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Nobel laureate economist Paul Krugman is raising eyebrows with a new video breaking down what he sees as serious problems with SpaceX's valuation. Krugman argues the numbers don't hold up under scrutiny, and given how much private capital is tied to Elon Musk's rocket company, that's a conversation worth having carefully.
Shifting gears, a project called Webxdc is quietly gaining attention in privacy circles. It lets developers build small, self-contained mini apps that run directly inside chat conversations, with no server calls and no data leaking out. It's a genuinely interesting approach to keeping functionality local and communication secure.
And on the more spectacular end of the spectrum, TechRadar got rare access to Denon and Marantz's reference listening room inside their Japan factory, where a nine point four point six channel Dolby Atmos system backed by Bowers and Wilkins and Sony hardware costs something in the neighborhood of a quarter million dollars. The takeaway is less about gear lust and more about what the ceiling of consumer audio actually sounds like when money is no object.
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