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TuSimple Takes $95M For Autonomous Trucking Technology

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TuSimple , a developer of autonomous trucking technology which has offices in San Diego and in China, said on Wednesday that it has raised $95M in a Series D funding round. The funding came from Chinese investors SINA Corp. and Composite Capital. TuSimple says it has now raised a total of $178M. The company was founded in 2015.

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TuSimple Aims At Self Driving Vehicle Market

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San Diego- and Beijing-based TuSimple , a startup developing autonomous driving technology, says it has received a permit from the California Department of Motor Vehicles to test autonomous driving vehicles on the road. The company says it has been developing its systems since 2015. The company's co-founder is Xiaodi Hou.

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3D Robotics Gets $5M

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San Diego-based 3D Robotics , the developer and supplier of parts and technology for personal unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), has raised $5M in funding, from True Ventures and O'Reilly AlphaTech ventures. The firm said Jon Callaghan of True and Bryce Roberts at O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures have joined the company's board.

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Human Capital: Moving away from ‘master/slave’ terminology

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This probably isn’t news to developers, but it was news to me when I found out many tech companies still use slave-master language. In Khosrowshahi’s statement, he simply said “Uber has developed implementation plans” to comply with an order within no more than 30 days. You can sign up here. ” Don’t Miss.

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Want to Find Stellar Software Engineers in the Midwest? Here’s How

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It may seem obvious that companies in the Midwest face challenges attracting and retaining talent, given our weather and location far from the coasts. One need only to look at college football recruiting, after all, to see how the average annual snowfall on campus matters almost as much as last season’s win/loss record.

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Qualcomm Creates New Open Source Subsidiary

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San Diego-based Qualcomm has created a new, separately owned subsidiary focused on mobile open source, the firm announced today. According to Qualcomm, the new subsidiary--Qualcomm Innovation Center--is being spun out to focus on developing open source software which uses Qualcomm's technology. READ MORE>>.

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No Co-Founder? Y Combinator Offers Matchmaking at Startup School

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There were a host of reasons—she wasn’t a software engineer, she had no product development experience, and she wanted to launch a consumer item that was already sold widely by established enterprises.