One of the most fundamental breakthroughs at Nvidia has been building processors that power and integrate with highly detailed, compute-intensive graphical simulations, which can be used in a wide range of applications, from games and industrial developments through to AI training. Now two of the engineers who helped build those physical simulations for Nvidia and […]
How one female VC is teaching kids about startups and women in tech
Deena Shakir, an investor at Lux Capital, struggled to explain to her three young kids what exactly her job was. She first tried buying a Chia Pet, where kids plant chia seeds on a figurine “to show them how seeds can grow into something amazing.” Shakir, who’s invested in health tech companies like fertility startup […]
How Big Tech embraced nuclear power
Microsoft made waves last week when it announced a deal with Constellation Energy to restart a nuclear reactor at Three Mile Island to meet its surging data center power needs, bucking the power source’s seemingly terminal decline. In the last decade, seven nuclear reactors have been decommissioned in the U.S., while only two new ones […]
The EU’s 10 biggest antitrust actions on tech
The U.S. innovates and the EU regulates, or so certain transatlantic punters love to harp. We’re not going to get embroiled in that noise here, but two things are clear: The bloc’s Single Market has its own particular set of rules, and quite a lot of U.S. tech giants have run afoul of European Union […]
The 25 battery tech startups that just got a piece of $3B in federal funds
The federal government is handing out another $ 3 billion to startups in the buzzy battery tech sector. The investment, which the Biden administration announced Friday, is the latest injection of capital to come from a $ 16 billion pot that the Department of Energy set aside to build out local battery manufacturing, processing, and […]