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Mars has just received its newest robotic resident. NASA's Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) lander successfully touched down on the Red Planet after an almost seven-month, 300-million-mile (458-million-kilometer) journey from Earth. InSight's two-year mission will be to study the deep interior of Mars to learn how all … [Read more...] about NASA InSight Lander Arrives on Martian Surface to Learn What Lies Beneath

Reiterates Company’s Commitment to Pursuing Next Phase of Profitable Growth Plantronics, Inc. (NYSE:PLT), a market leader in the global headsets, voice, and video endpoint market, today confirmed that the Company is no longer engaged in discussions with Logitech International S.A. (“Logitech”) regarding a potential combination. While it is Plantronics’ practice not to comment, … [Read more...] about Plantronics Confirms No Ongoing Discussions with Logitech

NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EST Wednesday, Nov. 28, to discuss select science investigations launching on the next SpaceX commercial resupply flight to the International Space Station. SpaceX is targeting Dec. 4 for launch of its Dragon spacecraft on a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) in Florida. Audio … [Read more...] about NASA Highlights Science on Next Resupply Mission to International Space Station

AI & Robotics company Geek+ announced today that it has completed a Series B financing of $150 million, the world's largest financing in AI-enabled logistics robotics. As of the closing of this round of financing, Warburg Pincus has committed a total of approximately $100 million in Geek+ through a series of investments since 2017, which had also been participated by other … [Read more...] about Geek+ Completes World’s Largest Series B Financing in Logistics Robotics Led by Warburg Pincus

Closing the books at the quarter end, managing invoices and categorizing expenses involve a wide array of complex tasks that are both laborious and prone to human error. Botkeeper is automating bookkeeping workflows through their human-assisted AI platform, and today announced an $18M series A round, one of the largest A rounds for a Boston tech company. The round was notable … [Read more...] about AI Bookkeeping Startup Botkeeper Raises $18M Series A led by Greycroft

To Achieve Future Optical Access Systems Quickly to Provide Various Services in 5G Era Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (hereinafter "NTT") headquartered in Tokyo has developed a prototype of an optical line terminal (OLT) with a softwarized and modularized dynamic bandwidth assignment (DBA (*1)) function, which represents a significant impact on the quality of … [Read more...] about World’s First Demonstration of Modularization of Dynamic Bandwidth Assignment; Crucial Function to QoS in Optical Access System

Workable, the world's most popular recruiting automation platform for SMBs, raised an additional $50 million of growth financing. The round was led by London-based private equity firm Zouk Capital, with participation from 83North, Balderton, Notion, TriplePoint, and Endeavor Catalyst. The six-year-old software company has been growing at a dramatic pace. More than 20,000 … [Read more...] about Workable raises $50m to automate recruiting for SMBs

Berlin-based tech startup Zenjob has raised 15 million euros in the Series B financing round, led by AXA Venture Partners. Additional capital investors are the current investors Acton Capital Partners, Redalpine, and Atlantic Labs. Zenjob helps large and medium-sized businesses find on-demand student staff with just a few clicks. The capital will be invested in technological … [Read more...] about €15 million for on-demand staffing platform Zenjob

NASA has officially committed to a development timeline that will lead to the first flight of its X-59 Quiet Supersonic Technology (QueSST) aircraft in just three years. This critical milestone comes after a rigorous review, Key Decision Point-C (KDP-C), that confirmed NASA's continued support of the X-59, in terms of funding, and established an achievable development timeline … [Read more...] about NASA’s Quiet Supersonic Technology Project Passes Major Milestone

NASA has chosen Jezero Crater as the landing site for its upcoming Mars 2020 rover mission after a five year search, during which every available detail of more than 60 candidate locations on the Red Planet was scrutinized and debated by the mission team and the planetary science community. The rover mission is scheduled to launch in July 2020 as NASA's next step in … [Read more...] about NASA Announces Landing Site for Mars 2020 Rover