Not Boring: Starship reaches orbit, Matic unveils home robot master plan
Not Boring (Packy McCormick) · rss · 2026-10-02
Packy McCormick's Weekly Dose of Optimism #213 covers:
- Starship goes orbital: on flight 14, Starship reached orbit and deployed 26 Starlink V3 satellites, despite an early engine shutdown cutting the mission short.
- America.gov: Joe Gebbia's National Design Studio launched a portal unifying 29,000+ government sites, with passport renewal and Medicare enrollment features planned.
- Matic's robot master plan: in 16k homes covering 500M sq ft; next phase adds manipulation, starting with an armed non-humanoid picker before a laundry-folding humanoid.
- Freckle kids phone: $199 + $25/month, no open web or app store, with maps, AI photo Q&A, and parent-set real-world "Quests".
- Transplanted hearts: Harvard researchers found transplanted hearts shift toward the recipient's biological age — older hearts rejuvenate in younger bodies and vice versa.
- Not Boring is partnering with Runway to turn its stories into AI-generated short films.
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