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Construct Capital Secures $300 Million to Transform Foundational Industries
Construct Capital Announces $300 Million Fund III Construct Capital, a Washington, D.C.-based venture capital firm, has successfully closed its third fund, securing $300 million in capital commitments. Founded in 2020 by former NEA partner Dayna Grayson and ex-Uber executive Rachel Holt, Construct Capital focuses on early-stage investments in startups aiming to revolutionize foundational industries through technological advancements. AltAssets Focus on Underinvested...
Spectrum’s First Flight: A Glitch in the Rocket’s Dream of Space
The Rocket That Dreamed of Space In the cold, unfeeling void above Norway, Isar Aerospace’s Spectrum rocket clawed its way skyward. For a moment, it was a dream realized—until, suddenly, it wasn’t. The nine engines, which had burned with the desperate hunger of machines longing to escape gravity’s prison, faltered. The vehicle twisted in the sky, like a marionette with...
The Cyber Spook Who Vanished: Professor, Wife Disappear After FBI Raid
The Digital Phantom: Professor and Wife Vanish After FBI Blitz Something’s rotten in the state of Indiana. A well-respected cybersecurity professor and his university-employed wife have pulled a Houdini, vanishing into the ether just as the Feds stormed their homes. Professor Xiaofeng Wang, a longtime tech whiz at Indiana University’s Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, along with his wife,...
ChatGPT’s Image Generator Is Free—But Will It Break the Internet?
The Digital Gold Rush: ChatGPT’s Free Image Generator Is Here The machines are overheating, the circuits are fried, and the people? Oh, they’re hungry—insatiable even. OpenAI’s newest image-generation update, powered by the omnipotent GPT-4o model, is now freely available to the teeming masses. It was supposed to roll out seamlessly, but like any great capitalist feast, demand was overwhelming, GPUs...
The Great IBM Job Swap: How Big Blue Is Bleeding America Dry and Betting the Farm on India
Welcome to the Machine: The IBM Exodus The ghosts of American jobs are piling up like cigarette butts outside a Silicon Valley conference room. IBM, once the iron giant of American innovation, is quietly gutting its U.S. workforce in favor of cheaper labor on the other side of the planet. It’s not just a shift. It’s a full-blown exodus. I’ve seen...
Facebook Rolls Out “Friends” Tab to Bring Back the Classic Feed Experience
Facebook Introduces Friends-Only Feed to Reconnect Users with Personal Content In a move to rekindle the original spirit of its platform, Facebook has launched a new "Friends" tab that strips away algorithmic recommendations in favor of a chronological feed featuring content solely from friends. The feature is now rolling out to users in the United States and Canada, with more...
Echoes of the Future: Nintendo’s “Switch 2 Edition” Games Emerge via Digital Lending Revelation
The Quiet Unveiling: Nintendo’s Accidental Glimpse into Tomorrow In a move that would have seemed like a deliberate reveal had it not been so cleverly hidden in plain sight, Nintendo has quietly let slip a glimpse of its next-generation console strategy. As though pulled from a chapter of speculative fiction, where whispers of advanced technologies arrive long before their time, this...
Discord Gears Up for IPO: Greed, Gamers, and the End of an Ad-Free Utopia
Discord’s March Toward the Stock Market: The Calm Before the Capitalist Storm Aye, it wis bound tae happen. Discord—the cozy digital pub where gamers, geeks, and oddballs alike gather—is about to get dragged onto the cold floor of Wall Street. According to a Bloomberg scoop, the chat app’s gettin’ all suited and booted for an IPO this year, tapping heavyweight...
The Uprising of the Watch-Wearers: Garmin’s Subscription Spark Ignites a Digital Revolt
When the Watch Rebels In the pale glow of our wrist-bound overlords, something shifted. A new signal was broadcast—Garmin Connect+. A name that should have inspired awe, performance, precision. But instead, it echoed like a government directive piped into your sleep. Premium access, they said. $6.99/month or $69.99/year for AI training insights, performance dashboards, and live activity feeds. On the...
Power Pirates of the Solar Dawn: How Hackers Could Hijack the Sun
Welcome to the New Age of Power Grid Anarchy Somewhere between the blazing sun and the tangled hellscape of cyber warfare lies a truth too surreal for polite conversation. It involves hackers, solar panels, and a digital frag grenade shoved into the heart of your backyard power plant. It’s not science fiction. It’s not paranoia. It’s the latest chapter in...
