Sony WF-1000XM5 earbuds review

July 24, 2023
I have two stock answers whenever someone asks me which earbuds to buy. The first answers the question with another question: Who made your phone? Like flagship smartphones, fully wireless earbuds are pretty good across the board — and the category managed to get there in record time. Headphones often operate best with other devices […]

Time for tech’s report card

July 24, 2023
We’re embarking on another earnings cycle, which means we can study tech’s largest companies’ results to get some perspective on the state of the economy.

North Korean hackers targeting JumpCloud mistakenly exposed their IP addresses, researchers say

July 24, 2023
Security researchers say they have high confidence that North Korean hackers were behind a recent intrusion at enterprise software company JumpCloud because of a mistake the hackers made. Mandiant, which is assisting one of JumpCloud’s affected customers, attributed the breach to hackers working for North Korea’s Reconnaissance General Bureau, or RGB, a hacking unit that […]

Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg should cage fight over whose rebrand is worse

July 24, 2023
Elon Musk is the best thing that could have ever happened to Mark Zuckerberg. As Musk begins to change Twitter’s branding to X, Facebook’s rebrand to Meta doesn’t seem all that bad. Zuckerberg might be good at lifting weights these days, but he still needs to pull Meta out from a seriously rough few years. […]

Impulse Space is flying high with new funding led by RTX Ventures

July 24, 2023
Impulse Space, the space logistics startup headed by founding SpaceX employee Tom Mueller, has closed a new tranche of funding to further develop its line of orbital transportation vehicles. The oversubscribed $45 million Series A was led by RTX Ventures, the venture capital arm of RTX (formerly Raytheon Technologies), and included participation from existing investors […]

Please re-xeet this podcast episode

July 24, 2023
Hello, and welcome back to Equity, the podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Our Monday show covers the latest in tech news from the weekend and what’s making headlines early in the week. Here’s the rundown from this morning! Stocks are mixed around the world: Chinese […]