Rice Growing System Training Improves Yields and Well-being Rice is the most widely grown and consumed crop on the planet. It also helps people and businesses, particularly in low- and middle-income areas. As…
Changes in Earth’s Orbit Gave Life its Chance to Survive during “Snowball Earth” Although geological and astronomical disasters have caused many disruptions to life, we know of only one that surprised scientists as to how the Earth was…
Rootly Nabs $3.2M Seed to Build SRE Incident Management Solution inside Slack As companies look for ways to respond to the occurrence of their complex microservices-driven software stack, SRE – the site reliability engineer – is left…
Trump’s New Lawsuits Against Social Media Companies are going Nowhere Fast The funny trio lawsuit against Trump’s social media platforms that he believes he mistakenly banned managed to get him to jump media attention to the…
Homebrew Leads Z1’s Effort to bring Digital Banking to Latin America’s Teens Z1, a Sao Paulo-based digital bank targeting Latin American gents, has raised $2.5 million in a round led by US-based Homebrew. Several other investors, including…
1 Napkin and 22 Lines of Code, or how NS1 Rewrote the Rules of Internet Infrastructure This is the most important early stage of the modern technology stack for Internet software and its most interesting evolution was written on a napkin…
Nextdoor’s SPAC Investor Deck Paints a Picture of Sizable Scale and Sticky Users The SPAC Parade will run this short week with news that the community social network Nextdoor will be publicly published through a blank-check agency. Unicorn Khosla Ventures…
Localyze Raises $12M for a SaaS that Supports Cross-Border Hiring and Relocation The series, run by Blossom Capital, has invested $12 million in Y-Combinator-backed local sauces to help relocate staff and recruit across the border. Previous investors…
Analysis: U.S. IPO Market a Danger Zone for Chinese Firms after Beijing Crackdown HONG KONG / NEW YORK, July (Reuters) – China has shut down its foreign list of companies and ride-hailing giant Didi Global Inc. (DIDINN) shortly…
Fed Minutes May Provide Clues on Bond-Taper Timeline, Inflation Outlook WASHINGTON, July (Reuters) – The Federal Reserve’s June policy meeting in June sparked debate over when and how to reduce its support for the US…