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SwipeSense uses sensors in badges to track the coronavirus SwipeSense Around 50 hospitals today use a technology from a company called SwipeSense to monitor whether medical staff are washing their hands when they enter and exit patient rooms. Others use it to track expensive assets, like wheelchairs or IV pumps, which have a tendency to …

Amazon has just taken its boldest step yet into self-driving vehicles, acquiring six-year-old start-up Zoox, the company announced Friday. Amazon said the deal will help bring Zoox’s “vision of autonomous ride-hailing to reality.” Zoox will continue to operate as a standalone business within Amazon, with CEO Aicha Evans and Jesse Levinson, the company’s co-founder and CTO, …

Chicken shawarma, made with soy protein and cultured chicken fat Source: Future Meat Technologies As meatless burgers have landed at Burger King and Carl’s Jr., dozens of start-ups are racing to be the first to sell beef grown in a lab. Now, one of those start-ups has raised $14 million to produce its cultured meat …

A robotic arm at an industrial manufacturing factory. kynny | iStock | Getty Images Artificial intelligence, self-driving vehicles, medical technologies and quantum computing are areas of focus for Singapore’s early stage, state-funded investor. While those technologies are still in their nascent stages, they are becoming more interconnected and, as a result, having a cross-disciplinary understanding …