How Startups Can Weather the VC Funding Winter
Here’s what startups must focus on to triumph in the VC winter.
The Download: the rise of luxury car theft, and fighting antimicrobial resistance
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The curious case of the disappearing Lamborghinis Across the world, unsuspecting people are unwittingly becoming caught up in a new and growing type of organized criminal enterprise: vehicle transport fraud and theft. Crooks…
Want to Be More Productive at Work? You Need Better Hobbies.
Here’s how engaging in complex hobbies can offer mental rest and spur productivity.
‘You’d Do That For Your Mom’: Margot Robbie Reveals That She Paid Off Her Mom’s Mortgage With Paychecks
The “Barbie” star earned an estimated $12.5 million for the film.
Blue Origin, Astrobotic, Varda Space and others win NASA funding to develop advanced space tech
NASA awarded new funding to eleven companies today for advanced space tech projects ranging from advanced power generation on the lunar surface to additive manufacturing for space habitats. The awards, which total $150 million across all eleven companies, were announced as part of the space agency’s Tipping Point program. According to NASA, a technology is […]
How to prevent an ‘operational catastrophe’
We concentrated on scaling and didn’t have time to think if the resources of our team were enough to keep going with such speed.
OpenAI scuttles AI-written text detector over ‘low rate of accuracy’
OpenAI has shut down its AI classifier, a tool that claimed to determine the likelihood a text passage was written by another AI. While many used and perhaps unwisely relied on it to catch low-effort cheats, OpenAI has retired it over its widely criticized “low rate of accuracy.” The theory that AI-generated text has some […]
Remember Amazon’s Clubhouse competitor? That’s okay — neither does almost anybody else
At the height of the COVID-19 health crisis, when many of us — forced by quarantine rules and social distancing guidelines — were locked indoors and away from public spaces, Clubhouse, the audio-focused social platform, grew explosively. A platform where anyone could talk about . . . well, just about anything, Clubhouse drew millions of […]
Google Search is making it easier to find relevant information on women’s sports
Google is introducing a few new ways to make it easier for users to find relevant information when searching for women’s sports, the company announced on Tuesday. The new updates come in time for the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup. The search giant says it has expanded coverage of women’s competitions in the information boxes […]
11 Reasons High School Students Should Consider Entrepreneurship
Here are a few reasons why high school students should embrace the entrepreneurial mindset and consider starting their own businesses.
Trader Joe’s Is Recalling Cookies Because They May Contain Rocks
The company said they will give customers a full refund.