Digest #366
Jane Technologies and Leafly have announced a partnership to build a better online cannabis shopping experience. TechCrunch calls these companies "two giants of the cannabis industry." Learn more below.

Are Parallel Flight Technologies’ drones being used to start fires? As part of their grant work for USDA, PFT is running flight tests with their heavy-lift test drone, “The Big Mule,” and the IGNIS system from Drone Amplified. Learn more below.

Of course, we have more, including news from Poly, Paystand, and Astrea Forensics. Scroll down and start reading!
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Jane Technologies and Leafly announce a partnership to build a better online cannabis shopping experience. Read the article.


Are Parallel Flight Technologies’ drones being used to start fires? Yes, and here's why. Read the article.


Astrea Forensics' breakthrough approach for DNA recovery and analysis from rootless hairs helps solve cold cases. Read the article.


Developed with "work-from-home" in mind, Poly announces new squad of personal video solutions. Read the article.


Paystand wants to help businesses break free of the legacy payment model. They call it "The Journey to Zero." Read the article.


Noncoding RNA has surprising effects on immune response and sepsis, study finds. Read the article.

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