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TuSimple Takes $95M For Autonomous Trucking Technology

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The company was founded in 2015. Based on the company's open positions, it appears its San Diego team includes a significant number of software engineers, as well as administrative functions. TuSimple says it has now raised a total of $178M. The new funding values the company at $1 billion. READ MORE>>.

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TuSimple Aims At Self Driving Vehicle Market

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The company says it has been developing its systems since 2015. The company's co-founder is Xiaodi Hou. TuSimple says it is the only San Diego company to have a permit for testing autonomous vehicles in California.

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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. From the moment Talia Frenkel resolved to found a company after a kitchen-table talk with her parents, the odds were against her.

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Sexism Still Exists in Tech | Blatant Trolling at DeveloperWeek 2015

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I received a press pass to DeveloperWeek 2015 last week in order to attend the “Advice to Live by from Women Developers” career panel moderated by the lead of Dice’s engineering team, Jennifer Petersen. Now you’d think we’d be a bit farther along today in 2015, right?

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Silicon Beach Expands with Santa Clarita’s Startup Weekend Nov. 13 -15

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This is a unique opportunity for software engineers, designers, and business-minded entrepreneurs to team up and build several startups in just 54 hours! One weekend, teams of newly formed entrepreneurs and who knows what products or big ideas can happen? Participants arrive the evening of Friday, Nov. 13 – Nov.

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How Will Apple Innovate Beyond the iPhone 7? With Next-Gen Siri

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2015 saw the introduction of the iPhone 6s, a minor makeover of the previous year’s iPhone 6. Maybe, before phones can get smarter, software engineers have to get smarter. What made the original iPhone so groundbreaking was a remarkable convergence of hardware and software innovation. Let me explain.

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SaaS Is Dead, Long Live Software

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It’s high time we kill the term Software As A Service (SaaS) and call it what it is – software. Even Salesforce abandoned it’s silly “No Software” tagline, after the company had to explain in 2015 that it meant, “No legacy software, just cloud software.”. You’re not a SaaS company, you’re a software company.

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