Enlarge / Satellite photo of an algal bloom in western Lake Erie, July 28, 2015. (credit: NASA Earth Observatory) Midsummer is the time for forecasts of the size of this year’s “dead zones” and algal blooms in major lakes and bays. Will the Gulf of Mexico dead zone be the size of New Jersey, or…
Monthly Archives: July 2022
Educause has released the inaugural Data and Analytics Edition of its Horizon Report, expanding the annual analysis of the trends, technologies and practices impacting higher education into “an emerging area of practice that is driving institutional decision-making and strategic planning for the future.”Read More
Perseids and Milky Way over the ESO’s Very Large Telescope. ESO/S. Guisard This story has been updated for the 2022 meteor shower. It was originally published on August 8, 2018. For the past few days, if you headed outside after sunset and you happened to look up at the sky on a clear night, you…
Alaska Airlines’ electronic tag. Alaska Airlines Alaska Airlines is rolling out a new way to check-in your luggage with electronic bag tags, set to undergo a pilot program later this year. Using electronic tags is similar to checking-in virtually and getting a mobile boarding pass rather than having to print one out at the airport,…
NASA’s big mission to hunt for water on the moon has slipped by another year, to 2024, due to the agency requesting further testing of the lander that will deliver the payload to the lunar surface. NASA selected Astrobotic as the commercial partner to develop the lander for this mission in 2020, through the agency’s…
While the venture capital world slows, climate tech is bucking the trend as startups in the space continue to ink deals at a record pace. In the process, the sector is climbing the ranks. In the first quarter of this year, five climate tech deals made it into CB Insight’s top 10 lists covering seed…
House of Sims cast. Image Credits: OnlyFans TV Often dubbed as the U.K.’s Kardashians, British reality TV stars Chloe Sims and sisters Demi and Frankie have announced their upcoming series with OnlyFans TV (OFTV), OnlyFans’ free streaming platform with non-pornographic content. OFTV signed a multiyear content deal with the Sims sisters and will premiere the…
Not every company is struggling in this downturn. Despite a cooling market, corporate spend management startup Ramp reports that it has more than doubled its revenue run rate since the start of the year. The feat would be impressive in normal times, but is particularly so when tech companies — big and small — are…
Lori Cashman Contributor Share on Twitter Lori Cashman is a managing partner of Victress Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in high-growth companies meeting the needs of the evolving consumer market. In the world of venture capital, we’re always talking about cash. You hear phrases like “cash burn,” “cash runway” and “cash on…
Elon Musk has dominated this summer’s headlines beyond the EV business he’s trying to scale. During the first half of July, the Tesla CEO commanded attention for adding twins to his brood of 10 children, backing out of a $44 billion deal to buy Twitter and going shirtless while yachting on the Aegean. Meanwhile, the…