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Fraunhofer FHR’s radar tracking of ESA’s ERS-2 satellite revealed crucial structural changes before re-entry, enhancing understanding of satellite disintegration and aiding in more accurate future predictions. Credit: Fraunhofer FHRESA’s ERS-2 satellite successfully reentered Earth’s atmosphere after nearly 30 years in orbit, with its final moments tracked by Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute. The unexpected detachment of its solar array provided crucial data for improving satellite reentry predictions.Following a hugely…

Bending Spoons, the owner of popular apps and services like Evernote and Meetup, announced today that it has raised $155 million in a new equity financing round at a $2.55 billion post-money valuation. Durable Capital Partners led the round with existing investors, such as Baillie Gifford, Cox Enterprises, NB Renaissance, NUO Capital, and StarTIP (controlled by Tamburi Investment Partners) also participating. The company said that it will use the new cash infusion to acquire more brands. Bending…

Bending Spoons, the company that owns the mobile filmmaking app Filmic Pro, laid off all 22 members of the original Filmic team, including CEO Neill Barham, in November. The layoffs were confirmed by the company, saying that Filmic has now been fully integrated into the Bending Spoons platform. All 22 members of the original Filmic team, including CTO Christopher Cohen and COO Kevin Buonagurio, left the company in November.In September 2022, Bending Spoons acquired Filmic. Soon after the acquisition, the app introduced a…

Milan-based creative app studio Bending Spoons has laid off the entire staff of Filmic, which made popular video and photo editing apps such as Filmic Pro, per a report by PetaPixel. Bending Spoons acquired Filmic last July and the move was announced in September. In the past few days, several Filmic employees have posted about their departure on LinkedIn and X including CTO Christopher Cohen and COO Kevin Buonagurio. While Filmic’s founder and former CEO Neill Barham hasn’t posted anything…

Photo by gotpap/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images Being named as part of an altogether bizarre $3 billion lawsuit doesn’t appear to have affected Dwayne Johnson‘s ability to head out and hype himself up in front of the entire world, with the only figures at the forefront of his mind being box office totals. Obviously, his last couple of trips to the multiplex haven’t gone too well when DC League of Super-Pets and Black Adam both flopped to leave him cast out of the DCU in record time after he’d spent 15 years developing…

The U.S. job market isn’t at a rolling boil anymore. It is hardly tepid. That is good news for the economy, but less good for any investors hoping the Federal Reserve won’t raise rates at its meeting next month, much less embark on an easing campaign anytime soon. The U.S. job market isn’t at a rolling boil anymore. It is hardly tepid. That is good news for the economy, but less good for any investors hoping the Federal Reserve won’t raise rates at its meeting next month, much…

The new material could be used to act as a nano-scale switch or even a motor.Scientists at Rice University have discovered a new workable feature of a particular class of 2D materials.Rice University materials scientist Boris Yakobson and his team have uncovered a property of ferroelectric 2D materials that has the potential to be exploited as a feature in future devices.According to a study published in ACS Nano, single-layer ferroelectric materials, due to their ability to bend in response to an electrical stimulus, can…

The affected employees, some of whom with 10-15 years of experience, have been provided severance packages of salaries equating the number of years they served at the company (Illustration: Rahul Awasthi)Mobile application developer company Bending Spoons has laid off 129 employees of note-taking and task management app Evernote, months after acquiring the company.According to TechCrunch, Bending Spoons acquired Evernote, founded over 20 years ago, in November last year."This was a difficult -- yet necessary -- decision…

It looks like Evernote's 2020 redesign wasn't enough to keep it independent. Today, the former darling notetaking app for productivity hounds, which was once valued at 1 billion dollars, announced that it has been purchased by Bending Spoons. If that name sounds unfamiliar to you, you're not alone. It's a Milan-based developer behind mobile apps like the video editor Splice, and the AI image editing tool Gemini. They look like well-designed and genuinely useful apps, but they're far from Evernote's once lofty goal of…

Google Pixel 7 Pro has been out for nearly a month. Its durability and build quality were finally tested by Zack Nelson from the JerryRigEverything YouTube channel. Google has not made any drastic design changes in the Pixel 7 series in comparison to the Pixel 6 lineup. The most notable alteration is the metal strip covering the rear camera on the Pixel 7 Pro, instead of glass. This decision has seemingly introduced a structural issue with the handset. However, the position of the antenna line could also be a contributing…