January 2024

As sweltering ocean temperatures make graveyards of coral reefs across the Caribbean and beyond, a team of scientists is scrambling to cool corals down. Way down. To -200 °C.  The Coral Biobank Alliance, helmed in part by Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute biologist Mary Hagedorn, aims to cryopreserve or otherwise keep in captivity the roughly 1,000…

When it comes to making a hit game that keeps players coming back year after year, Saxs Persson would know. Now at Epic Games overseeing the Fortnite ecosystem, Persson previously spent 12 years at Mojang building Minecraft into the stratospheric success it is today. Persson hopped over to Epic in 2022 to work on the […]

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Another proptech startup has run into trouble. Frontdesk, a startup that managed more than 1,000 furnished apartments across the United States, laid off its entire 200-person workforce Tuesday after attempts to raise more capital failed, TechCrunch exclusively learned from sources familiar with internal happenings at the company. The mass layoff comes just seven months after […]

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Ruth Foxe Blader has left her role as partner at Anthemis Group after nearly seven years to start her own venture firm, Foxe Capital, TechCrunch learned exclusively today. Blader is joined by former Anthemis partner Kyle Perez. Sophie Winwood is serving as an operating partner. Winwood previously co-founded WVC:E, an organization that pledges to promote […]

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Samsung’s mobile division ditched the big show unveils a while back. Gone, too, it seems are the days when the company would save its first big phone news of the year for the weeks leading up to Mobile World Congress. The latest Unpacked event is set for January 17 — a week and change after […]

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Billionaire David Tepper is under fire for a now-viral video taken during Sunday’s game against the Jacksonville Jaguars.

Investing can be a complex process that requires various levels of understanding to make the best decisions and optimize the potential return on investments. Four levels of investor expertise exist,…

Logan Lose was set to visit his mother in Cleveland, Ohio, on December 22.

He initially considered real estate but felt it would require a lot of cash and create more debt (and stress) with a mortgage and the overhead expenses of maintaining a property.