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🚀 Space-Based Solar Power Transmitted to Earth
💼 Salesforce's New CEO Post $28B Slack Investment
🐦 Twitter Recruits Former NBCUniversal Executive
🎬 Disney's Job Cuts Impact Toy Story 2's Savior

🚀 Space-Based Solar Power Transmitted to EarthLINK

  • A team of researchers from Caltech successfully carried out an experiment with their Space Solar Power Demonstrator (SSPD-1), which collected sunlight in space, converted it into electricity, and beamed it to Earth.
  • The experiment, known as Microwave Array for Power-transfer Low-orbit Experiment (MAPLE), represents a milestone in wireless energy transfer in space using flexible lightweight structures and custom integrated circuits.
  • While Caltech's project marks a significant step, other groups are also working on space-based solar power, including Japan's space agency, JAXA, which aims to send solar power from space by 2025.
  • 💼 Salesforce's New CEO Post $28B Slack InvestmentLINK

  • Salesforce announced the departure of co-CEO Bret Taylor and Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield, appointing Lidiane Jones, a former GM of various Salesforce Cloud divisions, as Butterfield's replacement.
  • Jones, despite facing challenges, is tasked with improving the integration of Salesforce's core products and its acquisitions, notably Slack, which was bought for $28 billion.
  • Simultaneously, Jones must maintain Slack's independence, ensuring it is not perceived as too tightly bound to Salesforce and can operate outside of the Salesforce ecosystem.
  • 🐦 Twitter Recruits Former NBCUniversal ExecutiveLINK

  • Former NBCUniversal executive Joe Benarroch is joining Twitter to focus on business operations.
  • Benarroch's appointment comes amid a number of executive departures at Twitter, including the company's head of trust and safety, Ella Irwin, and the head of brand safety and ad quality, A.J. Brown.
  • In his previous role at NBCUniversal, Benarroch managed communication strategy for the Advertising and Partnerships division, reporting to the now Twitter CEO, Linda Yaccarino.
  • 🎬 Disney's Job Cuts Impact Toy Story 2's SaviorLINK

  • The Walt Disney Company announced layoffs at its animation studio, Pixar, with 75 staff members let go in late May, marking Pixar's first job cuts in a decade due to several box office disappointments.
  • Among those departing are senior members Angus MacLane, an animator on Toy Story 4 and Coco, and director of 2022's Lightyear, and Galyn Susman, who produced Lightyear and is known for saving Toy Story 2 from data loss.
  • Pixar's future output is expected to focus on sequels like Toy Story, Zootopia, and Inside Out, with Disney Animation working on a third Frozen movie; Pixar's next film, Elemental, will be released in theaters on June 16.

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