Thomas Ricker
Starship launch now targeting 9:20AM ET.
Scheduled liftoff is now: New York: 9:20AM / San Francisco: 6:20AM / London: 2:20PM / Berlin: 3:20PM / Moscow: 4:20PM / New Delhi: 6:50PM / Beijing: 9:20PM / Tokyo: 10:20PM / Melbourne: 11:20PM
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Musk sets expectations low for Starship launch.
The SpaceX, Tesla, and Twitter CEO speaking live on Twitter Spaces Sunday night:
“If we get far enough away from the launchpad before something goes wrong then I think I would consider that to be a success. Just don’t blow up the launchpad... The chances of us triggering an abort and having to postpone the launch are high.”
Thomas Ricker
The Tesla Powerwall 3 cometh.
Electrek has the scoop on a sleeker, squared-off third-gen Powerwall home battery pack with higher performance and easier installation. No official date given, just that it’s “about to launch.”
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Happy first year of hell, Elon.
It was one year ago today that news broke of Elon Musk offering to buy Twitter outright. Looking back, two prophecies have proven true with time. Outgoing CEO Parag Agrawal telling staff, “there will be distractions ahead,” and our own Editor-in-Chief Nilay Patel warning Musk of the overpriced world of hurt he just purchased.
Anyway, happy anniversary, Chief Twit.
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Raspberry Pi and Sony strike AI deal.
Eben Upton, CEO of Raspberry Pi, on Sony’s minority investment and AITRIOS deal that extends the companies’ existing relationship:
“This transaction will allow us to expand our partnership, bringing Sony Semiconductor Solutions’ line of AI products to the Raspberry Pi ecosystem, and helping our users to build exciting new machine-learning applications at the edge.”
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Five things I learned from Elon Musk’s BBC interview.
According to the Twitter CEO:
1. Twitter is down to 1,500 employees (from over 7,500)
2. Shutting down a data center in December “was quite catastrophic.”
3. Musk’s dog is now Twitter CEO, thus honoring Musk’s commitment to abide by a poll to step down.
4. Twitter is nearly breaking even financially with satisfactory growth.
5. Little rocket man is angry.
Thomas Ricker
Apple’s 27-inch Mini LED monitor now rumored for 2024.
Just when you thought that rumors of a higher-end 27-inch Apple Studio Display had been killed off, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo resurrects them. The noted supply-chain sleuth says it’ll arrive with Mini LED technology and “thinner panel thickness, a narrower bezel, and extended product lifespan” in “2024 or early 2025.”
Ming-Chi Kuo tweet
[Twitter]
Thomas Ricker
Jack Black singing Peaches is everything.
Watch the supremely nimble turtle-man in the embed below, then again as an animated Bowser in the official music video for The Super Mario Bros. Movie.
Thomas Ricker
Tesla drops prices again.
Although not as dramatic as previous cuts from 2023, the Model 3 base price is down from $42,990 to $41,990, while select Model Y, S, and X models also saw modest price reductions. Electrek has all the before-and-after pricing if you want to compare.