Tag: United States
Everylwell gains first FDA authorization for a standalone at-home COVID-19 test sample collection kit
Everlywell was one of the first startups to announce that it was working on a self-administered, at-home COVID-19 diagnostic kit, but it initially sought out to ship kits before regulators made clear that this was not in line with its guidelines. Everlywell then became intent on working with the FDA…
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Watch live as ULA launches a secretive U.S. military spaceplane live for its sixth mission
[embedded content] On Saturday, the United Launch Alliance (ULA) is targeting a liftoff time of 8:24 AM EDT (5:24 AM PDT) for one of its Atlas V rockets carrying the U.S. Space Force’s X-37B orbital test vehicle, which is a fully autonomous winged spaceplane that looks a little like a…
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Tesla scouts head to Tulsa, Austin as hunt for Cybertruck gigafactory location nears end
Tesla officials visited two sites in Tulsa, Oklahoma this week to search for a location for its future and fifth gigafactory, according to a source familiar with the situation. Company representatives also visited Austin recently for a potential site for a factory that will produce its all-electric Cybertruck and Model…
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Building and investing in the ‘human needs economy’
Heather Hartnett Contributor Heather Hartnett is general partner and CEO of Human Ventures, an early-stage venture fund and startup studio in New York City. The entrepreneurial and investor focus of the last decade has largely been centered on increased convenience and consumerism, and has encouraged companies to prioritize scaling, with…
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Hypnosis for health? Investors have placed a $1.1 million bet on Mindset Health that it can work
Chris and Alex Naoumidis came to hypnotherapy through dresses. As The New York Times reported last year, the two brothers initially started their careers as startup entrepreneurs with a peer-to-peer dress-sharing app for women. The Australian natives, overcome with doubt, about their ability to succeed in startupland and when apps…
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TSMC to build a $12 billion advanced semiconductor plant in Arizona with U.S. government support
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the world’s largest contract semiconductor foundry, said today that it plans to build an advanced chip foundry in Arizona with support from the state and the United States federal government. The announcement follows a Wall Street Journal report earlier this week that White House officials were…
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