How NASA Certifies New Spacecraft Safe Enough for Humans
During the design process, NASA and its contractors also had to agree on a flight test program that would demonstrate that each spacecraft works as intended. For some tests, NASA…
Today’s Cartoon: Zoom Sports
Wednesday, May 13, 2020. By David Ostow, with cartooncollections.com. When sports seasons around the world were suspended due to the pandemic, the billion-dollar betting industry set its sights on videogames.…
Why Humans Totally Freak Out When They Get Lost
One day in October 2015, a forest surveyor working in an area of dense woodland near Mount Redington in Maine came across a collapsed tent hidden in the undergrowth. He…
Elon Musk well actually’d Grimes over their baby name just after she gave birth
Elon Musk and Grimes welcomed little X Æ A-12 Musk into the world on Monday, but Musk’s Twitter gaffes have not stopped. After Musk announced their newborn son’s birth in…
Facebook finally appoints members to its Oversight Board, but will it really matter?
A Yemeni Nobel Peace Prize laureate who organized protests during the Arab Spring. The Vice President of the conservative Cato Institute who wrote a book titled “The Struggle to Limit…
Spatial’s VR Meeting Rooms Are Now Open to Everyone
Other enterprise clients, Loewenstein says, are using Spatial as persistent war rooms, where people meet once or twice a week for virtual check-ins. Now, with Spatial opening up for free…
The First Shot: Inside the Covid Vaccine Fast Track
This is where your B cells and T cells, the problem-solvers and soldiers of the adaptive immune system, come in. Each day, these cells are undergoing their own form of…
4 vital lessons I learned from my Series A fundraising journey
Starting your fundraising journey is an exhilarating process. You’ve nurtured the company, put the correct leadership team in place, and spent countless hours to ensure your company will succeed. But…
Facebook issues $100K challenge to build an AI that can identify hateful memes
Memes are now an integral part of how people communicate on the internet. While a lot of these memes have an ability to cheer you up, a lot of them…
How startups can take advantage of the currency market to fight financial uncertainty
Coronavirus has spread alarmingly quickly across the world in just a matter of months, dramatically changing the way we all live and work. Currency markets have been particularly affected by…