Monthly Archives: August 2022

The first private mission to Venus will have just five minutes to hunt for life 

As the covid pandemic raged in late 2020, all eyes turned briefly from our troubled planet to our planetary neighbor Venus. Astronomers had made a startling detection in its cloud tops: a gas called phosphine that on Earth is created through biological processes. Speculation ran wild as scientists struggled to understand what they were seeing. …

Nigerian YC-backed startup Anchor comes out of stealth with $1M+ to scale its banking-as-a-service platform

In 2015, the emergence of fintechs such as Flutterwave and Paystack changed the game for online businesses in Africa by making it easier to integrate payments into customer interfaces without building those features from the ground up or merging with tacky foreign software. Amplify was another payment platform that launched during that period. However, it…

The leader of Latinos for Trump says the former president has been getting into so much trouble because he ‘offended the Lord’

US President Donald Trump holds a Bible while visiting St. John’s Church across from the White House on June 1, 2020. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images Bianca Garcia, the leader of Latinos for Trump, has a theory on why Trump has been facing troubles. Gracia said she thought Trump was being “attacked” because he may…