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DTN 010: Are Telescopes on the Moon Doomed?
Plus: Neuromarketing, a samurai sword NFT, regenerating bone from antlers, betrothed in a VR Taco Bell, AI searches for ET, and more.
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
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)
“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)
“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
Crypto News
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
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
Salesforce Ventures targets new $250M fund at generative AI startups
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
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
Paradigm funds auditing DAO Code4rena with $6M token purchase
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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