The return on investment potential from delivering technology innovation to developing economic populations will be unbeatable for the next 100 years. Approximately 1.2 billion people today live in the developed economies of North American and Europe. With a global population […]
Bumble has changed the way people date, find friends, and the perception of meeting online, for the better. Unlike traditional dating websites, the Bumble app brings dating, friend-finding, and career-building into a single social networking platform. Widely popular among professionals […]
PicnicHealth, a San Francisco-based healthtech startup that makes medical records easy to access by using data to power the next frontier of medical research, has raised $35 million in equity financing to accelerate medical research based on real-World data. The round includes […]
TikTok deal hits a new roadblock today as China places restrictions on technology sales. According to a new report from Bloomberg, a new Chinese restriction could complicate the sale by requiring approval for TikTok to sell its algorithm. Citing people familiar […]
Digital currencies have certainly become popular over the last few years. However, they are still not widely accepted. The fact is, many places are scared of the coins, with some countries banning its use altogether. In this article, we’ll talk […]
Program outcomes will enhance capabilities and services that support advanced, high-density drone operations on a national scale. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced two new participants for phase two of the unmanned aircraft traffic management pilot program (UPP) – The […]
As cloud technology matures, organizations began to move away from monolitic architecture, which is a set of tightly coupled processes that run as a single service, to a more robust architecture known as microservices. Unlike monolithic architecture, the distributed microservices […]
The director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease Dr. Anthony Fauci is back in the news after the successful surgery to remove a polyp on his vocal cord. In his latest comments on Tueday, Dr. Fauci contracts the […]
In 2016, 80% of the total world energy came from fossil fuels, 10% biofuels, 5% nuclear, and 5% renewable (hydro, wind, solar, geothermal). Only 18% of that total world energy was in the form of electricity. Most of the other 82% […]
Back in April 2019, we wrote an article titled, “Why Aren’t Women-Led Startups Getting More Funding?” The article was about a woman-owned startup based in San Francisco and how the founder linked her inability to raise enough funding to her gender. […]
Two days ago, we wrote about the recently updated provisional death counts from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The death count was for the reporting period 2/1/2020 through 8/22/2020. The updated report has sparked debate about who […]
In early March while everyone was busy talking about coronavirus, the U.S. Senate quietly introduced a bill to create “digital currency accounts administered by the Federal Reserve.“ According to the draft, the bill will require banks to maintain pass-through digital […]
Tesla has exploded for a rally of more than 500% since January of this year. Amid its incredible stock rally, the Elon Musk-owned electric car company said it will sell up to $5 billion in stock, according to a new Securities […]
Erasca, a San Diego, Californa-based biotech startup that has its mission embedded in its name (erase cancer), today announced it has closed an additional $36 million of its Series B funding round to finance the clinical development of multiple promising […]
The global powered exoskeleton market is expected to exceed $11.5 billion by 2030 with full-body, powered industrial exoskeletons comprising almost 50% of that amount, according to research firm ABI Research. Sarcos Robotics is a Salt Lake City, Utah-based robotics startup that develops […]
The last time we wrote about Wirecard was back in April 2019 after SoftBank invested $1 billion for a 6% stake in the German payments startup. Fast forward a year later, Wirecard collapsed and filed for bankruptcy in June after revealing […]
In May 2019, U.S. federal officials finally revealed that roughly 12 metric tons of surplus plutonium is being stored at the Savannah River Site. The revelation puts an end to a nagging question that has long been the subject of […]
On August 20, Tesla closed above $2,000 for the first time valuing the company at $373.06 billion. 12 days earlier, Tesla announced a 5-for-1 stock split, which takes effect today. Today, Apple also announced its stock split. Apple split its stock 4-for-1, while […]
Amazon on Monday announced it has received approval from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to operate its fleet of Prime Air delivery drones. In an announcement on Monday, the FAA said the approval will give Amazon broad privileges to “safely […]
Air taxis are no longer the things you see in fiction movies. Welcome to the future of flying cars. Japan’s drone and robotic startup SkyDrive becomes the first company to demonstrate the first successful test flight of a flying car […]