Max Q: Virgin Galactic’s triumphant first commercial flight
Hello and welcome back to Max Q! In this issue: What the future holds for Virgin Galactic News from NASA, and more Virgin Galactic’s first commercial flight brings payloads and passengers to edge of space Virgin Galactic completed its first commercial flight, sending 13 scientific payloads and four humans —
Read moreEV 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 special purpose acquisition company. Arrival initially went public in March 2021 via a merger with special purpose acquisition company CIIG Merger Corp. in a deal
Read moreTwitter is going to force TweetDeck users to switch over to the ‘new’ version
Image: Twitter Twitter is going to force everyone who uses TweetDeck to switch over to the “new” version to help mitigate some of the issues TweetDeck has been experiencing lately. I used quotes around “new” because the experience has been in preview for nearly two years, but according to a
Read moreMolly 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 into VC. NEA partner Pete Sonsini and Kleiner Perkins’ Wen Hsieh were reportedly leaving their respective firms to start their own firms. David Cahn left
Read moreTech Triumph: IT Evolution Ignites Business Boom in Francophone Africa!
In recent years, Francophone Africa, a region that encompasses countries such as Senegal, Congo, and Côte d’Ivoire, has been experiencing a business boom largely due to the rapid evolution of IT. As the digital world continues to transform, it has become a catalyst for unprecedented levels of growth and innovation
Read morePornhub blocks access in Mississippi, Virginia and Utah amid changing laws
Pornhub is blocking access from users in Mississippi, Virginia and Utah, which have recently passed laws that require age verification to access adult websites. Similar legislation went into effect in Louisiana at the start of the year. To comply, Pornhub required visitors to verify their age with the LA Wallet
Read moreAs 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 a significant refresh of its Android app. The new app, released over the weekend, features a complete Material You redesign — Google’s design language for
Read moreThe Soft Side of Platform Teams
The important non-technical items in running a successful platform teamStylized icebergs with creatures on them. Images generated with DALL-EIntroductionAfter the last five years of running two different platform teams, one at Mission Lane and one at Capital One, a variety of soft skills and non-technical items are critical to a platform team's
Read moreHow to Use ChatGPT to Query Your Databases for Insights
A guide to using natural language querying (NLQ) to query structured data for InsightsContinue reading on Better Programming »
Read moreThe Security of Smart Contracts
Excerpt from my speech given on 5/30/2023 for Offchain MilanPhoto by Ivan Bandura on UnsplashFor years, blockchain enthusiasts have fantasized about the arrival of mass adoption. To date, this has not yet occurred for several reasons, including an unsatisfactory user experience.One of the worst aspects of the user experience in cryptos is
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