Telegram is adding Stories next month
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov announced today that the messaging app is adding Stories in early July. Durov says users have been asking for the feature...
Unicorn social app IRL to shut down after admitting 95% of its users were fake
Ironically, the social app IRL‘s users do not exist in real life. An internal investigation by IRL’s board of directors found that 95% of the...
Kindred Ventures foresees a ‘massive explosion of startups’ courtesy of AI
Last week, we talked with Kindred Ventures, a small, nine-year-old, San Francisco-based early-stage venture firm that, despite investing in a lot of nascent startups —...
Max Q: Welcome to the era of MaaS (microgravity-as-a-service)
Hello and welcome back to Max Q! In this issue: The International Space Station has a monopoly on in-space research, but the huge surge of...
Decentralized social networking app Damus to be removed from App Store, will appeal decision
Damus, a decentralized social networking app backed by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, will be removed from the App Store due to Apple’s strict payment rules....
SignalFire’s State of Talent report 2023
Dr. Heather Doshay Contributor Dr. Heather Doshay is partner, People + Talent, at early-stage venture firm SignalFire, where she leads recruiting programs for the portfolio...
Don’t wait to identify your startup’s ideal customer personas
Jonathan Martinez Contributor Jonathan Martinez is a former YouTuber, UC Berkeley alum and growth marketing nerd who's helped scale Uber, Postmates, Chime and various startups....
DeepMind claims its next chatbot will rival ChatGPT
ChatGPT might’ve captured the world’s attention. But DeepMind claims that its next large language model will rival — or even best — OpenAI’s. According to...
Lilz brings its gauge-watching smart cameras to the US and raises $4M
When you run big real-life industrial operations, there’s always a gauge or readout somewhere deep in the facility that your engineers or field teams need...
U.S. has urgent need for crypto legislation: Coinbase execs
Coinbase, one of the largest crypto exchanges globally, has been around for 10 years. And while the company has grown its offerings, products and services,...