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Former basketball hopeful wants to prevent ACL tears with airbags for knees

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You’ve heard of car airbags deploying within milliseconds to protect passengers. How about an airbag for your knee? That’s what former basketball hopeful Kylin Shaw is working on with his startup, Hippos Exoskeleton — a “knee sleeve” that measures stress on the knee joint and inflates around the knee to protect it from major injuries […]

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Apple reportedly releasing a wall-mounted smart home tablet in 2025 – and yes, it does AI

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Apple is gearing up to announce a new smart home hub, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. As early as March 2025, the iPhone maker could release a tablet that mounts to your wall, control smart home appliances, does video calls, and of course does Apple Intelligence. The device reportedly has a 6-inch touchscreen, but it’s

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Quantune joins quest for the holy grail of non-invasive glucose monitoring

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Numerous companies have tried and failed to develop a device that can measure blood sugar levels without pricking the skin for a blood sample. Even Alphabet had a go at it with contact lenses for diabetic patients, but abandoned the project in 2018. Still, the quest for non-invasive glucose monitoring continues to captivate scientists and

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As demand for lithium explodes, battery recycling startup Tozero sprints to scale with $11.7M seed

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Tozero, a Munich-based startup that recovers valuable raw materials from recycled lithium-ion batteries, is gearing up to scale. The startup just closed an oversubscribed €11 million seed round (around $11.7M) to step up production by building its first industrial deployment (A.K.A first-of-a-kind or FOAK) plant. Currently, Tozero’s pilot plant processes nine tonnes of lithium-ion battery

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