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X-ray vision in the warehouse: ThruWave raises $6.4M to help online retailers see through packages

GeekWire

Fortune 100 customers in retail and e-commerce warehouses are using the company’s hardware and software, which was first developed at the University of Washington. ThruWave is also working with In-Q-Tel, a nonprofit investor for U.S. government agencies, to use its packing screening technology for national security applications.

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Virginia Announces Research Commercialization Awards

CTOvision

In order to compete with other states and globally, we must focus on early stage economic development. College of William and Mary (Williamsburg), Reducing Smartphone Application Delay through Read/Write Isolation , Dr. Gang Zhou, $99,998, Information Technology. Matching Funds Program. BlueTherm Corp. Cell Free Bioinnovations Inc.

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Blue Origin gets ready to test its suborbital spaceship with COVID-19 safety in mind

GeekWire

The payload was developed by Space Lab in collaboration with the University of Colorado at Boulder. NASA’s Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer program provided funding for payload development and flight. amounting to a total of 12 commercial payloads.

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Expanding the AWS Cloud: Introducing the AWS Canada (Central) Region

All Things Distributed

Given this, enterprises, public sector bodies, startups, and small businesses are looking to adopt agile, scalable, and secure public cloud solutions. The new Canada (Central) Region offers a robust suite of infrastructure, management, and developer services that can enable innovators to deploy market-leading applications.

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Why more Americans than ever are starting their own businesses 

Vox

While data on true business formations is available only through 2019 , growth in ID number applications is closely related to actual business formations. Americans’ reasons for heading out on their own to start their own businesses are as varied as Americans themselves, ranging from the financial to the philosophical.

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The next generation of startups is remote

The Verge

Literally all you have to do is fill out an application that’s kind of like a college application or a job application, which most people have done. So we basically built a common application that allows anyone to apply to all YC companies at the same time. And you mentioned applications increasing, it’s crazy.

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Jeff Bezos wants the world to know he’s a philanthropist

Vox

The growing size and reach of the “everything store,” however, has affected its public perception: A 2019 CNBC survey of 10,000 Americans showed that a majority of respondents believed the company was bad for small businesses. Applying for a grant can often be a long, burdensome process for nonprofits. billion since its launch.