AstronomyAstra’s First Commercial Launch Fails to Reach Orbit The rocket never made it to orbit when Astra, now a public corporation, ran into difficulty during its first commercial launch (the mission carried a…
TechnologyApple Buys Classical Music Service, Primephonic Apple stated today that it has acquired Primephonic in order to extend its classical music offering. The Amsterdam-based service, which debuted in 2014, will put…
BusinessA Majority of Tech Workers Support Antitrust legislation Enforcement Breaking up Big Tech has resurfaced as a key policy topic in Washington, thanks to the arrival of US Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan.…
BusinessA new coalition for “Open Cap Table” Presents an Opportunity for Equity Transparency Startup ownership is frequently a mystery. It’s tough to figure out who owns something without a public registration. The Delaware Division of Corporations contains important…
TechnologyAir Conditioning is one of the Greatest Inventions of the 20th Century. It’s also killing the 21st When did the air inside become cool and fresh? Air conditioning is one of those innovations that have become so commonplace that many people in…
TechnologyFerromagnetic Resonance-based Energy Harvesting Technology Energy harvesting is a critical technology for maximizing the use of the Earth’s natural resources. This technology, which differs from conventional electric generation technologies such…
AccountingWrite-Down (Accounting) When a company decreases the carrying value of an asset other than via regular depreciation and amortization, it is known as a write-down. It is…
BusinessAlpaca Rises $50M to Rapidly Scale its API-Delivered Equities Trading Business Alpaca announced this morning that it had completed a $50 million Series B round of funding. TechCrunch previously covered the company’s $6 million seed round…
Technology5 Takeaways from Toast’s S-1 Filing Welcome back to the season of initial public offerings. We won’t call it a hot liquidity summer, but the public-offering cycle has returned after a…
ChemistryButyl Butyrate – an Organic Compound Butyl butyrate, also known as butyl butanoate, is an organic compound formed by the condensation of butyric acid and n-butanol. It has the appearance of…
PhysicsModulated Quantum Metasurfaces can Control all Characteristics of Photonic Qubits, According to a Group of Researchers Modulated quantum metasurfaces, according to a team of scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory, can control all characteristics of photonic qubits, a development that might…
TechnologyThe New Technology Notably Improves the Resolution of X-ray Nanotomography For a long time, it has been known that if you want to study the movement and behavior of single atoms, electron microscopy can provide…