Category: Technology
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The US West Coast wildfire season used to be 4 months long. Now it’s 8, running from May to January. 2.5 million acres of land have burned in California alone this year. But for desperate homeowners in fire prone regions, there may be hope. Several new technologies have been developed…
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Markets are hot. The S&P 500 sits near record highs. Venture capital funding is higher than ever before. As hot stocks rocket upward and the best venture deals move fast, a specter is haunting investors — the specter of FOMO. Fear of missing out has investors piling into the stocks…
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A fascinating new device could one provide the elusive male contraceptive: German design graduate Rebecca Weiss has won a James Dyson Award for a male contraceptive device called Coso, which uses ultrasound waves to temporarily halt sperm regeneration. Weiss’s Coso device is designed to be a reversible contraceptive solution. To…
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I’ve got a fun one for you today: a German hamster is trading cryptocurrencies. And he’s blowing away the S&P 500: The livestreamed hamster, named Mr. Goxx, has been independently trading a portfolio of various cryptocurrencies since June 12, and so far its* performance has been impressive. As of Friday,…
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You just went to a protest marking the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. You were scared, but you went. You wore a mask and took a winding route home. No one could have seen you. You arrive home to your Hong Kong apartment and decide to check your bank…
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Knowing who owns your company should be easy, right? Just keep a spreadsheet with the names and percentages and you’re all set! Unfortunately, company ownership is a lot more complicated than that. Different investors buy in at different prices and different terms over time. That’s where Capbase comes in. Capbase…
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I came across a fascinating little tool today. It’s a machine learning program designed to forecast returns in stocks. It’s called the Trefis AI Engine and it draws from 8 years of past stock returns. Given the intense interest in stock of AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc., I had to see…
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+ AI, AMC, Artificial Intelligence, Finance, Investing, Machine Learning, MIT, Reddit, Stock Market, Stocks, Tech, Wallstreetbets+
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The SEC has threatened to sue Coinbase Global, Inc. over its plans to introduce a crypto lending product called Coinbase Lend : The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has told Coinbase Global Inc (COIN.O) that it plans to sue the cryptocurrency exchange if it goes ahead with plans to launch…
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+ Bitcoin, Blockchain, Coinbase, Crypto, Cryptocurrencies, Cryptocurrency, Finance, Investing, Stock Market, Stocks, USDC+
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Only about half the world has internet access. Even rural America lags behind in broadband penetration. But what if everyone on earth had incredibly fast internet for $1 a month? A fascinating company called Akash Systems just might pull that off. It is delivering internet 100 times more cheaply than…
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+ Broadband, Elon Musk, Internet, Inventions, Materials Science, Satellites, Space, SpaceX, Startup, Tech+
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Solana is all the rage in cryptocurrency markets these days. Its price is doing this: Looking at that chart, it would be easy to think that this new cryptocurrency is all hype and speculation. But I spent the afternoon digging into its capabilities as a platform, and they are incredible:…
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+ Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies, Cryptocurrency, DeFi, Finance, Money, Software, Startups, Tech, USDC+
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