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How to watch SpaceX launch Starship for a second time live

November 17, 2023

In less than twenty-four hours, SpaceX will attempt to launch Starship to space for the second time. The official launch window opens at 7:00 AM CST on Saturday and lasts for just twenty minutes – and no, that’s not a typo. SpaceX will start its live webcast tomorrow around 35 minutes prior to liftoff and […]

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The future of M&A and why founders are getting whiplash

November 17, 2023

Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This is our Friday show, and we’re talking about the week’s biggest startup and tech news. This week Mary Ann and Alex covered a host of […]

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Wattpad Premium subscribers now have access to 5 free monthly Wattpad Originals

November 17, 2023

Wattpad announced today “Premium Picks,” a new offering that gives Premium and Premium+ subscribers monthly access to five free Wattpad Originals—the recently launched freemium model where select authors can choose to monetize chapters. Instead of paying to unlock content, members are now given five Wattpad Originals each month at no additional cost. The selection is […]

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Kyutai is a French AI research lab with a $330 million budget that will make everything open source

November 17, 2023

This morning at Scaleway’s ai-PULSE conference, French billionaire and Iliad CEO Xavier Niel gave some extra details about his plans for an AI research lab based in Paris. This new lab called Kyutai will be a privately-funded nonprofit working on artificial general intelligence. It will work with PhD students, postdocs and researchers on research papers […]

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Toku’s AI platform predicts heart conditions by scanning inside your eye

November 17, 2023

Ehsan Vaghefi, CEO and co-founder of Toku, grew up with a blind father who lost eyesight at the age of four due to congenital glaucoma. As a result of this, his dad was involved with the Blind Foundation in his home country of Iran. Vaghefi says most of his childhood friends were either blind or […]

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Change in X’s terms indicate EU researchers will get API access

November 17, 2023

After taking over Twitter last year, Elon Musk famously yanked API access from third-party apps and changed API pricing tiers to make it difficult for researchers to access and study the platform’s data. Now the company he’s since renamed X has backtracked in the European Union where legal obligations in the bloc’s Digital Services Act […]

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