A leading EU official has denied taking a softer approach to Big Tech, citing a “very clear legal basis” for regulators and pointing to several ongoing investigations into the likes of social media platform X and Meta. The FT reported earlier this week that the EU was reassessing investigations into Apple, Google and Meta —…
Rebecca Douglas has been to Iceland 29 times. And she’s already booked her 30th trip. The goal of every trip is the same: photographing the aurora borealis, or Northern Lights. Douglas has been photographing this spectacular phenomenon since 2010. It’s colors — which can paint the sky a dazzling array of green, purple, yellow and…
Budrul Chukrut | Lightrocket | Getty Images Exxon Mobil and Chevron are jumping into the race to power artificial intelligence data centers, as the two oil majors bet tech companies will ultimately turn to natural gas to meet their tremendous energy needs. Exxon unveiled plans this week to build a natural gas plant to power…
Twenty big cats – including a Bengal tiger and four cougars – have died of the bird flu over the past several weeks at an animal sanctuary in the state of Washington. “This tragedy has deeply affected our team, and we are all grieving the loss of these incredible animals,” the Wild Felid Advocacy Center…
“Meet Saucy” implores the press release, at once an unnerving invitation and a pretty good pun. On Monday, December 23, KFC is launching a new restaurant concept in Orlando, Florida, centered around the chicken tender and everything in which you can dip it. “At the heart of Saucy’s menu is its 11 sauces, which customers…
Getty Images Some textile dyeing is still done by hand In a small corner of rural Taiwan, set amongst other dye houses and small factories, the start-up Alchemie Technology is in the final phase of rolling out a project it claims will upend the global apparel industry and slash its carbon footprint. The UK-based start-up…
Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Saturday reacted after the news of ‘Peanut’ the squirrel’s demise broke the internet. Netizens expressed outrage when New York State officials euthanized Peanut, a well-known squirrel on the internet, after forcefully seizing him from a New York man’s house. Tesla CEO Elon Musk extended condolences to Longo over the death…
Nov 02, 2024 01:13 PM IST Danish user’s joke about voting in the US without ID, sparking discussions on election integrity. The voter identification requirements vary across the states and the debate on the issue boils with the elections just around the corner. A vast disparity has been observed within voter ID requirements across the…
Melania Trump is making moves just in time for the U.S. elections! On Friday, she was spotted packing up an impressive collection of Louis Vuitton luggage outside Trump Tower in NYC. With her son Barron by her side, who is a freshman at NYU, the duo was reportedly leaving for a trip to South Florida….
As the U.S. election gets closer, Chinese investors are jumping into a stock that’s all about celebrating a win for Trump. The shares of Wisesoft Co., a company from Shenzhen that makes software for air traffic control, have skyrocketed by the daily limit for three days straight, buoyed by its Chinese name, “Chuan Da Zhi…
