🚀 After decades of false starts, NASA really is returning to the Moon this time

Plus: Inside the wild post-Google lives of Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Elon Musk now says Twitter's 280 character limit will increase to 4000, and more…

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After decades of false starts, NASA really is returning to the Moon this time. The first step of a journey is often the most difficult one. So it is worth pausing a moment to celebrate that NASA just took the essential first step on the path toward establishing a permanent presence in deep space. Amidst a backdrop of blue… (Eric Berger / Ars Technica)

Eric Berger @SciGuySpace

Artemis I was a smashing technical success. But politically it is perhaps even more remarkable.

arstechnica.comHere’s why NASA’s Artemis I mission is so rare, and so remarkable“It is the beginning of the new beginning.”

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Private islands, flying cars, and psychedelic parties: Inside the wild post-Google lives of Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Larry Page had a new idea for his frazzled engineers: Had they tried 3D-printing an aircraft? The Google cofounder, his graying, unkempt hair reaching almost to his shoulders, had reappeared at Kittyhawk, his floundering flying-car company, after… (Hugh Langley / Business Insider)

Hugh Langley @HughLangley

NEW: For many months, @robaeprice and I have been investigating how Larry Page and Sergey Brin are spending their time and money. This is also a story about how they keep many of their activities hidden, and the family offices managing their worlds

businessinsider.comPrivate islands, flying cars, and psychedelic parties: Inside the wild post-Google lives of Larry Page and Sergey BrinLarry Page has shrouded his ventures in the utmost secrecy. Sergey Brin has partied it up at Burning Man and poured millions into philanthropy.

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Elon Musk now says Twitter's 280 character limit will increase to 4000. Twitter CEO Elon Musk still wants to take the micro out of microblogging, pledging once again to increase the platform's character limit. This time the proposed increase is from 280 to 4000 — over 14 times the current cutoff. This latest… (Amanda Yeo / Mashable)

Mashable @mashable

Will it happen? Who even knows any more?

mashable.comElon Musk now says Twitter’s 280 character limit will increase to 4000Can we still call Twitter a microblogging platform at this point?

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Uncertainty, Social Media, and the Radicalization of the US. All across the country, there are signs of a more radicalized American populace. It's become impossible to ignore over the past few years. The US has witnessed an insurrection, the rise of QAnon, increasing anti-Semitism, attacks on the LGBTQ… (Thor Benson / WIRED)

WIRED @WIRED

“With social media, ideas move so fast that there’s really no prospect for moderation. Even the most extreme ideas can spread incredibly quickly.”

wired.trib.alUncertainty, Social Media, and the Radicalization of the USA confluence of factors is leading people in the nation to gravitate toward extremist views.

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Microsoft to acquire 4% stake in London Stock Exchange Group as part of 10-year cloud partnership. Image Credits: CHUNYIP WONG / Getty Images Microsoft is to acquire a 4% stake in the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), the company that owns the London Stock Exchange as well as a several other businesses including financial market data company… (Paul Sawers / TechCrunch)

Barry O'Sullivan @siliconbarry

It seems clear that many large enterprises have forward committed to the cloud infrastructure providers and cannot now meet those commitments. Deals like this are reminiscent of the vendor financing that destroyed some large tech vendors in the dotcom bust

tcrn.chMicrosoft to acquire 4% stake in London Stock Exchange Group as part of 10-year cloud partnershipMicrosoft is to acquire a 4% stake in the London Stock Exchange Group as part of a 10-year cloud services and data partnership.

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