Richard Lawler

Now Samsung has another list of outlets among the 2,000 authorized service centers for its slabs and multiple foldables, with the announcement today that this fall, 35 Batteries Plus stores will have the Samsung Authorized Service Center tag, similar to its arrangements with uBreakiFix and Best Buy.

Amazon streamlined logistics for moving goods, and Amazon Web Services does the same for many operations on the internet. Now, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture has announced (in a brief post not much longer than this one) a familiar approach for its Blue Ring spacecraft platform and In-Space Systems business unit, built to support missions “in medium Earth orbit out to the cislunar region and beyond.”

Monday morning, the price of Bitcoin spiked 10 percent to $30,000 after a tweet from CoinTelegraph erroneously claimed the Securities and Exchange Commission approved a spot Bitcoin ETF for BlackRock. Crypto folks have been unsuccessfully trying to make this happen for years, to allow Bitcoin investment without using an exchange.

The FTX fraud trial continues, now with testimony from Singh, who’d owned 7.8 percent of the company and pleaded guilty to fraud charges in February.

Yes, NASA just revealed preliminary results from the OSIRIS-REx mission that snagged material from the asteroid Bennu, but this morning, it successfully launched Psyche, an orbiter that will attempt to visit an asteroid of that name, which was the 16th one discovered, on March 17th, 1852.

Questions from Sam Bankman-Fried’s own lawyers allowed jurors to hear snippets recorded from a November 2022 all-hands Days before SBF resigned and the company filed for bankruptcy, Caroline Ellison admitted to employees that Alameda took customer money from SBF’s other big business, the FTX crypto exchange.

Meta’s incomplete answers about news on Threads are coming up again due to recent events and how things are (increasingly not) working on the platform formerly known as Twitter. In a response to The Verge’s Mia Sato today after that edit button-adding update, Instagram boss Adam Mosseri said it “won’t proactively recommend news content to people who don’t seek it out.”