“T-Mobile and SpaceX have announced that Starlink satellites launched next year will be able to connect directly to the carrier’s phones over existing cellular bands.” This is almost entirely PR clickbait, as there remain technical challenges. But maybe one day […]
A new social network is taking the world by storm. BeReal offers 8 million daily users only 2 minutes, at random, to share a photo that uses both front and back cameras with their friends. “Viral photo app BeReal has […]
I have oft complained that zoom events really don’t measure up to live events. This startup organizes remote game shows for your teams, including a live host. I haven’t tried this, but it seems innovative. | learn more
Type in a sentence and the output is an AI-generated image that’s pretty darn good. “Computers are getting better at doing what humans can do, including creating art from scratch.” | learn more
VC investor Hunter Walk of Homebrew thinks that founders should make an effort to bring these angel investors with this background into their seed rounds. Here he makes the case for why. | learn more
And the rise of recommendation media which places “far less emphasis on friends and social graphs in favor of carefully curated, magical algorithmic experiences that match the perfect content for the right people at the exact right time.” | learn more
“Adam Struck told TechCrunch that his firm had trouble getting founders to allow them to do due diligence in 2021 and was seeing startups with a lot of technical and operational debt.” So, they are earmarking $15 million of their […]
“According to the South China Morning Post, a fully-automated cloning process now exists, and it apparently works like a charm. In fact, in a slightly brutal blow to human scientists, the AI-powered system is alleged to have drastically reduced the […]
Published in 2019 by Eugene Wei, this long essay offers an entirely new way to think about the value propositions of social networks. He starts with two principles: 1) people are status-seeking monkeys, and 2) people seek out the most […]
Derek Zumsteg discusses the oft-ignored downside of website testing. Once all the winning ideas are implemented, is the cumulative result actually better? | learn more