December 2023

Firefly’s Alpha rocket reaches orbit for the fourth time

December 22, 2023

Firefly Aerospace sent its Alpha rocket to orbit for the fourth time ever this morning, with the company carrying a payload from Lockheed Martin to space. However, the company has yet to update the public on whether it successfully deployed the satellite to its destination orbit – which could suggest an issue with the rocket’s […]

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Proposed new rule: All AI output must rhyme

December 22, 2023

Welcome to Startups Weekly. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. I know I usually lead Startups Weekly with my own column (and I did write one this week, so if you are somehow a fan of everything I write, go ham), but Devin’s piece taking a stand against the pseudanthropy […]

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Once again, Etsy’s layoffs come at no surprise

December 22, 2023

More than quantitative, Etsy’s challenge is qualitative. A viral tweet summed it up in one word: junkification.

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Hyperloop’s loss is high-speed rail’s gain

December 22, 2023

In 2013, Elon Musk published a white paper that teased the idea of zipping from Los Angeles to San Francisco in just 35 minutes through a vacuum-sealed tube — a system he called hyperloop. The idea “originated out of his hatred for California’s proposed high-speed rail system,” according to his biographer Ashlee Vance. Ten years […]

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