NASA is about to crash a spacecraft into an asteroid

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An illustration of the DART spacecraft and the asteroids Didymos and Dimorphos | NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben Dimorphos is a lump of space rock so far away from Earth that we don’t even know what it looks like — and on Monday, we’re going to smash it with a spacecraft. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test … Read more

The unicorn valuation gambit

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Happy Sunday, fellow startup nerds. Today we’re talking about risk in the gambling sense of the word. You see, there’s a way for unicorns to avoid painful dilution when they next raise capital, and it appears that a good number of the world’s billion-dollar startups are taking the wager. But new data indicates that the … Read more

DirecTV’s NFL Sunday Ticket is having some issues again

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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge DirecTV’s NFL Sunday Ticket hasn’t had a very good start to the football season. For the past two weekends in a row, subscribers have struggled to get their streams to work, and this weekend is no exception. Even before today’s games started, users began complaining about numerous issues, … Read more

The iPhone 15 ‘Ultra’ could replace the Pro Max

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The iPhone 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple could introduce a new naming scheme when it releases the iPhone 15 next year, replacing the current “Pro Max” branding with “Ultra.” This is according to Apple tracker Mark Gurman, who also expects the iPhone 15 to … Read more