The Minecraft movie is crass, dumb, and barely coherent. It also just made almost $163 million at the domestic box office over its opening weekend.
Video game adaptations have been on a hot streak in recent years. In 2023, The Super Mario Bros. Movie crossed the billion-dollar mark, nearly unseating Barbie as the year’s top-grossing film. Amazon’s Fallout shattered records with 2.5 billion viewing minutes in its debut week. And now, A Minecr
Founders and CEOs typically use social media to etch a human face onto their brand, forge a personal connection with potential customers, and put some pizzazz into product launches.
With the thundercloud of steep global tariffs looming overhead, though, many business owners have lately turned to TikTok, Instagram, and Reddit to explain the economic havoc those tariffs are poised to wreak on their brands—and in some cases, to search for a path forward.
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Tesla starts selling cars in Saudi Arabia on Thursday, a country where on a 900-kilometre (559 mile) stretch of its main east-west highway linking the capital Riyadh and the holy city of Mecca there isn’t a single charging station.
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Sparq Diagnostics, cofounded by Codrin Cobzaru and Daniel Nieh, has developed a plug-in scanner designed for everyday drivers. In a market full of specialized tech and pricey mechanics, Sparq aims to give car owners affordable insights into their vehicle’s health. S
As Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) continues to reshape the U.S. government’s digital infrastructure—scrapping websites, eliminating jobs, and dissolving entire departments—archivists have been racing to preserve a vanishing record of public history.
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Understanding intelligence and creating intelligent machines are grand scientific challenges of our times. The ability to learn from experience is a cornerstone of intelligence for machines and living beings alike.
Amazon is betting big on movie theaters—even if it isn’t counting on mega profits.
The Silicon Valley giant told The New York Times last week that it is planning to release about 14 movies annually in theaters across the United States, an untraditional move for a company that has for years focused on streaming. Instead of simply dropping films directly onto Prime Video, its
If you’re at all unsettled by the amount of power that Elon Musk wields on Earth, don’t look up. There are now essentially three big players controlling what goes into space and who gets access to increasingly valuable space-based communications and surveillance services: Russia, China, and Elon Musk.
In 2024, Musk’s rocket company SpaceX accounted for more than half of all orbital launch attempts globally—more than all countries outside the U.S. combined—with 134 successful launches of its
The markets are crashing, businesses large and small are worried about their future, and the world is increasingly looking toward a global rec