Month: July 2021

Can we find alien technology? That is the ambitious goal of the Galileo Project, launched this week by Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb with substantial private financial backing. The project is far from…

BlackBerry is a name that will probably be forever associated with smartphones, but the company has been branching out in unexpected ways since it killed its phone business back in 2016.  Specifically,…

Self-driving car startup Aurora is ready to go public in a reverse merger with Reinvent Technology Partners Y, a special acquisition company (SPAC). The merger will give Aurora an infusion of cash…

While billionaires battle to dominate the nascent suborbital tourism industry, the satellite-internet space race is also heating up. Amazon’s Project Kuiper, SpaceX’s Starlink, and Softbank-backed OneWeb now have another challenger in the competition…

In my mind, there are two brands operating at the top of the ebike game: VanMoof and Cowboy. I’m a big fan of both, but, with the Cowboy 4, the company may…

Last October, five months after Spotify acquired Joe Rogan’s podcast, several employees protested against the show’s transphobic nature. There was even more controversy after Rogan hosted an episode with Alex Jones, whose…

Ebikes are inevitably heavier than their analog counterparts thanks to the addition of a motor and battery, so getting them to approximate the weight of typical ‘analog’ counterparts isn’t going to happen…

Online trading company Robinhood is set for its initial public offering (IPO) on the New York Stock Exchange later today. The company has listed its share price at $38, marking the firm…

Twitter is stepping back into the e-commerce business. The company is testing an online shopping feature that businesses can use to sell their products through an in-app browser. Up front: Twitter’s “Shop…

Has this ever happened to you? You’re cavorting through deep space at near the speed of light without a care of the world when, suddenly, you realize you forgot to replace the…