What’s harder than getting a rocket into space? Getting self-driving cars to actually work… at least according to the boss of Waymo, Google’s self-driving vehicle spinoff. In an interview with the Financial…
Month: January 2021
India’s misguided internet shutdowns cost the country $2.7B in 2020
India has one of the largest internet userbases in the world. So, whenever the central or state government decides to cut internet access for one reason or another, a large number of…
3 tips that helped me recruit game-changing investors
Many entrepreneurs embark on their journey through a desire to “be their own boss,” little realizing that teaming up with the wrong investor might leave them working for the boss from hell! …
iPhone manufacturer Foxconn might save Chinese EV startup Byton with a $200M investment
One of Apple‘s main component suppliers is reportedly in talks to buy a financially beleaguered electric vehicle (EV) maker. According to a Bloomberg News report which cites “people familiar with the matter,”…
Samsung is going to launch the Galaxy S21 on January 14
Just a few days into the new year, Samsung has announced that it’s going to unveil its next flagship — possibly called the Galaxy S21 — on January 14. This would be…
How AI weeds the spam out of our inboxes
Of more than 300 billion emails sent every day, at least half are spam. Email providers have the huge task of filtering out spam and making sure their users receive the messages that matter. Spam detection is…
How to increase your productivity as a remote developer
The world has now new norms for traveling, working, and just about every daily activity ever since the pandemic broke out on a global scale. To keep up with the changed lifestyle,…
Lemurs might hold the key to human hibernation necessary for Mars missions
Science fiction is shifting into reality. With humanity’s plans to return to the moon this decade and further ambitions to travel to Mars in the next, we need to figure out how…
Supercomputer simulation re-enacts the birth of the Moon
The formation of the Moon billions of years ago is cloaked in mystery. Most astronomers believe the young Earth, still cooling off from its formation, was struck by a mars-sized body called…
You are more closely related to comb jellies than sponges, new study claims
The theory of evolution shows that all life stems from a single root and that we are related, more or less distantly, to every other living thing on Earth. Our closest ancestors,…