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Weekly Tech News related to Delhivery Fundraiser, Jai Kisan Fundraiser, AI Alerting Firefighters, AI Image Generation, Self-Aware Materials, Breakthrough in Soft Elastomers, Shadow Figment – Cyberattacks
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Source: TechCrunch 30 May 2021
Delhivery, India’s largest independent e-commerce logistics startup, has raised $277 million in what is expected to be the final funding round before the firm files for an IPO later this year. The new round valued the 10-year-old startup at about $3 billion.
Original written by: Manish Singh
Source: TechCrunch 31 May 2021
Jai Kisan, an Indian startup that is attempting to bring financial services to rural India, where commercial banks have a single-digit penetration, said on Monday it has raised $30 million in a new financing round as it looks to scale its business.
Original written by: Manish Singh
Source: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) 1 Jun 2021
Researchers have designed an artificial-intelligence-powered tool to predict and warn of a deadly phenomenon in burning buildings known as flashover, when flammable materials in a room ignite almost simultaneously, producing a blaze only limited in size by available oxygen. The tool’s predictions are based on temperature data from a building’s heat detectors, and, remarkably, it is designed to operate even after heat detectors begin to fail, making do with the remaining devices.
Source: North Carolina State University 1 Jun 2021
Researchers have developed a new state-of-the-art method for controlling how artificial intelligence (AI) systems create images. The work has applications for fields from autonomous robotics to AI training. The new work builds on certain techniques to give users more control over the resulting images, and to retain certain characteristics across a series of images.
Source: University of Pittsburgh 1 Jun 2021
Researchers have designed a new class of materials that are both sensing mediums and nanogenerators, and are poised to revolutionize the multifunctional material technology big and small. The research describes a new metamaterial system that acts as its own sensor, recording and relaying important information about the pressure and stresses on its structure. The so-called “self-aware metamaterial” generates its own power and can be used for a wide array of sensing and monitoring applications.
Source: University of Houston 2 Jun 2021
Researchers have demonstrated “giant flexoelectricity” in soft elastomers that could improve robot movement range and make self-powered pacemakers a real possibility. In a paper, scientists explained how to engineer ostensibly ordinary substances like silicone rubber into an electric powerhouse.
Original written by: Nicole Johnson
Source: DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory 2 Jun 2021
Scientists have created a cybersecurity technology called Shadow Figment that is designed to lure hackers into an artificial world, then stop them from doing damage by feeding them illusory tidbits of success. The aim is to sequester bad actors by captivating them with an attractive—but imaginary—world.
Original written by: Tom Rickey
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