Welcome to Friday, dearest Wordlers! TGIF and all that jazz. What will you do with your weekend? Around here, people will be skiing and snowboarding, cross-country skiing, snow-shoeing, building snow forts and shoveling. It’s a winter wonderland.

Could age now really just become a number? Dr. David Sinclair thinks so.

If you’ve ever wondered about the future of space travel and food, you’re not alone. Zero Gravity Corporation is a space entertainment and tourism company whose mission is to share the excitement and thrill of space travel with the curious public. This privately held company is the only one currently offering commercial opportunities to people interested in experiencing true “weightlessness” without going in to space.

After years of essentially being “free,” social media platforms are starting to offer subscription add-ons, including verified accounts and access to greater security. The moves are the latest effort by social media companies – including Facebook and Twitter – to monetize their massive user bases.

Roughly 68% of Americans say they’re afraid of self-driving cars, according to a new poll by AAA, a huge jump from 2022 when 55% of Americans said they’re afraid of the nascent technology. Just 9% of Americans say they “trust” self-driving cars, while 23% of respondents to the poll said they were “unsure.”

When I first met John “Coz” Colgrove, founder of Pure Storage, nearly five years ago, he told me that Pure’s core mission was to “simplify storage.” Central to this mission is replacing every disk drive in the data center with flash storage. That seemed an audacious goal. After all, at the time, flash still had yet to completely take over performance-driven storage. Taking on near-line storage seemed unlikely. Bringing flash to data lakes and high-capacity storage? A pipedream.