Residents living near SpaceX headquarters in Boca Chica, Texas, will soon have a new public body through which to raise concerns about everything from road maintenance to garbage collection. Earlier this month, more than 200 residents voted to establish the city of Starbase, Texas—a 1.5-square-mile community governed by three elected officials, all of whom have tie
Ever wondered what happens when you add random household items to the same bowl every day for 100 days straight?
Well, you’re in luck. One TikTok account has made it their mission to find out—so you don’t have to.
The anonymous account, known simply as Bowl of Danger, adds “random stuff” to a bowl each day until they “get in danger.”
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TikTok has spent nearly $1 billion cracking down on intellectual property violations in its marketplace. So why is TikTok Shop still flooded with knockoffs?
From July to December 2024, the platform shut down 900 stores for IP infringements and brought on 400 additional IP protection specialists. Yet TikTok remains a hub for “dupe” culture—promoting and selling low-cost imitations of popular products. Even when se
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The family of a man killed in a 2021 road rage incident in Arizona used artificial intelligence to portray the victim delivering his own impact statement during his killer’s sentencing hearing, according to local news reports.
Christopher Pelkey’s sister, brother-in-law, and their friend used AI technology to recreate hi
The U.S. Justice Department is doubling down on its attempt to break up Google by asking a federal judge to force the company to part with some of the technology powering the company’s digital ad network. The proposed dismantling coincides with an ongoing federal effort to separate GoogleR
OpenAI was founded as a nonprofit with a mission to build safe artificial general intelligence for the benefit of humanity. For a while, that structure made sense. But in 2019, the company made a discovery that changed everything: scaling up AI models—with more data, compute, and parameters—led to predictably stronger results.
DoorDash, the ubiquitous U.S. food delivery app, has agreed to acquire British rival Deliveroo for 2.9 billion pounds ($3.9 billion) in cash, expanding its business in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.
San Francisco-based DoorDash will pay 180 pence ($2.40) for each Deliveroo share, 29% more
In the crypto world, meme coins are mostly just jokes with no intrinsic value. But the Trump family is parlaying the president’s meme coin into two valuable commodities: serious cash and access to the president.
Since the coin was launched earlier this year, it has generated more than $320 million in fees for its creators, according to the blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis. And on Monday,
Elon Musk has ruffled plenty of feathers since stepping more prominently into the political arena. Now, it seems he’s also a bad neighbor.
In 2022, Musk purchased a six-bedroom, $6 million mansion in the upscale Austin suburb of West Lake Hills, Texas. At the time, he didn’t knock on doors or introduce himself to his new neighbors—but word spread quickly, especially when visibly armed security personnel and their vehicles began appearing on the quiet suburban street.
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