June 21, 2025

Cartoonist Paul Pope is more worried about killer robots than AI plagiarism

Paul Pope has written and drawn some of the most gorgeous comics of the twenty-first century — from “Batman: Year 100,” in which Batman challenges a dystopian surveillance state, to “Battling Boy,” with its adolescent god proving his mettle by fighting giant monsters. But it’s been more than a decade since Pope’s last major comics […]

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SpaceX makes significant progress with third Starship orbital test flight

March 14, 2024

SpaceX is continuing to make progress on the development of Starship, the largest rocket ever built, with the third test flight Thursday accomplishing considerably more than the previous two tests. The 400-foot-tall Starship rocket lifted off from SpaceX’s Starbase facility in southeastern Texas at 8:25 a.m. local time. Although SpaceX has been developing Starship for […]

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Mastering Productivity Through the F.L.O.W. Model

March 14, 2024
Multitasking is often the result of our relentless pursuit of productivity. Even though multitasking may seem efficient to complete our to-do lists, it usually leads to disorganization and overwhelm. What’s…

hopMy lands $18.5M to help influencers earn more money from promoting products

March 14, 2024

ShopMy, a marketing platform for content creators to connect with brands and monetize their content, announced today that it raised $18.5 million. The company will use ithe money to help scale its network of 40,000 creators, including Alix Earle, the latest “It Girl” on the internet with over 10 million followers on TikTok and Instagram. […]

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Fluent Metal takes a stab at the metal 3D printing market

March 14, 2024

To say that it’s rocky out in the metal 3D printing world may be a bit of an understatement. Almost a decade ago, Desktop Metal was one of the early darlings in accessible 3D printing in metal. The company raised almost half a billion in VC funding. Since then, the company has had a hell […]

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WarpStream is building a cheaper, cloud-native streaming service

March 14, 2024

When the open source streaming service, Apache Kafka, was created in 2011 at LinkedIn, it was a different world. Most companies were still on prem. The notion of cloud computing was just beginning to emerge. WarpStream, an early stage startup, sees the value of streaming in a cloud native context and built a new solution […]

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