The YouTuber apology video is an art form. A penitent creator must be remorseful, but not theatrical. Concise, but not rehearsed. Honest, but not defensive. Above all, an apology video cannot be memeable, or it’ll never be taken seriously. Colleen Ballinger’s apology saga, however, will be one of the most memorable in YouTube history because…
Through a new lawsuit, a free speech group and research coalition that studies technology’s effect on society are pushing back against a ban on TikTok affecting government devices in the state of Texas. In the lawsuit, filed by Columbia University’s Knight First Amendment Institute on behalf of the Coalition for Independent Technology Research, the allied…
It’s received over 18,000 five-star ratings on Amazon…
Flight to quality (or flight to safety) refers to the tendency of investors to move their money out of riskier asset classes (like technology stocks) and into more stable asset classes (like government bonds) during bear markets, recessions, periods of high inflation, and other times of economic …
Last year, when venture capital’s fiery streak cooled, climate tech held strong with tens of billions in deals despite geopolitical instability, hiked-up interest rates and crypto chaos. Still, the state of the sprawling, tricky-to-define sector was never easy to pin down; that’s as true as ever today. So, where do things stand? Depending on what…
Suffolk Technologies wants to have its cake and eat it, too. Corporate VCs and traditional investors help startups in different ways. While venture capitalists are better equipped to help startups land their next funding round or make their next hire, CVCs can ask their corporate overlords to serve as early product testers or customers. Suffolk…
The Tesla-loving ETF sought to answer a simple question: Can Threads and Twitter exist at the same time…
Lucid’s future was already cloudy, but lately the EV startup’s name is practically a misnomer. On Wednesday, Lucid told investors that it delivered 1,404 of its Air sedans during the second quarter, missing Wall Street analysts’ expectations by nearly 600 vehicle deliveries. The startup also said it built 2,173 vehicles during Q2, down from 2,314…
Google has updated its mobile software marketplace policy to allow application developers to integrate digital assets like NFTs into their games through its Play app store, the company’s group product manager Joseph Mills announced on Wednesday. As part of the policy update, Mills stated that apps must be “transparent with users about tokenized digital assets”…
Netflix is updating its Profile Transfer feature to allow members to switch to an already existing account, the company noted today in a blog post. Now users can transfer their profile preferences to another existing account instead of starting a brand-new one. “Starting today, the Profile Transfer feature has been updated to allow transfers to…





