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 Ofo, one of China’s two billion-dollar-valued bike-sharing companies, has announced that it raised a $700 million Series E funding round which is led by e-commerce giant Alibaba, Hony Capital and CITIC Private Equity. Existing backers including ride-sharing firm Didi and DST Global also took part. This is the first time Alibaba has officially thrown its lot into China’s… Read More from TechCrunch via August 31, 2017 at 01:00PM

 SpaceX launched yet another Falcon 9 successfully today, for a mission from its LC-39A launch facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The launch is the third in under two weeks for SpaceX, since it completed successful missions on both June 23 and June 25. The Intelsat 35e mission today involved launching an orbital communications satellite built by Boeing for SpaceX… Read More from TechCrunch via August 30, 2017 at 01:00PM

 How do things work? To find out, we observe them and we take them apart. But not everything is easily observed, and until recently some things couldn’t be taken apart. Read More from TechCrunch via August 29, 2017 at 01:01PM

 Cities are becoming more crowded, people are buying more cars and mass transit is reaching capacity. At some point, there will be no room to move. That’s where bikes come in. Even better, that’s where e-bikes come in. So says Horace Dediu, an analyst and self-described disruption theorist, and Hong Quan, president of Karmic Bikes, want you to believe. They joined TechCrunch… Read More from TechCrunch via August 28, 2017 at 01:00PM

 Fingervision isn’t much to look at. At first glance, it appears as though someone MacGyvered a GoPro case out of some clear food wrap and bits of plastic, attaching the creation to the end of a $25,000 industrial robot— and honestly, that’s not all that far from the truth. The system is cheap by design, making what it can do all the more remarkable. Using a jury-rigged… Read More from TechCrunch via August 27, 2017 at 01:00PM

 It’s been five years since physicists at CERN reported that they had observed a particle “consistent with the long-sought Higgs boson.” The discovery capped decades of theory and was an important triumph for the Large Hadron Collider, the means by which the elusive particle was found. But they didn’t close up shop and go home after that — the LHC is just getting up… Read More from TechCrunch via August 26, 2017 at 01:01PM

On initial impressions it may seem like the only real distinction in between cacao and cocoa is the spelling. There’s a little more to it than that … What is exactly what? Cacao can refer to any of the food stemmed from cacao beans– the seeds or nuts of the cacao tree. These include cacao nibs, cacao butter, cacao mass or paste and (probably the most typical) cacao powder Cacao v cocoa powder. Raw cacao powder is made by cold-pressing unroasted cocoa beans. The procedure keeps the living enzymes in the cocoa and eliminates the fat (cacao butter). Cocoa looks the very same however it’s not. Cocoa powder is raw cacao that’s been roasted at high temperatures. Unfortunately, roasting changes the molecular structure of the cocoa bean, reducing the enzyme content and lowering the overall nutritional value. The studies that possess chocolate’s fantastic health benefits are likely not describing your typical store-bought chocolate bar (damn misleading researchers). The chocolate that th

On initial impressions it might look like the only genuine difference between cacao and cocoa is the spelling. There’s a little more to it than that … What is exactly what? Cacao can describe any of the food products derived from cacao beans– the seeds or nuts of the cacao tree. These include cacao nibs, cacao butter, cacao mass or paste and (probably the most typical) cacao powder Cacao v cocoa powder. Raw cacao powder is made by cold-pressing unroasted cocoa beans. The process keeps the living enzymes in the cocoa and eliminates the fat (cacao butter). Cocoa looks the very same however it’s not. Cocoa powder is raw cacao that’s been roasted at high temperatures. Unfortunately, roasting changes the molecular structure of the cocoa bean, reducing the enzyme content and decreasing the total nutritional worth. The research studies that take pride in chocolate’s remarkable health benefits are most likely not describing your average store-bought chocolate bar (damn deceptive researc