An artist’s rendering shows SpaceX’s Starship rocket ship on the moon. (SpaceX illustration) NASA has suspended its contract with SpaceX to bring astronauts back to the moon pending the first outcome of a lawsuit from Blue Origin. The voluntary stay ends on November 1, two weeks after the hearing on the case, according to a … Read more
Choosing an insurance policy is one of the most complicated financial decisions a person can make. Jakarta-based Lifepal aims to simplify the process for Indonesians with a marketplace where users can compare policies from more than 50 vendors, get help from licensed agents, and make claims. The startup, which it claims to be the largest … Read more
Twitter is rolling out several optimizations to its direct messaging functionality, with the improvements expected to be rolled out in the coming weeks. To get started, you can now share the same tweet with up to 20 different accounts separately. As the company points out, this is an improvement that should result in less accidental … Read more
Gisela Hausmann is an author and veteran of the logistics industry who writes in her book “Inside Amazon: My Story” about her experiences working at an Amazon delivery station. Gisela Hausmann had a unique perspective on Amazon when she started a frontline job at one of the company’s delivery centers in South Carolina in 2019. … Read more
Amazon launched India’s first celebrity voice feature on Alexa with the country’s biggest movie star, Amitabh Bachchan, as the company seeks to attract more users to the world’s second most populous country. The company, which introduced Samuel Jackson’s voice on Alexa in the US in 2019, said users in India could add the voice of … Read more
Back in March, the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) released a report that linked more than two-thirds of online vaccine misinformation to 12 people. That statistic has since been cited widely, including by lawmakers and government officials, as evidence that Facebook has failed to control lies about COVID-19 vaccines. Now, five months later, Facebook … Read more
(Blue original photo) Jeff Bezos and his crewmembers will not jump on board for a suborbital replay on the next New Shepard mission. The Amazon founder’s space company announced on Wednesday that the reusable rocket ship’s 17th flight will carry scientific and research payloads. Blue Origin scheduled launch on August 25 at 6:35 am PT … Read more
Floods are devastating. They are tearing apart communities, devastating neighborhoods, forcing the evacuation of thousands of people each year, and it can take years to recover – provided recovery is possible at all. The US government estimates that floods (excluding hurricanes and tropical storms) have caused an estimated $ 160 billion in damage and killed … Read more
Charter Spectrum customers could not download the Spectrum TV app from Roku’s channel store unless they had already done so in December. The two companies were unable to agree on the contract extension, which resulted in Roku pulling the app from its store to prevent new downloads. Now it looks like they finally got to … Read more
Seattle-based Avalara is getting a big cash injection as its business continues to benefit from the e-commerce boom and increasing regulatory obligations. Avalara said last week that it added $ 959.9 million to its cash balance after issuing short-term debt in the form of convertible senior notes. The money will be used to support the … Read more