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• The future of prototyping

  26-09-2024 18:50 via webdesignernews.com
  Design tooling has gotten significantly better over the years, which in my view is truly a double-edged sword.
  
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• Arm: AI will turn smartphones into ‘proactive assistants’

  26-09-2024 18:20 via thenextweb.com
  
  Arm wants to upgrade the brains inside our devices. The chip designer — whose architectures power 99% of smartphones — envisions AI bringing a new wave of breakthroughs to our handsets. The company outlined this plan after the release of Llama 3.2 — Meta’s first open-source models that processes both images and text. Arm said the models run “seamlessly” on its compute platforms. The smaller, text-based LLMs — Llama 3.2 1B and 3B — a
  
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• UK startup Pact opens factory to grow skin-like leather alternative

  26-09-2024 14:59 via thenextweb.com
  
  UK startup Pact has raised £9mn in funding and opened a new factory to scale up the “world’s first” sustainable and scalable biomaterial made from collagen — the primary building block of your skin. The material — dubbed Oval — looks, feels, and ages much like leather, but without the environmental impacts. Oval doesn’t just look like leather, it also responds to scratches, water, and sunlight in much the same way. I guess that makes sense seeing
  
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• Dutch hotel tech unicorn Mews bags $100M to fuel acquisition spree

  26-09-2024 11:50 via thenextweb.com
  
  Amsterdam-based scaleup Mews has bagged $100mn in credit financing as it looks to swallow up competitors and become a market leader in SaaS software for the hospitality industry. Vista Credit Partners, the credit-investing arm of tech-focused private equity firm Vista Equity Partners, dished out the funding.  Mews, based at TNW City, has built a cloud-based system that helps hotels and other hospitality businesses manage their daily operations more efficiently. It handles tasks like bookin
  
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• VC investment in European defence tech to hit record $1B in 2024, report finds

  26-09-2024 01:01 via thenextweb.com
  
  Following a five-fold growth since 2018, VC investment in Europe’s defence tech is set to hit a record year in 2024, as it’s on course to reach $1bn. According to a new Dealroom report, Europe is now at the heart of an investment surge, as governments turn to the defence tech sector to strengthen national security in response to escalating geopolitical instability. “As we face war on European soil for the first time in decades, the urgency to strengthen our security and build
  
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