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Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
SpaceX’s 13th Starship test flight has launched.

After last week’s launch attempt misfired and a scheduled attempt Thursday was postponed due to weather, the 13th flight test launched just before 7PM ET on Friday. 20 V3 Starlink satellites were deployed, but it appears there was an issue relighting the Super Heavy booster’s engines for an attempted propulsive landing and splashdown.

Today’s test was important for former trillionaire Elon Musk, with shares of Tesla and SpaceX declining by 18 and 7 percent this week, respectively.

Update: Updated to note that the vehicle has launched.

Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
Paramount Skydance agrees to hold off on closing its Warner Bros. Discovery merger for up to a year.

That 28-day pause could go a lot longer, now that US District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín approved a deal saying that Paramount Skydance won’t close its transaction until June 1st, 2027, or at least until after legal claims of two lawsuits (one filed by a group of state AGs, and the other by the WGA) are resolved.

Meanwhile, the “ticking fee” Paramount will owe WBD shareholders for any delay starts counting in October, and could add up to $1.7 billion if the delay lasts until next June.

Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
BMW’s M boss says why he thinks some drivers will prefer the electric M3.

Now that BMW has shown off its M Concept Neue Klasse, M division head Frank van Meel talked to Autocar, saying that the future M3 EV’s “heart of Joy” controlled quad-motor setup could create racing and driving dynamics that the combustion engine M3 doesn’t match:

“You can brake the inner wheels, accelerate the outer ones and can get out of turns in a completely different way. It’s a new era of vehicle dynamics… if you’re into racing or driving dynamics, you might say the electric one is the best M3.”

Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
The CDC adds four more states to the big cyclosporiasis outbreak.

As reported earlier by the Washington Post, the CDC has updated its notice about parasite infections linked to now-recalled lettuce from Taylor Farms. The CDC noted it’s investigating other cases nationally “that are unrelated to this outbreak,” and today the FDA disclosed a new cyclospora outbreak with 72 cases, in addition to its three existing active cyclospora outbreak investigations.

…the total case count associated with this multistate outbreak is now 1,947. This includes the addition of 4 states: Illinois, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Pennsylvania.

Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
Xbox gamer Strive4G8ness23 signs a two-year, $8 million deal with the 76ers.

How could anyone have known that LeBron James would choose Philadelphia as his next NBA team? Well, there were signs.

Screenshots of tweets from LeBron playing madden against a Philadelphia 76ers / Eagles fan in 2024.
Screenshots: @kingjames . @MarcAnthonyRo15 (X)
Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Are Xbox 360 games coming to PC next?

After Microsoft brought four original Xbox games to PC earlier this week, a reverse engineer found that the company is powering them with Xenon Fusion — the same emulator that enabled backward compatibility on the Xbox 360. This might be laying the groundwork for Xbox 360 games on PC, as the XWine1 account on X figured out how to get some 360 titles running with “varying degrees of success.”