“In 2015, an exciting new antibiotic called teixobactin was discovered. Now, for the first time, the compound has been successfully synthesized and used to treat a bacterial infection in mice, marking an important milestone in the war against antibiotic-resistant superbugs.” | learn […]
“The new AI tool, developed by Marwin Segler, an organic chemist and artificial-intelligence researcher at the University of Münster in Germany, and his colleagues, uses deep-learning neural networks to imbibe essentially all known single-step organic-chemistry reactions — about 12.4 million […]
“People who say yes to everything have a lot of speed. They’re always doing stuff but never getting anything done. Why? Because they don’t think in terms of velocity. Understanding the difference between speed and velocity will change how you […]
Scott Belsky, founder of Behance and CPO at Adobe, discusses micro brands (similar to Andy Dunn’s DNVBs). His view on how this trend impacts designers is interesting, given his design background (Behance is a platform to showcase and discover creative work). | learn […]
“Analysis done for Business Insider by ICORating found some projects are taking their product roadmaps offline.” | learn more
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