https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=deadbeat1200sHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Wed, 07 Oct 2026 03:02:43 +0000Rodney Brooks who founded Rethink Robotics has definately an interesting story. Especially knowing that Rethink Robotics had initially raised money from Jeff Bezos, Goldman Sachs, something like 150M I believe. But despite all those high profile backers, it had to shut down in late 2018 i believe and was acquired by the Hahn Group, a German automation company.

]]>Sun, 26 Mar 2023 09:41:23 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35312699deadbeat1200shttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35312699https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35312699This is an awesome update. It was only in 2018 that a high energy neutrino was detected by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory (funny name lol) that was traced back to its source, a blazar. This was a active galaxy with a supermassive black hole at its center. That was the first time ever that scientists had identified the source of a high energy neutrino, and now scientists generated a whole new avenue of research in astrophysics with this. :)

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