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AWS partners with EvolutionaryScale following its $142M raise

  • June 26, 2024
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced it is collaborating with EvolutionaryScale, an AI company focused on biology, to give scientists and researchers access to the startup’s ESM3 language models via AWS to advance drug discovery by allowing for the creation of new proteins. Yesterday, EvolutionaryScale, founded by former researchers at Meta’s AI research lab, announced it […]

Ford finds a new home to develop affordable electric vehicles

  • June 26, 2024
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Ford has officially chosen Long Beach as its new home to develop its next-generation EV platform. The new headquarters will be where Ford’s “Skunkworks” team will build its affordable next-gen electric vehicles. CEO Jim Farley revealed Ford had been “secretly” working on a low-cost EV platform on a media call with investors in February. According […]

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A New Danger at America’s National Parks

  • June 26, 2024
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This is an edition of The Weekly Planet, a newsletter that provides a guide for living through climate change. Sign up for it here. The thermometer read 121 degrees Fahrenheit when 71-year-old Steve Curry collapsed outside a restroom in Death Valley National Park last summer. Curry, who’d reportedly been hiking on a nearby trail in […]

South Dakota’s largest solar farm just came online

  • June 26, 2024
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Photo: National Grid Renewables National Grid Renewables just brought South Dakota’s largest solar farm online in Pennington County. Wild Springs is a 128-megawatt (MW) solar farm in the Southwest Power Pool, which manages the central US’s electric grid and wholesale power market. The solar farm has a 114 MW power purchase agreement with the utility […]

Unlocking the Predictive Power of Patient Data

  • June 26, 2024
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Healthcare organizations have no shortage of data about their patients, not only from electronic health records (EHRs) but also from remote patient monitoring. So far, however, it has been difficult for IT and clinical leaders to translate this information into real-time insights that improve patient care and reduce treatment costs. This could be poised to […]

Volvo delays low-cost EX30 deliveries in the US until 2025

  • June 26, 2024
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Volvo’s cheapest and smallest EV won’t arrive in the US until next year. Volvo announced it’s delaying the EX30 launch in the US as it ramps up production in Belgium. Volvo delays EX30 launch in the US until 2025 After EX30 production kicked off last fall in China, Volvo’s newest EV has already become a […]

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Celebrities back Function in $53M Series A funding round

  • June 26, 2024
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Function, a whole-body health company, announced it secured $53 million in a Series A funding round, led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) Bio + Health. Actors Matt Damon, Kevin Hart, Zac Efron and Pedro Pascal participated in the round. Podcast host Jay Shetty and athletes Jimmy Rollins, Blake Griffin and Colin Kaepernick also provided funding, alongside […]