Carrum Health, a value-based healthcare company enabling self-funded employers to buy specialist medical care, raised $45 million in Series B funding. When we last checked in with Carrum Health in 2021, the company had raised $40 million. Founded in 2014, the company provides surgical and cancer treatment guidance and coordination. Members pay a fee to get an all-inclusive pricing model and 30-day warranty on care via Carrum’s Centers of Excellence network. Carrum Health CEO Sach Jain ...read more

TechSpot is celebrating its 25th anniversary. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. What just happened? Asus has showcased a concept RTX 4070 graphics card that doesn't use any 16-pin (12VHPWR) or 8-pin power connector. Instead, the card draws up to 600W of power from a proprietary slot on a custom Z790 TUF Gaming motherboard. The new design moves all power connectors to the back of the motherboard and is likely to make cable management in DIY PCs much easier if adopted wide ...read more

Hello and welcome back to Equity, the podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Our Monday Tuesday show covers the latest in tech news from the weekend and what’s making headlines early in the week. This week? Crypto prices are static, unlike a particular valuation and Alex is still mad about SPACs. Here’s the rundown: Stocks around the world are happy that America is once again going to avoid a default; congrats, United S ...read more

Hello and welcome back to Max Q! Happy Memorial Day everyone. In this issue: Astranis’ novel approach to GEO satellites Virgin Galactic’s return to the skies News from SpaceX, and more Astranis’ novel approach to internet satellites is starting to pay off Astranis, a satellite internet startup based in San Francisco, said Wednesday that its first spacecraft completed a milestone test and will start bringing broadband access to rural Alaskans as soon as mid-June. It’s a major step f ...read more

India’s JioCinema broke the global record for the most concurrent views to a live streamed event on Monday, eclipsing a long-standing milestone set by Disney’s Hotstar, as the Asian tycoon Mukesh Ambani spares no expense in expanding his digital empire. the Indian streaming platform, whose investor includes James Murdoch’s Bodhi Tree-backed Viacom18, drew over 32 million simultaneous viewers for the finale of the 16th edition of the Indian Premier League cricket tournament, featurin ...read more

TechSpot is celebrating its 25th anniversary. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. The big picture: Nvidia's new strategy is centered around generative AIs, large language models, and recommender systems, and so is its latest DGX supercomputer. The company believes these will soon form the "digital engines of the modern economy" as companies like Meta, Google, and Microsoft are racing to realize the benefits of AI using Nvidia's Grace, Hopper, and Ada Lovelace hardware arch ...read more

TechSpot is celebrating its 25th anniversary. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. In brief: Tesla owners will soon have more competition for Supercharger stations across the US and Canada. Starting in the spring of 2024, Ford electric vehicle owners will gain access to more than 12,000 Tesla Superchargers. The newly reached agreement effectively doubles the number of fast-chargers that'll be available to Ford EV drivers. Ford President and CEO Jim Farley said widespread a ...read more

For more than a century, utility companies have used electromechanical relays to protect power systems against damage that might occur during severe weather, accidents, and other abnormal conditions. But the relays could neither locate the faults nor accurately record what happened. Then, in 1977, Edmund O. Schweitzer III invented the digital microprocessor-based relay as part of his doctoral thesis. Schweitzer’s relay, which could locate a fault within the radius of 1 kilometer, set new ...read more

It’s Memorial Day here in the United States, which means that the flow of tech news is slower than normal. This might leave you feeling bereft, adrift without the usual 3,239 individual items that happen daily in startup land. But have no fear, for TechCrunch+ is here with a quick rewind of our work from May. Consider this a roll call of some of our favorite journalism from the last few weeks, packaged in a simple format for your quick perusal and ingestion. To the lists! News you wi ...read more

TechSpot is celebrating its 25th anniversary. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. In brief: BMW knows electric vehicles can take a while to charge, and its latest partnership seeks to give owners of the new all-electric 5 Series something to do while waiting. The infotainment functionality will eventually come to other BMW models. BMW unveiled its new all-electric 5 Series sedan, the BMW i5, this week. One of the EV's new infotainment features pulls back the curtain on a ...read more