Category: Startups


  • History has been made. For the first time ever, there’s a commercial spaceflight training course recognized by the European & U.S. higher education systems, as well as all of the Western space agencies including CNES, ESA and NASA! I attended the very first opening webinar outlining the course structure and curriculum for the foundational module,…

  • The biggest battery news of the year!

    This morning CATL did something big. It released its long-awaited sodium battery. The chemistry promises up to 10 000 deep charge cycles almost doubling the effective battery life to around 20 years in regular use and due to the use of abundant, cheap sodium, much lower price per kWh. The sodium battery is the revolution…

  • How tokenization can democratize investing

    Tokenization has been advertised as a new way to mark and track value. The key drivers of adoption are traceability, provenance and carrier-neutrality. In theory, it’s a long sought-after upgrade to our financial system. However, it, like all networks, it too has vulnerabilities that make it susceptible to capture by entities that favor centralization or…