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SpaceX has just announced that today’s orbital flight test attempt of the Starship launch system will now be a wet dress rehearsal, due to a frozen pressure valve. That means countdown will conclude at T-10 seconds. The news came at around T-8 minutes and countdown. It will take at least 48 hours for the company […]

SpaceX transitions today’s Starship orbital flight test to wet dress rehearsal by Aria Alamalhodaei originally published on TechCrunch

Rocket Lab is adding a new offering to its suite of services: Hypersonic suborbital launches. The new service will be available starting sometime in the first half of this year, when the company will fly its first mission for a “confidential customer” who contracted use of the new suborbital rocket. Rocket Lab’s suborbital vehicle is […]

Rocket Lab adds a suborbital launch option aimed at hypersonic defense customers by Darrell Etherington originally published on TechCrunch

It fits into the bigger picture of workers’ discontent across the U.S.

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I can’t get over the huge faux grill. Mercedes today revealed the Mercedes-Maybach EQS SUV, an electric SUV built on its excellent EQS SUV. In this edition buyers get ultra-luxury appointments including special cup holders designed to hold champagne flutes. Back to the grill. The Mercedes-Maybach EQS SUV is dripping with historic Maybach design elements: […]

Mercedes debuts the Maybach EQS SUV with more power, range, and luxury by Matt Burns originally published on TechCrunch

As the economy has gotten tougher, plenty of companies have switched to buying in assets to renting them. There’s a tortuous acronym for this which is XaaS or “Everything-as-a-Service”, also referred to as “Servitization”. An example of this would be ServiceNow which automates services for enterprise operations. A new-ish player in this space is Equipme, […]

Germany’s XaaS platform Equipme secures $3.8M Seed led by La Famiglia VC by Mike Butcher originally published on TechCrunch

When it comes to education, mathematics has long been considered one of the most challenging of subjects both to learn and to teach. A startup out of Barcelona called Innovamat believes it’s come up with an approach that can help on both of those fronts — designing guides for teachers and learning materials and a […]

Innovamat tallies up $21M to reinvent math education by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch

The fact that influencers are shifting their strategies to shorter-form content is a clear signal for startups to follow suit.

3 ways to step up your short-form video and TikTok growth strategy by Walter Thompson originally published on TechCrunch

Apple has kept the iPhone app distribution system closed, allowing users to download the apps only from the App Store. But the company might be adding some gates to this walled garden to let people sideload apps on iPhones soon. A Bloomberg report noted that the Cupertino-based company will build the groundwork for such functionality […]

iOS 17 will reportedly set the stage for sideloading apps on iPhone by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch

In a few short hours, SpaceX will attempt to fly its fully integrated Starship launch system for the first time from the company’s massive base on Texas’s southeastern coast. While SpaceX has conducted a number of suborbital tests of the Starship upper stage from its base in Texas, this will be the first time that […]

Watch SpaceX try to fly a fully stacked Starship for the first time by Aria Alamalhodaei originally published on TechCrunch