Edtech in 2021 is experimental, and we are here for it At the end of 2020, I argued that edtech needs to think bigger in order to stay relevant after the pandemic. I urged founders to think less about how to bundle and unbundle lecture experience, and more about how to replace outdated systems and…
As governments scrambled to lock down their populations after the COVID-19 pandemic was declared last March, some countries had plans underway to reopen. By June, Jamaica became one of the first countries to open its borders. Tourism represents about one-fifth of Jamaica’s economy. In 2019 alone, four million travelers visited Jamaica, bringing thousands of jobs…
NASA’s SBIR program regularly doles out cash to promising small businesses and research programs, and the lists of awardees is always interesting to sift through. Here are a dozen companies and proposals from this batch that are especially compelling or suggest new directions for missions and industry in space. Sadly these brief descriptions are often…
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry is as hot as ever, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android…
Former US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chairman Jay Clayton has suggested that Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies will definitely be more regulated in the future.“I expect that regulation will come in this area both directly and indirectly,” he said during an interview with CNBC’s Squawk Box yesterday.”Where digital assets land at the end of the…
After establishing partnerships with Huobi ECO Chain, Binance Smart Chain, Avalanche, and Elrond, Orion will work with IOHK to enable the sustainability and scalability of the DeFi and NFT ecosystems on Cardano, the company said.IOHK’s latest partnership marks an important milestone for CardanoAfter a hugely successful year that began with the much-anticipated launch of Shelley,…
Analysts at American investment bank JPMorgan Chase & Co have updated their long-term Bitcoin (BTC) price expectations to $130,000, according to a note cited by Business Insider yesterday.Per the note, Bitcoin has become much more attractive to institutional investors over the past few weeks thanks to a decrease in its volatility. Previously, regular massive swings…
Jonathan Bixby and Mike Edwards, two enterprising individuals, are planning something the world’s never seen before: an initial public offering on a London-based stock exchange…for a fund whose business is investing in NFTs.NFT investment firm set for London IPO https://t.co/83BQlZIGLw— Financial News (@FinancialNews) April 1, 2021Taking NFTs to public marketsNFT Investments, their firm that invests…
Parachains based on Polkadot’s (DOT) Substrate framework now can integrate Chainlink’s (LINK) price oracles data feed in the form of a simple module, the companies announced today.“Chainlink Price Feeds are now available as an oracle pallet to all Substrate, Polkadot, & Kusama chains. This gives teams building across the Polkadot ecosystem a standardized, easy-to-integrate, &…
A man was shopping at Albertsons and when he got back to his car it had been invaded by 15,000 bees: He had just finished grocery shopping, but a New Mexico man got much more than he bargained for when he returned to his car in the store’s parking lot: A swarm of 15,000 honey…
