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‘Let’s go!’ Jeff Bezos gets revved up when Blue Origin raises up its New Glenn rocket

GeekWire

When Blue Origin revealed the rocket’s design in 2016 , Bezos said he expected the first flight to take place “before the end of this decade” — that is, before 2020 — but it’s taken longer than planned to get the BE-4 engines and Blue Origin’s facilities in Florida ready for prime time.

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 RIP, BuzzFeed News. Who’s next?

Vox

BuzzFeed founder and CEO Jonah Peretti in 2016, around the time of the media company’s peak. When BuzzFeed was on the way up, back in the 2014-2016 era, founder and CEO Jonah Peretti used to talk about his company as if it were a tech company, not a traditional media company. billion; now it’s down to $100 million.

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This 24-year-old entrepreneur wants to build the ‘first mainstream Web3 game’

GeekWire

Castaways plays its Web3 integration remarkably low-key, particularly by comparison to other games in its lane. “Everything I did in the Minecraft world was just things I learned through the internet. It’s a peaceful game that’s equal parts Animal Crossing and Minecraft.

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Elon Musk thinks we’re close to solving AI. That doesn’t make it true.

Vox

In October 2016, he predicted that a Tesla would drive itself from California to New York by 2017. (It He’s repeatedly argued that Teslas don’t need Lidar — a sensing system that virtually every other autonomous vehicle company relies on — on the basis of a misleading comparison between human vision and cameras in driverless cars.

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Top 20 Tech Websites & Blogs To Follow in 2020

Galido

A recent report revealing that around 77% of users who have internet access read blogs while 23% of users spent their time on the internet by browsing social networks or reading some content on websites. Brian Lam founded Wirecutter in 2011 and later in 2016, it was purchased by The New York Times Company. Wirecutter.

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Missing parts, long waits, and a dead mouse: The perils of getting a Tesla fixed

Vox

The internet is filling up with complaints about Tesla’s repair service. Overall, it’s difficult to make an apples-to-apples comparison about what ideal service should look like for EVs, compared to internal combustion vehicles, since the cars — and the way companies repair them — work differently.

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Missing parts, long waits, and a dead mouse: The perils of getting a Tesla fixed

Vox

The internet is filling up with complaints about Tesla’s repair service. Overall, it’s difficult to make an apples-to-apples comparison about what ideal service should look like for EVs, compared to internal combustion vehicles, since the cars — and the way companies that repair them — work differently.

Survey 98