David Sacks and Josh Stein of Harbor explain their new concept for a Private ICO that’s compliant with US laws. It uses their company’s R-token to enforce trading restrictions and other regulations. Incidentally, David was the founder of Yammer and […]
A lot of Chicago’s train stations are outdoors, so in our frozen city the heaters are more necessity than nicety. To save money, the heat has historically been available only thru March. Considering it snowed in Chicago this week, that […]
Cloudflare launched 1.1.1.1, a new privacy-first DNS resolver. This is the service that you never think about that translates domain names (like hipavel.com) into IP addresses (like 104.24.96.129). “Your ISP, and anyone else listening in on the Internet, can see […]
CB Insights managed to get their hands on a bunch of neat early pitch decks from companies like Airbnb, Dropbox, LinkedIn and WeWork. | learn more
“USV backs trusted brands that broaden access to knowledge, capital, and well-being by leveraging networks, platforms, and protocols.” Their blog post has an interesting background on how this developed, and way more detail. |learn more
Researchers from Emory University and the Georgia Institute of Technology studied how airborne pathogens move through the cabin of transcontinental flights. “[P]assengers infected with influenza—a disease that spreads through the air—aren’t likely to infect other passengers who sit more than […]
Scientists at Arizona State University have discovered a way to potentially keep adult stem cells healthy longer by “supercharging” telemorase, the enzyme that replenishes telomeres as they degrade. | learn more
I’ve been following this fund manager for a few months, since they keep putting out great content around the big dynamic changes we’re expecting in our world: robotics, CRISPR, cryptoassets, 3D printing, etc. This is an excellent report with plenty of charts […]
You’d be forgiven for thinking that Chilean Sea Bass was like Mediterranean Sea Bass, just from Chile. In fact it’s Cod. But the story of marketing fish by new names is even more interesting. | learn more
“Most people have no time to think. They schedule themselves like lawyers. They work in five- to eight-minute increments, scheduled back to back. They think only in first thoughts never in second thoughts.” | learn more