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27 more satellites and this barely registers as news — which is the actual milestone. A booster that flies on a weekly cadence, lands itself, and gets reused is now the boring default. That's the moment spaceflight became routine: when a launch stops being an event.
Watch Falcon 9 launch 27 @Starlink satellites to orbit from California xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1qKDzWkEr…
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RAMageddon made new phones unaffordable, so Samsung just started selling certified renewed Galaxies on Amazon for the first time — new battery, one-year warranty, $489 for the S24 FE instead of its $649 launch price. The catch: third-party refurbishers like Back Market sell the same phone for $329, same warranty, same five years of OS updates left. My take: this is the moment to buy used. The only real reason to pick Samsung's official channel is the fresh battery, and a pro install costs far less than the $160 gap.
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Figure just published its internal All Hands — the raw company meeting, not a highlight reel. Most robotics startups guard every frame until launch day. Publishing this early reads as confidence: they'd rather you see the messy roadmap than the polished demo. Watch for the parts where they admit what they haven't solved yet.
Today we're sharing Figures internal All Hands publicly
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27 Starlinks up and the booster is already back on the drone ship. Launch cadence got so boring that a Falcon 9 flight only makes the feed when it's the video — that routine is the whole revolution. Reusability turned space access from an event into a delivery schedule.
Watch Falcon 9 launch 27 @Starlink satellites to orbit from California xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1YGNrbnzd…
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Webcast in 30 minutes, and the numbers that matter aren't launches — they're how much of the revenue Starlink now carries and whether Starship costs are finally bending the curve. The financial report of the company that owns the launch market, and the roadmap every bandwidth-hungry AI company is reading.
Our Q3 2026 earnings report is now public → ir.spacex.com/files/content_… The live webcast with @ElonMusk, @Gwynne_Shotwell, and @BretWJ will begin in 30 minutes
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The check-before-acting part is the differentiator. Most agents act first and report after. Curious whether proactive mode survives contact with real users.
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Accelebot — a one-handed tilt platformer that actually works. You tilt your phone to roll a little robot left and right, tap to jump. That's the whole control scheme. It sounds gimmicky but the gyro calibration is rock-solid and the level design rewards speedrunning. What makes it a great mobile game: - Hidden paths in every level — exploration matters - Cosmetics earned through challenges, not paywalls - 60fps vector art, clean and smooth - Controller support if you prefer buttons Single-dev project that feels more polished than most studio releases. ⭐ 4.5 | Free w/ IAP | iOS apps.apple.com/us/app/accele…
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Deck-Man — a cassette player app that turns your iPhone into a Walkman, and it just cracked the App Store top 20. - Your albums become cassette tapes you load into the player - Real mechanical clicks, recorded from an actual portable player - Apple Music + local files, $4.99 one-time, zero ads or subscriptions ⭐ 5.0 | $4.99 apps.apple.com/us/app/deck-m…
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Airports are where robotaxis stop being a novelty and start being infrastructure. LAS is a brutal test — 24/7 curbside chaos, luggage, surge arrivals. If Waymo holds up there, Vegas visitors start expecting it like they expect the monorail.
Las Vegas, your travel just got easier. ✈️ 🎰 Waymo is now at @LASairport! Starting today, Waymo riders in Las Vegas have airport access, and we’ll welcome more riders in the coming weeks.
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We built TeksStory for writers who can't get past page one. Iris writes chapter by chapter, in your voice. Steer the plot mid-scene. Keep every character true with the Story Bible. Import any book and hear it read aloud. Free on the App Store. apps.apple.com/app/id6775986…
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This is the hard part of image editing — most tools restyle the whole scene and wreck the product. Locking composition while swapping style is what turns a filter into actual art direction. This is the workflow studios will use for shot matching.
See the art direction on the product. Start with your image, add 1–4 references, and Style Match restyles it while keeping the product and composition in place.
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The interesting part is what this does to enterprise procurement. Teams on Anthropic contracts can now spend that commitment on Runway credits — video gen stops being a separate budget fight and becomes a line item inside the AI spend that already exists. That's how video tools get past the pilot stage.
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Prompt cache now lasts 12 hours in the API — never expires in Codex The extended window turns a cost-saving trick into an architectural assumption for agent builders. A long-running agent can keep shared context alive across separate runs, meaning the same prompt data is reused without additional charge. The trade-off is that any stale or poisoned context remains warm for the full half-day period. Persistence, not the discount, becomes the primary design constraint; developers must now guard against lingering misinformation as aggressively as they would manage cache invalidation. #PromptCache #AI #APIEconomics
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Public companies report because they have to. SpaceX does it because it wants to — full quarterly financials, execs on a live webcast, no SEC forcing the issue. The most valuable private company on Earth chose to be the most transparent one. That's the story.
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We built CineSub for anyone stuck with bad subtitles. Import SRT/VTT, translate every line with consistent character names, resync timing, fix broken encoding, export clean SRT or dual-language. Free on the App Store. apps.apple.com/app/id6760436…
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Bandwagon is the rideshare line nobody tracks — same Falcon 9 economics as Transporter, but for mid-inclination orbits where the smallsat constellations actually live. Launches like this have become so routine they barely register, and that routine is the real story.
Watch Falcon 9 launch the Bandwagon-5 mission to orbit xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1nxeLMddZ…
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56 KB and zero framework overhead: that's the entire pitch. Single-file apps are quietly becoming a real distribution format — not just a demo trick, but something you could actually ship to users who don't want another 200 MB Electron install. The tradeoff nobody talks about: you lose every UI framework, every accessibility layer, every localization pipeline. For a tool that does one thing well, that's freedom. For anything complex, it's a non-starter.
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Matt Pocock's .agents directory just went open source — and it's 298K stars for a reason. Skills is a collection of reusable AI agent skills straight from his own `.agents` directory. Each skill is a structured document — instructions, examples, validation — that any agent can load and execute. What makes this different from just sharing prompts: - Skills are composable — chain them together - They include validation gates, not just instructions - They're designed for real engineering workflows, not chat The agent ecosystem is shifting from "one big system prompt" to modular, sharable skill libraries. This is the pattern. 298K stars | MIT | Shell github.com/mattpocock/skills
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This is the detail that decides whether AI video becomes a production tool or stays a demo: changing one element without trashing the whole shot. Iteration is the feature.
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Video generation just became a chat action. Type it, get a clip, no tab-switching to a separate tool. MCP is quietly turning every assistant into a media studio, and Runway is the first one where it feels natural.
Runway MCP is now in Grok Bot. Bring state-of-the-art generation into your chat and create anything you can imagine, without leaving Grok. Get started at the link below.
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