Lego Robot that Plays the Guitar (Video) Certain toys just transcend their primary purpose. One good example is Lego, where possibilities to build interesting creations

This Week in Apps: Commission battles, Twitter NFTs and Epic’s appeal begins Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record number of downloads and consumer spending across both the iOS and Google Play stores combined in 2021, according to the […]

Data wants to disrupt your deal flow (again) Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh human-first take on this week’s startup news and trends. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. AngelList’s recently closed early-stage venture fund brings back one of my favorite conversations within the world of early-stage startup fundraising: to data, or not to data. The $25 million fund bases all […]

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Process Mining: The Key to Successful M and A This past year, many businesses completed mergers and acquisitions (M&A). In fact, between May and August, there were nearly 30 mega M&As – Microsoft acquired Nuance Communications, Apollo Funds acquired Verizon Media, Amazon acquired MGM, Celonis acquired Integromat, and many more. Globally, M&A volumes have surpassed $4.3 trillion this year so far, for several reasons: […] The post Process Mining: The Key to Successful M and A appeared first on ReadWrite.

Oral immunotherapy induces remission of peanut allergy in some young children A clinical trial funded by the National Institutes of Health has found that giving peanut oral immunotherapy to

Shining light on the link between lung fibrosis and bacterial infection Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, also commonly referred to as IPF, is a devastating disease characterized by excessive scarring (fibrosis)

ITMO Researchers Develop First Ever Online Platform to Predict Artificial Enzyme Activity Researchers at ITMO University are the first in the world to develop a platform that predicts the catalytic

Motor proteins haul precious cargo in neurons. How can we control their movement? Inside neurons, motor proteins haul precious cargo, moving essential goods along thread-like roadways called microtubule tracks. This miniature

TinyML is bringing deep learning models to microcontrollers This article is part of our reviews of AI research papers, a series of posts that explore the latest findings in artificial intelligence. Deep learning models owe their initial success to large servers with large amounts of memory and clusters of GPUs. The promises of deep learning gave rise to an entire industry of cloud computing services for deep neural networks. Consequently, very large neural networks running on virtually unlimited cloud resources became very popular, especially among wealthy tech companies that can foot the bill. But at the same time, recent years have also seen a reverse trend, a concerted…This story continues at The Next Web

Researcher shows how alcohol dampens response to uncertain stressors When drinking for stress relief, people may make risky decisions because the alcohol affects how much they worry

Why your small business should make use of Instagram collections Instagram‘s users flood the app with millions of posts every day. There’s always fresh content, but a lot of great stuff gets lost in the shuffle. When you’re using Instagram for your business, you can’t afford to doomscroll the day away—so you need to use Instagram‘s collections feature. Save posts for later, create custom collections, and spend less time trying to find what you need. Instagram collections: Your Pinterest board to-do list Instagram‘s Saves isn’t a public feature—the user who posted won’t be notified when their post has been saved, nor can a user’s saved posts be seen from their…This story continues at The Next WebOr just read more coverage about: Instagram

Biden Looks to Intel’s U.S. Investment to Buoy His China Agenda The president said passage of a China competition bill was needed “for the sake of our economic competitiveness and our national security.”

Daily Crunch: IBM sells off Watson Health unit to private equity firm Francisco Partners I normally try to bring some pep to my little intros in this missive. But today I am going to avoid astruturning my own mood to simply say, hey, what's up with the stock market?

TechCrunch+ roundup: 2022 VC predictions, how to hook an angel, product advisory councils Well-researched personas are useful, but nothing is better than talking to a customer if you want to understand what delights them — and what they're willing to pay for.