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An international exercise to simulate an asteroid striking Earth has come to an end. With just six days to go before a fictitious impact, things don’t look good for a 185-mile-wide region between Prague and Munich.
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Two years ago, the organizers of this event accidentally destroyed New York City, and now it’s time for a border region intersecting Germany, Austria, and Czech Republic to meet the same fate. When I covered the early days of this week’s simulation on Wednesday, the gathered experts were weighing their options as a 460-foot-wide asteroid barreled toward Central Europe.
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Transform MedEd 2021
The Transform MedEd conference series was launched in 2018 in Singapore. Jointly organised by Imperial College School of Medicine, London and the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine), Singapore, Transform MedEd 2021 is a premier international medical education conference which has transformation as its core theme.
Productboard
Productboard raised $72 million in a Series C round led by Tiger Global Management.
Index Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, and Bessemer Venture Partners also participated.
Sequoia s Andrew Reed learned about Productboard through his portfolio companies, which were fans.
Product management startup Productboard has raised a $72 million Series C round, it announced on Thursday. This comes after it raised a $45 million Series B in January 2020.
The funding was led by Tiger Global Management with the company s previous backers, which include Silicon Valley heavyweights like Index Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, and Bessemer Venture Partners, also taking part. The company did not disclose the new valuation, but after its last raise, it was valued at an estimated $300 million, according to Pitchbook.
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