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Atlas Technologies – maker of the Lightyear solar car – goes bankrupt

The car business is a stern taskmaster. Netherlands-based Atlas Technologies (Atlas) producing Lightyear - set to be the world’s first mass produced solar car...

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N2 Applied raises €10m Growth round, to help farmers transform manure into fertilizer

Norway & UK-based, N2 Applied helps farmers locally produce their own “Nitrogen Enriched Organic Fertilizer (NEO)” (to help improve yields sustainably). Their “N2 Unit” solution (cloud-enabled for data analysis & remote maintenance) is the size of a container, typically installed between the shed where livestock is kept & the manure storage. The liquid stream of organic waste (aka p**s & s**t) is fed into the N2 Unit; a plasma treatment (aka a bolt of electricity) activates the air within it & turns it into “reactive nitrogen” which 1st: doubles the nitrogen content therein (with all other organic carbon content & crop nutrients – P, K, Mg, Ca, S – retained), 2nd: makes the nitrogen “stable”/...

Brighter AI raises Series A, for data anonymization

Germany-based, Brigther AI offers advanced redaction software for images & video data (so they can be safely used across borders or even in public without raising privacy concerns). The startups does this with “Precision Blur” to detect & blurs objects (e.g. face, license plate, characters), as well as “Deep Natural Anonymization” to detect faces & generate a synthetic replacement (that reflects the original attributes) – via cloud & rest API (prices start from €80p.m. for 500 images or 120min video). Brighter AI is already used to generate anonymized footage in e.g. a) automotive & mapping (e.g. autonomous driving data, vehicle & road data, dashcam footage) (clients incl. Valeo: “for improvement of lane & sign detection...

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