TechnologyWarp Raises $23M to Build a Better Terminal The terminal is sometimes treated as an afterthought, and there hasn’t been much innovation in this area in a long time. Warp, a new command-line…
Plants and AnimalsViking Skin Nailed To Medieval Church Doors Is Actually From Farm Animals A terrible legend surrounds the calm, inconspicuous St. Botolph’s church in Hadstock, near Cambridge. During renovations in the late 1800s, it was revealed that the…
EnvironmentTonga Volcanic Eruption Was the Most Powerful This Century, New Paper Confirms The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai eruption shook the Pacific on January 15, 2022, causing a large and catastrophic tsunami and shooting a plume of debris into…
BusinessBase10 Partners Closes Fund Three with $460M to Invest Globally ‘The Cat Is Out Of the Bag’ Base10, a four-year-old venture capital firm, has completed its third fund with $460 million in commitments. The new fund brings Base10, which now has $1.3…
OtherBiden Announces $6 Billion to Revive Dying Nuclear Power Plants The Biden administration has offered $6 billion to rescue fusion power facilities around the country from shutdown as the US focuses on greener energy sources,…
TechnologyVcs Scale Their Bets on Solana’s Expanding NFT Ecosystem The explosive growth of NFTs as an asset class has created a bubble that appears to be refusing to burst — at least for the…
OtherTech Workers Describe Detentions and Interrogations As They Flee Russia A note from Amazon appeared in the inbox of Vladimir Smirnov, a programmer from St. Petersburg, on the evening of February 23, only hours before…
BusinessUPS Partners With Jumia to Expand Delivery Network in Africa Following a new agreement launched today that offers it access to Jumia’s last-mile delivery infrastructure, global logistics and package delivery provider UPS will utilize Jumia’s…
BusinessThese Y Combinator-backed Startups Want To Build the Next Brex Fintech firms were well-represented in the W22 batch of Y Combinator, with 35 foreign companies and another 25 labeled as crypto-focused. At least four businesses…
TechnologyNew-generation Solar Cells Improve Efficiency in the Energy Transition More and more firms are investing in commercial solar panels all over the world. This is due to a number of factors. For starters, solar…
TechnologyMailchimp Says an Internal Tool Was Used To Breach Hundreds of Accounts After hostile hackers accessed an internal corporate tool, malicious hackers gained access to client accounts, email marketing giant Mailchimp admitted a data breach. Mailchimp CISO…
TechnologyPentagon Impressed By StarInk’s Eye-Wateringly Swift Shut Down Of Russian Cyberattack Russia is no longer undertaking electromagnetic strikes in the ongoing Ukrainian crisis, following a supposedly failed effort to cut off SpaceX’s Starlink internet connection to…