Electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicle startup Joby Aviation has launched a public offering to sell up to $200 million of its shares of common stock, per a regulatory filing. Joby said it will use the proceeds from the raise — together with its existing cash — to fund its …
Read More »Electric aircraft startup Lilium has run out of money
Electric aircraft startup Lilium is shutting down after failing to raise emergency money from the German government, according to a regulatory filing. The filing comes after a series of setbacks from the German company that was once a darling in the nascent industry of electric aircraft. Lilium, which was developing vertical …
Read More »Meet ZachXBT, the Masked Vigilante Tracking Down Billions in Crypto Scams and Thefts
As ZachXBT has pursued that career as a crypto vigilante, he has also kept his mask firmly in place. Online, he appears only as his avatar, a kind of platypus cartoon figure in a detective’s trench coat or sometimes a hoodie. To avoid retaliation from his many enemies in the …
Read More »Is the Kindle Colorsoft Too Late? Amazon Reveals What Took So Damn Long to Catch Up
“Right now, we’re seeing the highest sales of Kindle in over a decade—20 billion pages are currently read every month,” claims Panay. “And it turns out the majority of this new cohort are millennials and Gen Z, this is the fastest growing segment.” Kevin Keith goes further, explaining that while …
Read More »Meet the Far-Right Constitutional Sheriffs Ready to Assert Control if Trump Loses
Tim Marchman: This is rooted as you write in white supremacist beliefs. Can you unpack that a little bit? David Gilbert: It is, and you can trace it back from the late-1960, early-1970s to a movement called Posse Comitatus, which was founded some say by a guy called William Potter …
Read More »This App Set Out to Fight Pesticides. After VCs Stepped In, Now It Helps Sell Them
“Growth, growth, fast growth,” Strey says of what investors were after. “You burn money to grow.” Before its introduction to venture capital, the Plantix team had imagined success as simply making a profitable business. But a modest goal “hasn’t always been that sexy for investors,” who prefer to rapidly build …
Read More »DJI Osmo Action 5 Pro Review: Long Battery Life and Great 4K Footage
DJI’s new Osmo Action 5 Pro is here to compete with the new GoPro Hero 13 Black. The company’s latest action camera is smaller and lighter, has 47 GB of built-in storage, and has battery life that GoPro owners don’t even dare to dream about. Throw in a new, higher-resolution …
Read More »8 Best Mattresses for Back Pain, Tested and Reviewed (2024)
Nearly a decade ago, I started waking up with back pain. Some days were just aches, others I woke up to throwing out my back. I found out I have two permanent conditions in my spine: scoliosis, a sideways curvature in my spine that developed in my mid-twenties (usually teens …
Read More »The ‘Rolex on the Wall’ That Kissinger, Reagan and Sinatra Loved, but You’ve Never Heard Of
For decades, it was the only way to visualize global time and daylight before the internet. Despite the company changing hands and moving from California to Oregon, then to Colorado Springs, Colorado, the Geochron has remained a niche product with a passionate fan base. Only a handful of skilled technicians …
Read More »Best Nut Milk Makers We’ve Tested and Reviewed (2024)
I tested the $330 Almond Cow Starter Set, which includes the milk maker and a few accessories, such as a rather cute branded glass milk jug, and a cleaning brush. The process of getting milk from your electric cow is simple: Add water to the vessel (between 5 and 6 …
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