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High-profile DJs spin major investment into Austin tech startup
High-profile DJs spin major investment into Austin tech startup The pair contributed to a multi-million-dollar funding round for the local startup. Electronic dance music duo Alex Pall and Andrew Taggart better known as The Chainsmokers are helping turn up the volume at Austin-based startup Hearth. Pall and Taggart (said to be the world’s highest-paid DJs) contributed to a $23 million round of funding announced May 19 by Hearth, whose app helps home repair contractors extend loans to customers. Other investors in the round include investment firms Human Capital, 8VC, and Suro Capital, along with individual investors Jay Levine and Barry Sternlicht.
San Francisco planning staff has deemed the South of Market Eagle bar worthy of being designated the first city landmark related to the leather and LGBTQ communities. In a report released ahead of a hearing before the city s Historic Preservation Commission, the planners noted the gay-owned venue at 396-398 12th Street is one of the longest operating LGBTQ bars in the city.
The 55-page report goes into detail about the property, from its world-famous outdoor patio to its porcelain trough urinal, and traces how for nearly 40 years it has been host to extensive fundraising efforts that raised millions of dollars for AIDS-related and other charities.
How Mussels can be Monitored to Indicate Aquatic Toxins
Thought LeadersDr. Alper Bozkurt, Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Dr. Jay Levine, Professor, Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric SciencesNorth Carolina State University
AZoCleantech speaks with Dr. Alper Bozkurt and Dr. Jay Levine from North Carolina State University. The pair teamed up to develop a system that monitors the movement of mussels. The opening and closing of bivalve mollusks can indicate toxins in aquatic environments.
Can you give our readers a summary of your recent research?
We demonstrated that attaching an array of accelerometers (the step counting sensor in Fitbits and other wearables) to the shells of freshwater mussels provides us with enough resolution to measure their shell opening and gaping behavior. We connect these sensors to wireless networks to monitor a group of mussels simultaneously.
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Alison Pray, founder and co-owner of Standard Baking Co. in Portland, taste-tests bagels at the Portland Press Herald. Staff photo by Gregory Rec
The judges were swift and severe.
After getting their first look at the bagels lined up in the center of a conference room table in the Press Herald newsroom, they immediately dismissed the anemic ones on the end because they looked as if they hadn’t spent enough time in an oven. Some judges refused to acknowledge that they even were bagels, labeling them “bread with holes.”
They were “just not even worth talking about,” one judge decreed as others nodded in agreement.