Enlarge / Riding in Tula’s DMD-equipped Chevrolet Bolt EV. (credit: Roberto Baldwin) SAN JOSE, CALIF.—Electric vehicles are all about small gains in efficiency leading to increased range. Reduce the drag, tweak the acceleration curve, and increase the regenerative braking, and you get a few more miles. Car tech company Tula has come up with another…
Monthly Archives: August 2022
The ISS is only built to support around six people at a time. NASA As private spacefaring expeditions become increasingly the norm, NASA is doing its best to make sure everyone gets along 277 miles above the planet. A new special notice released from the agency earlier this week announced a number of new stipulations…
This earnings season has not been kind to all companies. While there have been some notable wins, including well-received results from Uber and Amazon, other major tech companies fared poorly in the wake of their second-quarter financial reports. However, two companies that posted results that were disfavored by investors, Airbnb and Snap, are interesting for…
Twitter announced today that all businesses with professional accounts can now display their location address, hours of operation and additional contact information on their profiles via its Location Spotlight feature. The social network says the feature also gives customers a way to reach businesses directly via phone, text, email or DMs. Prior to the expansion,…
Digital marketplace Clutch announced today the closing of a $1.2 million seed round led by Precursor Ventures. The company, founded in 2020 by Madison Long and Simone May, hails itself as one of the earliest people-first creator economy platforms to connect individuals to businesses looking for marketing and content creation. “We’re very passionate about being…
As word of layoffs ricochets around the world, SoundCloud will, unfortunately, join the masses. The audio distribution and music sharing platform plan an approximate 20% reduction of its global workforce. SoundCloud CEO Michael Weissman emailed employees, informing them that U.S. and U.K. staff will be notified if they’re impacted over the next few days. The company…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced today that the company is beginning its international expansion of NFT support on Instagram. The expansion follows the social network’s initial NFT test launch in May. With this expansion, users and businesses in more than 100 countries in Africa, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, and the Americas will now be able…
After years of resisting, the world’s largest asset manager has finally taken the plunge into crypto in a substantial way. BlackRock, which oversees $10 trillion in assets, is partnering with publicly-traded Coinbase to provide its institutional clients with access to cryptocurrency. Bitcoin is the first digital asset being offered through the partnership, according to a…
Ghost Security, which its founders describe as an “app security” company, today emerged from stealth with $15 million in combined funding from 468 Capital, DNX Ventures, and Munich Re Ventures at a $50 million valuation. CEO Greg Martin said that the capital will go toward expanding the team, building Ghost’s product, and launching pilots with…
Friends fall out with each other all the time, but there’s usually a reason for it. Not so in Martin McDonagh’s The Banshees of Inisherin trailer, which sees the stars of his 2008 dark comedy, In Bruges, reteam for fresh and fierce comedy. Colm (Brendan Gleeson) one day decides he no longer wants to talk…