OtherA Brutal Week of Layoffs If you missed it last week, my name is Greg, and I’m in charge of Week in Review now that Lucas is working on their…
TechnologyAll the Tech That Got Our Attention at F1 Miami Grand Prix The worldwide glitterati descends on Miami this weekend for the city’s debut Formula One Grand Prix. The “Netflix effect” of “Formula 1: Drive to Survive,”…
BusinessAs Interest Rates Rise, Startups and Vcs Are Playing a New Game The Federal Reserve of the United States hiked a key interest rate benchmark by 0.50 percent, or 50 basis points, this week, putting an end…
TechnologyAn Early Tiktok Exec Just Launched a Dating App, Spark Alex Hofmann, the former president of musical.ly (now TikTok), has already accomplished the seemingly impossible: he assisted in the development of an app that could…
TechnologyTwitter Tries To Woo Anxious Advertisers with a Slate of Premium Video Content at the New fronts Twitter returned to the Digital Content NewFronts this evening, like it did in past years, to sell advertisers on its impending premium video content slate.…
TechnologySequoia, Binance and A16z Back Elon Musk’s $44 Billion Twitter Bid Over $7.1 billion has been invested in Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s $44 billion offer to purchase Twitter by a group of almost two…
BusinessRali_Cap Gets Backing from Global Vcs And Launches $30M Fintech Fund For Emerging Markets A $30 million fund has been formed by Rali cap, an early-stage venture capital business focused on emerging markets fintech. The firm, which was formerly…
ZoologyA Rethink of the Evolution of Insects and Spiders is Prompted by the Discovery of 500-Million-Year-Old Stanleycaris Fossilized Brains The brain and nervous system of Stanleycaris, a marine predator from the Burgess Shale that is 500 million years old, were found in a hoard…
AstronomyKepler-186 c – an Exoplanet Kepler-186 c is an exoplanet that orbits the star Kepler-186, which are 579.1 light-years (177.6 pc) from our Solar System. It is an exoplanet that…
GeographyAncient Southern Chinese Population’s DNA Indicates East Asian Origins for Native Americans The DNA of ancient human fossils from the Late Pleistocene in southern China has now been successfully sequenced. The information, which was released on July…
GeographyEast Pacific Rise 9°54’N Off-Axis High-Temperature Hydrothermal Field Found The research, which was led by the McDermott lab at Lehigh, shows that there are more hydrothermal vents in the deep water than previously believed…
ChemistryZinc Carbonate – an Inorganic Compound Zinc carbonate, abbreviated ZnCO3, is an inorganic compound. It is a type of organooxygen compound. It has the appearance of a white crystalline solid or…