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8 Czech VCs on green shoots, pandemic impacts and 2021 opportunities

TechCrunch

As far as green shoots, COVID-19 has “played a role of an accelerator for innovation in many business areas and even e-government and other rigid/conservative industries,” said one. Are you seeing “green shoots” regarding revenue growth, retention or other momentum in your portfolio as they adapt to the pandemic?

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Boeing gets green light for satellite internet constellation

The Verge

By comparison, SpaceX and Amazon have far grander plans for their networks, with each consisting of thousands of satellites. Boeing is a major satellite manufacturer, and so it spent the years before and after its initial 2017 proposal selling to early space-based internet providers as the market matured.

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Revisiting the Apple Watch SE in 2025 left me with a long list of update requests

Engadget

Of course, the newest Apple Watch received a 2mm size bump, so a more direct comparison would be to the 40mm 9th-generation watch, which has 150 sq mm more room, thanks to thinner bezels. When I want Siri to quickly set a two minute timer for steeping green tea, the process with the SE just takes too long. Thats fine.

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Google Maps is getting a lot more detail

The Verge

The end result does a much better job of showing off the differences between natural features, such as between snowy peaks and dense forests or green fields and sandy beaches. The comparison shots below give an idea of what the new color-mapping technique is capable of.

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How Nonprofits Can Tell Powerful Stories Through Data Visualization 

Allegiance Group

So, we designed a bar chart using red and green to indicate good or bad to alleviate the confusion. A number could be high or low, but where it sat on the bar chart closer to green or nearer to red, for instance quickly told users how to understand it. However, roughly 8% of people are red-green color blind.

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Scalenut’s AI copywriter also helps content make a dent in search engine results

TechCrunch

For example, a green tea manufacturer who wants to create a blog post about the benefits of the beverage would first use a keyword to create topic cluster reports, or lists of potential topics with clusters of keywords. Jain demonstrated the platform for TechCrunch.

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5 takeaways on trust in NGOs to manage new innovations and technologies 

Candid

The innovations and technologies mentioned in the survey are: green energy, such as biofuels, liquid hydrogen, and wind and solar power; artificial intelligence, including machine learning, natural language processing, and generative AI; gene-based medicine, such as mRNA vaccines, gene splicing, and gene therapy; and genetically modified foods.