I experienced that first-hand last year when my team tripled in size. It wasn’t easy, but I learned great lessons that made me a better entrepreneur. So let me share what I discovered while scaling our team at a rate that none of us had anticipated. First up: Context When my team closed our $15 million Series A funding round last August, I wouldn’t have guessed that just six months later we would follow up with our $38 million Series B round....

Space rocks are generally considered to be asteroids if they are larger than approximately 1km in size and made of “non-volatile” materials – chemicals that can be easily vaporized. Carbon monoxide, for example, is volatile as it vaporizes at a temperature of -191°C. But iron, with a vaporization point of 2,862°C is non-volatile. This is somewhat different to comets. Asteroids are found more commonly in the inner Solar System, whereas comets with their volatile-rich composition tend to lurk in the outer part, far from the heat of the Sun....

The hustle is real. Even if you aren’t one of the millions of Americans who lost a job or suffered a huge financial impact from the COVID-19 pandemic, you are definitely thinking about your professional and financial future like never before. The reality is that most of us can’t trust our current employers to be there and have our backs through a crisis. You can’t put all your professional eggs in one company’s basket....

Back in March, the streaming giant announced it was temporarily lowering bitrates across the continent to comply with requests by the European Commission to reduce stress on Europe‘s internet infrastructure. But according to Gizmodo UK, users are now reporting that streaming quality is back up to 4K HDR and up to 15 Mb/s bitrate, which hasn’t be the case for at least two months. So far, the change has been noticed in Denmark, Norway, and Germany, but it appears Netflix is opting for a gradual rollout....

On Wednesday, the streaming platform named Microsoft as its global advertising technology and sales partner. This is what Peter Gregs, Netflix’s COO and CPO, has to say about it: More consumer choice said to be the goal Gregs emphasized that the partnership aims to provide consumers with more options. More importantly, Microsoft offered the flexibility to innovate over time on both the technology and sales side, as well as strong privacy protections for our members....

Some manufacturers such as Fujifilm and Olympus let you turn the camera into a webcam. But I don’t expect everyone to have one lying around. Besides, billions of people over the world has an iPhone. So, it’s easier to turn that into a webcam. Luckily, NeuralCam’s new app, NeuralCam Live, lets you do that and more. The company has previously released apps for iPhone for low-light photography even if your iPhone doesn’t support it....

Their ShadowSense system uses an off-the-shelf USB camera to capture the shadows produced by hand gestures on a robot’s skin. Algorithms then classify the movements to infer the user’s specific interaction. Study lead author Guy Hoffman said the method provides a natural way of interacting with robots without relying on large and costly sensor arrays: The researchers tried out the system on an inflatable robot with a camera underneath its skin....

Here is what organizations with Google Apps need to know: The Google Apps sign-in page can no longer be personalized with colors and custom logos. It will now look the same across all Google sign-in pages. Users will have to log in with their full email address (example: [email protected]). For single sign-on (SSO) domains with a network mask, users will be presented with the new Google sign-in page when they log in from outside the SSO network mask....

Physicists believe these huge singularities can reach even greater sizes if they’ve eaten a big enough galaxy. The biggest estimates are somewhere in the range of 10 billion times more massive than our sun, but things begin to top out shortly after that. At least, that’s the conventional wisdom. A new study from a trio of European researchers recently unveiled a grander theory involving the formation of black holes. They say, under the right conditions, black holes could become so massive the only way to describe their size would be stupendously large....

In 14 years from now, no more fossil fuel-powered vehicles will be sold in New York. Last week, the state introduced a new law that requires all new passenger cars and trucks sold to be zero-emission by 2035. The bill was passed by New York’s Senate and Assembly and was signed by Governor Kathy Hochul, aiming at reducing greenhouse emissions by 85% by 2050. Undoubtedly, this a big step for NY, where registered EVs represent a mere 3....

