Brinc launches new program for climate tech startups
Brinc, the Hong Kong-based accelerator backed by investors like Animoca Brands, is launching a new program for fledgling climate tech startups. The three-month program is tailored for founders who are focused on carbon dioxide removal (CDR). They will receive fundraising support, guidance on how to scale up and introductions to
Read moreMark Zuckerberg’s remarks on China cast shadow over Meta’s VR quest
As Meta sets its sight on introducing its virtual reality headsets to the Chinese market, Mark Zuckerberg’s contentious remarks about Beijing in the past may pose a major obstacle to his China dream. According to a recent report by the Wall Street Journal, Meta is preparing to re-enter China by
Read moreComplex differential equations
Differential equations in the complex plane are different from differential equations on the real line. Suppose you have an nth order linear differential equation as follows. The real case If the a‘s are continuous, real-valued functions on an open interval of the real line, then there are n linearly independent
Read moreConvert LaTeX to Microsoft Word
I create nearly all my documents in LaTeX, even documents that might be easier to create in Word. The reason is that even if a particular document would be easier to write in Word, my workflow is more efficient if everything is in LaTeX. LaTeX makes small, plain text files
Read moreThreads, Meta’s Twitter competitor, is now live
Meta is taking on Twitter with a new app. Instagram today announced the anticipated launch of its text-based social networking app, Threads, which allows Instagram users to authenticate with their existing credentials in order to post short updates, including text up to 500 characters; links; photos; and videos up to
Read moreBluesky announces its $8M seed round and first paid service, custom domains
Hours before Meta launches its anticipated Instagram competitor, Threads, another Twitter rival — Bluesky — is announcing additional funding and its first paid service. In a blog post on Wednesday, the company shared that it raised seed funds totaling $8 million this summer, when it converted from being a public
Read moreFiat says its cutest EV will tote accessories like, I kid you not, a ‘little shower’
Fiat is slowly trickling out new details on its upcoming Topolino EV, and it turns out the teeny-tiny quadricycle will do some trickling of its own. Designed for short trips in and around dense European cities, Fiat’s owner Stellantis said this week that the upcoming electric vehicle will start at
Read moreCanadian-based gold miner among the latest MOVEit data breach victims
One of the biggest gold and copper miners in the world is among the latest companies to be listed as victims of the vulnerability in Progress Sofware’s MOVEit file transfer platform, according to a cybersecurity researcher. Brett Callow, Canadian-based threat researcher for Emsisoft, tweeted today that Barrick Gold Corp. of
Read moreBuilding a Sync Bridge
Adapting event-driven APIs to Promises in JavaScriptEvent-driven architecture (EDA) is a powerful way of building loosely coupled, performant, scalable apps on the web. It enables rich experiences like push notifications, collaborative editing and multiplayer, and other real-time interactions, and encourages modularity.But sometimes the model is inconsistent with what we as
Read moreCrypto funding drops for fifth straight quarter as investors continue to pull back
Funding for crypto startups continues to grow more scarce. Venture capital flowing into the industry dropped for the fifth consecutive quarter since Q1 2022 to $2.34 billion globally as investors withhold their checkbooks, fearing risks from a severe regulatory stance and an uncertain economy. The second quarter’s $2.34 billion tally
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