Huge Facility to Produce 15,000 Tons of Lab Grown Meat Per Year in the US

“Our grandchildren are going to ask us why we ate slaughtered animals.” Big Meat Energy The biggest bioreactor lab designed for cultivating “no kill” meat has announced plans to open up shop in the US and produce a cluck-ton of beef. Good Meat, the lab grown meat division of Eat Just, Inc., announced via press… Continue reading Huge Facility to Produce 15,000 Tons of Lab Grown Meat Per Year in the US

Elon Musk Speculates About Storing All Human DNA in Database

Image by Getty Images/Futurism In the early 2000s, scientists from the Human Genome Project announced a breakthrough: they had sequenced the complete human reference genome, including all three billion DNA letter, a scientific undertaking likened at the time to landing astronauts on the Moon. While the reference genome has come under question as of late, with… Continue reading Elon Musk Speculates About Storing All Human DNA in Database

Light Up Your Summer With The Best Memorial Day Weekend Fire Pit Sales

Summer nights can get a little chilly, but you can extend the time you spend outdoors well into fall by getting a fire pit. Many of the best fire pits are currently discounted thanks to Memorial Day Weekend sales, which means now is the best time to pick one up.  Newer fire pits are designed… Continue reading Light Up Your Summer With The Best Memorial Day Weekend Fire Pit Sales

Someone Stole the Ape NFT That Was Supposed to Star in a New TV Show

Hollywood actor Seth Green, who recently launched his own collection of NFTs, has run into a bit of a conundrum. The “Family Guy” star says he fell for a common phishing scam in early May, with a hacker getting away with one of his NFTs — Bored Ape Yacht Club #8398 to be specific —… Continue reading Someone Stole the Ape NFT That Was Supposed to Star in a New TV Show

Boeing’s Starliner safely returns to Earth after second test flight

Boeing’s Starliner has returned to Earth safely after docking with the International Space Station for the first time. The six-day Boeing Orbital Flight Test-2 mission came to an end when the spacecraft landed at the US Army’s White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. It’s the first American capsule to touch down on land instead… Continue reading Boeing’s Starliner safely returns to Earth after second test flight

FTC fines Twitter $150 million for ‘deceptive’ ad targeting

Twitter has paid a $150 million fine to the FTC over its”deceptive” use of user data for targeted advertising. The fine stems from the company’s admission in 2019 that it had for years used Twitter users’ phone numbers and email addresses provided for two-factor authentication to also serve targeted ads.  The company said at the… Continue reading FTC fines Twitter $150 million for ‘deceptive’ ad targeting

Niantic’s Campfire app will finally let ‘Pokémon Go’ players chat together

Move over Discord, Niantic has its own messaging solution in mind for Pokémon Go players: a social AR app called Campfire. It’ll let you organize for events, discover new locations and share content with other players. Think of it like a hyper-local social network built entirely for AR—it’s “the ‘homepage’ of the real-world Metaverse,” as… Continue reading Niantic’s Campfire app will finally let ‘Pokémon Go’ players chat together

Apple VP tries to persuade employees against unionizing in leaked video

Apple’s vice president of people and retail Deirdre O’Brien tried to dissuade the company’s employees from joining a union in an internal video leaked to several media outlets. In the video — which was sent to all of Apple’s 65,000 retail employees in the US — O’Brien tells workers that a union would slow down… Continue reading Apple VP tries to persuade employees against unionizing in leaked video

Twitter is working toward ‘closing the transaction process’ with Elon Musk

If attendees at Twitter’s annual shareholder meeting were hoping to clear up confusion surrounding Elon Musk’s acquisition of the company, they likely left disappointed. Despite numerous questions about the future of Twitter, the company’s executives had little to say about Musk, who did not attend the meeting. “We’re working through the transaction process,” CEO Parag… Continue reading Twitter is working toward ‘closing the transaction process’ with Elon Musk

India startup funding dips sequentially to $12b in Q1 as investors turn a tad cautious …

Fundraising fell consecutively for the second quarter as Indian startups pocketed $12 billion across 517 private equity (PE) and venture capital (VC) transactions in the first quarter of 2022 compared with $13.7 billion in Q4 2021, showed data from DealStreetAsia DATA VANTAGE‘s latest report, India Deal Review: Q1 2022. This is a dip of about… Continue reading India startup funding dips sequentially to $12b in Q1 as investors turn a tad cautious …