“It’s no longer possible to watch any content starring Keanu Reeves in China,” reports PC Magazine, “and searching for his name returns no results from search engines.” Earlier this year, about a month after the release of The Matrix Resurrections, Reeves was announced as a performer at the 35th annual Read more…
Tesla has a vast network of over 30,000 superchargers spread across the globe. But there’s also already another network of over 730 D.C. charging stations spread across the U.S. by “Electrify America.” Thank Volkswagen, which founded the company as part of a $2 billion agreement to create clean car infrastructure Read more…
Apple is paying six-figure “special retention grants” to a handful of hardware and software engineers. The bonuses, anonymous sources told Bloomberg, are worth between $100,000 and more than $200,000 in restricted stock units that vest over several years, providing another incentive for engineers to stay at Apple… The bonuses show Read more…
“A massive ice shelf in eastern Antartica collapsed, scientists said on Friday, marking the first time an ice shelf has done so in the region,” reports the Hill: The 460-square mile wide ice shelf, which was roughly the size of New York City and helped keep the Conger and Glenzer Read more…
CNN Business reports a deepfake video of Russian president Volodymyr Zelensky was fabricated to falsely depict him urging viewers to lay down their weapons and return to their families. But at the same time, “there was another widely circulated deepfake video depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin supposedly declaring peace in Read more…
On March 20, 2022, the New York Times published a 14,000-word puff piece on cryptocurrencies, both online and as an entire section of the Sunday print edition. Though its author, Kevin Roose, wrote that it aimed to be a “sober, dispassionate explanation of what crypto actually is”, it was a Read more…
Exxon Mobil is running a pilot program using excess natural gas that would otherwise be burned off from North Dakota oil wells to power cryptocurrency-mining operations and is considering doing the same at other sites around the globe, Bloomberg News reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The oil giant Read more…