The Latin American startup market, once among the hottest in the world, is cooling. But its slowdown is far from uniform; some countries are surviving the downturn far better than others, data reveals. A few weeks back, this column took an early look at venture capital data concerning LatAm startups and their financial backers, noting…
Tom Mueller is a self-described race car guy. Upon retiring from his role as CTO of Propulsion at SpaceX in November 2020, he “mostly wanted to go racing and ride dirt bikes and travel,” he said in a recent interview. Mueller, who is 61, was putting behind him a storied career: while at SpaceX, he…
How long is your startup’s runway? It’s an important question and an essential metric for every early-stage founder to know. But for startups wading into hot sectors with big markets — fintech alone includes corporate spend, lending, consumer services and more — competing can be very expensive. Striking the right balance between growth and spend…
Sono Motors unveiled this week the final production design of the Sion EV, a solar electric vehicle that’s been in the making since the Munich-based startup launched in 2016. It’s been a long and bumpy road for Sono Motors, a journey that involved a couple of crowdfunding campaigns, a near insolvency and a debut on…
Coinbase, the U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange that is the third-largest globally, is “facing a U.S. probe into whether it improperly let Americans trade digital assets that should have been registered as securities,” according to a Bloomberg report. The news follows a move by the U.S. Department of Justice last week to arrest and charge a former…
If Meta’s Quest 2 virtual reality headset has been on your shopping list for a while, you might want to pick one up before Aug. 1. Meta has confirmed that the start of August will also mark the beginning of a new, pricier chapter for the Quest 2. Both models of the fully wireless VR…
Apple has finally removed the last traces of Intel silicon from its Macs. The tech giant’s decision to sever the key relationship with the manufacturer was announced during CEO Tim Cook’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) keynote address in June 2020, and it’s been gradually rolling out the necessary changes every since. Apple has been using…
Nvidia has unveiled its Enterprise version 2.1, an update to the company’s end-to-end artificial intelligence and machine learning workloads software. The updates affect the Nvidia TAO Toolkit and Nvidia Rapids, with further support being added for Red Hat OpenShift running in the public cloud. The company says this should “[make] enterprise AI even more accessible…
James Cameron’s 2009 sci-fi epic Avatar is being remastered in high frame rate (HFR), along with his 1997 film, Titanic. That announcement comes from Pixelworks, the developers of the TrueCut Motion technology being used to transform the director’s signature blockbusters for a return to theaters. “We’re bringing Avatar and Titanic back to the big screen,…
Air ambulance picking up a mountain ranger in Denali National Park. Menno Boermans/Getty Images A mountain climber who witnessed a 1,000-foot fall from Alaska’s Denali in May 2021 said she struggled with guilt. Sarah Maynard told Insider that the nearly fatal fall deeply affected her: ‘Every day I relive it.’ Adam Rawski fell down an…