The UNAwheel Maxi device is a wheelchair add-on. It hooks onto the front of an existing chair and is compatible with basic and active wheelchairs without adding extra weight. It comes with button steering to accelerate, decelerate, and turn. The steering section is made of a combination of metal (hydroforming/cutting technology) and plastic (injection molding), the handles are made of rubber, and the main body of plastic (RIM). It is easy to operate and can be easily and quickly attached to and detached from the wheelchair....

In a statement published yesterday, security researchers from Kaspersky say they found evidence to suggest Lazarus has made significant changes to its attack methodology. According to Kaspersky, the hacking group is taking “more careful steps” and is employing “improved tactics and procedures” to steal cryptocurrency. In other words, Lazarus has adjusted the way it infects a system, remains undetected, and illicitly obtains cryptocurrency from compromised machines and victims. To go undetected, Lazarus’ malware executes in memory rather than being run from hard disk drives....

A report from state-owned Norwegian airport operator Avinor and the country’s Civil Aviation Authority published this month, says electric planes could be a boon to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and tackling climate change, The Barents Observer reports. [Read: Want to take your partner on a romantic EV road trip? Head to Norway] In the Northern most section of the country, there are 16 airports within 217 miles (350 km) of Alta, a central airport hub....

[Read: Why entrepreneurship in emerging markets matters] There are some advanced options that you could specify to customize the landscape. First, you can pick materials like grass, rock, snow, or clouds to draw before you put your cursor to the canvas. You can also select from different styles of AI conversions. You can check out the tool in action below. Once you’re done, you can also easily export your work to Adobe Photoshop to use in another project....

Dodgy Wi-Fi and cell phone service is annoying enough. Of course, it’s even more frustrating when you’re right in the middle of streaming a great movie or TV show and your connection fails. Or there’s that ultimate feeling of dread when you’re handling important work assignments and you unexpectedly drop out of your cloud workspace. Did your work get saved? When will you get back in? The web is great, but since it can’t always be trusted to be there exactly when you need it, being able to just download and save online content so you can consume it anytime is a huge plus....

The API gives users access to GPT-3, OpenAI’s headline-grabbing text generator. The company says developers can apply it “to any language task — semantic search, summarization, sentiment analysis, content generation, translation, and more — with only a few examples or by specifying your task in English.” The product was initially launched in a free, two-month private beta on July 11. But from October 1, users of the beta version will have to choose between four different pricing plans to access the system....

If you missed it: Facebook’s building a brain computer interface (BCI). In the company’s words, the gadget will be: That makes it sound like a Bluetooth accessory you’ll wear on your head that let’s you chat hands-free using only your mind – perhaps with webcam models. When you think about it that way: here’s a link to Investopedia’s beginner’s guide to buying Facebook stock. All jokes aside, a well-functioning BCI could be the single greatest accessibility device ever invented....

There’s a new update dropping today though : you can now get the Sonos Move in white. Specifically, lunar white. Whatever the fuck that means, because I’m pretty confident the moon is grey? But hey, I’m not Patrick Moore. You want a picture? Of the new lunar white Sonos Move? Of course you fucking do. So here’s one: Thing is, Sonos, why stop there? Are you afraid? Do you think we aren’t able to handle a different design aesthetic?...

Welcome to the third edition of Pardon The Intrusion, where we explore the wild world of security. Almost everyone agrees that two-factor authentication (2FA) is the holy grail when it comes to keeping our accounts safe from breaches. Still, it’s unbelievable how many companies screw this up, like Twitter did earlier this month. The social media platform recently disclosed it “accidentally” used email addresses and phone numbers provided for account security purposes to target ads....

A team of researchers led by physicists at the University of Cambridge may have accidentally stumbled upon the biggest (as in, size-wise) discovery in the history of physics: dark energy. And not a moment too soon, as many scientists believe this mysterious force is literally ripping the universe apart. Up front: Scientists believe the universe is made up of matter, dark matter, and dark energy. Matter makes up everything we can see, which is only about 5% of the universe....