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Russian company offers ugly solid gold iPhone 12

July 31, 2020
Russian ‘luxury’ accessory company Caviar is noted for really ugly, crazily priced re-cased iPhones, and it’s solid gold iPhone 12 may be the ugliest version it has offered yet … Caviar buys iPhones from Apple, removes the casing and replaces it with its own … designs. The company says its iPhone 12 will go on sale in October, which may not yet reflect the delay Apple announced…
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Buildots raises $16 million to automate construction site reporting with AI

July 30, 2020
Data-driven construction reporting company Buildots this week announced it raised $16 million, a combination of a $3 million seed round and a $13 million series A. Cofounder Roy Danon says it’ll be used to scale and improve the company’s products as Buildots expands to new regions around the world. Large construction projects — which some countries have allowed to continue during the…
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Intel researchers create AI system that rates similarity of 2 pieces of code

July 29, 2020
In partnership with researchers at MIT and the Georgia Institute of Technology, Intel scientists say they’ve developed an automated engine — Machine Inferred Code Similarity (MISIM) — that can determine when two pieces of code perform similar tasks, even when they use different structures and algorithms. MISIM ostensibly outperforms current state-of-the-art systems by up to 40 times, showing…
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Aquicore raises $14 million for AI tools to optimize commercial building energy usage

July 29, 2020
Aquicore, an information tech startup offering cloud-based software for asset operations, today secured $14 million in financing. The company says it’ll use the funding to advance its platform and expand into European markets. The buildings sector accounts for about 76% of electricity use and 40% of all U.S. primary energy usage and associated CO2 emissions, but the bulk of commercial real…
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