Ashlee Vance

1 month ago | corememory.com | Ashlee Vance

Palmer Luckey has come on the Core Memory podcast today to deliver some full-on shocking news. (And top tips on raising children as well.)As you’ll hear on the show, Luckey’s company Anduril has partnered with Meta to create a product for the U.S. military dubbed “Eagle Eye.” At its core, this product is meant to become the sci-fi style military helmet that you see depicted in movies but that does not actually exist in real life.

1 month ago | corememory.com | Ashlee Vance

On Saturday, the bio-tech prodigy-turned-entrepreneur Cathy Tie put an ominous message on X: “Stranded in Manila with my dog. Went a little too far with this geopolitics thing 🥺 long live germline editing.”Tie, it now turns out, had been traveling from Los Angeles to Beijing to reunite with her new husband Dr. Jiankui He when she was detained during a layover in Manila at the behest of Chinese officials.

1 month ago | corememory.com | Ashlee Vance

Back when I first began covering technology in the early 2000s, my favorite thing to write about was open source software. I was young and idealistic, and the hardcore free software and open source zealots spoke to me. Code was meant to be by the people, for the people. Richard Stallman and Eben Moglen seemed like heroes. Microsoft and its proprietary code-fueled desktop monopoly seemed clearly evil. I enjoyed the energy and vitriol on both sides during the peak of these debates.

1 month ago | corememory.com | Ashlee Vance

First. The news. The bio-tech player New Limit has raised $130 million from just about the fanciest assembly of smart, rich people imaginable. Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross – via NFDG - Kleiner Perkins, Khosla Ventures and Human Capital are there in their corporate forms and Patrick and John Collison, Josh Kushner, Joe Lonsdale and Fred Ehrsam are there as individuals.

1 month ago | corememory.com | Ashlee Vance

Brad Smith’s body started to betray him seven years ago. A company operations executive living in Provo, Utah, Smith had tweaked his shoulder during a dodgeball game with a youth group at his church. He was 37 at the time, and it seemed like no big deal. Smith saw a physical therapist and dutifully completed his prescribed exercises over the course of a few weeks. The injury, though, lingered. Smith’s shoulder ached, and his range of motion had gotten worse instead of better.