Designing for All: The Basics Principles of Web Accessibility
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Read moreRecs is a social ‘wallet’ for stashing and sharing your favorite places
The most popular apps suck us into the technological equivalent of couch lock, but it’s easy to imagine how things might have gone differently. Rather than idly scrolling and mindlessly issuing likes into the void, social media could — and, at its best, does — empower us to connect beyond
Read moreWM Motor’s bankruptcy highlights challenges faced by EV startups in China
Chinese electric vehicle startup WM Motor has filed for bankruptcy, an example of yet another once-promising EV upstart that has been pushed to insolvency as bigger players gain market share and Chinese spending on big ticket items dwindles. WM Motor, backed by Baidu and Tencent, was one of the most
Read moreMore ways of splitting the octave
in an earlier post I said that the arithmetic mean of two frequencies an octave apart is an interval of a perfect fifth, and the geometric mean gives a tritone. This post will look at a few other means. Intervals The harmonic mean (HM) gives exactly a perfect fourth. The
Read moreEvolution Space to build solid rocket motor testing center at NASA Stennis
Mojave, California-based Evolution Space has a new deal with NASA to begin building a solid propulsion center and solid rocket motor testing at the agency’s Stennis Space Center, which will see former facilities repurposed into Evolution’s “Space Propulsion Center.” Evolution plans on repurposing former facilities that were part of the
Read moreMSPs told by security expert now is not the time to be complacent
A group of Managed Service Providers (MSPs) attending the recent ASCII Edge: The MSP Conference in Toronto received excellent advice and guidance during a presentation from speaker Michal Jankech that revolved around threat intelligence, incident response, and the role played by human expertise. Jankech, the vice president for North America
Read moreIndia’s InsuranceDekho raises another $60 million
InsuranceDekho, the insurer that was incubated within the automobile marketplace group CarDekho, has raised $60 million in a new funding round as the startup looks to supercharge its growth. Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, insurer BNP Paribas Cardif, Beams Fintech Fund and Yogesh Mahansaria Family Office financed InsuranceDekho’s Series B funding,
Read moreMaclaurin’s inequality
This afternoon I wrote a brief post about Terence Tao’s new paper A Maclaurin type inequality. That paper builds on two classical inequalities: Newton’s inequality and Maclaurin’s inequality. The previous post expanded a bit on Newton’s inequality. This post will do the same for Maclaurin’s inequality. As before, let x
Read moreNewton’s inequality and log concave sequences
The previous post mentioned Newton’s inequality. This post will explore this inequality. Let x be a list of real numbers and define Sn(x) to be the average over all products of n elements from x. Newton’s inequality says that Sn−1 Sn+1 ≤ S²n In more terminology more recent than Newton,
Read moreJapanese VC Beyond Next Ventures raises $67.7M in a first close of its deep tech fund
A Japanese fund focused on early-stage, Asian deep tech startups is doubling down on the opportunity, despite a wider slowdown investing in moonshots globally. Tokyo-based Beyond Next Ventures is targeting up to ¥25 billion (about $168 million) for BNV Fund 3, its third fund, and today, the venture capital firm
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