A video titled “congrats, you’ve ruined your face” from creator Stephanie Lange has been viewed on YouTube more than 1.1 million times. Meanwhile, influencers like TheWizardLiz and simonesquared have built their brands by taking digs at viewers, teaching them “How to stop being lazy and pathetic” and bluntly declaring “You are a clown.” All across the social media platform, lifestyle creators have adopted a new strategy to attract viewers: titl
(Reuters) – Four former top Twitter executives, including former CEO Parag Agrawal, have sued Elon Musk for over $128 million in combined unpaid severance, according to a lawsuit filed on Monday.
The lawsuit, filed in federal court in San Francisco, is the latest in a series of legal challenges the billionaire faces after he acquired the social media company for $44 billion in October 2022 and later renamed it X.
The other plaintiffs are Ned Segal, Twitter’s
Apple was slapped Monday with a $2 billion antitrust fine by the European Commission over claims that it’s giving Apple Music an unfair advantage over music-streaming rivals—specifically, Spotify.
The landmark penalty, which is the first-ever levied against the California tech giant by the European Commission, and which represents a figure four times higher than insiders predicted, was the culmination of a probe that began in 2019 after Spotify formally accus
Anthropic announced on Monday a new family of AI models, collectively called the Claude 3 model family. As is commonly done, the company released three different sizes of models, each with a varying balance of intelligence, speed, and cost.
The largest of the new models, called “Opus,” outperforms both OpenAI’s and Google’s most advanced models, GPT-4 and Gemini Ultra, respectively, on tests measuring undergraduate level expert knowledge (MMLU), graduate
The team behind the Switch emulator that Nintendo accused of “facilitating piracy at a colossal scale” has agreed to pay $2.4 million to the video game giant and will seemingly end its operations. But beyond killing Yuzu—a program that lets users play Nintendo Switch games on other platforms, such as the PC or mobile devices—the agreement, if it’s approved by the court, could put Switch emulation at risk altogether.
Yuzu, like many other video game
Shares of Super Micro Computer jumped 12% in premarket trading on Monday after the artificial-intelligence server maker was set to join the S&P 500 index, highlighting the growing dominance of AI stocks in Wall Street’s benchmark index.
The San Jose, California-based firm is among the biggest beneficiaries of the AI frenzy on Wall Street.
Its shares have climbed 1,000% since the end of 2022, including a more than threefold jump in 2024, taking its market value to $5
Meme coins were all the rage during the early years of the pandemic, but since then their (relatively) high prices have come crashing down to earth. In recent days and weeks, however, meme coins have seen their prices rise again. As of the time of this writing, Doegecoin is up over 12% in the last day and over 100% in the last month. Shiba Inu is up nearly 200% in the last month.
But why?
The spike in meme coins in recent days likely has nothing to do with the coins themse
A SpaceX rocket lifted off from Florida on Sunday night carrying a crew of three U.S. astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut on their way to the International Space Station (ISS) to begin a six-month science mission in Earth orbit.
The two-stage Falcon 9 rocket topped with an autonomously operated Crew Dragon capsule dubbed Endeavor was launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, along Florida’s Atlantic coast, at 10:53 p.m. EST (0353 GMT Monday).
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The European Union leveled its first antitrust penalty against Apple on Monday, fining the U.S. tech giant nearly $2 billion for breaking the bloc’s competition laws by unfairly favoring its own music streaming service over rivals.Apple banned app developers from “fully informing iOS users about alternative and cheaper music subscription services outside of the app,” said the European Commission, the 27-nation bloc’s executive arm and top antitrust enforcer.“
This month marks 10 years since the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (MH370), perhaps the best-known continued aviation vanishment since Amelia Earhart in the 1930s. That a Boeing 777—which carries up to several hundred people and, in 2014, cost in excess of a quarter-billion dollars—was able to completely drop off all satellite feeds and communications channels (and by manual settings in the cockpit) was astounding 10 years ago.
As that situation unfolded