Over the past year, Elon Musk notched a huge, slow-motion win. In a matter of months, one automaker after another signed up to adopt Tesla’s EV charging plug. The company’s huge network of Supercharger stations has been credited for laying the foundation for EV adoption, and the industry’s falling-in-line cemented Tesla’s technology as the nation’s de facto standard, unlocked federal funds, and hinted at a
Artists from Universal Music Group, which include Taylor Swift, Drake, Adele, Bad Bunny and Billie Eilish, will be returning to TikTok as the two parties have struck a new licensing agreement following an approximately
Space was the farthest thing from Jocelyn Gonzalez’s mind when she enrolled at California State University, Long Beach. A Mexican-American, Gonzalez grew up speaking Spanish and was the first in her family to pursue an engineering degree. Although she’d fallen in love with computer programming, her career options seemed limited to industries she deemed “notorious for poor work-life balances.”
It wasn’t until Aerospace Corp. CEO Steve Isakowitz sp
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The images on newscasts have been inescapable for the past several days. Protestors, presumed to be students, took over buildings at Columbia, facing off against police in riot gear, while on Emory University’s quadrangle, police pinned protestors to the ground, securing them with zip ties.
What made those images even more notable, though, are the lengths to which many of the protesters are going to in order to hide their identities. Keffiyehs and facemasks are commonplace. Some co
Marques Brownlee, who is perhaps the most influential tech reviewer in the world, has released a ">review of the latest AI-in-a-box device, the Rabbit R1. Even if you aren’t interested in the Rabbit R1, the review is worth a watch. Brownlee takes a moment to eviscerate the device for perpetuating a concerning trend in tech that has
Alden Global Capital has for years been lambasted as the journalism industry’s “grim reaper.” The hedge fund, which owns some 200 publications including such stalwarts as the Chicago Tribune and Orlando Sentinel, follows a
DoorDash heavily narrowed its net loss and hit new quarterly records for key metrics for the first quarter of 2024. But growth of total orders, marketplace gross order value, and revenue—while all still up double digits from the same time a year ago—is slowing from the same breakneck pace it achieved in past quarters.
DoorDash reported revenue of $2.51 billion for the first quarter, up 22% from the same quarter a year ago. Total orders gained 21% to reach 620 million, while m
Elon Musk‘s move to lay off the department responsible for Tesla’s electric vehicle charging network has touched off worries in the auto industry about plans to open the chargers to EVs made by other automakers.
Several leaders of Tesla’s Supercharger team posted social media messages saying they were told Monday night that entire group of about 500 had been laid off by CEO Musk, who seemed to confirm the
