Roundup: Sabio, Photobucket cont, Technorati, Choicestream, PersonalBee and more

Roundup: Sabio, Photobucket cont, Technorati, Choicestream, PersonalBee and more

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Sabio Labs raises second round — Sabio is a secretive Palo Alto, Calif. start-up building a new design process for analog chips. It’s likely up to something significant, because Andy Bechtolsheim, the brilliant engineer and co-founder of Sun Microsystems has led a… Continue Reading

Roundup: Walking robot, MySpace News, Dot-Watt boom and more

Roundup: Walking robot, MySpace News, Dot-Watt boom and more

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Dexter, the first robot that “walks like we do” — Entrepreneur Trevor Blackwell started a robot company in Mountain View, Calif. called Anybots a few years ago (we wrote about it). He built a robot called Dexter, and had real trouble getting him to walk. It’s tougher than you may think. Well, now Dexter has finally taken its first steps. Click on image and play video. Paul Graham’s account of the challenge is… Continue Reading