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Monthly Archives: October 2022
Elon Musk at the 2022 Met Gala in New York. Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images Elon Musk can be like a “toddler” having a “tantrum,” Tesla’s former marketing chief said. Colette Bridgman told a BBC documentary: “I was seeing this person that was taken by anger.” Musk apologized after yelling at Bridgman a third time, but she…
Good morning. I’m senior reporter Carla Mozée writing to you as we head into the back end of the trading week. Two steps forward, one step back — that summarizes the S&P 500’s uneven performance over the past few days as investors have been trying to work out if a sustainable bear-market rally can be…
Jeremy Horner/Getty Images The Japanese yen slid past 150 against the dollar Thursday for the first time since 1990. The breaching of the key level ups pressure on Japan’s officials to intervene to shore up the currency. The yen’s decline has been driven by the difference in interest rate policy in Japan and the US….
The location of the UK’s Shetland Islands off the northern coast of Scotland. Google Maps/Insider A remote set of UK islands were cut off from all communication Thursday, police said. A communications company said there was a “break” in a vital undersea cable. It was the second such break in the space of a week,…
Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Jae C. Hong/AP Elon Musk said Tesla’s value could exceed $4.4 trillion, and Twitter could be worth $400 billion. The Tesla CEO said he’s not an investor like Warren Buffett, and teased a $10 billion stock buyback. Musk warned he’s seeing deflation, and said the Fed has hiked interest rates too…
Anton Gorelkin said messaging platform WhatsApp should be banned for state employees. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina/Getty Images A Russian lawmaker said he wants to introduce a ban on WhatsApp for state employees. Anton Gorelkin wrote on Telegram he didn’t advise anyone to trust Meta-owned WhatsApp. As the Ukraine war continues, Gorelkin said his friends have told him…
The remains of people buried in an east London plague pit which was used for mass burials in 1348 and 1349. Museum of London Archaeology The Black Death which ravaged Europe 670 years ago may still be harming humans today a study found. Genetic mutations that helped humans survive the plague increased the risk of…
Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott at an event outside Fox Corporation’s Manhattan headquarters in December, 2021. Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images Fox News’ CEO privately doubted Donald Trump’s election fraud claims, The NYT reported. The network pushed Trump’s baseless claims the 2020 was stolen from him through fraud. It faces a multibillion dollar lawsuit over the claims…
Hey, it’s Friday eve. Writing to you from New York, I’m Jordan Parker Erb. Before we get started: Thank you to my colleague Avery Hartmans, who will be helming the 10 Things in Tech ship while I’m out tomorrow and next week. Readers, I know you’ll be in good hands. We’ve got a lot of…