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They Fought Every Weekend About Where to Camp. So They Built the Map.
Sarah Smith and Kevin Long kept fighting over where to camp. Their fix - a crowdsourced map of every campground in America - now pulls in tens of millions of visits a year and more than 12 million reviews.
The Menopause Device Trying to Replace a Prescription With Eight Quiet Minutes
Madorra is betting that therapeutic ultrasound can give people with menopause-related vaginal atrophy something medicine has rarely offered them: a nonhormonal treatment they can use at home. Its pivotal test is now under way.
AheadComputing
AheadComputing is a Beaverton, Oregon semiconductor startup founded in 2024 by four former Intel CPU architects who left to build high-performance 64-bit RISC-V processor cores from a clean slate. Betting that the future bottleneck in AI and data-center computing is the CPU rather than the GPU, the company is designing a 'Big Core' out-of-order engine that maximizes per-core performance without the legacy baggage of x86. Backed by roughly $53M in seed funding from Eclipse, Toyota Ventures, Cambium and legendary chip designer Jim Keller, AheadComputing wants to prove that an open instruction set can deliver top-tier performance.