Max Q: A rocket retirement and layoffs at Planet, Astra
Hello and welcome back to Max Q! In this issue: Goodbye Antares-230+ Layoffs at Planet and Astra By the way…We’re out-of-this-world excited to announce that...
Meatable sinks its teeth into $35M to accelerate launch of its cultivated pork products
Venture capital funding to the cultivated meat industry has largely followed other industries in fewer investments made this year; however, there’s still movement in this...
Meet with Samsung Next and other pivotal partners at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023
TechCrunch Disrupt 2023, which runs September 19–21 in San Francisco, is the startup world’s big tent. It draws founders, venture partners, CEOs, engineers, scientists, policy...
GM’s BrightDrop to expand commercial EV business to Mexico
BrightDrop, GM’s commercial EV delivery business unit, announced Monday plans to expand sales of its flagship electric vans to Mexico. The first two products coming...
Authors are losing their patience with AI, part 349235
On Monday morning, numerous writers woke up to learn that their books had been uploaded and scanned into a massive dataset without their consent. A...
Lucid plans to start production of Gravity electric SUV in late 2024
Lucid said Monday it will reveal its long-awaited all-electric Gravity SUV in November with production not kicking off until late 2024. The EV maker, which...
TikTok users can now watch a full episode of Peacock’s “Killing It”
Peacock is trying out a new strategy to promote its shows—posting full episodes on the popular short-form video app TikTok. As a first for the...
Can Mill’s tech-heavy food waste bin find its way into kitchens?
Feeding table scraps to chickens isn’t a new idea. But then again, neither were smoke detectors when Matt Rogers co-founded Nest in 2010, and that...
Boeing’s Starliner crew capsule will not be ready fly crew until March 2024
Boeing and NASA managers are now estimating that the CST-100 Starliner spacecraft will not be ready to fly astronauts until March 2024, one of the...
Netflix is making it easier to rate its movies and shows on mobile
Netflix updated its “Thumbs Up” feature to allow subscribers using the mobile app to like or dislike shows/movies in the middle of watching them. Instead...