Max Q: Sports in space?
Welcome back to Max Q, our weekly newsletter about space and the business thereof. This week, plans for a private sports and entertainment complex in orbit...
Hundreds of Y Combinator alumni join crypto collective to back web3 startups
A crypto collective backing web3 startups is seeking new members. The only condition for joining? Applicants must be alumni of the Y Combinator accelerator. The group,...
AI2 shows off an open, Q&A-focused rival to GPT3
OpenAI’s impressive AI language model GPT-3 has plenty of things going it, but with 175 billion parameters no one would claim it’s particularly streamlined. The Allen...
Playmates’ New Star Trek Toys Look a Lot Like the Old Star Trek Toys
Star Trek has had a particularly weird history with action figures. Never the most toyetic of franchises when it came to things that weren’t models of...
Hacktivists Claim Ransomware Strike on Belarus Railway Intended to Disrupt Russian Forces
In an apparent bid to stop a Russian arms build-up near the Ukrainian border, a “pro-democracy” hacktivist group claims to have hacked the Belarusian railway system—allegedly...
Apple extends an in-app purchase exemption for some developers impacted by pandemic
The pandemic isn’t over yet, according to Apple. The iPhone maker has once again pushed back a Covid-era deferral of an App Store rule that allowed...
Mentor Collective shakes off its boots to scale student support services
Mentorship is a crucial ingredient to a student’s success. The demand for a platform to make the art of advice more accessible is thus easy for...
Not Dead Yet: IBM’s revenue growth accelerates in Q4
IBM reported revenue for Q3 2021 — and the news wasn’t just “good.” For a company that has seen negative or low revenue growth for almost...
Teslas Will Reportedly Get a Major Battery Boost Next Year
With the production of next-gen batteries growing near, Teslas will soon round another corner in its race to put range anxiety in the rearview mirror. Panasonic...
Why Business Technologists are Becoming Indispensable
In today’s fast-paced and highly competitive market, enterprises are looking for ways to gain an edge over their competitors through the use of technology in their...
