Enlarge (credit: OLIVIER DOULIERY / Contributor | AFP) Elon Musk’s strategy to make Twitter profitable as quickly as possible seems to be to turn Twitter into everything the platform is not, seemingly ignoring much of what made the platform profitable in the first place. Instead of creating the town square where important public discourse is…
A study is stirring misinformation about nose-picking and Alzheimer’s. the journal Scientific Reports this February has generated a lot of buzz over the past week after Griffith University in Australia published a press release that linked nose-picking to a risk factor of late-onset Alzheimer’s disease.The reason, both the writeup and one of the study authors…
Rest in peace, Hyperloop tunnel. Deposit Photos There’s a lot to keep up with right now regarding Elon Musk’s ongoing slash-and-burn Twitter tactics following his $44 billion purchase of the social media platform, but that’s hardly the only ongoing project on his plate. Take the Boring Company, for instance—the business in charge of making the…
Benitago Group’s website no longer working this week set off an alarm bell for some folks, those who regularly follow the comings-and-goings of active fulfillment-by-Amazon aggregators. They believed it might spell the end for the e-commerce aggregator, which raised $380 million in equity and debt financing last year. Co-founder Benedict Dohmen confirmed to TechCrunch via…
Elon Musk is wasting no time making extremely deep cuts at Twitter, calving off many teams doing essential work at the company in the process. News of layoffs swept the platform on Friday, showing that Twitter’s billionaire owner is painting in broad strokes when it comes to trimming down the team by half. The same…
Things are not going well at Elon Musk’s Twitter dot com. In the wake of Musk’s takeover of the social media platform last Friday, apprehensive brands are pausing their Twitter advertising, unsure of the direction the billionaire plans to take the platform. And Twitter is feeling the hit, according to Musk himself. Tweet may have…
A drone that leverages a widespread security flaw to detect Wi-Fi networks from inside buildings has been developed by the University of Waterloo (UOW) in Canada, raising fears about similar devices being used to conduct criminal activity. In a press release, the university reported on developments first published in a paper by Dr. Ali Abedi,…
Tesla CEO Elon Musk at the 29th Annual Baron Investment Conference in New York City on November 4. Photo: Business Wire Elon Musk made a surprise appearance at the Baron Investment Conference in NYC on Friday. “A lot of people once they become independently wealthy, they just can’t bring themselves to work,” the billionaire said. …
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