🛰 Hilton to design astronaut suites for private space station Starlab

Plus: Home-Flipper Opendoor Hit With Losses in Echo of Zillow Collapse, Amazon sellers are stealing people's identities, and more…

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Hilton to design astronaut suites, facilities for Voyager's private space station Starlab. Hotel giant Hilton has signed on to design astronaut facilities for the private space station Starlab, currently under development by Voyager Space Holdings and Lockheed Martin. In addition to designing hospitality suites and sleeping arrangements… (Michael Sheetz / CNBC)

Michael Sheetz @thesheetztweetz

Exclusive — Hotel giant Hilton $HLT signed on as a partner for the Starlab private space station being built by Voyager, Nanoracks, & Lockheed Martin. Hilton will design hospitality suites, astronaut sleeping arrangements, and more:

cnbc.comHilton to design astronaut suites, facilities for Voyager’s private space station StarlabHotel giant Hilton has signed on to design astronaut facilities for the private space station Starlab.

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Home-Flipper Opendoor Hit With Losses in Echo of Zillow Collapse. Company lost money on 42% of its August resales after it failed to anticipate slide in housing demand. The US housing market's sharp downturn has been bad for builders, flippers and almost anyone who had plans to sell a home when rising mortgage… (Patrick Clark / Bloomberg)

Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart

This is just brutal. $OPEN, the standalone iBuying company that SPAC'd in 2020 is losing money on 42% of every transaction. The stock's below $4 today, after having been above $36 last year bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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Amazon sellers are stealing people's identities. Andrew didn't think much about the first package. Or the second. Then they began arriving in droves. The earliest ones started showing up outside his family home in suburban Colorado in March 2021, addressed only to the 'Returns Department.' The… (Rob Price / Business Insider)

Rob Price 🏔 @robaeprice

NEW: Last year, Colorado resident Andrew went through a "dystopian horror story." Over ~6 months, he was mailed hundreds of unwanted packages of women's clothing, sometimes dozens a day. It was Amazon's fault — but the company refused to help him. 🧵 businessinsider.com/amazon-fraud-r…

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YouTube's 'Dislike' Button Doesn't Do What You Think. YouTube creators often implore their viewers to ‘smash that Like button,' believing its feedback to be vital to their future success on the algorithm-driven platform. But a new study from the Mozilla Foundation suggests that users who hit… (Chris Stokel-Walker / WIRED)

Chris Stokel-Walker @stokel

Users think YouTube's dislike button should train the algorithm to show them fewer videos like the one they don't like - but @mozilla research suggests it doesn't. My latest for @WIRED

wired.comYouTube’s ‘Dislike’ Button Doesn’t Do What You ThinkUsers try to control the video platform’s algorithm by giving content a thumbs-down, but Mozilla researchers say it’s not so simple.

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Social Media Companies Still Boost Election Fraud Claims, Report Says. The major social media companies all say they are ready to deal with a torrent of misinformation surrounding the midterm elections in November. A report released on Monday, however, claimed that they continued to undermine the integrity of the vote… (Steven Lee Myers / The New York Times)

The New York Times @nytimes

The major social media platforms — Facebook, Twitter, TikTok and YouTube — continue to fuel false conspiracies about election fraud despite promises to combat them, a report released on Monday said.

nyti.msSocial Media Companies Still Boost Election Fraud Claims, Report SaysThe report, by New York University’s Stern Center for Business and Human Rights, argues that the companies fuel false conspiracies about election fraud despite promises to combat them.

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