X saw weekly active users and rankings drop post rebrand, but Twitter Lite installs grew

August 28, 2023
Reports that X (formerly Twitter)’s downloads decreased after Elon Musk’s rebranding of the microblogging social network only tell part of the story. Twitter’s renaming also saw its weekly active users drop 4% over the following weeks after the rebrand (Aug.6-20), while the X app fell four spots in the Overall category rankings to No. 36, […]

Splinter group officially launches OpenTF fork of HashiCorp Terraform

August 28, 2023
Earlier this month HashiCorp announced that it was changing the open source license it uses for Terraform and its other developer tools. The change triggered an uproar in the open source community. On Friday, a splinter group announced it was developing an open source fork of Terraform, and officially launched the OpenTF project. “We completed […]

India to launch solar observatory mission Aditya-L1 this week

August 28, 2023
India is launching its first space-based solar observatory mission called Aditya-L1 to study the sun — just days after the successful landing of the country’s moon rover mission Chandrayaan-3. The launch of Aditya-L1 will take place at 11:20pm PT on September 1 (11:50am IST on September 2) from Satish Dhawan Space Center in South India’s […]

Moxie raises $15.7M to make opening medspas easier

August 28, 2023
Treatments like botox are becoming more ubiquitous, spurring growth in the number of medspas, or centers that offer botox, IV hydration and laser treatments from certified providers like registered nurses. Opening a medspa, however, can be a lengthy and expensive process. Moxie wants to make it easier with its “business-in-a-box” model, offering providers coaching, access […]