DTN 010: Are Telescopes on the Moon Doomed?
Welcome to The Deep Tech Newsletter, a weekly exploration of the business, science, and engineering behind the world’s most important frontier technologies.
The Big Picture
Are Telescopes on the Moon Doomed?
The lunar far side has enormous potential for many fields, and it holds unique promise for cosmology…but the same technological advances that promise to make the Moon more accessible for their experiments will also make the environment more crowded. More than 250 Moon missions are expected over the coming decade…that will add up to a $100B ‘lunar economy,’ and upcoming boom in lunar exploration could put the last unspoilt refuge in the Solar System at risk. (Scientific American)
Inside One of the World’s Biggest Green Hydrogen Projects
“This patch of desert, more than 100 miles from the nearest town, sits next to the biggest problem that green hydrogen could help solve: vast iron ore mines that are full of machines powered by immense amounts of dirty fossil fuels. Three of the world’s four biggest ore miners operate dozens of mines here.” (New York Times)
Neuromarketing and the Battle for Your Brain
“The right to cognitive liberty protects our right to self determination over our brains and mental processes. It includes the right to be free from manipulation by others, but also the right to resist manipulation and reclaim our brains. Building resilience to tactics that shortcut our thinking will help us exercise this right. But freedom of thought should not be used as an excuse for filtering that information for us.” (WIRED)
Deep Tech News
- Undersea graveyard for imported CO2 opens in Denmark
- A Gene Therapy Cure for Sickle Cell Is on the Horizon
- 3D bioprinter to print human meniscus on the space station
- A Satellite powered by 48 AA batteries
- Virgin Orbit pauses all operations
- $22B project to provide 8% of UK energy via undersea cable from North Africa
Crypto News
- The Pokémon Company Is Hiring a Web3 Expert
- Weird crypto quirk sees user turn $1.45 into $2M
- PeopleDAO hacked via Google Sheets, $120,000 worth of ether stolen
- Sam Altman’s Worldcoin unveils World ID protocol and SDK
- These 'Knights' Will Donate Samurai Sword to Met Museum—After Minting It as an NFT
- OpenChat to transfer control to community after $5.5M ‘decentralization sale’
Peer Review
- Viable superconducting material created at low temperature and low pressure
- 3D internal structure of rechargeable batteries revealed for the first time
- World's first microneedle-based drug delivery technique for plants
- Cleaning up the atmosphere with quantum computing
- Regenerating bone with deer antler stem cells
- First Transient Electronic Bandage Speeds Healing by 30 Percent
- Researchers discover a new approach to harvesting aerial humidity with organic crystals
Funding x M&A
DEEP TECH
- Sam Altman invests $180M into Retro Biosciences, a company trying to delay death
- Adept AI raised $350M for generative AI trained to use every software tool and API
- Verity raises $32M as IKEA stores deploy its inventory drones
- QurAlis’ Biomarker-Driven Approach to Treating ALS Raises $88M Series B
- Plus One raises $50M for its parcel robotics vision systems
- Salesforce Ventures targets new $250M fund at generative AI startups
- AI chip startup Mythic rises from the ashes with $13M
- Mediar Therapeutics, a biotech company focused on fibrosis, raised a $85M Series A
- Green Li-ion, a lithium ion battery recycling startup, raised a $20.5M pre-Series B
- Healium, a virtual and augmented reality biofeedback startup, raised a $3.6M+ seed round
- Protai, a proteomics startup building a drug discovery platform, raised a $12M seed round
- AI Startup Adept raised a $350M Series B
- Algae biofuel company Viridos raised a $25M Series A
CRYPTO
- Web3 Game Publisher Jungle Raises $6 Million for Mobile NFT Shooter
- Crypto infrastructure provider Orbs raising $10M from DWF Labs in token round
- Blockchain infrastructure developer Smooth raises $2 million in seed funding
- Digital Fashion House DressX Raises $15M to Boost Virtual Wearables
- A16z invests in crypto wallet infrastructure startup Capsule
- Ark raises $16.3M for new crypto fund amid buying spree
- Paradigm funds auditing DAO Code4rena with $6M token purchase
- Tensor — the ‘Blur of Solana’ — raises $3M in seed funding
- $25M for 'goof-proof' web3 superapp Kresus
- Ethermail raises $4M
- Polychain Capital leads web3 dev tool provider Cubist’s $7M raise
- Framework Ventures leads $15.8M round into ‘proof of solvency’ startup Proven
Miscellanea
The Waluigi Effect / The Moon May Get It’s Own Time Zone / How Britain ceased to be a computing superpower / All of Humanity Weighs 6x as Much as All Wild Mammals / Growing crops under solar panels / A helicopter is going to Titan. Could an airplane be next? / The Uncanny Failures of A.I.-Generated Hands / How Iceland is using GPT-4 to preserve its language / This couple just got married in the Taco Bell metaverse / An AI Told Me I Had Cancer / Venus is volcanically alive / Boeing not liable for victim suffering in 737 MAX crash because “the airplane crashed into the ground so fast that their brains didn’t have time to process pain signals." / The Libyan Army has found 10 missing drums with 2.5 tons of natural Uranium / AI searches for ET / The lab that’s growing mushroom computers
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