Technology
Instagram will Require Users to Provide their Birthday
If they haven’t already, Instagram will prompt users to share their birthday with the service. The company stated today that it will begin displaying a…
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Technology
Ideanomics to buy EV Fleet maker Via Motors in $450M all-Stock Deal
Ideanomics, a New York-based fintech and electric mobility startup, has added commercial electric vehicle maker Via Motors to its list of acquisitions (in an all-stock…
Physics
Scientists are Nearing a Breakthrough in Fusion Power
In recent decades, there has been a never-ending search for sustainable energy sources. Nuclear fusion is one source of energy that scientists have yet to…
Environmental Science
Megadroughts Could Destroy Entire Civilizations
According to a new study of cave rocks in northern Laos, a megadrought lasting more than 1000 years may have plagued Southeast Asia 5000 years…
Technology
Use your Smartwatch to Alleviate Stress
Rose Faghih and colleagues at the University of Houston created a closed-loop system that uses smartwatch-type wearables to collect data via skin conductance response (SCR)…
Environmental Science
How National Security is being Redefined by Climate Change
The absence of cooperation between environmentalists and the national security community is one of the most terrible fault lines in today’s climate change politics. Climate…
Business
How Amazon EC2 Grew from a Notion into a Foundational Element of cloud Computing
AWS launched the first test instance of EC2, its cloud-based virtual computers, fifteen years ago this week, on August 25, 2006. Cloud computing, and more…
Technology
Heimdal Pulls CO2 and Cement-Making Materials out of Seawater using Renewable Energy
One of the repercussions of rising CO2 levels in our atmosphere is that levels rise correspondingly in the ocean, causing creatures to suffer and ecosystems…
Technology
HAAS Alert raises $5M Seed Round to Scale its automotive Collision Prevention System
HAAS Alert, a SaaS company that provides real-time automotive collision prevention for public safety and roadway fleets, has raised $5 million in seed funding, which…
Business
Get your Pitch-off on with our Disrupt Startup Alley Companies on upcoming Episodes of Extra Crunch Live
This year’s Disrupt is jam-packed with fantastic panels and talks, as well as an exceptionally stacked Startup Battlefield cohort of startups launching on our stage,…
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