It turns out the space industry has a lot of ideas on how to improve NASA’s $ 11 billion, 15-year plan to collect and return samples from Mars. Seven of these proposals have caught the agency’s attention. Announced today, NASA has awarded $ 1.5 million contracts to seven companies to further develop their plans for […]
Coack K to the Lakers, revisited: Why Duke coach famously turned down record-breaking offer in 2004
Mike Krzyzewski, better known as Coach K, had been coaching Duke since 1980 before he retired in 2022. Krzyzewski and Duke are synonymous even years after he’s stepped away from basketball. There was a moment when that may not have been the case, however. The Los Angeles Lakers needed a head coach after Phil Jackson and […]
AI apocalypse? ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity all went down at the same time
After a multi-hour outage that took place in the early hours of the morning, OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot went down again — but this time, it wasn’t the only AI provider affected. On Tuesday morning, both Anthropic’s Claude and Perplexity began seeing issues, too, but these were more quickly resolved. Google’s Gemini appears to be operating […]
The offer Justin Jefferson wisely turned down before 2023 season
The Minnesota Vikings signed wide receiver Justin Jefferson to a record-setting contract extension worth $ 140 million over four seasons. It sent shockwaves across the National Football League as Jefferson is now the highest-paid non-quarterback in the league. The two sides tried to get a deal done in September of 2023, but their self-imposed deadline […]
MARS doubles down on India’s Infra.Market with new $50M investment
Infra.Market, an Indian startup that helps construction and real estate firms procure materials, has raised $ 50 million from MARS Unicorn Fund as it looks to expand operations overseas, the companies told TechCrunch on Tuesday. MARS Unicorn Fund, a joint venture between science and climate-driven Liquidity Group and Japanese bank MUFG, is an existing backer […]