Hello and welcome back to Max Q! In this issue: Mining water on the moon with Starpath Robotics News from Blue Origin, SpaceX and more Starpath Robotics wants to mine moon water for rocket fuel for off-world colonies Starpath Robotics has emerged from stealth with an ambitious plan to design, launch and operate machines to mine…
Hello and welcome back to Max Q! In this issue: Mining water on the moon with Starpath Robotics News from Blue Origin, SpaceX and more Starpath Robotics wants to mine moon water for rocket fuel for off-world colonies Starpath Robotics has emerged from stealth with an ambitious plan to design, launch and operate machines to mine…
Hello and welcome back to Max Q! In this issue: Mining water on the moon with Starpath Robotics News from Blue Origin, SpaceX and more Starpath Robotics wants to mine moon water for rocket fuel for off-world colonies Starpath Robotics has emerged from stealth with an ambitious plan to design, launch and operate machines to mine…
If you’re lucky, once a year you get to put together a panel built on pure kismet. Pairing Gill Pratt with Marc Raibert was exactly that for me. The two go back several decades, to the salad days of MIT’s Leg Lab. [A version of this story original appeared in TechCrunch’s robotics newsletter, Actuator. Subscribe…
Welcome back to The Interchange, where we take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. If you want to receive The Interchange directly in your inbox every Sunday, head here to sign up! It was a relatively quiet week in fintech startup land, so we took the time to scrutinize where we’re seeing…
If you’re an early-stage founder, the crazy days of 2021 are a distant memory. Money is tight, and the process of getting more is as unsettled as ever. The past few tumultuous years have tossed out the milestones that defined previous Series A benchmarks. But that doesn’t mean the game is lost. At this year’s…
Welcome to Startups Weekly. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. You know what isn’t a great idea for my energy levels? Enjoying a week of TechCrunch Disrupt and then getting straight on a plane to attend a startup event in Oslo, Norway. I’ve only just gotten over my jet lag,…
SpaceX won its first contract for Starshield, the defense-focused version of its Starlink satellite internet service, from the U.S. Space Force. The one-year contract has a maximum value of $70 million, a U.S. Air Force representative told Bloomberg. The contract “provides for Starshield end-to-end service via the Starlink constellation, user terminals, ancillary equipment, network management…
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed suit against Tesla on Thursday, accusing the automaker of violating federal law by tolerating widespread and ongoing racial harassment of its Black employees and subjecting some workers to retaliation for opposing harassment. The lawsuit from the federal agency responsible for enforcing civil rights laws against workplace discrimination…
Meta announced a host of new AI-powered bots, features and products to be released across its messaging apps, the Meta Quest 3 and the future Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses. The new features — ranging from an AI assistant to image editing — harness the power of generative AI to make Meta’s technology just that much…
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