Max Q: Virgin Galactic’s triumphant first commercial flight
Hello and welcome back to Max Q! In this issue: Virgin Galactic completed its first commercial flight, sending 13 scientific payloads and four humans —...
Twitter competitors soar after yet another bad Musk move
Twitter was even messier than usual this weekend. On Saturday, owner Elon Musk tweeted that Twitter would combat “extreme levels of data scraping,” by limiting...
EV maker Arrival’s second SPAC is now a dead SPAC
Troubled commercial EV maker Arrival has just ended a deal to merge — for the second time in less than three years — with a...
Molly Alter leaving Index Ventures for Northzone
There’s been quite a bit of movement lately among venture capitalists moving to new firms or going out on their own, while others are getting...
AudioPen is a great web app for converting your voice into text notes
There are many note-taking apps, ranging from Apple Notes and Google Keep to Obsidian and Notion. Most of them use text as the primary input...
As Twitter flounders, Mastodon refreshes its official app for Android users
While Twitter is busy limiting the number of readable tweets and breaking its Tweetdeck app, open source Twitter alternative Mastodon is celebrating the launch of...
The M4 robot transforms to roll, fly and walk across various terrains
If you’ve followed robots with any frequency, you’ve no doubt encountered the wheel versus leg debate. Why, for instance, should a warehouse opt for a...
Apple reportedly slashes Vision Pro production, pushes back cheaper model
What would success look like for the Vision Pro? It’s still an open question — or, perhaps, a series of interrelated questions. First is how...
Google’s Gradient backs YC alum Infisical to solve secret sprawl
Secret sprawl, where companies store authentication credentials and similar sensitive data across multiple locations, is a real and growing problem for any company wanting to...
Stop using Google Analytics, warns Sweden’s privacy watchdog, as it issues over $1M in fines
Sweden’s data protection watchdog has issued a couple of fines in relation to exports of European users’ data via Google Analytics which it found breach...