Iran's supreme leader is dead, but the regime endures. Iran scholar Mehrzad Boroujerdi walks through how the leadership succession could unfold.
Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for March 31, #1024Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles.Today's NYT Connections puzzle is a pretty fun one. Animal lovers should get a kick out of the...
Why AI startups are selling the same equity at two different prices As competition among AI startups heats up, founders and VCs are turning to novel valuation mechanisms to manufacture a perception of market dominance. Until recently, the most sought-after companies raised multiple rounds of funding in quick succession at escalating valuations. However, because constant fundraising distracts...
SpaceX’s Starbase city is getting its own court SpaceX’s company town in Texas, Starbase, is less than a year old, but it already has its own volunteer fire department and is working on creating a police department. Now it wants its own court, too. Starbase’s city administrator submitted a proposed ordinance to the city commission during a meeting on Wednesday that would create a municipal...
Cauldron Ferm has turned microbes into nonstop assembly lines Cauldron Ferm has an unlikely origin story, as startups go. Its core technology can be traced back to the 1960s, or maybe the 1970s. The exact start is a bit hazy, actually. What is known is that David and Polly McLennan had a dream of feeding the world using protein grown from microbes. The pair knew they needed to improve the...
Explosion near Moscow train station kills police officerBloomberg via Getty ImagesSavyolovsky Station pictured in 2018An explosion outside a train station in Moscow has killed one traffic police officer and injured two others, the Russian Interior Ministry has said.Police had been patrolling their vehicle at Savyolovsky Station Square, north of the city centre, when it said "an unidentified...