Photo: Alexander Khitrov (Shutterstock) The FBI says that cybercriminals connected to the North Korean regime are responsible for an attack on a U.S.-based crypto project, Harmony Protocol, that led to over $100 million in losses last year. On Monday, the FBI published a brief statement explaining that it had... Read more
Screenshot: SoundHound SoundHound, a voice AI company that laid off 40% of its employees earlier this month, announced Tuesday that it had successfully raised $25 million in equity investment. That funding brings good news for the laid off staff, three of whom previously said what measly severance they were... Read more
Lyft will start charging you wait time fees if you make a driver wait more than two minutes after their arrival. Lyft’s policy arrives a whole seven years after Uber implemented the same one.Photo by Smith Collection / Gado / Getty Images Lyft is cracking down on late passengers.... Read more
Will the iPad Pro ever get its major makeover? Image: Apple Apple hit us with new hardware last week—the MacBook Pro, the Mac Mini, the second-gen HomePod—and there’s more to come this year in sprinklings. But what’s next on the horizon might not be worth the immediate upgrade, reports... Read more
Chicken Fried Data: Chick-Fil-A Hit With Class-Action Privacy Lawsuit Over Video Data Collection
Money/Business May 9, 2023
Photo: Sheila Fitzgerald (Shutterstock) While Chick-fil-A was serving you sandwiches, it was also serving up data to Facebook’s parent company Meta. According to a new lawsuit filed Sunday, the fast food chain did that in a way that violated one of the only federal privacy laws in the United... Read more
Oh to be a fly on the wall at this pitch meeting. Note: M&M did not officially announce any of its “spokescandies” were/are “non-binary.” Screenshot: Twitter / Gizmodo There’s a new potential casualty in the “woke” wars. More than a year of absurd conservative critique of M&M’s cartoon mascots... Read more
The Tesla CEO, who is on trial for securities fraud, insists that his proposal to take the company private at $420 a share was not a weed joke. Musk spent most of today’s testimony doing what no one really should have to do: defend old tweets. Illustration by Laura... Read more
Lightyear has stopped production on its solar-powered EV after three months
Money/Business May 9, 2023
It says it plans to focus on producing a less expensive car aimed at the mass market. One of the first Lightyear 0s being made.Image: Lightyear Electric vehicle company Lightyear has announced that it’s halting production on the Lightyear 0, its €250,000 (around $270,000 USD) solar-powered car that the... Read more
The Meta Quest’s improved hand tracking is now the default
Tech February 18, 2023
Meta introduced its Hand Tracking 2.0 system last year, but it’s now the default for apps ahead of the April deprecation of 1.0. Hand tracking could become a big battleground for virtual reality headsets.Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge In April 2022, Meta released Hand Tracking 2.0,... Read more
Scientists found a new emperor penguin colony by tracking poo markings from space
News February 18, 2023
The colony, like many others, faces an existential threat due to climate change. In honor of this year’s Penguin Awareness day, the British Antarctic Survey announced the existence of a previously undiscovered emperor penguin colony in one of the most remote and inaccessible parts of Antarctica. Scientists spotted the... Read more
