Ars Technica reports that Blue Origin may conduct a flight test of its reusable New Shepard rockets skyward next month. It’s been just over a year since the catastrophic failure of its NS-23 mission, when its uncrewed capsule safely ejected as the rocket exploded.
As Ars writes, “two sources familiar with the company’s manifest” say if the “tentative plans” go well, it will conduct a crewed flight in mid-February.
Director Tim Burton told The Independent two days ago that Beetlejuice 2 was only a “day and a half” away from completion when Hollywood actors went on strike.
“It is 99 percent done,” The Independent quotes him as saying. The movie is due out next September and, incredibly, has not just Michael Keaton, Wynona Ryder, and Catherine O’Hara reprising their roles, but also brings in Jenna Ortega and Willem Dafoe.
[The Independent]
The company had slashed its internal valuation nearly in half — from about $40 billion to $24 billion — in March last year, then later backed away from its IPO plans over market instability.
Now, The Wall Street Journal reports that Instacart will kick off its initial public offering with a “roughly $8.6 billion to $9.3 billion” valuation as early as Monday morning.
Correction, September 11th 12:35AM ET: Instacart cut its internal valuation from $40 billion to $24 billion in March, not from $40 million to $24 million as originally stated in this quickpost. We regret the error.
The company dropped a new track from Sonic Superstars, the upcoming Sonic the Hedgehog sidescroller, on YouTube this week (via BleedingCool).
It’s everything a sonic tune should be — catchy, energetic, jazzy synth filled with earworm riffs. It is, in fact, a bop. Its October 17th release date can’t come fast enough.
Programmer Matt Steele writes that he was sick of faster riders in an annual bike race he participates in getting all the pizza before him.
So he decided to create a tech solution to his pizza problem by writing a script to automate ordering a pizza based on a geofence trigger that uses his DIY serverless GPS tracker (via Hacker News).
He also published the code to GitHub.
Mark Gurman said on The MacRumors Show podcast yesterday that he “thinks we might” get a new base model iPad in October, noting it tends to come annually, announced via video instead of an event (like the M2 Pro computers early this year).
He says a new iPad Air will come “soonish,” so that doesn’t sound likely for October. But hey, at least we might get those M3 iMacs.
