Ted Schlein’s 2-year-old Ballistic Ventures has already raised a second $360 million fund

After a shakeup at Kleiner Perkins a few years back, one of its star B2B investors, Ted Schlein, started his own firm. Ballistic has already closed a second fund, even bigger than the first. ©…

WarpStream is building a cheaper, cloud-native data streaming service

When the open source streaming service, Apache Kafka, was created in 2011 at LinkedIn, it was a different world. Most companies were still on prem. The notion of cloud computing was just beginning to emerge.…

Intel’s new Core i9-14900KS arrives today for $699 with boosts up to 6.2GHz

Image: Intel Intel is launching its flagship Core i9-14900KS processor today, with clock speeds that boost all the way up to 6.2GHz. That’s 200MHz more than the previous Core i9-13900KS that launched last year and…

SpaceX Starship launch: third time’s the charm?

Image: SpaceX The first two Starship flight tests ended in an explosive fashion. On its third attempt, the spacecraft lasted much longer. Continue reading…

Join The Verge at the 2024 Chicago Humanities Spring Festival

Illustration by Emmett Mottl The Verge is thrilled to announce that we are once again partnering with the Chicago Humanities Festival for a day of in-person conversations exploring the evolving intersection between art and artificial…