Month: April 2021
Go read this saga of McDonald’s ice cream machines and why they’re out of order all the time
If you’ve ever tried to get ice cream at a McDonald’s restaurant, there’s a better-than-average chance you were stymied in your quest for soft-serve goodness by an out-of-order ice cream machine. A new report from Wired attempts to get to the bottom of the mystery of the McDonald’s ice cream…
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What the MasterClass effect means for edtech
MasterClass, which sells a subscription to celebrity-taught classes, sits on the cusp of entertainment and education. It offers virtual, yet aspirational learning: an online tennis class with Serena Williams, a cooking session with Gordon Ramsay. While there’s the off chance that an instructor might actually talk to you — it…
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The SEC should do more to make startup equity compensation transparent
Yifat Aran Contributor Dr. Yifat Aran is a visiting scholar at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, and an incoming Assistant Professor in Haifa University Faculty of Law. She earned her JSD from Stanford Law School where her dissertation focused on equity-based compensation in Silicon Valley startups. Imagine that you…
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Apex Legends and Titanfall developer is working on a brand new game Titanfall 2
Respawn Entertainment, the development studio behind games such as Apex Legends, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and Titanfall, has revealed that it’s in the early stages of developing a new game. The news was revealed by programmer at Respawn Entertainment, Steven Kah Hien Wong, who tweeted out a job advertisement…
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Should you buy the iMac 2021 or iPad Pro 2021 for gaming? An Apple presentation showing the iPad Pro playing Devil May Cry connected to a PS5 DualSense controller
During its Spring Loaded event, Apple claimed its new iMac 2021 and iPad Pro 2021 with M1 chips are both excellent gaming machines. The iMac allegedly has the power to run Apple Arcade and Zoom simultaneously with ease, while the iPad Pro will allegedly have ‘console-quality’ graphics and frame rates.…
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How one founder partnered with NASA to make tires puncture-proof and more sustainable
This week’s episode of Found features The SMART Tire Company co-founder and CEO Earl Cole, a one-time Survivor champion whose startup is working with NASA to commercialize some of its space-age tech. Cole won a NASA startup competition seeking entrepreneurs to work with its scientists and researchers on applications of…
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