Twitter’s edit function is available in the wild, and of course, engineer / Twitter feature sleuth Jane Manchun Wong is one of the first ones — outside of Twitter’s official accounts — to try it out.
Everyone is sure to have an opinion on the change soon.
SpaceX’s Dragon Endurance spacecraft is set to launch with four astronauts on board, two of whom will usher in firsts for space flight.
Nicole Mann will make history as the first indigenous woman from NASA to launch into space. She also will be the first female commander of the Dragon crew capsule. Roscosmos’ Anna Kikina will be the first Russian cosmonaut on the SpaceX Crew Dragon.
Good morning, There’s no new Elon Musk / Twitter news, yet, but that could always change. You won’t be surprised to learn that Google has sprung another leak ahead of a Pixel device launch, but you may want to use this lull to brush up on Matter 1.0 and what it means for the smart home going forward.
After an investigation, Chess.com has put together a 72-page report (PDF) backing world chess champion Magnus Carlsen’s explosive allegation of cheating by 19-year-old grandmaster Hans Niemann.
Niemann publicly admitted to cheating on a couple of occasions years ago, but the report claims he’s cheated over 100 times, more recently than he admitted, and in tournaments with money on the line.
[Chess.com]
While he’s reportedly in negotiations to go through with buying Twitter, Elon Musk suddenly tweeted like he’s actually interested in owning the company, no matter how many bot accounts it has.
Many months after launching its app for iOS and even a desktop RSS reader, Substack has an app to keep all your newsletters in one place on your Android device. Apparently, the company was just waiting for Meta to pull the plug on its mimic before launching something for the Android side of the aisle.
Just as Twitter got court permission to dig for more of Elon Musk’s messages — beyond the ones we’ve seen already — there’s word that the billionaire might go through with his deal to buy the company for $44 billion.
A cheaper option for Elon might’ve been to read Nicole Wetsman’s article about what she realized while watching the Elizabeth Holmes trial.
