I had to check the date to be sure this didn’t launch on April 1, but it appears to be a legitimate if highly dumb idea that officially launched yesterday. Millionaires24 is a new email service that caters to the super rich, and costs $399 per month.
Do you belong to high society? Then take this chance to demonstrate your position in an unambiguous manner.
The digital era has begun and free email accounts are available for the ordinary joe. Rise above the crowd!
In a time where everyone is judged by his financial status, the memebers of Millionaires24 can demonstrate their wealth. To guarantee exclusivity, the number of members is limited to 10,000 worldwide
The feature set is significanly less than what is included with a free gmail account and includes such things as “unlimited eMail traffic”. I feel sorry for anyone caught using this service.
Michael Arrington most recently Co-Founded CrunchFund after leading TechCrunch to a successful exit with AOL. His venture investments include Uber, Airbnb and Pinterest. Michael was the Editor of TechCrunch, which he founded in 2005. In 2008 Time Magazine named Michael “One of the World’s 100 most influential people”. Michael also practiced securities law at O’Melveny & Myers and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.Michael graduated from Stanford Law School and Claremont McKenna College.
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Frontier, the carbon removal clearinghouse founded by Google, Strip, Shopify, and others, announced today that it is buying 115,208 metric tons of carbon removal credits from geoengineering startup Planetary in a deal worth $31.2 million.
The deal effectively prices each metric ton of carbon at $270, though Planetary says it has a plan to eventually remove carbon for less than $100 per metric ton. At full tilt, ocean alkalinity enhancement could remove over 1 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide annually.
For decades, the oceans have been dampening the effects of climate change by absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. That has slowed the pace of global warming, but it also endangers a host of marine organisms, including coral and shellfish, which depend on alkaline waters to help build and maintain their calcareous shells and skeletons.
The world’s oceans are naturally a little bit alkaline. Historically, they had a pH of 8.2, but since the industrial revolution began, it has fallen to 8.1. That might not sound like much, but pH’s logarithmic scale means the oceans are now 30% more acidic than in the early 1800s. When carbon dioxide reacts with water, it forms carbonic acid.
Planetary currently uses magnesium hydroxide to boost alkalinity, the same substance used in over-the-counter antacids. The company adds it at wastewater treatment facilities and power plants, sites that are already discharging water into the ocean. That helps minimize disruption to the coasts, and it helps Planetary keep costs down.
The startup currently has two projects, one in Nova Scotia and the other in Virginia.
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Tim De Chant is a senior climate reporter at TechCrunch. He has written for a wide range of publications, including Wired magazine, the Chicago Tribune, Ars Technica, The Wire China, and NOVA Next, where he was founding editor.
De Chant is also a lecturer in MIT’s Graduate Program in Science Writing, and he was awarded a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at MIT in 2018, during which time he studied climate technologies and explored new business models for journalism. He received his PhD in environmental science, policy, and management from the University of California, Berkeley, and his BA degree in environmental studies, English, and biology from St. Olaf College.
Spotify is introducing a way for you to chat with your friends in a bid to become a more social content consumption app.
Users have shared Spotify links for music and podcasts with others outside the platform for years. With this feature, Spotify wants users to do more within the app while also keeping the history of shared content, so users don’t have to search for a song.
Messages are only one-on-one, and you can only start a chat with someone with whom you have previously shared content. That means if you have a collaborative playlist with someone, or have joined a jam or a blend, you can start a conversation with them. This also applies to people on a Family or Duo plan with you. Once you send a request, they will have to approve it to start a conversation.
Image Credits: Spotify
Outside of Spotify, if someone sends a Spotify link to you on platforms like Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, Snapchat, or TikTok, you can tap on it and approve their request to chat. Alternatively, you can send an invite link to someone in your contacts.
The company said that users should continue sharing content outside Spotify, and the new message feature is a “complement” to that.
Image Credits: Spotify
Users can access messages by tapping on their profile pictures and access conversations under the Messages section on the hover bar located on the left. Users can also react to specific messages using emoji.
The company said that messages are encrypted at rest and in transit; however, messages are not protected by end-to-end encryption. The company proactively looks at messages to check if they are breaking its rules. What’s more, Spotify said that users can report messages, and the company will investigate those messages against its terms of service and platform rules.
Image Credits: Spotify
Last month, Spotify Chief Product and Technology Officer Gustav Söderström hinted during the company’s quarterly call that the consumer experience will be much more interactive on the app. The new messages feature seems to be a move in that direction.
Spotify is rolling out the messages feature to both premium and free users over 16 in select markets in Latin and South America, only on mobile versions. The company said that the feature will expand to the U.S., Canada, Brazil, the EU, the U.K., Australia, and New Zealand in the coming weeks.
Over the years, Spotify has had only a few social elements, like being able to follow someone and look at what they listen to. That has been changing with the introduction of features like comments on podcasts last year and a redesigned feed with a focus on video.
In recent months, userson socialmedia have complained about Spotify’s interface being too cluttered with features. My colleague Amanda Silberling, who left Spotify for Apple Music, had a similar problem.
“There’s an overwhelming display of visual clutter from the time it takes to navigate from Spotify’s home page to the music you’re looking for,” she said.
While messages might nudge some to share more content with friends, it could also annoy some who have been feeling that the app is getting more overwhelming. Thankfully, you can go to Settings > Privacy and social and disable messages.
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Months before a jury awarded a $242.5 million verdict against Tesla over its culpability in a 2019 fatal crash, the automaker had a chance to settle for $60 million. Instead, Tesla rejected that offer, according to new legal filings that were first reported by Reuters.
The settlement proposal, which was made in May, was disclosed in a filing that requested Tesla cover legal fees for the plaintiffs in the case.
Earlier this month, a jury in federal court in Miami found Tesla partly to blame for a fatal 2019 crash that involved the use of the company’s Autopilot driver assistance system. One person was killed when a Tesla Model S with Autopilot engaged plowed through an intersection and hit a Chevrolet Tahoe. The crash victims, Neima Benavides Leon and her boyfriend Dillon Angulo, were standing outside the vehicle on the shoulder at the time. Leon was killed while Angulo was severely injured.
The driver, who was not a defendant in this case, was sued separately for his responsibility. The lawsuit filed in 2021 against Tesla centered on Autopilot, which was engaged but did not brake in time to avoid going through the intersection. The jury assigned the driver two-thirds of the blame and attributed one-third to Tesla. As part of the verdict, the jury awarded the $242.5 million verdict as part of its decision.
Tesla, in a statement provided to TechCrunch earlier this month, said it plans to appeal the verdict “given the substantial errors of law and irregularities at trial.”
TechCrunch has reached out to the plaintiffs’ attorneys as well as Tesla. An outside PR firm that previously provided statements on Tesla’s behalf declined to comment and directed TechCrunch to the company’s press address. Tesla disbanded its communications team several years ago.
The lawsuit, case 1:21-cv-21940-BB, was filed in 2021 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.
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Kirsten Korosec is a reporter and editor who has covered the future of transportation from EVs and autonomous vehicles to urban air mobility and in-car tech for more than a decade. She is currently the transportation editor at TechCrunch and co-host of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast. She is also co-founder and co-host of the podcast, “The Autonocast.” She previously wrote for Fortune, The Verge, Bloomberg, MIT Technology Review and CBS Interactive.
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