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In a move clearly inspired by the hyperrealistic movieArmageddon, NASA has decided to attack an asteroid. The space agency, however, has recklessly overlooked Michael Bay’s ingenious idea oftraining oil drillers to become astronauts. Nor will the NASA nerds follow the director’s advice of blasting the rock with a nuclear bomb. Instead, they want to smack it with a spacecraft. Life disregarding art Smaller asteroids frequently strikeEarth, but most burn up in the atmosphere before they reach our planet’s surface....

As spring melts into summer, there’s been much discussion around New York City’s blossoming tech scene and you can feel the energy in the air as you walk through Union Square. Coworking spaces like WeWork Labs, General Assembly and Dogpatch and incubators like TechStars, Gramercy Labs Collective andPrehypeare experimenting with new ways to cultivate young companies in the city that never sleeps. As a friend of mine described it, the kids are launching startups the way they used to start rock bands....

Nissanrecently announceda new £13 billion investment to help transition its business to being focused around electric vehicles (EVs). The investment is centred around its Sunderland plant in the north east of England, which already makes the popular Nissan Leaf, and a plan to build 23 new electric models by 2030. But Nissan, like most traditional automakers, has a long way to go if it wants to catch Tesla. Elon Musk’s companyis easilythe biggest seller of EVs in the world, with the Model 3 and Model Y shifting around230,000 vehiclesper quarter between them worldwide....

Why no-code tools in startups should remain niche No-code tools are either hype or niche… which do you pick? No-code is not particularly new Speaking of no-code, we usually think of it as a recent development, a step made in the late 2010s to emancipate the world from expensive engineers. Be it Notion, Mailchimp, Voiceflow, or Bubble, companies associated with no-code approaches are usually recently found startups. But is the approach actually that recent?...

Yesterday, Microsoft released an update to Office Web Apps, improving the versions of Excel and PowerPoint that are included in the suite. You can read more about just what Microsoft changedhere. The last time that we looked into Office Web Apps was during theweek in which Office 365 was released, and we were generally positive about the free, cloud version of Office. After all, what can be better than zero cost tools, right?...