Refract raises $8.5M SGD funding, announces new game development division  – TechCrunch

Robotics

Refract, a Singapore-based extended reality (XR) startup, announced today it has closed approximately $8.5million SGD (approximately $6million) Series A led by Sea Limited along with international family offices and individual investors. The latest funding will be used to intensify R&D for AXIS, a wearable and game-oriented full-body motion capture solution. The startup also plans to…

Signify intos new line of LTE and 5G ‘broadband luminaires’ for smart cities

IoT Building News

Netherlands-based lighting firm Signify is to integrate LTE and 5G into a new range of ‘broadband luminaires’ for the smart cities market. Signify has signed a deal with smart-city broadband provider Siklu to bundle the Israel-based firm’s ‘multi-haul’ ‘multi-gigabit’ hardware (branded ‘MultiHaul’). The new broadband line is part of Signify’s BrightSites portfolio. The pair said…

Starship Technologies picks up €50M from the EU’s investment arm to expand its fleet of autonomous delivery robots – TechCrunch

Cyber Attacks

Starship Technologies, one of the bigger names in the world of autonomous delivery robots — those little caboose-like, boxy delivery vehicles that self-drive around cities — has been on a roll during Covid-19, providing extra (unmanned) horsepower to distribute food and other goods between stores or restaurants and consumers, at a time when consumers were…

Twitter zaps spoilsport bot that ruined Wordle games

Drones

An automated Twitter account that posted Wordle spoilers to people who shared their results has been suspended. The spoilsport bot replied to folks sharing their results, posting the solution to the next day’s puzzle and, for good measure, adding an insulting message along the lines of, “People don’t care about your linguistic escapades,” and, “This…