How to pitch me: 15 investors talk about what they’re looking for in August 2023
“I suggest reaching out right before Labor Day to set up a meeting in September or wait and start your outreach altogether next month.”
Read moreLawsuit alleges no due diligence in Amazon’s Project Kuiper launch contracts to Blue Origin, ULA
An institutional investor is suing Amazon and its board, including founder and executive chairman Jeff Bezos, over hefty launch contracts they awarded to Bezos’ space company, Blue Origin. The suit, filed by Amazon shareholders the Cleveland Bakers and Teamsters Pension Fund, alleges that the board spent less than 40 minutes
Read moreFisker confirms Foxconn will build its $29,900 Pear EV, but questions remain
EV startup Fisker revealed more details about its $29,900 Pear electric urban lifestyle crossover vehicle Thursday at the company’s Product Vision Day. Included in that reveal was confirmation that Foxconn, the consumer electronics manufacturer most well-known for making Apple iPhones, would be producing the vehicle at its Lordstown, Ohio, manufacturing
Read moreBiden offers $15.5B to boost battery and EV manufacturing
The United States Department of Energy is dedicating $15.5 billion to support the transition to electric vehicles. As part of President Joe Biden’s Investing in America agenda, most of the money will go to automakers and suppliers to retool their plants to produce electric, hybrid and hydrogen fuel cell electric
Read moreFrom Monoliths To Microservices — And Beyond
From Monoliths To Microservices — And BeyondNow that the hype around microservices is ending, what lessons have we learned? And what’s next?Photo by Suzanne D. Williams on UnsplashThe microservice architecture has reigned for many years. In its era, we’ve experienced the good, the bad, and the ugly. In this article, we’ll look at the lessons
Read moreRobotics sales decline for second straight quarter amid economic woes
Sooner or later, the numbers were going to contract. Broadly speaking, the pandemic has been a gamechanger for automation broadly and robotics specifically. But not even those categories are immune from macro trends. Per new numbers from the Association for Advancing Automation (A3) — whose job it is to track
Read moreRigid Body Simulation Basics — Part 2: From Positional Constraints to Velocity Space Constraints
Rigid Body Simulation Basics — Part 2: From Positional Constraints to Velocity Space ConstraintsScreen captures from constraint-based rigid body simulators by authorIntroductionIn Part 1, we covered the core idea of the velocity-space constraint-based rigid body simulation. We derived a constrained convex optimization problem from Newton’s Second Law and the velocity-space constraints. The problem
Read moreTexas cannot yet enforce ID checks on porn sites
A Texas judge issued an injunction today to stall the enforcement of an online age verification bill. The Free Speech Coalition, along with adult video sites like Pornhub, led the legal challenge against Texas’ HB 1181, arguing that the bill violates the First Amendment and infringes on rights guaranteed by
Read moreNew York subway system disables feature that could let stalkers track your trips
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge New York’s subway pass system has turned off a feature that could enable others to track your travels if they have access to your bank card number. In a statement to The Verge, Metropolitan Transportation Authority spokesperson Eugene Resnick says the agency
Read moreSonnets are square
In his book How to Read Literature Like a Professor, Thomas Foster says that if a poem looks like a square on the printed page, it’s likely a sonnet. The miracle of the sonnet, you see, is that it is fourteen lines long and written almost always in iambic pentameter.
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