Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinTopline Tesla CEO Elon Musk has acquired a 9.2% stake in Twitter, the social media giant disclosed in an SEC filing on Monday, a move that comes weeks after the billionaire accused Twitter of failing to adhere to free speech principles. Elon Musk has acquired a 9.2% stake in…
Chickens, many of them destined for the spit, have vastly outnumbered humans in Nebraska’s Butler County since Costco spent half a billion dollars on poultry production in the state a few years ago. Now that a highly contagious virus called avian flu has infected flocks in the area, neighboring farmers are realizing they may have…
Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinTopline In her first Tesla sales since January, famed stock picker Cathie Wood, the CEO of investment firm Ark Invest, has offloaded a massive stake in the electric vehicle maker helmed by Elon Musk over the past week, dumping more than $200 million in shares to instead splurge on…
Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to Linkedin The wreckage of an Su-34 in Ukraine. Photo via Oryx blog The Sukhoi Su-34 was supposed to change the Russian air force. The twin-engine, twin-seat, supersonic fighter-bomber—a highly-evolved variant of the Su-27 air-superiority fighter—promised to usher in a new era of high-tech, precision bombing. Instead, the Su-34s have…
Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinTopline Hackers allegedly breached gaming-focused blockchain platform Ronin Network last week and extracted cryptocurrencies now valued at more than $600 million, the company announced on Tuesday, marking the second-biggest hack ever in the burgeoning cryptocurrency space. The attack is the largest since a $600 million hack of blockchain-based platform…
Elon Musk speaks at the opening of Tesla’s new electric car plant near Gruenheide, Germany. Getty Images Tesla may be the top-selling electric vehicle brand but in California, its biggest market in the U.S., the carmaker’s products have become too expensive for customers there to receive state rebates for non-polluting cars and trucks. The state’s…
Ukraine’s deputy prime minister says the tech will help provide transparency about how many Russian soldiers are dying in the war. Critics say the use of facial recognition in war zones is a disaster in the making. Ukraine is using Clearview AI facial recognition to identify dead Russian soldiers as part of a campaign to…
Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinTopline Stocks have been flirting with correction territory in recent months–and though the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite dipped into a bear market last week, historical data shows that investors should look past market volatility, with experts urging investors to buy the dip on the market’s recent selloff. The Nasdaq on…
Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinTopline Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott donated $436 million to Habitat for Humanity on Tuesday—the largest publicly disclosed donation the ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has made since she pledged to give away the majority of her wealth in 2019. MacKenzie Scott attends the 2018 Vanity Fair Oscar Party…
Mykhailo Fedorov, 31-year-old chief of the Ukraine Ministry of Digital Transformation, wants all Western tech companies to stop selling to Russia—with mixed results. Some continue to serve Russian businesses, including sanctioned ones. Ukraine Ministry of Digital Transformation Ukraine says the $120 billion software giant’s contracts with Russian banking customers are funding the murders of children.…





