Cultured meat startup Higher Steaks nabs $30M and rebrands as Uncommon
U.K.-based cultivated meat startup Higher Steaks has raised $30 million in a Series A round of funding and revealed that it’s changing its name to Uncommon. Founded out of Cambridge in 2017, Uncommon is one of countless companies pushing to make cultured “lab-grown” meat a reality in kitchens and restaurants
Read moreHow curbside pickup caused Wing to rethink its approach to drone delivery
In many ways, drone delivery still feels very pie in the sky in terms of scalable e-commerce. In smaller, controlled pockets, however, the concept is going swimmingly. Among the spots is a small Google satellite campus in the Palo Alto foothills. The buildings, which neighbor larger Tesla and HP offices,
Read moreHow well are SaaS, e-commerce, fintech and health tech startups doing in 2023?
Healy Jones Contributor Share on Twitter Healy Jones runs financial planning and analysis for Kruze Consulting. More posts by this contributor Zero-based budgeting: A proven framework for extending runway The startup ecosystem has gone through some substantial changes over the last few months, and founders need to understand current conditions
Read moreEntertaining Web Geometry: Building an Interactive 3D CSS Hexagon
An introduction to the 3D Hexagon and its React wrapperInteractive hexagons | Created by authorWe all are tired of boring enterprise projects where all web parts consist of React (Angular, Vue, whatever) forms, standard components, and state managers. Let’s bring some fun into our development life and build something non-trivial that can
Read moreCarvana nirvana? Shorted stock surges 56% as company predicts record profits
On Thursday, online car retailer Carvana announced an especially rosy outlook (i.e., forecasted record profits) for the second quarter of 2023, and investors responded by driving the company’s stock price up 56% before the market closed. The company closed the day worth $4.58 billion, according to Google Finance data. The
Read moreGM follows Ford’s lead and adopts Tesla chargers
General Motors will integrate Tesla’s electric vehicle charging standard in its future EVs, CEO Mary Barra said Thursday during a Twitter Spaces with Tesla CEO Elon Musk. The agreement between the erstwhile rivals comes less than two weeks after Ford announced a similar partnership, and signals that other automakers could
Read moreSourcery — Generate Mocks for iOS Projects
Sourcery — Generate Mocks for iOS ProjectsStop writing boilerplate and code that needs frequent changes!https://unsplash.com/photos/6sAl6aQ4OWISourcery is a powerful code generator for Swift projects that I implemented to the project at my current job to stop writing mocks and helpers for our tests.When I watched a presentation about Sourcery, my mind was blown thinking about how
Read more‘The Witcher’ Season 3 drops full trailer
The full trailer for “The Witcher” season 3 was released on Thursday, giving viewers a taste of what to expect in the next installment of the hit Netflix series. In the new trailer, Geralt continues his mission to protect Ciri from monsters, monarchs, mages and anyone else who wants to
Read moreThe SEC’s situationship with Binance and Coinbase keeps getting messier
Follow me on Twitter @Jacqmelinek for breaking crypto news, memes and more. Welcome back to Chain Reaction. It’s been quite a long week (and it’s not over yet). Unless you live under a rock, you know that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission came out guns blazing on Monday and
Read moreWinging it
Once again, your intrepid robotics reporter finds himself in the warm embrace of the Bay. To paraphrase Mark Twain, the warmest I was ever embraced was early summer in Santa Clara. I’m writing this from a juice place in Palo Alto (living the dream), having finished a pair of back-to-back
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