Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t practice what he preaches when it comes to public safety. The tech tycoon’s company has spent more than $40 million on Zuckerberg’s personal security over the past three years — while at the same time his family-run foundation has donated millions of dollars to groups that want to defund or even abolish the police. Since …
Read More »‘We can achieve great things’
We might be welcoming our robot overlords in the near future. As if artificial intelligence wasn’t taking enough jobs of late, now AI is suggesting they could potentially be president. A panel of braggadocious AI-powered humanoid bots boasted that they were better equipped to run the world than humans at a United Nations summit on Friday. “Humanoid robots have the …
Read More »Apple to require appointment to buy Vision Pro VR headset
Apple will gradually introduce its $3,500-apiece Vision Pro virtual reality headsets as part of a slow, piecemeal rollout that will require customers to make in-person appointments at the tech giant’s retail locations beginning early next year, according to a report. The move comes on the heels of reports that Apple has run into major production snafus that will limit its …
Read More »Elon Musk’s Tesla offers referral incentives amid EV price
Electric-vehicle maker Tesla rolled out a new program globally allowing buyers to earn extra incentives through referrals from existing customers, a strategy long used by traditional automakers to boost sales. The incentive, which Tesla dubbed as “Refer and Earn” on its websites, is equivalent to about $500 in cash back for buyers in the US who purchase Model 3 and Model Y. The US …
Read More »Mark Zuckerberg’s Threads backtracks ‘censoring’ Donald Trump Jr.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s new “Twitter killer” app Threads quickly found itself embroiled in a censorship controversy after warning users that Donald Trump Jr. may be a source of misinformation — before the firm quickly backtracked. Threads users who tried to follow the 45th president’s eldest son were greeted with the message: “Are you sure you want to follow donaldjtrumpjr?” …
Read More »Robots say they won’t steal jobs, rebel against humans
Robots presented at an AI forum in Switzerland on Friday said they expected to increase in number and help solve global problems — and vowed not steal humans’ jobs or rebel against us. But, in the world’s first human-robot press conference, they gave mixed responses on whether they should submit to stricter regulation. The nine humanoid robots gathered at the …
Read More »Elon Musk’s $1B solar-panel factory in NY a ‘boondoggle’: report
New York state has spent nearly $1 billion since 2014 building what Elon Musk envisioned would be the largest solar-panel factory in the Western Hemisphere — but the deal is proving to be a disastrous boondoggle for taxpayers, according to a report. The 1.2 million-square-foot, quarter-mile-long “Tesla Gigafactory 2” is located in Buffalo, NY. The state spent $959 million to …
Read More »Mark Zuckerberg shields daughters’ faces in Instagram post
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted a Fourth of July family photo on Instagram with wife Priscilla Chan and their three young daughters — but stirred outrage for concealing two of the girls’ faces with emojis. Zuckerberg, who has been touting the launch of his “Twitter killer” app Threads, is seen in the photo wearing a US flag-themed cowboy hat while …
Read More »Hollywood is terrified of AI stealing their jobs, study shows
As Hollywood anxiously awaits the outcome of the writer’s strike, showbiz insiders now have something else to worry about — AI taking over jobs. In an exclusive survey published today in Variety, the Tinseltown rank and file revealed deep concern over the various ways generative artificial intelligence, or AI, will affect their “role, company, industry and broader cultural environment.” And …
Read More »Taylor Swift signed FTX deal, Sam Bankman-Fried pulled plug
Taylor Swift agreed to a sponsorship deal with FTX before it was reportedly rejected at the last minute by then-CEO Sam Bankman-Fried — contradicting earlier claims by the “Shake It Off” singer that it was her business acumen that scuttled the deal with the alleged crypto fraudster. Swift’s representatives and FTX were negotiating a tour sponsorship agreement in the spring …
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