This sounds a lot like the “Wolf of Wall Street.” Such Great Heights Executives at the Manhattan bank that funded Donald Trump’s Truth Social are accusing each other of blowing millions of dollars on partying, gambling, and sex workers. As the Wall Street Journal reports, two money men from the financial firm EF Hutton have aired… Continue reading Trump’s Truth Social Funders Accuse Each Other of Blowing Millions on Gambling and Prostitution
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Elon Musk Appears to Have Realized How Badly He Screwed Up With the “Paying Voters” Thing
Multi-hyphenate billionaire Elon Musk’s pro-Donald Trump super PAC suspiciously didn’t announce a winner of its “daily” $1 million giveaway on Wednesday — just hours after the Justice Department sent the group a letter warning it that the voter payments may be illegal. The PAC, created to sway voters in battleground states ahead of the imminent… Continue reading Elon Musk Appears to Have Realized How Badly He Screwed Up With the “Paying Voters” Thing
All the news about Scout Motors, a classic SUV brand gone electric
Scout Motors, the classic off-road brand from the sixties, has been reborn as an electric vehicle company and is building a new SUV and pickup truck. The pioneering Jeep rival was brought back to life by Volkswagen in 2022 after the German automaker acquired Scout in 2020 (when it merged its commercial trucking company Traton… Continue reading All the news about Scout Motors, a classic SUV brand gone electric
A Neuralink Rival Says Its Eye Implant Restored Vision in Blind People
One of these, called the Argus II, was approved for commercial use in Europe in 2011 and in the US in 2013. That implant involved larger electrodes that were placed on top of the retina. Its manufacturer, Second Sight, stopped producing the device in 2020 due to financial difficulties. Neuralink and some others, meanwhile, are… Continue reading A Neuralink Rival Says Its Eye Implant Restored Vision in Blind People
OceanGate Faces Federal Investigation a Year After the Titan Submersible Implosion
The apparent success of the leaseback arrangement might explain how Rush was able to attract what was OceanGate’s largest ever investment in 2020, at a time when the company was working on the expensive task of replacing the Titan’s first hull that had cracked during testing. The $18 million in equity funding allowed OceanGate to… Continue reading OceanGate Faces Federal Investigation a Year After the Titan Submersible Implosion
NASA spent October hoisting a 103-ton simulator section onto a test stand to prep for the next Moon mission
NASA spent the last two weeks hoisting a 103-ton component onto a simulator and installing it to help prepare for the next Moon missions. Crews fitted the interstage simulator component onto the Thad Cochran Test Stand at Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. The connecting section mimics the same SLS (Space Launch System)… Continue reading NASA spent October hoisting a 103-ton simulator section onto a test stand to prep for the next Moon mission
Waymo raises $5.6 billion to fund Austin and Atlanta expansion
Waymo has raised another huge chunk of change from investors. The company announced on its blog that it secured an “oversubscribed investment round” of $5.6 billion in funding, the largest of which came from Google’s parent company Alphabet. The company is working with Uber to expand to Austin and Atlanta by the early part of… Continue reading Waymo raises $5.6 billion to fund Austin and Atlanta expansion
The M2 MacBook Air is cheaper than ever at $700, plus the rest of this week’s best tech deals
Black Friday/Cyber Monday is more than a month away (Thanksgiving falls on November 28 this year — I looked it up so you don’t have to). So while we wait for all of the best-of-the-year discounts the shopping event usually entails, there are still a few worthy sales out there on the tech we’ve reviewed… Continue reading The M2 MacBook Air is cheaper than ever at $700, plus the rest of this week’s best tech deals
iOS 18.2 will include daily Sudoku puzzles for Apple News+ subscribers
The long-anticipated iPhone iOS 18.1 officially launches next week, bringing with it Apple Intelligence, but we are already on to the next new thing. The company is busy preparing iOS 18.2, which has already entered its beta stage and should be widely released in December. This next operating system will include daily Sudoku puzzles for… Continue reading iOS 18.2 will include daily Sudoku puzzles for Apple News+ subscribers
The UK’s antitrust regulator will formally investigate Alphabet’s $2.3 billion Anthropic investment
The UK’s competition regulator is probing Alphabet’s investment in AI startup Anthropic. After opening public comments this summer, the Competition and Market Authority (CMA) said on Thursday it has “sufficient information” to begin an initial investigation into whether Alphabet’s reported $2.3 billion investment in the Claude AI chatbot maker harms competition in UK markets. The… Continue reading The UK’s antitrust regulator will formally investigate Alphabet’s $2.3 billion Anthropic investment