)

Yandex Self-Driving Group, a unit of Yandex, the publicly-traded Russian tech giant, has announced a partnership with food delivery service GrubHub to be its...

TechInnovation – Verizon demos THOR, its new vehicle for frontline rapid humanitarian response (Danny Crichton, TechCrunch)

The increasingly intense heats bearing down feverishly across the globe are accelerating the number, scale, and complexity of disasters worldwide. Just in the past...

TechInnovation – Twitter shares its ideas around new privacy features, including a way to hide your account from searches (Sarah Perez, TechCrunch)

Twitter today has shared a few more ideas it’s thinking about in terms of new features around conversation health and privacy. This includes a...

TechInnovation/Defense – Nobody wins as DoD finally pulls the plug on controversial $10B JEDI contract (Ron Miller, TechCrunch)

After several years of fighting and jockeying for position by the biggest cloud infrastructure companies in the world, the Pentagon finally pulled the plug...

TechInnovation – Allozymes looks to upend chemical manufacturing with rapid enzyme engineering and $5M seed (Devin Coldewey, TechCrunch)

Part of the complex process that turns raw materials into finished products like detergents, cosmetics and flavors relies on enzymes, which facilitate chemical transformations....

TechInnovation – Single.Earth to link carbon credits to crypto token market, raises $7.9M from EQT Ventures (Mike Butcher, TechCrunch)

Here’s the theory: Instead of linking carbon and biodiversity credits to the sale of raw materials such as forests, which cause CO2, what if you linked...

TechInnovation – Meet Super.mx, the Mexico City-based insurtech that raised $7.2M from VCs and unicorn execs (Mary Ann Azevedo, TechCrunch)

Super.mx, an insurtech startup based in Mexico City, has raised $7.2 million in a Series A round led by ALLVP. Co-founded in 2019 by a...

TechInnovation – Bentley reveals Flying Spur Hybrid, its latest in the push toward electric (Rebecca Bellan, TechCrunch)

Bentley Motors, the 102-year-old ultraluxury automaker under Volkswagen Group, revealed its newest hybrid model on Tuesday. The company says this latest iteration of the...

Saudi Arabia – Saudi Arabia Steps Up Effort to Replace UAE and Qatar as Go-To Regional Hub (Dr. James M. Dorsey, BESA Center)

Saudi Arabia has stepped up efforts to outflank the UAE and Qatar as the Gulf’s commercial, cultural, and/or geostrategic hub. Saudi Arabia Steps Up Effort...

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