To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Welcome back to Daily Crunch. It’s Monday, May 24, and all I can think about is how much I want a Surface Duo now that it can do two-screen gaming. And one of those new iMacs. I don’t need either, of course, but that doesn’t stop my coveting both of the gadgets. Alas. Regardless, it was……
This story was originally published on The Conversation and appears here under a Creative Commons license. “Help! I’m fishing and just caught a huge sea turtle. She’s completely swallowed my hook.” We are two veterinarians, Debra Moore, who specializes in sea turtles, and John Thomason, who specializes in internal medicine. This is a call we get a lot in our work with the Sea Turtle Stranding and Salvage Network. Thirty minutes after we received this call, the Sea Turtle……
Magnolia trees rarely survive north of Philadelphia, but that isn’t the only reason this evergreen tree, which is more than 100 years old and stands 80 feet tall, is considered one of the Great Trees of New York City. Even the New York City Landmarks commission notes its importance having listed it as the only landmarked tree, and only living landmark, in all five boroughs. This Magnolia grandiflora, or laurel magnolia, was planted as a seedling in 1885 by……
Northeast of Glasgow City Centre lies Sighthill Stone Circle, a modern construction in an ancient style that has been attracting tourists and members of the Pagan community since it was completed in 1979. After the Glasgow Parks Department asked astronomer and science-fiction writer Duncan Lunan to build a “mini-Stonehenge,” he set about finding the right location for this special task, which would be the first of it’s kind in over 3,000 years. The original request had been to copy one……
With one of its latest publications, the MIT Press is breaking new ground — and reaching out to new audiences. “The Curie Society” is a STEM-themed action-adventure graphic novel for young adults, the first publication in this genre in the press’s nearly 60-year history. “You would be forgiven if you didn’t expect to see this book come from an academic publisher,” says Jermey Matthews, acquisitions editor at the MIT Press. “The MIT Press has done fiction before. We publish STEM……
Solidus Labs, a company that says its surveillance and risk-monitoring software can detect manipulation across cryptocurrency trading platforms, is today announcing $20 million in Series A funding. It’s pretty great timing, given the various signals coming from the U.S. government just last week that it’s intent on improving its crypto monitoring efforts — such as the U.S. Treasury’s call for stricter cryptocurrency compliance with the IRS. Of course, Solidus didn’t spring into existence last week. Rather, Solidus was founded……
During the colonial era, a training center was set up in Fréjus to accommodate soldiers from Asia and Africa. The idea of recreating a missiri, a type of religious temple, was an initiative of Captain Abdel Kader Mademba in 1928. Senegalese snipers crafted this replica but unlike the original designed with mud, this one was made of concrete and covered with provençal ochre, a local dye. Completed in 1930, the building served as a place of worship, today it’s an amazing……
In America’s quest to slash greenhouse gas emissions, many have cited the chemical industry as one of the hardest to decarbonize. It’s a significant roadblock: Chemical separation alone is responsible for up to 15 percent of the U.S.’s total energy usage. Osmoses, a startup trying to dramatically increase the efficiency of chemical separations, got a major boost Thursday when it won the MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition. The company has developed a molecular filtration solution containing tiny channels that can……
Traveling out to Cape Kolka, near the very tip of Latvia‘s western peninsula, feels like journeying to the edges of Europe. The park is a little over a mile (2 kilometers) walk from the small village of Kolka. For those who enjoy a bit of isolation, the Houses of the Sun of Cape Kolka offers an opportunity to sleep right on the beach. The barrels are located within the national park on the western beach of Cape Kolka, providing……
Twelve MIT student affiliates have won fellowships for the Fulbright 2021-22 grant year. Their host country destinations include Brazil, Iceland, India, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, South Korea, Spain, and Taiwan, where they will conduct research, earn a graduate degree, or teach English. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, the Fulbright U.S. Student Program offers opportunities for American student scholars in over 160 countries. Last fall, Fulbright received a record number of applications, making this the most competitive……
A broad-ranging panel discussion on May 18 examined the complexities of Asian American and Pacific Islander identity and acceptance at MIT, while underscoring the need for collaborative work among groups to combat prejudice and create equity. The online forum was held amid an ongoing string of violent assaults on Asian Americans in the U.S., which has raised public awareness about anti-Asian discrimination. But the forum — featuring faculty, students, and staff — made clear that anti-Asian American violence, stereotyping,……
Long before SoftBank launched its $2 billion Innovation Fund in Latin America, and before Andreessen Horowitz began actively investing in the region, Sao Paulo-based Kaszek has been putting money into promising startups since 2011, helping spawn nine unicorns along the way. And now, the early-stage VC firm is announcing its largest fund closures to date: Kaszek Ventures V, a $475 million early-stage fund, believed to be the largest vehicle of its kind ever raised in the region, and Kaszek……
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Police arrested a man wanted in four killings this month across two states on Monday after a seven-day search in South Carolina. Tyler Terry was arrested around 10:30 a.m. with no more shots fired and he and the more than 300 officers searching for him were not hurt, the Chester County Sheriff’s Office posted on Twitter. They did not release any additional details. Officers, dogs, helicopters and drones have searched in woods, neighborhoods and industrial…
CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. (AP) — The beleaguered people of Central Falls moved quickly through the high school gym’s injection stations and then to rest on dozens of metal folding chairs, borrowed from the Knights of Columbus. Immunity was at hand, but no one was celebrating. Central Falls — the poorest and smallest city in the nation’s smallest state — is also among the hardest hit by COVID-19. Sorrow reaches across the city: The dead husband. The mother who came…
LONDON (AP) — Britain on Monday barred Belarus’s national airline and instructed U.K. aircraft to avoid Belarussian airspace after a Ryanair passenger jet was forced to land in Minsk. The government said it was suspending the permit allowing airline Belavia to operate in the U.K.. Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said he had instructed Britain’s Civil Aviation Authority “to request airlines avoid Belarusian airspace in order to keep passengers safe.” A Ryanair flight from Athens to Vilnius, Lithuania, unexpectedly landed…
