Self-chatting feels silly at first, but it’s a game-changer. | Image: David Pierce Texting yourself sounds weird until you try it. Then it becomes indispensable. For a while now, my highest-volume messaging conversation has been with myself (which sounds sad now that I say it, but we’ll leave that for another day), and it has…
Monthly Archives: November 2022
Enlarge / A Rolls-Royce hydrogen-fueled aircraft engine is tested at Boscombe Down in the UK. Flying is one of the most difficult industries to decarbonize, and hydrogen-powered aircraft are still years away from carrying a plane over long distances. (credit: Steve M. Smith / Rolls-Royce) British engineer Rolls-Royce has successfully used hydrogen instead of conventional…
Imagine a newly-independent reader who’s ready for longer stories. Chapter books set them up for success, right? Think about it. Chapter books feature appropriate vocabulary, simple sentence structure, appealing characters, and a predictable storyline with a satisfying outcome. And they’re presented in short chapters with lively illustrations. Even better – they come in series! So…
The best Cyber Monday generator deals can keep you powered up in an emergency. Stan Horaczek We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn more › Generators may not be as exciting to buy on Cyber Monday as a speedy new laptop or an enormous new…
Colorized scanning electron micrograph of monkeypox virus (orange) on the surface of infected VERO E6 cells (green). NIAID Today, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that it will be begin to use the preferred term “mpox” as a synonym for monkeypox. The WHO said that it will use both names simultaneously for the next year…
Keep cooking outside all year with these Traeger Cyber Monday deals at Amazon. Stan Horaczek We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn more › Those Thanksgiving leftovers in the fridge won’t last forever. In fact, they may already be gone if your house is particularly…
Artificial intelligence promises to help, and maybe even replace, humans to carry out everyday tasks and solve problems that humans have been unable to tackle, yet ironically, building that AI faces a major scaling problem. It’s only as good as the models and data used to train it, so there is a need for sourcing…
This past year has been hectic for the crypto lending platform BlockFi and today is no different as the company shared an announcement that it filed for voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey. On November 10 the crypto platform shared in a tweet that it paused…
India’s VerSe Innovation — the $5 billion Indian startup behind news aggregator Dailyhunt, short-video platform Josh, and hyperlocal video app PublicVibe — has cut 150 employees, or 5% of its workforce of 3,000, TechCrunch has learned and confirmed. The Bengaluru-based startup informed impacted employees on Friday and separately held a town hall meeting on Monday…
Folks often ask if Crunchbase and TechCrunch are still the same company (nope). Many express surprise that AOL was once this publication’s sole parent (yep). The saga of Who Owns TechCrunch is actually somewhat interesting. Various corporate developments over the last decade saw TechCrunch trade hands several times, including our most recent ejection from Verizon…