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Quick Charge Podcast: August 10, 2023

August 11, 2023
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on Saturday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to guarantee new episodes are delivered as…
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Watch NASA Engineers Put a Mars Lander’s Legs to the Test

August 11, 2023
NASA’s Perseverance rover continues to rack up tubes filled with rock core samples for the planned Mars Sample Return campaign. The joint effort by NASA and ESA (European Space Agency) seeks to bring scientifically selected samples back from Mars to be studied on Earth…
AI & RoboticsNews

Middleware raises $6.5M in seed funding to transform cloud observability with AI

August 11, 2023
Middleware, a startup that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to simplify and enhance cloud observability, announced today that it has raised $6.5 million in a seed round led by 8VC. The company plans to use the new funds to grow its team, develop new features and acquire more customers. The company also intends to create an advanced AI advisor that uses generative AI to improve the cloud…
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DataRobot now covers entire generative AI lifecycle for enterprises

August 11, 2023
Boston-based DataRobot, a unicorn startup that offers a platform for enterprise AI development, is going all in on generative AI support. The company today said it is updating its offering with new generative AI-specific capabilities and applied services to give teams an open and end-to-end solution for experimenting with, building, deploying and monitoring enterprise-grade AI assistants. The…
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Romania eyes 32 F-35s under $6.5 billion deal

August 10, 2023
WARSAW, Poland — The Romanian Ministry of National Defence has requested the parliament’s approval for the purchase of 32 F-35 Lightning II fighter jets, according to Defense Minister Angel Tîlvăr. The planned procurement is estimated to be worth about $6.5 billion. In…
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Maxeon is going to open a 3 GW solar factory in New Mexico

August 10, 2023
Singapore-headquartered Maxeon Solar Technologies has just announced that it’s going to build a $1 billion silicon solar factory in New Mexico – the largest in the US. The 3-gigawatt factory, which will be located in Albuquerque, will produce TOPCon PV-silicon cell technology and Maxeon’s shingled-cell Performance Line solar modules. The new factory will supply both the utility-scale and…
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