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<p>Rivian said Thursday it plans to launch a hands-off version of its driver assistance system for highway driving &#8220;in a few weeks,&#8221; and an &#8220;eyes-off&#8221; version in 2026. The hands-off system will let Rivian compete with companies like Ford and General Motors, which have both launched similar systems in the past few years. (Ford has [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Investors on the lookout for startups working at the frontiers of technology are casting their nets ever further into unchartered territory, sometimes literally as well as figuratively. In one of the latest examples, a startup called Karman+ with ambitions to build autonomous spacecraft that can travel to asteroids and then mine them for materials has [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive it every weekend in your inbox. Hello readers: Welcome to The Station, your central hub for all past, present and future means of moving people and packages from Point A to Point B. Welp, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Startups digitizing B2B e-commerce and retail in Africa continue to grab the headlines after the pandemic paved the way for widespread offline retail and commerce disruption. TradeDepot, a Nigeria- and U.S.-based company that connects consumer goods brands to thousands of retailers and helps with distribution, has raised $110 million in new equity and debt funding [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A number of investors including Sequoia Capital India and Steadview Capital are in talks to back Polygon, which operates a framework for building and connecting Ethereum-compatible blockchain networks, by way of tokens purchase, three sources familiar with the matter told me. The investors are looking to purchase tokens worth $50 million to $150 million, sources said, requesting [&hellip;]</p>

<p>MarketForce, a Kenyan B2B retail and financial services distribution startup, has expanded into five additional markets across Africa to grow RejaReja &#8212; its retailer &#8220;super app&#8221; that makes it possible for informal merchants to order and pay for inventory digitally, accept payments for utility bills and access financing for their businesses. The startup has today [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Stacked, a web-based platform that provides passive investment tools for retail investors interested in crypto, just announced it raised a $35 million Series A co-led by Alameda Research, a crypto trading firm owned by FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried. Bybit and BitDAO partner Mirana Ventures co-led the round alongside Alameda. Fidelity International Strategic Ventures, DRW Venture [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Hello friends, and welcome back to Week in Review! Last week, we took a break from contextualization for some guides to consumption. This week, we&#8217;re looking at what&#8217;s happening in the mind of one Jack Dorsey. You can get this in your inbox from the newsletter page, and follow my tweets @lucasmtny. the big thing While [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The killer app of any tech is to make your life easier and more comfortable; the GPS in your car helps you find the best route to a restaurant when traffic is backed up, if you have cruise control, you can set a speed on the highway to ensure that you don&#8217;t get a ticket. [&hellip;]</p>

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<p>Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Polestar will spend the next three years executing a lofty electric vehicle launch schedule that will culminate with the Precept concept, a &#8220;Rosetta stone&#8221; of sorts that provides a physical representation of the company&#8217;s future. Polestar, the former Volvo company that spun out to become its own brand, refers to the concept as its &#8220;manifesto.&#8221; [&hellip;]</p>

<p>At its annual re:Invent conference, AWS today rolled out a slew of new features for SageMaker, the company&#8217;s managed service for building, training and deploying machine learning (ML) models. Swami Sivasubramanian, the vice president of machine learning at Amazon, said the new features aim to make it easier for users to scale machine learning in [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Sounding Board, which started as a platform to connect leaders to coaches through a marketplace, realized early in the pandemic that mentorship needs a refresh. “We&#8217;ve always delivered coaching in this traditional services format,” said Christine Tao, Sounding Board CEO and co-founder. “Well, we&#8217;re not in the office anymore so we actually have to speak [&hellip;]</p>

<p>At its re:Invent conference, AWS today announced SageMaker Studio Lab, a free service to help developers learn machine learning techniques and experiment with the technology. Studio Lab provides users with all of the basics to get started, including a JupyterLab IDE, model training on CPUs and GPUs and 15 GB of persistent storage. In addition, [&hellip;]</p>