Despite spending billions of dollars to make it happen, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Oculus founder Palmer Luckey were never able to make virtual reality a profitable consumer product. Teamed up again, the pair have found an audience that is more comfortable with spending lots of money for slow development timelines and little return: the […]
Trump Wants Border Surveillance Towers That Only Palmer Luckey Can Build
Part of Donald Trump’s One Big, Beautiful Bill—the massive spending bill that will make permanent tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans while gutting social services like Medicaid—calls for new surveillance towers for U.S. Customs and Border Protection to use on the northern and southern borders. That’s pretty standard procedure, except for one catch that The […]
Dozens of Silicon Valley Sycophants Now Work at Regulatory Agencies
Silicon Valley’s wealthiest and most galaxy-brained executives and venture capitalists went all-in on Donald Trump during the 2024 presidential election, and their investment is starting to pay off. According to the Wall Street Journal, more than three dozen people who have either worked under or are associates of Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, and […]
Palmer Luckey Is Taking Over Microsoft’s Failed Mixed-Reality Goggles for the U.S. Army
Another Trump-y tech bro is weaseling his way into the federal government. According to a report from Axios, Anduril Industries and its CEO Palmer Luckey intend to take over Microsoft’s multi-billion dollar contract to build Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS), an augmented reality headset for use by the US Army. The deal still needs to be […]