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1. Logan Dice (logandice@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Aug-2018 15:48:54 UTC Logan Dice

   63 startups from the latest YC batch:

   https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/20/here-are-the-63-startups-that-launched-today-at-y-combinators-s18-demo-day-1/

   Interesting thing to note - hardly any of them are software-only. Seems like everything is about real-world hard tech now.

   • Logan Dice (logandice@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Aug-2018 16:11:57 UTC Logan Dice

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     My favorite ones:

     1. Phiar building an augmented reality navigation app for driving that shows a driver exactly where to go without taking their eyes off the wheel.

   • Logan Dice (logandice@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Aug-2018 16:13:39 UTC Logan Dice

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     2. Send Reality is looking to offer full 3D-modeling for virtual walk-throughs of real estate listings. The company sends photographers out to the listing with an iPad, a commodity depth sensor and a specialized Send Reality app. These photographers take hundreds of thousands of photos, and the Send Reality technology stitches those photos together to create a complete 3D model.

   • Logan Dice (logandice@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Aug-2018 16:14:12 UTC Logan Dice

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     3. Genetic engineering may not be able to be controlled when it’s unleashed from a laboratory. Synvivia is developing what amounts to the kill switch for synthetic biology outside of a lab. Synvivia’s genetically encoded bio-containment system engineers organisms to only live when they have access to specific, small molecules.3. Geneti

     But, of course, life, uh, finds a way.