KATY PERRY IS GOING TO SPACE 🚀💄🌕 Blue Origin launches its first all-female crew Monday — with celebrities, astronauts, and one very big question: where does space actually begin?
—> THE LAUNCH: On Monday, April 14 at 9:30am ET, Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket will carry six women — including Katy Perry, Gayle King, and Lauren Sánchez (aka Jeff Bezos’ partner) — just past the Kármán line, the altitude many define as the edge of space. The flight will last about 11 minutes and offer a few minutes of weightlessness.
—> THE CREW:
🎤 Katy Perry, pop star
🎙 Gayle King, journalist
🚀 Lauren Sánchez, aviation exec
🌍 Aisha Bowe, aerospace engineer
🌟 Amanda Nguyễn, civil rights activist
🧪 Kerianne Flynn, STEM leader
—> WHY IT MATTERS: It’s Blue Origin’s highest-profile mission yet — part science, part spectacle. It also reignites a debate: what counts as going to space? Blue Origin passes the 100km Kármán line. Rivals like Virgin Galactic don’t. And while you’ll get your astronaut wings, this isn’t the ISS — it's a very fast suborbital joyride.
—> BIG PICTURE: This launch comes as the space tourism race heats up again. It’s about inspiration, status, and redefining who space is for — and how we get there. Also, Katy Perry says the universe gave her the sign. 👀
Sources: Space.com, Yahoo, CNN
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FUTURES
WALL STREET WOBBLES AS TARIFF CHAOS CONTINUES 📈📉📲 Futures are up — but uncertainty is the only thing rising for sure.
—> WHAT’S HAPPENING: Stock futures ticked higher Sunday night: S&P +0.6%, Nasdaq +0.9%, Dow +0.3% — as traders try to make sense of Trump’s evolving tariff shuffle.
—> WHAT CHANGED: Smartphones, computers, and semiconductors were quietly exempted from the new reciprocal tariffs, per new U.S. Customs guidance. But Trump and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick warned those exemptions might not last.
—> MAG 7 STILL STAGGERING: Apple alone lost $640 billion in market cap in just three days after the tariffs were first announced. The CNBC Magnificent 7 Index is down 5% since “Liberation Day.”
—> VOLATILITY WATCH: The VIX spiked above 50 last week — one of the most volatile trading stretches since 2008. A mid-week rally came after a 90-day reprieve on some tariffs, solid bank earnings, and Fed speculation.
—> WHAT’S NEXT: Markets are bracing for a huge week of earnings from Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Citi, Netflix, and United Airlines. But with tariffs hanging overhead, recession fears and bond market jitters are far from over.
Source: CNBC
CRYPTO
HE QUIT APPLE TO BUILD ON BITCOIN 🍎➡️₿ Inside Austin’s crypto clubhouse where ex–Big Tech engineers are betting it all on the blockchain.
—> WHAT HAPPENED: Mark Suman used to run major engineering projects at Apple. Then one day, he called out sick, walked into Bitcoin Commons — a hacker-space meets VC lounge in downtown Austin — and everything changed.
—> THE SWITCH: Within months, he quit his job and co-founded Open Secret, a startup building privacy-first cloud tech using bitcoin rails. The pitch? Encrypt user data before it ever hits the cloud — so even if it leaks, there’s nothing to steal.
—> THE COMMONS: It’s part co-working space, part bitcoin bunker, part after-hours braintrust. Coders. Miners. Builders. Happy hour turns into strategy sessions. The vibe is 🔥.
—> THE BACKDROP: Bitcoin hit $110K in January, cooled to the low $70Ks, and has since rebounded to $85K. Trump’s return brought a full-on crypto shift: pardons, pro-bitcoin policy, and a Strategic Reserve. Even skeptics are paying attention.
Source: CNBC
GEOPOLITICS
3 BILLION HUMANOID ROBOTS BY 2060 🤖🌍⚡
Bank of America says the robot revolution isn’t coming — it’s already on the calendar.
—> THE FORECAST: BofA predicts 1 million humanoid robots sold per year by 2030 — and a staggering 3 billion in operation by 2060. That’s nearly 1 robot for every 3 humans on Earth.
—> WHAT’S DRIVING IT: Fast-dropping costs. Smarter AI. Sharper sensors. Tesla’s Optimus, NVIDIA’s chips, and Meta’s metaverse tech are leading the charge. By 2025, the average robot could cost $35K, and just $17K by 2030.
—> WHERE THEY’LL LIVE:
🏠 65% in homes — as helpers, companions, or AI assistants
🧑💼 32% in services — think hotels, retail, caregiving
🏭 3% in factories — though that number may rise
—> THE ERA IS COMING: The machines will walk, talk, learn, adapt — and live among us. It won’t just be automation. It’ll be everyday integration. BofA puts it bluntly: “The era of humanoid robots is coming.”
Source: Investing.com
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