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At the recently concluded Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, a string of prominent and outspoken tech billionaires threw their support behind President Donald Trump. The undoubted main player is Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and chairman of social media platform X, who has pledged to donate $45 million a month to a Trump-aligned super PAC. Other big tech backers of Trump include venture capitalists David Sachs, Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, as well as Peter Thiel, the co-founder of PayPal and former boss (at his own Silicon Valley venture capital firm) of Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance. The wave…

Prime Day 2024 is over, and the July sale brought with it a host of enticing deals in the smartphone world, with some of the best smartphones from Samsung, Google, OnePlus, Motorola, and more on offer at amazing discounts. The 48-hour event took place from July 16 to July 17, during which the Motorola Razr+ (2023) was available for a huge discount of $400. The 512GB Galaxy Z Fold 5 was also available for a huge discount of $760 on the first day of Prime Day 2024. This notable sale unfortunately ended on the second day of the summer shopping…

California startup Caribou Biosciences (Nasdaq: CRBU) has announced significant workforce cuts, eliminating about 12% of its workforce.The market appeared to react favorably to the announcement, with the company’s shares rising by about a fifth.The decision affects 21 occupations and is part of a strategic move to conserve resources. This article is available to registered users only. To continue reading, please sign up for free. Your free trial will give you access to one week of exclusive features, interviews, roundups and commentary from some of the sharpest minds in the pharma and biotechnology sector. If you’re already a registered user, please…

Samsara Inc. (NYSE:IOT – Get Free Report) CEO Sanjit Biswas sold 59,112 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Tuesday, July 16th. The shares were sold at an average price of $38.05, for a total transaction value of $2,249,211.60. Following the completion of the sale, the CEO now owns 1,311,187 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $49,890,665.35. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which can be accessed through this link . Sanjit Biswas has also recently made the following transactions: On Tuesday, July 9th, Sanjit Biswas sold 96,000 shares of Samsara…

This year’s Prime Day did not disappoint when it came to Prime Day deals on phones, with Samsung smartphones, for example, having some great Prime Day deals.But don’t worry if you weren’t able to grab a new Galaxy smartphone during the event: there are still some great savings to be had in post-Prime Day sales. Now that Prime Day is officially over, these sales could end at any time, so act fast and grab your new Samsung smartphone today.Top 3 Samsung Smartphone Deals for Prime Day 2024: If you’re not a Samsung fan, don’t worry: there are other Prime Day…

Funding raised to advance clinical development of lead gout program, expand company’s pipeline and scale genome-recoded biology platformBOSTON, July 19, 2024–(BUSINESS WIRE)–GRO Biosciences Inc. (“GRObio”), a biotechnology company leveraging synthetic biology to expand the amino acid alphabet and realize the potential of protein therapeutics, today announced it has closed an oversubscribed $60.3 million Series B financing. Proceeds from the financing will be used to advance the Company’s lead program for the treatment of refractory gout into the clinic, expand the GRObio pipeline, and extend its Genome Recoded Organism (GRO) platform for scalable production of therapeutics incorporating multiple non-standard amino acids…

AAEON’s PICO-AM62 and SRG-AM62 are single board computers (SBCs) and industrial IoT gateways powered by Texas Instruments AM6232 or AM6254 Sitara Arm Cortex-A53/M4 SoCs, respectively, designed to operate in a temperature range of -40°C to 85°C and offering a 20-year lifespan. The SRG-AM62 gateway simply houses a PICO-AM62 pico-ITX SBC in a metal case and includes dual Gigabit Ethernet, an HDMI 1.4 port, two USB 2.0, as well as other communication interfaces such as RS-232/422/485 and CAN bus. Designed to operate in industrial environments, the system supports a wide input voltage range from 9V to 36V. PICO-AM62 SBC and SRG-AM62…

A screenshot from a Bangladesh government official website shows what appears to be a message from a hacker group calling itself “THE R3SISTANC3” amid a surge in student protests in Bangladesh. The image was taken from the Bangladesh Prime Minister’s Office website on July 19, 2024. Bangladesh Prime Minister’s Office website/via Reuters Violent student protests in Bangladesh on Friday forced television news channels off the air and caused widespread disruptions to communications networks. Nearly 20 people were killed this week in protests against a controversial government quota system. The French news agency AFP reported that the death toll from Thursday’s…

Photo credit: Bangkok Post The National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) yesterday suspended service for over 2 million mobile phone numbers after their owners missed the deadline to register their identities. The move is aimed at strengthening security and reducing fraud linked to unregistered mobile phone numbers. The affected numbers mainly relate to individuals who own between 6 and 100 unregistered SIM cards. The suspension will prevent them from making calls, sending SMS or accessing the internet. NBTC Commissioner General of Police Natthathorn Prusoonthorn stressed the importance of the measure, saying that if the SIM cards are not registered within…

The Domain Name System (DNS), a technology invented in 1985, has been transformed into a critical global infrastructure by U.S. government policies since the 1990s. Although some challenges remain, the loose regulation promoted by both parties has been a great success. Bipartisan policy success is rarely discussed in an election year because, after all, it is not about party differences. Cooperation runs counter to the ad-sold news stories of political division. And yet, since 1985, the Domain Name System (DNS) has played a vital, yet underappreciated, role in global commerce because it is an invisible layer of critical Internet infrastructure.…