Elizabeth Lopatto has all the information you need about why this now-collapsed institution was so important to US crypto companies, and what its collapse could indicate for the wider economy.
Relativity Space has been preparing for its first launch of a 3D-printed rocket for a few years now, and it’s just minutes away.
According to Relativity, at “110 ft. tall and 7.5 ft. wide, Terran 1 is the largest 3D printed object to attempt orbital flight.”
Update: After an automated abort with 70 seconds left on the countdown in its first attempt, the team at first said it would recycle and attempt the launch again but now says the mission has been scrubbed for today.
Considering recent reports, perhaps a focus group would be a good idea. Someone call Ruben Rabasa.
Giles Martin, the senior vice president of sound experience at Sonos who mixed the first-ever spatial audio album, and Sonos CEO Patrick Spence joined Nilay Patel for a Vergecast interview about the company’s new speakers and make a case for spatial audio.
Martin:
...we can project sound and because we have channels of projection. Spatial audio is multichannel, stereo is two-channel, mono is one-channel.
And we’re back! It’s not MWC anymore, but we can still discuss old phones on The Vergecast’s most recent episode (shout out to Windows Phone 7, RIM, and Steven Sinofsky), as well as how Meta’s VR strategy is looking very 32X-ish.
Also, has anyone seen Elon’s Twitter Blue revenue sharing? Let me know if you have.
On Thursday, the developer of BlueMail — who has squared off with Apple over its App Store policies before — said the company held up an update adding ChatGPT-powered email generation and other features.
A reviewer said his app needed to add content moderation or else restrict access to ages 17 and up, but then later, the same update was approved, unchanged. The App Store doesn’t have policies about AI specifically, so we can only wait and see if it tightens restrictions further,
