Devoted Health expanded its services to serve a total of 299 counties across 13 states during this year’s Medicare Annual enrollment period.Tech-enabled Medicare Advantage startup Devoted Health is closing out 2023 with $175 million in fresh funding, marking one of the largest funding rounds of the year.The series E round was led by a lead syndicate composed of The Space Between (TSB), Highbur...

Following on the heels of the launch of the TikTok Shop in the US, Entrupy, an AI-powered luxury authenticator, has partnered with the social media giant as an official authentication provider of pre-owned luxury handbags on the platform. Founded in 2012, Entrupy’s aim is to protect businesses, consumers and borders from transacting in counterfeit goods by guaranteeing the authenticity of prod...

Since gen AI technology exploded on the scene, many enterprises have been scrambling to determine how their businesses might benefit. The answer might be simpler than they think.[click to enlarge]Starting around 2015, people began referring to almost any application of machine learning as artificial intelligence. Some pundits and industry experts pushed back. These applications were pattern mat...

Google invents a new 'Soli' radar-based solution that will recognize a user's hand gestures to control a future Google OS for AR/XR HMD's.After Apple introduced their advanced spatial computer branded 'Apple Vision Pro' Google, Qualcomm and Samsung went into high gear to put together a new ecosystem for an Android-based OS and, advanced chips and hardware to compete with Apple Vision Pro so as...

US architecture studio DLA+ has unveiled its design for a multi-purpose sports- and entertainment building in Incheon, South Korea, containing the Cheongna SSG baseball stadium and a shopping centre.Working with retail franchise Shinsegae Group, DLA+ claims the project will be "the world's first baseball stadium with an integrated shopping mall and the first privately funded professional sporti...

Having largely left behind Covid-related turbulences, the global airline industry emerged from the storm in 2023, returning to profitability after three years of deep losses. According to the International Air Transport Association (IATA), commercial airlines are expected to end the year with $23.3 billion in net profit, up from a loss of $3.8 billion in 2022 and significantly higher than previ...

The round was led by Lewis & Clark Agrifood and Diamond Edge Ventures, with participation from Bunge Ventures and SOSV.The company intends to use the funds to ramp up production of ekoa®, a natural, durable, and carbon-negative alternative to conventional materials used in construction.Led by CEO Joe Luttwak, Lingrove is working to create, carbon-negative interiors to combat climate change...

Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are specialized computer chips originally designed for use in gaming, but have recently found a second life on the cloud because of their capabilities in high performance computing. GPUs use parallel processing to efficiently and effectively solve complex problems across a wide range of domains, much faster than the serial processing approach of CPUs.In this vis...

Patient-derived T cells carrying immune-enhancing cytokines on their surfaces through simple and effective approach could help expand adoptive T cell therapies to treatment of solid tumors.Cytokine enhancement of therapeutic T cells before their adoptive transfer to recipients with solid and hard-to-treat blood cancersNovel metabolic labeling technology that engineers T cells’ surface sugars a...