The Streaming Wars Are Taking to the Skies

The Streaming Wars Are Taking to the Skies

Earlier this week, I woke up my phone and opened the YouTube app, watching some sports highlights, before switching to Netflix and finishing an old episode of Arrested Development. It was wholly unremarkable, save for the fact that we were cruising at 32,000 feet. United Airlines is in the midst of installing Starlink internet across…

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A former Thiel fellow’s startup just launched a drone it says can replace police helicopters

A former Thiel fellow’s startup just launched a drone it says can replace police helicopters

When I speak to Blake Resnick, he’s walking around his drone startup’s newest office space in Seattle—a cavernous 50,000-square-foot facility that, Resnick estimates, won’t be fully set up until later in the year—potentially November. Still, the big (and for now, largely empty) building offers the promise of a fast-growing company intent on conquering its particular…

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#Starlink hits 4 million subscribers

#Starlink hits 4 million subscribers

SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet network is expected to hit a new customer milestone this week, company President Gwynne Shotwell told Texas legislators on Tuesday.  “This week, by the way, we will pass 4 million customers for Starlink, which is quite exciting,” she said while testifying before a state House Appropriations Committee meeting. (The milestone was confirmed…

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