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Warhound raises $200M to engineer war dogs and arm them with Anduril gear

Colossal Biosciences’ Ben Lamm and Andruil’s Palmer Luckey had an idea to genetically engineer war dogs for the U.S. military, law enforcement, and other emergency response teams. That idea, on Thursday, announced its emergence from stealth as Warhound, armed with $200 million in funding from investors including In-Q-Tel, Sequoia, and 8VC. The round values the company at $1.2 billion.

These are dogs that perform tasks that are dangerous for humans or difficult for machines, like bomb detection, searches, and other specialized operations. In its launch announcement, the company said that more than 80% of the working dogs used by the U.S. military come from Europe and less than half of them are fit for service.

So not only is there a dwindling supply of working dogs for these tasks, but the U.S. has also become increasingly reliant on foreign nations for dogs that play an important role in the U.S....

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When AI Glasses Could Be A Worthy Headphones Replacement

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This Was the Most Fun I've Had Reviewing a Mouse In a Long Time

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Don't Throw Away Your Old Speakers — Use Them For Your TV Instead

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The Seagate One Touch comes with software that makes this HDD stand out

As a standard portable 4TB HDD, this mechanical drive performs surprisingly well for backup and archieve, and if you want to use it as a working drive for lightweight video work, that’s perfectly possible. However, its real strength is the software Toolkit, which enables fast backups of all your

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