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Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to Linkedin Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his ex-wife MacKenzie Scott. picture alliance via Getty Images MacKenzie Scott, the ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, is giving away her $46 billion fortune faster than anyone in history. Less than two months into 2022, Scott isn’t showing any signs of slowing…

Predicting the next big thing has been notoriously hard. Remember when 3D printers were the future? How about the upcoming dominance of 3D television or people fleeing New York City never to return? How about when Napster seemed like the future of the music industry or MySpace seemed like an unstoppable social media powerhouse. A…

Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinTopline Walmart announced Friday that vaccinated employees will no longer be required to wear masks at work, multiple news outlets reported, after Amazon and multiple states loosened their own masking rules in response to falling Covid-19 infection rates. A Walmart auto repair center cashier in Miami. Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images…

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk previewed plans for the company’s huge reusable Starship rocket Thursday which he hopes to eventually fly to Mars. Musk, who is also CEO of Tesla  (TSLA) – Get Tesla Inc Report, spoke from the company’s launch facility in southern Texas with the fully assembled rocket in the background.  “Starship is capable…

Tesla  (TSLA) – Get Tesla Inc Report has moved its headquarters from Fremont, Calif., to Austin.  But Elon Musk’s group is not done with California, where it still produces and sells a large number of cars. California has just filed a complaint against the owner of the Model 3, which it accuses of tolerating discrimination against…

Sen. Ed Markey calls on government agencies to cease using Clearview technology, as well as any other facial recognition tool, saying it threatens Black and ethnic minority communities. Samuel Corum/Getty Images A trio of Senators are calling on federal agencies to stop using facial recognition technology built by Clearview AI, a Peter Thiel-backed surveillance business…

Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to Linkedin Reacher Amazon Jack Reacher is one of the most beloved characters in modern mystery fiction, a burly ex-Military Police investigator initially accused of murder himself, who goes on to solve all number of crimes across a large collection of Lee Child novels. Now, Amazon Prime has just debuted…

AFP via Getty Images Meta and Mark Zuckerberg face a six-letter problem. Spell it out with me: T-i-k-T-o-k. Yeah, TikTok, the short-form video app that has hoovered up a billion-plus users and become a Hot Thing in Tech, means trouble for Zuckerberg and his social networks. He admitted as much several times in a call…

A two-alarm fire was reported at the Tesla  (TSLA) – Get Tesla Inc Report plant in Fremont, Calif. on Friday. The fire has been “knocked down” according to tweets from the Fremont Fire Department.   It broke out in a pile of packing materials (cardboard pallets) outside the plan buildings according the the tweets.  Fremont fire authorities…

Peloton  (PTON) – Get Peloton Interactive, Inc. Class A Report stock jumped by nearly 30% in after-hours trading after a Wall Street Journal report mentioned that Amazon  (AMZN) – Get Amazon.com, Inc. Report might be amid the buyers eyeing a potential purchase. While the report made it clear that any potential deal is far away and may…