LEGO secrets from a ‘LEGO Masters’ star: How Boone Langston built a new career, brick by brick

LEGO secrets from a ‘LEGO Masters’ star: How Boone Langston built a new career, brick by brick

Boone Langston, one of LEGO Masters’ bearded builders, attends the GeekWire podcast from his home in the Portland, Oregon area. Boone Langston is an accomplished LEGO builder from the Portland, Oregon area who shares his creations with the world BooneBuilds.com and on his Boone is building YouTube Channel. He also runs a virtual one Boones … Read more

Pleo raises $150M at a $1.7B valuation for its new approach to managing expenses for SMBs – TechCrunch

Pleo raises $150M at a $1.7B valuation for its new approach to managing expenses for SMBs – TechCrunch

Whether you’re part of the accounting department or just an employee of an organization, managing expenses can be a time-consuming and error-prone, but also a fairly mundane part of your job. Today, a startup called Pleo – which has built a platform that can help some of this work more smoothly, via a vertically integrated … Read more

Juul Is Fighting to Keep Its E-Cigarettes on the U.S. Market

Juul Is Fighting to Keep Its E-Cigarettes on the U.S. Market

Sales fell by $ 500 million. The workforce was reduced by three quarters. Operations in 14 countries were discontinued. Many state and local lobbying campaigns have ceased. Juul Labs, the once high profile e-cigarette company that became a public health villain for many people because of its role in the teenage steam wave, is acting … Read more

Post-pandemic gas revival may threaten climate change targets

Jon Fingas

The pandemic recovery might not be all positive, at least not for the environment. Reuters reports that the International Energy Agency has warned that a resurgence in gas demand after the pandemic could jeopardize the goal of global net-zero emissions by 2050. A forecast increase in gas consumption of 3.6 percent for 2021 could not … Read more

Why former Alibaba scientist wants to back founders outside the Ivory Tower – TechCrunch

Why former Alibaba scientist wants to back founders outside the Ivory Tower – TechCrunch

Min Wanli had a career path that was highly sought after by those pursuing a career in computer science. As a child prodigy, Min was accepted into a top research university in China at the age of 14. Degrees in physics and statistics from the University of Chicago before spending nearly a decade at IBM … Read more

Astronauts show how CRISPR gene editing works in space

Jon Fingas

CRISPR gene editing is no longer limited to Earth. Astronaut Christina Koch and scientist successfully demonstrated CRISPR-Cas9 in space for the first time and used it as part of a new technique to damage DNA and study how it is repaired in microgravity. “Technical and safety concerns” have prevented earlier studies like this one, the … Read more