Before Bauhaus, the father of modernism wanted to be a cowboy
A new biography traces the many lives and influences of architect Walter Gropius. Walter Gropius, one of the leaders of the early 20th-century modernist movement in architecture and a founder of one of the world’s most important schools of de.....»»
Extra Crunch roundup: Guest posts wanted, ‘mango’ seed rounds, Expensify’s tech stack
Prospective contributors regularly ask us about which topics Extra Crunch subscribers would like to hear more about, and the answer is always the same. Prospective contributors regularly ask us about which topics Extra Crunch subscribers wo.....»»
Domain experts wanted: Submit your guest articles to Extra Crunch
Guest articles are hugely popular with our startup audience, but right now, we are prioritizing submissions from authors who have expertise in the following areas … Guest articles are hugely popular with our startup audience — if the t.....»»
Here’s why Toyota converted this Corolla to hydrogen and went racing
Part engineering exercise, part safety demonstration. When Akio Toyoda, the president of Toyota Motor Corporation, wanted to demonstrate to Japanese customers that hydrogen power is safe, he de.....»»
Guild Education valued at $3.75 billion with newest round
Guild Education, which pairs employees with employer-sponsored learning opportunities, has raised $150 million in a Series E round. The financing event, funded by Bessemer Venture Partners, Cowboy Ventures, D1, Emerson Collective, General Catalyst, G.....»»
Daily Crunch: Wefox CEO says $650M Series C was ‘much more than we wanted to raise initially’
Hello friends and welcome to Daily Crunch, bringing you the most important startup, tech and venture capital news in a single package. To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day a.....»»
Wanted: Millions of cybersecurity pros. Rate: Whatever you want
A series of major digital security breaches over the past year are serving as a wake-up call to Corporate America about the need to invest in cybersecurity......»»
Meme-based dating is here: Meet Schmooze
Vidya Madhavan always wanted to be in business. Growing up in India, she thought she might be in the business of running a factory, given the power and influence of outfits like Tata Group, the Indian multinational conglomerate. She certainly had an.....»»
The birth of a subnanometer-sized soccer ball
Ever since the existence of molecules was proven and molecular reactions were predicted, humans have wanted to visually observe how such events proceed. Such observations of single-molecule reactions are highly important for the fundamental understan.....»»
Nigeria’s Mono raises millions to power the internet economy in Africa
In February, Nigerian fintech startup Mono announced its acceptance into Y Combinator and, at the time, it wanted to build the Plaid for Africa. Three months later, the startup has a different mission: to power the internet economy in Africa and has.....»»
Activist Archivists Are Trying to Save the "Pirate Bay of Science"
For 10 years, Sci-Hub, the "Pirate Bay of Science" has hosted scientific papers free for anyone who wanted them. But it hasn't uploaded anything new since December 2020 and is facing prosecution in America. Now, determined activist archivists are wor.....»»
Father and son duo take on global logistics with Optimal Dynamics’ sequential decision AI platform
Like “innovation,” machine learning and artificial intelligence are commonplace terms that provide very little context for what they actually signify. AI/ML spans dozens of different fields of research, covering all kinds of different problems an.....»»
Samsung Galaxy Book Pro 360 (15-inch) review: OLED disappointment?
It's close, but this laptop doesn't quite feel like the apex of design Samsung wanted it to be......»»
No connection between father-son relationships, adherence to masculine norms
A team of researchers at Federation University in Australia has found that there is no connection between the relationship boys have with their father as they grow up and their adherence to masculine norms later on in life. In their paper published i.....»»
BigBrain aims to bring live mobile trivia back to glory
If you ask Nik Bonaddio why he wanted to build a new mobile trivia app, his answer is simple. “In my life, I’ve got very few true passions: I love trivia and I love sports,” Bonaddio told me. “I’ve already started a spor.....»»
Signal wanted to run Instagram ads to show how user data is collected and sold, promptly gets banned by Facebook
User privacy and social media have always had a complex relationship, spawning endless debates on regulation, tracking online user behaviour and data collection. It's why some companies have increasingly started to push privacy as a core feature of t.....»»
Environmentalism is replacing formalism in architecture says Joseph Grima
Young architects are rejecting "cookie-cutter modernism" in favour of approaches that prioritise conserving the earth's resources according to Joseph Grima, who has written a manifesto calling for a new type of non-extractive architecture. Read more.....»»
How Duolingo became fluent in monetization
As its meandering route to monetization will demonstrate, Duolingo isn’t mission-oriented, it’s mission-obsessed. Co-founders Luis von Ahn and Severin Hacker never wanted to charge consumers for access to Duolingo content, a purpose imbued throug.....»»
A case for simplifying gene nomenclature across different organisms
Constantina Theofanopoulou wanted to study oxytocin. Her graduate work had focused on how the hormone influences human speech development, and now she was preparing to use those findings to investigate how songbirds learn to sing. The problem was tha.....»»
Eddy Cue Wanted To Bring iMessage To Android In 2013
According to The Verge, citing a new deposition made public as part of the Epic case, Apple's senior VP of software and services, Eddy Cue, pushed to bring iMessage to Android as early as 2013. "[...] Cue wanted to devote a full team to iMessage supp.....»»
NASA gets what it wanted: Independent, reliable access to space
"There doesn’t seem to be any obvious limits to the reusability of the vehicle." Aftermath of the liftoff of the SpaceX Crew-2 mission taking four astronauts to the International Space Statio.....»»