Payload, a new digital media company focused on the business and policy of space, is hoping to bring more professional coverage to an industry that’s growing very big, very fast.

Why it matters: For years, space coverage has focused on the consumer-facing spectacle of space travel instead of the business and societal implications of the industry.

• Payload’s coverage aims to go a step deeper, by providing business and policy coverage to space industry professionals. There are an estimated 2.19 million workers in the U.S. aerospace and defense industry.
• Space is currently a $350 billion a year market and is forecast to grow to $1.4 trillion by 2030.

Details: The new company has raised a $650,000 seed round, mostly from Winklevoss Capital, the venture firm run by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, as well as Andy Weissman and Sam McIngvale.

• “We’re very confident that we’ve raised the right amount of

He has been more supportive of charter schools than several of his Democratic mayoral rivals, and more so than Mr. de Blasio; he also has close ties to real estate.

And Mr. Adams has said that public safety must be at the center of the economic recovery efforts — echoing a theme that more than 150 business leaders underscored in a letter to Mr. de Blasio last fall, when they demanded that he take more decisive action to address crime and other quality-of-life issues that they said were jeopardizing the city’s economic recovery.

Mr. Adams’s remarks came at the SALT Conference, held at the Javits Center and overseen by Anthony Scaramucci, the onetime Trump White House communications director. The schedule promised appearances from two hedge fund billionaires who were principal backers of a super PAC supporting Mr. Adams’s candidacy: Daniel S. Loeb, a prominent charter school supporter, and Steven A.

• Apple has fixed a flaw that was letting hackers spy on devices without users even clicking a link.
• The zero-click hack gave access to device cameras, microphones, and messages without users knowing.
• Apple is telling users to update their iPhones, Macs, and Apple Watches immediately to protect them.

Apple is warning users to update their devices as soon as possible after it fixed a major

spyware
flaw.

The company has released emergency software updates in iOS 14.8 after learning of a vulnerability that let hackers break into Apple devices without users even clicking a link, The New York Times reports.

“Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been actively exploited,” the company said on its website Monday.

The Canadian academic research group The Citizen Lab published a report Monday saying it had uncovered a zero-day, zero-click exploit affecting iPhones, Macs, and

During the pandemic, entrepreneurs opened their own businesses at more than twice the rate seen in pre-pandemic times, thanks to government support programs and improved remote technology that weren’t available during other economic downturns such as the Great Recession.

Andre Smith, a 26-year-old who lives on New York’s Long Island, found himself without a steady source of income at the start of the pandemic last year after the construction company he worked for “ran dry” from March until June. With a lot of time on his hands and the need to make money again, he was able to do something he’s been aspiring to do since he and his family immigrated from Jamaica in 2007: start his own business.

“I said to myself, ‘This is the perfect time to learn something and use this time wisely,’” he told NBC News.

After five months of conducting online research and reading notes

Downtown businesses in the U.S. and abroad once took for granted that nearby offices would provide a steady clientele looking for breakfast, lunch, everyday goods and services and last-minute gifts. As the resilient coronavirus keeps offices closed and workers at home, some are adapting while others are trying to hang on.

Some businesses are already gone. The survivors have taken steps such as boosting online sales or changing their hours, staffing levels and what they offer customers. Others are relying more on residential traffic.

Many business owners had looked forward to a return toward normalcy this month as offices reopened. But now that many companies have postponed plans to bring workers back, due to surging COVID-19 cases, downtown businesses are reckoning with the fact that adjustments made on the