Sunbit co-founders Arad Levertov, Ornit Dweck-Maizel, Tal Riesenfeld and Tamir Hazan launched the company in 2016. good human photography LAngeles-based lending startup Sunbit has raised $355 million in new debt financing led by JPMorgan Chase, Tokyo-based bank Mizuho and private equity firm Waterfall Asset Management. Sunbit offers consumer loans ranging from $50 to $20,000 for … Read more
WASHINGTON — The Department of Defense is actively working on plans to build cybersecurity requirements for the defense industrial base into defense contracts as part of its Cyber Maturity Model Certification, or CMMC, program. The first contracts with these built-in requirements are expected sometime in 2025. The Army has announced plans to launch a pilot … Read more
The James Webb Space Telescope resolves the glow of warm dust in a disk halo around Vega, on 23 … [+] billion miles away. NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, S. Wolff (University of Arizona), K. Su (University of Arizona), A. Gáspár (University of Arizona) There is no evidence of giant planets around Vega, one of the … Read more
Haruki Murakami has a highly anticipated new novel in English translation this month RICHARD A. BROOKS/AFP via Getty Images I was looking forward to the English translation of Haruki Murakami’s latest novel, The city and its insecure wallsafter it was published in Japan early last year. It’s here in time for Christmas and it sounds … Read more
Miracle on 9th Manhattan opened in November 2014. Miracles Originally launched in 2014 in Manhattan’s East Village, Miracle began as a humble experiment—a quirky, Christmas-themed bar set against the backdrop of 1950s nostalgia. However, within days of opening, Miracle founder and CEO Greg Boehm realized the bar had struck a chord with customers. “When I … Read more
Saudi Arabia’s $930 billion sovereign wealth fund made the move for the kingdom to become a major host of AI data centers at the kingdom’s annual FII summit. © 2016 Bloomberg Finance LP Saudi Arabia has over the past decade used its massive oil wealth to become an important backer of technology companies. Now at … Read more
What if we took the “terrestrial” out of “extraterrestrial”? Scientists recently explored the intriguing possibility that alien life may not need a planet to support itself. At first glance, planets seem like ideal places to find life. After all, the only place where life is known to exist is the Earth’s surface. AND earth it … Read more
Sometimes at the end of a long, cold fall day, all you need is a big warm homemade cookie. No one knows this better than Amy Wong and Lawrance Combs, co-founders of Batch 22 Bakery. Every week, the small business owners make thick, cheery buns — which is a special nickname for the 6 oz. … Read more
MUNICH, GERMANY – SEPTEMBER 06: In this photo illustration Google’s Chrome, Google Inc.’s new web. … [+] the browser appears on a laptop. (Photo illustration by Alexander Hassenstein/Getty Images) Getty Images Interruptions are troublesome. In fact, switching between different enterprise applications and data services is—according to the Harvard Business Review—something the average user does on … Read more
Science cafes are exactly what the name implies: casual events where scientists and the public mingle and talk about science. Of course, the former do most of the talking with the latter by asking questions. But in the more than 25 years since the first science cafes were held in France and the UK, these … Read more