March 15, 20230CommentsZipline announces the Platform 2 Zip drone, which can deliver packages to small landing zones using a tethered “delivery droid” from up to 300 feet high (Umar Shakir/The Verge)
March 15, 20230CommentsInside the iPhone refurbishment process at New Jersey-based US Mobile Phones, from the trade-in to refurbish to resale; iPhones dominate consumer trade-ins (Joanna Stern/Wall Street Journal)
March 15, 20230CommentsRep. Ken Buck says the GOP does not seem to plan tougher antitrust rules on Google, Amazon, and Apple in 2023; Jim Jordan does not want to give Biden more power (CNBC)
March 15, 20230CommentsOpenAI partners with Stripe to take payments and subscriptions for ChatGPT and Dall-E; Stripe also plans to integrate OpenAI’s AI tools into its products (Aisha S Gani/Bloomberg)
March 15, 20230CommentsThe US charges exiled Chinese businessman Guo Wengui with a conspiracy to defraud his online followers out of over $1B and arrests him; the DOJ seizes $634M (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
March 15, 20230CommentsSnap will begin publishing its guidelines for serving personalized Snapchat content, after previously sharing them with publishing partners and some creators (Sara Fischer/Axios)
March 15, 20230CommentsA journey into the metaverse to find friends and true believers on Meta’s Horizon Worlds, raising questions over what promise Mark Zuckerberg saw in VR (Paul Murray/New York Magazine)
March 15, 20230CommentsEx-Blizzard leaders Jen Oneal and J. Allen Brack create startup studio Magic Soup Games
March 15, 20230CommentsMagic Soup Games founders J. Allen Brack, Jen Oneal and John Donham answer our queries
March 15, 20230CommentsAn investigation finds illegal miners in Brazil are using SpaceX’s Starlink, helping coordinate logistics, make payments, and warn of law enforcement raids (Fabiano Maisonnave/Associated Press)