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🧹 Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7 billion.

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🧹 Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7 billion.

Plus: This startup wants to copy you into an embryo for organ harvesting. This startup wants to copy you into an embryo for organ harvesting. And more…

Jose Montes de Oca
Aug 5, 2022
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🧹 Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7 billion.

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Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7 billion. Amazon is acquiring iRobot for $61 a share, an all-cash deal that values the Roomba maker at $1.7 billion, the companies announced Friday. (Annie Palmer / CNBC)

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Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7 billion
cnb.cxAmazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7 billionAmazon is acquiring iRobot for $61 a share, an all-cash deal that values the Roomba maker at $1.7 billion, the companies announced Friday.
12:08 PM āˆ™ Aug 5, 2022
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This startup wants to copy you into an embryo for organ harvesting. ā€œThis experiment has huge implications,ā€ says Bernard Siegel, a patient advocate and founder of the World Stem Cell Summit. ā€œOne wonders what mammal could be next in line.ā€ The answer is humans. Hanna tells MIT… (Antonio Regalado / MIT Technology Review)

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Our story on Renewal Bio, the Israeli startup launching into the fraught arena of manufacturing synthetic models of human embryos. Using artificial embryos as "bioprinters" -grow them 50 days? -harvest gonads for fertility? 🧵 technologyreview.com/2022/08/04/105…
technologyreview.comThis startup wants to copy you into an embryo for organ harvestingWith plans to create realistic synthetic embryos, grown in jars, Renewal Bio is on a journey to the horizon of science and ethics.
3:36 PM āˆ™ Aug 4, 2022
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The Cartwheel Galaxy Is the Webb Telescope's Latest Cosmic Snapshot. Scientists on Tuesday published the latest images from NASA's triumphant James Webb Space Telescope. The newest release documents the Cartwheel galaxy, which is about 500 million light-years from our planet and is aptly named for its wheel-like… (Anastasia Marks / The New York Times)

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Scientists on Tuesday published new images of the Cartwheel galaxy, which is about 500 million light-years from Earth and 1.5 times the size of the Milky Way. The images were captured by NASA’s triumphant James Webb Space Telescope. nyti.ms/3JtZN3k
A glowing, wheel-like galaxy can be seen in space. Two smaller galaxies sit to the left. Photo credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI
2:45 PM āˆ™ Aug 4, 2022
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Clubhouse begins beta testing private communities called 'Houses' to foster curated interactions. Clubhouse, the social audio app that rose in popularity amid the pandemic, is looking to shake up its platform with the launch of private communities called ā€œHouses.ā€ The company's… (Aisha Malik / TechCrunch)

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Clubhouse begins beta testing private communities called 'Houses’ to foster curated interactions tcrn.ch/3Jx5XA3 by @AiishaMalik1
tcrn.chClubhouse beta testing private communities called ā€˜Houses’ – TechCrunchThe company’s new offering allows any person or group to create their own curated ā€œHouseā€ within Clubhouse.
7:17 PM āˆ™ Aug 4, 2022
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Startup founders' mental health is crumbling under the stress of a turbulent economic year and uncertain funding. Yet many suffer in silence.. Founders are struggling with their mental health as startups contend with dried-up funding. Many of them suffer in silence because they worry talking openly will shred their credibility. 'It's like don't ask, don't tell,' Josh Felser, a successful… (Melia Russell / Business Insider)

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The startup founders are not all right — I spoke to 16 founders and investors about the weight of building a company in an economic downturn, and how they're coping. businessinsider.com/startup-founde… via @BITech
businessinsider.comStartup founders’ mental health is crumbling under the stress of a turbulent economic year and uncertain funding. Yet many suffer in silenc…Economic fear and funding uncertainty has put startup-founder mental health in a tailspin. Many suffer in silence because they worry talking openly will shred their credibility.
12:34 PM āˆ™ Aug 4, 2022
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