This snowboard is made from paper — and it shreds like a dream

Professional freeride snowboarder Cody Bramwell carves through the deep white powder, left-right-left-right, down the mountainside. He’s snow surfing, a unique, bind-less style of snowboarding invented in Japan in the 1980s. …

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Startup building ‘biowearables’ for chronic kidney disease nets €2.3M

Paris-based Metyos has raised €2.3mn in pre-seed funding to improve the lives and health outcomes of chronic kidney disease patients with its biowearable technology. Chronic kidney disease (CKD) affects 10%…

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This startup is building AI that can fly drones and make its own decisions

The debate on how far artificial intelligence can go revolves around questions about what actually constitutes human intelligence, and can a machine function similarly enough to a human brain? While…

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