Sam Hashemi News Today

From NASA apps to city planning to map making, Felt co-founder Sam Hashemi has a record of transforming dated systems and processes with design

Prenuvo, the company pioneering proactive whole-body MRI imaging for the early detection of cancer and diseases, presented three AI-assisted research abstracts highlighting the significant correlation between lifestyle factors and brain volume changes. The studies, conducted on over 10,000 consenting anonymized Prenuvo patients, shed light on the crucial role of visceral abdominal fat in predicting midlife brain atrophy, underscoring the importance of managing visceral fat for long term...

Make your own digital maps with easy-to-use tools, open source data, and the ability to work collaboratively in real-time.

Felt allows users to build a map with datasets integrated into it, and work with each other to showcase impact in a less static way than a Google maps query.

Mux is how developers build online video. With Mux Video, developers gain access to a powerful API for video streaming--think Stripe for Video. You dont have to have strong feelings about ffmpeg settings, you just go. And with Mux Data, developers realize incredible insights into how their videos perform from platform to platform, place to place, and user to user. Im Ed, and Im an engineer on the DevEx team here - you might have seen me around HN here and there. ;) This is, and I have to stress...

Via buys mapping startup Remix for $100 million Remix, the startup that developed mapping software used by cities for transportation planning and street design, was born out of a hackathon during a Code for America fellowship. Nearly seven years later, the San Francisco-based startup is being acquired by Via for $100 million in cash and equity. Remix will become a subsidiary of Via, an arrangement that will let the startup maintain its independent brand. Remix’s 65 employees and two of its co...