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| Bloomberg: |
An in-depth look at the impact of stratospheric pollution from satellite reentries on the ozone layer, as Starlink and others launch more internet satellites — for Bloomberg Green + The Big Take May 1, 2025 — Elon Musk's SpaceX has more than 7,000 satellites in orbit to create its Starlink internet constellation.
More: JGR Atmospheres, The Guardian, Ars Technica, and GeekWire
Bluesky: @paulbehrens, @interfluidity.com, @troublemakers, @peark.es, and @space-environment. Mastodon: @anlomedad@climatejustice …. LinkedIn: Sana Pashankar
Forums: r/technology, r/space, and Slashdot
| Wayne Ma / The Information: |
Sources: Apple plans to launch iPhone 18 Pro models, a thin iPhone 18, and a foldable iPhone in fall 2026 but the standard iPhone 18 in spring 2027 — After years of incremental changes to the iPhone, Apple is mixing things up much more dramatically. Later this year it's expected to introduce …
More: 9to5Mac, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, MacRumors, Forbes, Spyglass, Android Headlines, Cult of Mac, iClarified, iThinkDifferent, The Verge, and AppleInsider
| New York Times: |
Sensor Tower: Temu cut US digital ad spending by an estimated 31% and Shein by 19% in the two week period from March 31 as the de minimis exemption is closed — For Meta, Alphabet and other platforms, the elimination of the tariff exemption for inexpensive goods is already cutting into advertising revenue.| Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal: |
Wearing three AI-powered devices, the $50 Bee Pioneer, $199 Limitless Pendant, and $159 Plaud NotePin, shows how the wearables can be useful but also creepy — The Bee, Limitless and Plaud wearables record everything you say and use AI to provide summaries, to-do's—and a slightly terrifying glimpse of the future
LinkedIn: Prabhakar Sharma, Frank Schirrmeister, Avinash Patil, and Rehan Farooq
| Tom Matsuda / Sifted: |
London-based Navro, which develops APIs to enable businesses to send and receive international payments with various payment options, raised a $41M Series B — Founder and CEO Aran Brown says the US and Asia are key geographies for expansion — Navro, a London-based payments fintech …
More: PYMNTS.com, Finextra, and Silicon Canals
| FinSMEs: |
Salt Lake City-based Canopy, which provides a firm-wide operating system for accounting, raised a $70M Series C led by Viking Global Investors — Canopy, a Salt Lake City, UT-based provider of a firm-wide operating system for accounting, raised $70M in Series C funding.
More: Business Wire, Pulse 2.0, and VC News Daily
| Ian Johnston / Financial Times: |
Ookla: Starlink use rose by 35% above average in Spain and Portugal on April 28, as a widespread electricity outage exposed vulnerabilities in telecoms networks — Widespread electricity outage on the Iberian peninsula exposed vulnerabilities in telecoms — Spanish and Portuguese mobile … | Chloe Cornish / Financial Times: |
Filings: Abu Dhabi-based AI group G42 set up a US company to boost its presence in the country, as the UAE plans to invest tens of billions of dollars in the US — State-backed group accelerates investment plans as it deepens collaboration over the technology| Aaron Weitzman / Axios: |
NYC-based Blooming Health, an online coordination network for social service agencies and aging care providers, raised a $26M Series A led by Insight Partners — Blooming Health, a social services and health care coordination network, raised a $26 million Series A led by Insight Partners, CEO Nima Roohi tells Axios exclusively.| Zoltan Vardai / Cointelegraph: |
Polygon Labs spinout Miden, a zero-knowledge proof-based blockchain project focused on high scalability, raised a $25M seed led by a16z Crypto, 1kx, and Hack VC — A16z Crypto led a $25 million investment round into Miden, an independent blockchain project spun out of Polygon Labs.
More: CoinDesk, Polygon Blog, The Block, Fortune, NFTgators, CoinGape, and crypto.news
| Jeff St. John / Canary Media: |
Rhode Island-based Utilidata, which develops AI-enabled smart meters and grid control devices with Nvidia chips for energy utilities, raised a $60.3M Series C — Utilidata and Nvidia think their AI-enabled smart meters can help solve tricky grid challenges, from growing data center demand to more rooftop solar and EVs.
More: Wall Street Journal, Heatmap News, FinSMEs, Utilidata.com, and Latitude Media. LinkedIn: Alex Brown
| Lucy Adams / Tech.eu: |
Berlin-based Pliant, which helps corporates combine physical and virtual credit cards with automation tools to streamline spending, raised a $40M Series B — The company plans to hire additional talent and expand its partner network to facilitate growth. — Berlin-based fintech has secured … | Brian Merchant / Blood in the Machine: |
Duolingo's “AI-first” announcement highlights the unfolding AI jobs crisis, with attrition in creative fields, hiring cuts, declining freelance incomes, more — On Monday, April 29th, Luis von Ahn, the billionaire CEO of the popular language learning app Duolingo …
Bluesky: @bcmerchant, @bcmerchant, and @bcmerchant
| Financial Times: |
Inside Japan's Disco Corp, which makes ~75% of the world's chip cutting tools, and where no staffer has a boss, with decisions made using a currency called Will — It's the start of another day for an ordinary Tokyo salaryman. On a rain-drenched Monday morning, the engineer stows …
Bluesky: @quinnypig.com, @danielfos.co, @skamille.themanagerswrath.com, @cyberfuturist, @ahl, and @financialtimes.com
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