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Platform Science, which provides connected vehicle tools for enterprise fleets, raised $125M from 8VC, Prologis, and others, taking its total funding to $309M (Grace Sharkey/FreightWaves)
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/platform-science-s…

Platform Science secures $125M to grow OEM partnerships
The company last announced its Series C raise in 2022, led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 for $115 million, valuing the company at $575 million. Platform Science has raised $309 million since 2017.

Just designed a stackable truncated octahedron container, based around my fractal truncated octahedron sphere.
https://www.printables.com/model/799264-stacking-fractal-octahedron-bowl

The #FreeCAD stable build Appimages don't work on #Fedora 40 which is making it hard for me to test a fix I've been working on in the Lattice2 workbench to make it work in cur…

My god
#homelessness

ITV reports Q1 revenue down 7% YoY to £887M, ad revenue up 3% YoY, digital ad revenue up 14% YoY, and ITV Studios revenue down 16% YoY to £382M (Naman Ramachandran/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/global/news/itv-first-quarter-financial-r…

ITV Revenues Down and Studio Business Projected to Remain Flat
U.K. broadcaster ITV has reported mixed financial fortunes for the first quarter of 2024.

“anyone over 40-ish uses it in the first sense, and anyone under 40-ish uses it in the second sense..."
How interesting. I’m over 40 but I’ve always used it in the second sense. I’d never heard it defined in the first sense before. Anyone else? https://mastodon.au/@wendypalmer/11225

Wendy Palmer (@wendypalmer@mastodon.au)
Attached: 1 image Speaking of favourite words, look what language change has done to "nonplussed". I think it was probably 20 years ago when I first saw it used in the second sense in a print book, which meant a whole chain of people agreed on its meaning...I was quite nonplussed at the time... These days I avoid using it in my books because I'm guessing anyone over 40-ish uses it in the first sense, and anyone under 40-ish uses it in the second sense, and the meanings are so very opposite t…

Odds a first-round WR busts? Plus, the top three WR prospects https://theathletic.com/5405843/2024/04/10/odds-a-first-round-wr-busts-scoop-city/

Odds a first-round WR busts? Plus, the top three WR prospects
What 13 years of data say about the odds of drafting a superstar first-round WR.

Indian investment app Groww moves its domicile back to India from the US, as some Indian startups relocate overseas entities to align with India's new rules (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/09/grow

Groww joins the first wave of Indian startups moving domiciles back home from US | TechCrunch
Groww, an Indian investment app, has become one of the first startups from the country to shift its domicile back home.

Rakuten Kobo announces its first color e-readers, the $220 Kobo Libra Colour and the $150 Kobo Clara Colour, available for preorder now and shipping on April 30 (Sheena Vasani/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/10/24124411/k…

Kobo announces its first color e-readers
Kobo’s first color e-readers, the Kobo Libra Colour and the Kobo Clara Colour, are available to preorder now ahead of their release date on April 30th.