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Enzzo, a PSL spinout led by Seattle startup vet, raises $3M to use AI for hardware development

GeekWire

Enzzo Photo) Building hardware is hard. That’s what a group of longtime investors are betting on with a $3 million seed investment in Enzzo , a new Seattle startup that spun out of Pioneer Square Labs and aims to accelerate hardware development. Enzzo team, from left: Ricardo Ma, Patrick Fiori, Zheng Liu, and Ford Davidson.

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Microsoft vet and ex-Beats by Dre CEO lead new hardware-focused Seattle startup studio

GeekWire

Amish Patel, left, and Susan Paley recently launched Conduit Venture Labs, a new startup studio for hardware companies. Conduit Venture Labs Photo) Key Takeaways Conduit Venture Labs is a new startup studio in Seattle that aims to create a portfolio of hardware companies.

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Watch A New World Of Innovation Launch At O’Reilly Solid Conference 21-22 May 2014 in San Francisco

CTOvision

By Bob Gourley It is time we all began to focus more on the coming age of a totally networked, software-enhanced, continually enhancing, device enabled world. No doubt you are already tracking the construct many are calling the “Internet of Things” and you may have been pondering what this connected world might look like.

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The HP-Autonomy lawsuit: Timeline of an M&A disaster

CIO Business Intelligence

Rather than selling software to customers, HP said, Autonomy had been selling them hardware at a loss, then booking the sales as software licensing revenue. Its Agentware internet search tools are used by enterprises including Barclays Bank and Unilever and sold as shrink-wrapped software through retail outlets.

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IDF 2014 Day 1 Recap

Scott Lowe

In case you hadn’t noticed, I’m at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2014 this week in San Francisco. Here’s a liveblog of the IDF 2014 day 1 keynote. I was able to hit two technical sessions yesterday and liveblogged both of them: Virtualizing the Network to Enable a Software-Defined Infrastructure. Day 1 Keynote.

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IDF 2014: Data Center Mega-Session

Scott Lowe

This is a liveblog of the Data Center Mega-Session from day 2 of Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2014 in San Francisco. Infrastructure will be software defined. F5′s products use Intel CPUs, but they also leverage FPGAs to selectively enable certain functions in hardware for improved performance. Analytics will be pervasive.

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Second wave of Google layoffs 2024 hits AR, Pixel, FitBit, and more

Dataconomy

This time, the hardware team, which involves FitBit, Pixel, and Nest employees, has been affected. They each had their own people for design, making the gadgets, writing software, and designing the way things look and work. This setup came from Google buying Nest in 2014 and later getting Fitbit.

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