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May 2018

MIT’s latest invention pulls clean drinking water out of thin air

For people in the world without easy access to drinkable water, the idea of being able to pull it straight […]

WTF are CDRs? (other than a potential trillion-dollar market)

Over the past few days, the Chinese government announced the potential creation of a new trillion-dollar investment market, and it isn’t […]

Oil Prices Poised To Rise As Cycle Comes To An End

Each month, I publish reports on ten to fifteen publicly traded upstream oil & gas companies. Part of each report […]

Benchmark just funded Chainalysis, the crypto intelligence company that helped crack the Mt. Gox case

When the virtual currency exchange Mt. Gox collapsed into bankruptcy in 2014 following the disappearance of hundreds of thousands of […]

Blood test can detect eight cancers in early stages which could save half a million lives every year

CancerSEEK is a blood test that detects tiny amounts of DNA and proteins released into the bloodstream from cancer cells. This […]

How much you should have in your retirement fund at every age

Your Retirement Fund at Every Age If you’re counting on Social Security to fund your retirement, you might want to […]

Forget bitcoin: Here are 12 cryptocurrencies you should be following

The search for ‘the next bitcoin’ has begun With 2017 now in the books, we can officially look back and […]

Spider silk startup Bolt Threads closes on $123 million in Series D funding

Bolt Threads, the  startup making spider silk from microbugs, has raised a giant $123 million Series D round of funding. As we reported in November, […]

What Is the Real Value of $100 in Your State?

This map shows the real value of $100 in each state. Prices for the same goods are often much cheaper […]