Researchers launched a solar geoengineering test flight in the UK last fall

March 2, 2023
Last September, researchers in the UK launched a high-altitude weather balloon that released a few hundred grams of sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere, a potential scientific first in the solar geoengineering field, MIT Technology Review has learned. Solar geoengineering is the theory that humans can ease global warming by deliberately reflecting more sunlight into space.…

Everything Elon Musk and execs shared (and skipped) at Tesla Investor Day

March 2, 2023

The big, giant message Tesla CEO Elon Musk and other execs tried to impart during its four-hour Tesla Investor Day was how the company would be a driver of a global shift to clean energy. Investors, at least those active after the market closed, weren’t impressed perhaps because it lacked that big product announcement, specific […]

Everything Elon Musk and execs shared (and skipped) at Tesla Investor Day by Kirsten Korosec originally published on TechCrunch

8VC raises $880M in new fund that aims “to fix a broken world”

March 2, 2023

Austin-based venture firm 8VC, led by controversial Palantir founder Jon Lonsdale, has raised $880 million in its fifth fund. In a blog post published today, Lonsdale – who serves as 8VC’s general partner – said that his firm’s mission is “to fix a broken world.” While he did not specify which industries the new fund […]

8VC raises $880M in new fund that aims “to fix a broken world” by Mary Ann Azevedo originally published on TechCrunch

Google’s Sameer Samat on ecosystems, regulation and competition

March 1, 2023

Android was, predictably, everywhere at Mobile World Congress. At a show where Apple has no public-facing presence, Google’s mobile operating system is almost entirely ubiquitous. As in past years, the company also set up a sprawling outdoor booth between halls. This time, the focus was on interoperability and ecosystem. You’d be hard-pressed to find a […]

Google’s Sameer Samat on ecosystems, regulation and competition by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch

Tweetbot and Twitterific ask customers to decline refunds in rare App Store exception

March 1, 2023

Twitter last month officially banned third-party clients putting a sudden end to popular apps including Tweetbot, Twitterific, and others. Now, in an unusual turn of events, two developers this week have updated their shuttered apps with new functionality: they’re asking their subscribers to decline to receive a refund by clicking a new “I don’t need […]

Tweetbot and Twitterific ask customers to decline refunds in rare App Store exception by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch