Set of orbits with the same average distance to sun
Suppose a planet is in an elliptical orbit around the sun with semimajor axis a and semiminor axis b. Then the average distance of the planet to the sun over time equals a(1 + e²/2) where the eccentricity e satisfies e² = 1 − b²/a². You can find a proof
Read moreThe UK hasn’t lost its appeal for venture capital
W elcome to the TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by the daily TechCrunch+ column where it gets its name. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. Not dead yet: This is true both of the U.K.’s capacity to attract venture capital dollars, and of
Read moreDeal Dive: Maybe venture debt works for asset managers after all
Blackstone last August was looking to put $2 billion toward lending to startups and tech companies, according to The Information. But venture debt lenders remain skeptical that the asset class’s small checks are worth it for asset managers and their large LPs. Recently, a few lenders told me they didn’t
Read moreDiversity and the Cybersecurity resourcing crisis – Hashtag Trending, the Weekend Edition with Helen Oakley, co-founder of “Leading Cyber Ladies,” and Ali Afshari, General Manager of Security at Cisco
In the book that our late CEO Fawn Annan and I co-authored, Digital Transformation in the First Person, I wrote a piece about my first meeting at IT World Canada’s offices, where I met Fawn for the first time. One of the things that impressed me about coming to these
Read moreMental Models, Programming Fictions, and Wittgenstein
Photo by Arnold Francisca on UnsplashThis is a follow-up essay to my previous one about Empathy and Debuggers, where I confessed to my preference for empathically understanding the code rather than for line-oriented debugging.Here, I would like to expand that slightly mystic notion of empathic understanding with a more exact one
Read moreMeta says it’s totally fine for 10-year-olds to wear its VR headset, probably
Meta will soon officially permit users as young as 10 to use its Meta Quest 2 and 3 VR headsets — if their parents say it’s okay, anyway. In a blog post, the tech giant says that there’s “a vast array of engaging and educational apps, games, and more” for
Read moreElectric truck maker Nikola to cut 23% of workforce
Nikola Corp. is laying off 270 employees, or about 23% of its workforce, and restricting its electric truck efforts to North America as it seeks to preserve cash. The company said Friday it will lay off 150 workers who were supporting the company’s European programs. Another 120 employees based at
Read moreCGI to lead the development of a cloud-based flight data recorder
CGI has been awarded a contract by the European Space Agency (ESA) to lead the development of a cloud-based Universal Virtual Flight Data Recorder (UVFDR). The Montreal-based company has been delivering space software systems supporting satellite navigation, communications, and operations for over 40 years. The virtual flight data recorder will
Read moreCEO Giancarlo pumps up need for flash storage at Pure//Accelerate
Pure Storage chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) Charles Giancarlo focused in on several key themes in a keynote speech Wednesday at the company’s user conference – Pure//Accelerate 2023 – held in Las Vegas. Sustainability was among them, but the key one revolved around what differentiates his company from many
Read moreHere’s why it’s scary that investors believe they can monetize the climate crisis
Welcome to Startups Weekly. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday afternoon. The event horizon for when we can expect to end up in (literal) hot water when it comes to climate has come a lot closer. You wanna know how close? The climate deadline is
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