Bloomberg: How Elon Musk’s Twitter usage and stewardship is making him toxic for many Tesla customers and shareholders at a time when the company badly needs new business — If Elon Musk has a tragic flaw, it isn’t his temper, or his treatment of underlings, or his refusal to follow securities laws.
Read MoreBryce Elder / Financial Times: FT Alphaville closes its Mastodon server and reflects on why running a social media site is a bad idea, including reputational, legal, and security risks — Extinction looms for FTAV’s Mastodon presence — A few months ago, FT Alphaville thought it might be fun to host a Mastodon server.
Read MoreShayan Sardarizadeh / @shayan86: Twitter suspends the verified account of US white nationalist commentator Nick Fuentes, one day after lifting his ban from July 2021 — Twitter has suspended the verified account of US white nationalist commentator Nick Fuentes again, only one day after his July 2021 ban was reversed by the platform.
Read MoreCredit: Molly Flores Samsung Galaxy Book2 Pro 360 (Credit: Molly Flores)Samsung is going all-in with the “Ultra” branding, which signifies its position at the top of Samsung’s hardware tiers. It started with phones, releasing the S20 Ultra in 2020, and then last year it released the first Ultra tablet with the Tab S8 Ultra. Now,
Read MoreFrederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Google previews features for open-source multiplatform UI framework Flutter, like RISC-V support and making it easier for developers to embed Flutter content — Flutter, Google’s open-source framework for building multi-platform apps for mobile, web and desktop, is hosting its Flutter Forward event in Nairobi, Kenya today.
Read MoreArtificial intelligence might have started as the fictional villain of sci-fi stories, but it’s quickly becoming indispensable in many industries. The construction industry is one among many beginning to adopt this new technology. How can companies and contractors start employing AI in construction? How could this industry 4.0 technology change the industry in the coming
Read MoreCredit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Welcome to Wallpaper Wednesday! In this weekly roundup, we’ll give you a handful of Android wallpapers you can download and use on your phone, tablet, or even your laptop/PC. The images will come from folks here at Android Authority as well as our readers. All are free to use
Read MoreEmily Mullin / Wired: A look at Google Research spinout Osmo, which has raised $60M led by Lux Capital and GV to use AI to create aroma molecules for perfumes, shampoos, and more — Google Research spinout Osmo wants to find substitutes for hard-to-source aromas. The tech could inspire new perfumes—and help combat mosquito-borne diseases.
Read MoreThe Robert Noyce Building in Santa Clara, California, is the world headquarters for Intel Corporation. This photo is from Jan. 23, 2019. (Credit: Walden Kirsch/Intel Corporation) (Credit: Walden Kirsch/Intel Corporation)On the heels of a rough few quarters for Intel, the company has announced the cancellation of a super-sized R&D lab at its current Hillsboro campus.
Read MoreThe Verge is excited to announce that Hot Pod Summit — our invite-only event for creators, decision-makers, and trendsetters in the audio industry — is returning to Wythe Hotel in Brooklyn. On February 23rd, we’ll be holding a day-long summit of panels, conversations, and interactive programming exploring the latest developments in podcasting, audiobooks, and more.
Read MoreA.J. Lister as Lila in Birth/Rebirth. | Image: Shudder There are multiple moments throughout director Laura Moss’ brilliant new psychological horror drama Birth/Rebirth that are so abjectly brutal that the festival goers who reportedly fell ill while watching the movie at this year’s Sundance could almost be forgiven for their theatrics. Birth/Rebirth’s story of two
Read MoreImage: Bungie Destiny 2 has been forced offline for more than 17 hours, after Bungie issued a faulty patch that caused issues for players. Bungie issued a regular game patch to tweak Destiny 2’s sandbox on Tuesday, but many players quickly realized the game had deleted triumphs, seals, and catalysts. Bungie’s fix will involved rolling
Read MoreThe escalating risks of Russia’s war in Ukraine have led scientists to study the unthinkable and model the aftermath of nuclear detonation.
Read MoreSamuel Stolton / Politico: Sources: EU antitrust regulators plan an investigation into Microsoft over Teams, focusing on tying the service to Office, after a complaint by Slack in 2020 — European Union antitrust enforcers are planning to open an antitrust probe into Microsoft over its video and messaging service Teams …
Read MoreIngrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Shutterstock launches a tool to let Creative Flow users create images based on text prompts, part of a partnership with OpenAI; images are “ready for licensing” — When Shutterstock and OpenAI announced a partnership to help develop OpenAI’s Dall-E 2 artificial intelligence image …
Read MoreSarah McBride / Bloomberg: NYC-based Precision Neuroscience, co-founded by a Neuralink co-founder to create a less invasive brain implant to track diseases, raised a $41M Series B — A new brain science company co-created by a founding team member of Elon Musk’s Neuralink is raising millions of dollars to implant small electronic devices inside human
Read MoreNewley Purnell / Wall Street Journal: Elon Musk’s Twitter has reinstated several Hindu nationalist accounts that were popular in India; upon returning, some have tweeted material denigrating Muslims — Human-rights groups say they have seen a rise in anti-Muslim material on the platform — Elon Musk’s Unconventional Management Style: Former Employees Share Stories
Read MoreApple just released the iPhone 13 this month, along with the new iPad Mini and Apple Watch 7. (Photo: Apple) (Credit: Apple)It seems like the knives are officially out for Apple and its app-tracking policies. The company famously began letting iPhone users select whether they wanted 3rd party apps to track them in April of
Read MoreRon Miller / TechCrunch: Seattle-based DevZero, which offers tools to help developers build and test code in the cloud, raised a $5M seed and $21M Series A and launches its platform — Developers tend to build and test software on their local laptops, but these machines often lack the necessary resources to run …
Read MoreThe latest Apple AirPod competitors are here. The Pi7 S2 and Pi5 S2 are available beginning today with new features and fresh new colors.
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Read MoreHaving bad personal credit, admittedly, doesn’t make it easy to build business credit. But it can certainly be done with the right approach. Here are some specific strategies on how to build business credit with bad personal credit to make yourself a more attractive borrower. Establish Your EIN A good starting point is to establish
Read MoreThe Internet has allowed us to communicate more easily than ever before, and thanks to modern cell-phone networks, we don’t even have to be tied down to a hard line anymore. But what if you want something a little more direct? Maybe you’re in an area with no cell-phone coverage, or you don’t want to
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