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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The Download: what is death, and jailbreaking generative AI

November 17, 2023
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. What is death? Just as birth certificates note the time we enter the world, death certificates mark the moment we exit it. This practice reflects traditional notions about life and death as binaries.…

3 Tech Stocks Set for Take off Soon!

November 17, 2023
The increasing reliance of companies on advanced technology solutions and accelerated digital transformation are expected to drive the tech industry’s growth. Therefore, it could be wise to buy fundamentally strong…