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Max Q: Mapping the moon
Hello and welcome back to Max Q. Happy to have you with us and happy belated Earth Day. In this issue: No more ASAT operations for the U.S. NASA gives nearly $300 million in awards to satcom provid...
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Bring on the Twitter mafia
Twitter is smaller than you think. The company has around 7,000 employees, compared to other soci...
Will advertisers flee a ‘free speech’ Twitter?
New Twitter owner Elon Musk has emphasized his belief that “free speech” is critical to Twitter’s future, even noting in the press release announcing the deal today that “fr...
It’s Elon’s Twitter now, so what’s next?
Twitter, the platform that once helped fuel The Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street is now owned by the richest man in the world, and you have to wonder what impact it’s going to have. There a...
Alright Elon, don’t fuck it up
Elon Musk’s quest to buy Twitter came to a close today with a win for the technology mogul. Regardless of what we might have thought when Twitter was busy circling its wagons with a poison-pi...
Trump says he won’t return to Twitter if his account is reinstated
Former President Donald Trump said on Monday that he will not be returning to Twitter if his account is reinstated, according to a statement he provided to Fox News. Trump’s comments about Tw...
Klaviyo co-founder Ed Hallen’s 3 top pieces of advice for launching a startup
In addition to being chief product officer at Klaviyo, I now also have the honor of getting to speak to a lot of new and hopeful founders. Here are the three pieces of advice I start with.
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Reddit officially launches its Community Funds program with a $1 million investment
Reddit is investing $1 million in its Community Funds program, the company announced on Monday. The company has been experimenting with its Community Funds program for the past six months and provi...
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Google’s Pixel Watch may finally be on its way
Everything old is new again. Someone leaves a prototype in a bar, prototype makes its way into so...
Where we’ll be next
Twitter accepts Elon Musk’s $44B acquisition offer
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is infamous for using Twitter to tease and tease out various ideas he has about his business interests, cryptocurrency, politics and life in general, but today it looks like he&...
Here’s why we’re about to see an explosion of hyperreal artificial humans online
Synthetically generated versions of real people that can be can be programmed to say anything sounds like a scenario from the latest episode of “Black Mirror.” But in fact, production-g...
Musk’s Boring Company to begin ‘full-scale’ hyperloop testing this year
Elon Musk’s tunnel startup The Boring Company plans to begin “full-scale” testing of hyperloop, a still theoretical transportation system that sends passengers in autonomous elect...
Sapphire Ventures’ Cathy Gao on how VCs can help early-stage startups weather volatility
If uncertainty is the only true certainty in this global economy, how does an early-stage startup gird itself?
Brianne Kimmel’s new $35 million fund isn’t yet tempted by all of web3
While web3, the metaverse and virtual HQs feel like the loudest features of the “future of work” startup category, WorkLife Ventures founder Brianne Kimmel has a more down-to-earth defi...
Future Chevy Corvette EV will use battery’s heat to extend its range
It’s official: a fully electric Chevy Corvette is coming — with new battery technology to boost its range, acceleration and efficiency. When it arrives, the battery-electric sports car will b...
How to know when it’s time for your startup to stop DIY-ing legal work
There’s a lot of work that needs to be done when building a startup, legally and professionally. And startup lawyers specializing in niche documents and processes can be useful resources.
NFT aggregator Gem.xyz acquired by OpenSea shortly after ousting co-founder for sexual misconduct
OpenSea, the largest NFT marketplace, acquired NFT aggregator Gem.xyz (Gem) to “better serve” its more experienced users, the company said in a blog post. The deal, which comes a few mo...
Apple confirms the App Store and Apple Music are experiencing issues
Apple has confirmed that the App Store and Apple Music are currently experiencing some issues. The company’s system status page indicates that “users may be experiencing a problem”...
Google donates the Istio service mesh to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation
This has been a long time coming: Google today announced that it is submitting its Istio service mesh project for consideration as an incubating project within the Cloud Native Computing Foundation...
