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The 2016 board game Terraforming Mars is an amazing title. As evidence, I present the following image: Note: This image, of a chintzy player mat stamped with clip-art-quality design work, is not from the game we are looking at today. (credit: Nate Anderson) If a game this ugly can capture the hearts, minds, and continued…
A fourteen-year-old girl is taking a summer theater program at a local college. She dreams of seeing her name in lights. But right now, rehearsals aren’t going well, and the director is angry. He accuses the cast of not giving their all. He goes around the room and singles out one actor after another, asking…
The printer arrives on the Essex on July 8, 2022. US Navy / Ace Rheaume Earlier this month, a Navy ship called the USS Essex received an enormous printer. The printer and the large gray box it is housed in—together weighing some 15,000 pounds—were hoisted onto the ship, via crane, in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The…
Twitter has published its Q2 2022 results, with the social networking giant’s numbers falling short of analysts’ estimates across user growth and revenues. Perhaps more interestingly, however, Twitter also revealed that it spent $33 million in Q2 on Elon Musk’s pending acquisition. Twitter vs. Musk Today’s results represent Twitter’s second earnings since accepting Elon Musk’s…
In case you missed it, robots took over TechCrunch on Thursday, July 21. On that day, we played host to the robotic industry’s leading startups, researchers, and academics at TC Sessions: Robotics. The event was a blockbuster success, and we hope you enjoyed the show. All the features, panels, interviews and podcasts are embedded below….
Microsoft confirmed this week that it will soon start blocking Visual Basic Applications (VBA) macros in Office apps by default after quietly rolling back the change earlier this month. In a new update, the technology giant said that it will start blocking Office macros by default starting from July 27. This comes shortly after Microsoft…
Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Alex, Natasha and Mary Ann got together with Grace once again this week for our weekly roundup show, and as often happens, news broke as we were gearing up to record. So we had to…