Monthly Archives: August 2022

Royal Caribbean is putting SpaceX’s Starlink on its cruise ships

That’s a lot of Dishy McFlatfaces. | Image: Royal Caribbean Royal Caribbean, the cruise company that also operates Celebrity Cruises and Silversea Cruises, has announced that it’ll be outfitting its fleet of ships with SpaceX’s Starlink internet service (via TechCrunch). The company says the service will make the internet experience while at sea faster and…

Monkeypox safety measures will be put to the test at New Orleans’ Labor Day festival

Southern Decadence, one of the country’s largest LGBTQ festivals, is expected to draw thousands to New Orleans amid the monkeypox outbreak. Tim Turner/Shutterstock Over Labor Day weekend, hundreds of thousands of people will travel from around the world to New Orleans for Southern Decadence, one of the country’s biggest LGBTQ celebrations, after a two-year COVID…

Max Q: Scrubbed

Hello and welcome back to Max Q. I’m writing to you from Florida, where NASA scrubbed Monday’s launch attempt of the Artemis I mission. In this issue: NASA’s Artemis I launch is scrubbed T-Mobile and SpaceX’s new partnership News from Astrobotic, Violet Labs and more By the way… TechCrunch Disrupt finally returns — live and…

Google hasn’t approved Truth Social’s Android app because of all the violent content

Truth Social is still MIA in Google’s mobile app store and it’s not because an Android version of the platform doesn’t exist. According to a new report from Axios, Donald Trump’s conservative social network still has not been approved by Google for its Google Play store due to content moderation concerns from the tech giant….