Carrots were purple, yellow and white until the 1600s, when Dutch Farmers crossbred them creating Orange pic.twitter.com/ITCSHA9Ewj — World and Science (@WorldAndScience) 10. April 2018
Coinbase, the San Francisco based cryptocurrency exchange, just announced the formation of Coinbase Ventures. It means, as Emilie Choi wrote in her blog post: „We’ll be providing financing to promising early stage companies that have the teams and ideas that can move the space forward in a positive, meaningful way.“ (more…)
Public Health England, a British Government’s health agency, just reported a case of a heterosexual man infected with ‘Neisseria gonorrhoeae’. The superbug is resistant to both the antibiotics azithromycin and ceftriaxone. This is worldwide the first case of multi-drug-resistant Gonorrhoeae. (more…)
Why is it easy to stay awake until 6 am and so hard to wake up at 6 am pic.twitter.com/nF3dZq7Ou2 — World and Science (@WorldAndScience) 29. März 2018
In a recent blog post IMF Chief Christine Lagarde wrote, crypto-currencies ‘are typically built in a decentralized way and without the need for a central bank. This gives crypto-asset transactions an element of anonymity’. It’s bad as it opens ways for ‘money laundering and the financing of terrorism’. (more…)
Dream big and dare to fail…🐵💭 pic.twitter.com/VmRsXNE1NJ — ..Panda🐼 (@JoyedPanda) 7. März 2018
Statement from SEC reads: „The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Silicon Valley-based private company Theranos Inc., its founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes, and its former President Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani with raising more than $700 million from investors through an elaborate, years-long fraud in which they exaggerated or made false statements about the company’s technology, business, and financial performance.“ (more…)
Great news of the day: US President Donald Trump and Leader of North Korea Kim Jong-Un will be meeting soon. (more…)
