Oh, how the tables have turned. It used to be that if you were a fintech startup or, for lack of a better term, a digitally native financial services business, you might be eyeing an acquisition from an incumbent in the industry. It used to be that if you were a fintech startup or, for lack of a better term, a digitally native financial services business, you might be eyeing an acquisition from an incumbent in the industry. But……
Twitter’s ambitious upstart decentralized social media working group “bluesky” took an important step Monday as the social media company appointed a formal project lead who will direct how the protocol develops moving forward. Crypto developer Jay Graber was tapped by Twitter to helm the initiative, which the company hopes will eventually create a decentralized social media protocol that a number of social networks including Twitter will operate on. The separate bluesky organization will operate independently but to date has……
The transition toward a more sustainable, environmentally sound electrical grid has driven an upsurge in renewables like solar and wind. But something as simple as cloud cover can cause grid instability, and wind power is inherently unpredictable. This intermittent nature of renewables has invigorated the competitive landscape for energy storage companies looking to enhance power system flexibility while enabling the integration of renewables. “Impact is what drives PolyJoule more than anything else,” says CEO Eli Paster. “We see impact……
The urgent need to cut carbon emissions is prompting a rapid move toward electrified mobility and expanded deployment of solar and wind on the electric grid. If those trends escalate as expected, the need for better methods of storing electrical energy will intensify. “We need all the strategies we can get to address the threat of climate change,” says Elsa Olivetti PhD ’07, the Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Associate Professor in Materials Science and Engineering. “Obviously, developing technologies for grid-based……
Nestled on a hill between two houses in a quiet neighborhood, the Henry Wickenburg Pioneer Cemetery seems almost as forgotten as its famous namesake. Entering the cemetery feels like trespassing, even though there is signage and clearly marked path. Henry Wickenburg is best remembered for discovering the Vulture Mine and as the founder of Wickenburg, Arizona. Few people realize that he was largely responsible for the creation of a dusty little agricultural town named Phoenix, now the fifth-largest city……
Benedetto Gervasio (1915-1990) was arguably the most famous and best puppet-master of the province of Bergamo. In the late 1940s, he and his wife, Giuseppina Cazzaniga, decided to commit themselves to the art of puppeteering, which occupied them until his death. In 1993, the Benedetto Gervasio Foundation was set up, and Museo del Burattino was eventually opened in 2019. Benedetto was instrumental in breathing life into Ol Giopì, a mask traditional to Bergamo. The earliest evidence of Ol Giopì……
The John Poole House served as a trading post for local farmers and traveling merchants when it opened in 1793. By 1810, it also functioned as a United States Post Office. The framed portion to the right of the log cabin was added in 1866 and includes an artist studio and the Historic Medley District’s office. Poole was born in 1769 and died in 1828. The grounds are also home to the E.L. Stock, Jr. Memorial Arboretum. This includes……
Not all things are as they first appear, and this building is the perfect example of that concept. From a distance, this structure appears to be another ordinary office building, that is until visitors get a closer look. Decorated across the facade of the building are math and physics formulas. The structure also happens to be the headquarters of the technology consultancy company AFRY. Graphic concrete was used by the architect to embed patterns into the concrete. From a……
Opened in 1962, Griffiths Sea Shell Museum in Gippsland, Victoria features over 90,000 seashells, making it one of the largest private nautical collections in Australia. A colorful assortment of cockles, conchs, sea anemones, and abalones are just a fraction of the many thousands of strange and beautiful shells that fill the wall-to-wall display cases. Also in the collection are specimen jars containing curious creatures dredged from the deep, such as angler fish, goblin sharks, a two-headed baby snapper shark, and……
For the more than 5 million people in the world who have undergone an upper-limb amputation, prosthetics have come a long way. Beyond traditional mannequin-like appendages, there is a growing number of commercial neuroprosthetics — highly articulated bionic limbs, engineered to sense a user’s residual muscle signals and robotically mimic their intended motions. But this high-tech dexterity comes at a price. Neuroprosthetics can cost tens of thousands of dollars and are built around metal skeletons, with electrical motors that……
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This is Equity Monday, our weekly kickoff that tracks the latest private market news, talks about the coming week, digs into some recent funding rounds and mulls over a larger theme or narrative from the private markets. You can follow the show on Twitter here. I also tweet. It’s a surreal day to talk about technology, but here we are. If you can……
Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming services and music platforms this week. MOVIES — What’s your appetite for grandiose meta-musicals starring Adam Driver, Marion Cotillard and a puppet baby named Annette? Mileage will almost certainly vary, but Leos Carax’s “Annette,” which opened the Cannes Film Festival last month, is certainly one of the most original movies of the year. After a brief run in theaters, it debuts Friday on…
BERLIN (AP) — United States teenager Gio Reyna is poised to become one of German soccer giant Borussia Dortmund’s brightest stars after being rewarded for his remarkable development with the prestigious No. 7 jersey. Reyna says he feels ready to take on a bigger role to help Dortmund challenge Bayern Munich for the Bundesliga title and do well in the Champions League. “Hopefully I can have a really big impact this season,” Reyna told journalists in a video call…
NEW YORK (AP) — Marc Maron, Bill Maher, Michelle Wolf, Ronny Chieng, Colin Quinn and Nick Kroll will headline this year’s New York Comedy Festival, which returns for laughs after last year’s event was canceled due to the pandemic. The weeklong festival this fall will also feature Michelle Buteau, Vir Das, Tim Dillon, Gary Gulman, Jon Lovett’s Lovett or Leave It, Norm Macdonald, Brian Regan, Andrew Santino and Megan Stalter. The festival runs Nov. 8-14. Over 200 comedians, late-night…
The town of Salem has an odd relationship with its past. The legacy of the 1962-1963 Witch Trials brings in hundreds of visitors, is frequently referenced in pop culture, and has even been adapted to local sports team mascots. On the other hand, during this period the residents of Salem mercilessly executed 20 innocent men and women in one of the most notorious instances of public mass hysteria in United States history. The story of the Salem Witch Trials……
