Tesla stock slumps again after troubled EV maker cuts prices ahead of earnings report

It was a big weekend for Tesla, with the company announcing price drops on a number of its vehicles as well as its full self-driving software. That news has raised concerns with investors leading to a more than 5% drop in the company’s stock price Monday, ahead of its Tuesday earnings call.

On Saturday, Tesla announced a $2,000 price cut on its Model Y, Model S, and Model X vehicles. The price drop brings the Model Y to its lowest price yet after taking into account the federal EV

Japan’s FTC orders Google to fix keyword search undermining fair competition with Yahoo

Japan’s antitrust watchdog said Monday that U.S. search giant Google must fix its advertising search restrictions affecting Yahoo in Japan.

The Japan Fair Trade Commission said in a statement that its recent study of Google’s practices showed it was undermining fair compet

Don’t call it a jet pack: Here’s how the Pentagon is finally getting troops to fly

The U.S. military is poised to take American service members to new heights—literally.

Fast Company has learned that the Defense Department is actively testing brand-new, all-electric personal flight systems with the help of a handful of defense contractors. These systems will purportedly make individual troops capable of independent flight without requiring a lift from transport aircraft to reach their target, finally fulfilling the Pentagon’s decades-long dream of making

‘Silicon Zanzibar’ lost one of its main companies. Can Tanzania still make it Africa’s tech hub?

The mere mention of Zanzibar evokes images of sun-kissed beaches, pristine water and year-round sunshine. The picturesque island off the coast of Tanzania in east Africa has long been a celebrated tourist hotspot. But in recent years, the country has been orchestrating a shift in the island’s identity in an effort to christen it Silicon Zanzibar—Africa’s tech capital. 

To enable tech’s growth in Zanzibar, the country is rolling out multiple incentives to attract Pan-African t

Why streaming platforms are scrubbing the soundtracks from your favorite shows

Over the last few years, I’ve begun to experience a very unique kind of personal Mandela effect familiar to anyone born before the 21st century. When I watch old TV shows, I discover they don’t really sound the same. The issue isn’t the dialogue, it’s the music.

I first noticed this during an extremely ill-advised How I Met Your Mother rewatch on Netflix before the pandemic, and have since encountered it again when revisiting  X-Files, Buffy The Va

Listy is a simple, free way to share recommendations with friends

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Listy is a free and simple app for making lists of your favorite things. It automatically includes related images, like book or album covers. You can create shareable visual lists with

Paramount Streaming’s CEO launched Pluto TV 10 years ago. Here’s what he thinks about the future of free streaming

As streaming services continue to raise prices, customers have turned to more affordable options. Free ad-supported TV (or FAST) allows viewers to watch a variety of programming from TV shows and movies to live news on any device for free—but the trade-off is that you have to watch commercials. It’s a market that is growing quickly.

Over the past several years, Paramount’s Pluto TV, Fox’s Tubi, Amazon Freevee, The Roku Channel, and others have emerged as some of the popular FAST se

How global transport is getting greener, safer, and smarter

The global transport industry is always evolving. A decade ago, there was a big appetite for autonomous vehicles and cloud computing. These days, the industry is driven by a dual focus on decarbonization and automation across all layers of mobility—road, sea, rail, and air.

On the decarbonization front, the broa

The ethical pros and cons of Meta’s new Llama 3 open-source AI model

Meta has a brand-new Llama to show off. On Thursday, the social media giant announced Llama 3, the next version of its open-source model for the Meta AI assistant, which it hopes will make its chatbot the leading artificial intelligence technology.

Putting aside the question of whether this latest large language model (LLM)

The TikTok ban misses the big picture: America’s social media literary problem

The U.S. government moved closer to banning the video social media app TikTok after the House of Representatives attached the measure to an emergency spending bill on April 17, 2024. The move could improve the bill’s chances


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