Happy Wednesday, readers! Jordan Parker Erb here, reporting to you from New York. Today, we’ve got a look at what happens when influencers promote a business that eventually comes crashing down around them. In the case of finance influencers who hyped up FTX and BlockFi to their subscribers, the result is a lot of unhappy,…
Jack Burkman (L) and Jacob Wohl (R) at a news conference in Arlington, Virginia, November 1, 2018. Joshua Roberts/Reuters Two right-wing operatives pleaded guilty to running a robocall scheme before the 2020 election. On Tuesday, Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman were sentenced to work 500 hours at a voter registration drive. The men set up…
Elon Musk at the 2022 Met Gala. Noam Galai/GC Images A viral Elon Musk tweet about putting cocaine in Coca-Cola has been framed and hung at Twitter’s HQ. A Twitter staffer shared an image of the office decorations earlier this week. The picture appears to have replaced other tweets that previously hung at the San…
This year’s bear market could drag on into early 2023, Mike Wilson said Bear stock market The S&P 500 could fall 24% from current levels in early 2023, Morgan Stanley’s Mike Wilson predicted. Companies will downgrade their earnings targets and that will drive a selloff in US stocks, he said. “The bear market is not…
A week ago, the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) petitioned the Board of Supervisors for permission to deploy robots that can kill suspects under specific circumstances. Now, the board has approved the petition with a vote of 8 vs. 3 despite strong opposition from civil liberties groups. Under the new policy, robots can be used…
In March 1969 Concorde made its first test flight, that’s 50 years after the first non-stop transatlantic flight happened. A lot of history has passed since both these dates with technology improving and getting bigger and better. In April 2019 the plane with the largest wingspan in the world took flight over the Mojave desert….
You might be surprised to learn that it’s not just cars and aeroplanes that are capable of incredible speeds. Even trains that run on rails can really pin you to the back of your seat and travel hundreds of miles in the blink of an eye. Don’t believe us? Take a look at the list…
More glitches have been discovered in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet (who would have thunk it) which allow players to duplicate items, and even their legendary Pokémon. Plenty of bugs and exploits have already been found, whether it’s creating body horror or duplicating shiny Pokémon, but this is on a different level. In the game, you’re…
Nintendo has now released its second trailer for the Super Mario Bros. Movie, giving us our best look yet at the upcoming animated film from Minions maker Illumination. The trailer showcases a good look at the film’s version of Princess Peach (voiced by Anya Tayor-Joy) while Chris Pratt’s Mario only gets a couple of lines…
The 6.1-inch OLED screen on the iPhone 14 The iPhone 14 saw some seriously tempting price drops over the Black Friday period but we’ve just found a deal that puts those previous offers to shame. If you head over to Mobiles.co.uk, you can bag the iPhone 14 with a whopping 200GB of data on Vodafone…