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David Hockney has died at age 88, one month short of his 89th birthday.The iconic British artist, known for his signature bleached blonde hair and colorful, rounded glasses, had a work ethic that kept him creating until the very end of his seven-decade career.”I have to paint, I’ve always wanted…
For years, the sprawling companies in Elon Musk’s business empire have worked closely together.Tesla, SpaceX, The Boring Company, et al. have behaved like pieces of a shared ecosystem inside Elon Inc. — buying one another’s products, investing billions across company lines, sharing software and materials, and moving employees between ventures.Now,…
My first cruise was a huge learning experience — especially when it came to packing.This was back in April 2022, when I spent seven nights on Royal Caribbean’s Wonder of the Seas — one of the world’s largest cruise ships — and brought just a carry-on suitcase and a backpack.…
Elon Musk’s SpaceX began trading at $150 a share on Friday, above its listing price of $135 a share, making him the world’s first-ever trillionaire following the IPO. The rocket and satellite company raised a record $75 billion, valuing the company at about $1.8 trillion, pushing the value of Musk’s…
Facebook and Instagram were suffering from widespread outages on Friday morning.Outage reports spiked on the third-party website DownDetector.com.”We’re aware people are currently having trouble accessing our services,” Meta’s communication director, Andy Stone, said in a post on X. “We’re working on it.” Meta’s systems dashboard page also showed “high disruptions”…
The 2026 World Cup — expected to be the most profitable in the tournament’s history — kicked off on Thursday.FIFA said it could generate $13 billion in revenue from the four-year cycle that concludes with the roughly five-week-long tournament. It estimated that the World Cup could add about $17.2 billion…
I spent over eight hours on TikTok last weekend.Why? I’ve been busy playing dozens of TikTok’s new mini games — popping pimples, running an oil company, and giving very hairy women makeovers.If I open TikTok now, within a few flicks of the thumb through the main feed, I’m getting ads…
A US task force focused on defeating drone threats recently put a new autonomous counter-drone system to the test at the US southern border.The Joint Interagency Task Force 401, or JIATF-401, is an Army-led counter-drone effort created to help the Pentagon and other federal agencies move faster on systems for…
The noise around a Tesla-SpaceX mega-merger is growing louder.In an interview with CNBC aired Friday, SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell said the two Elon Musk-led companies are working toward the same goals — and didn’t rule out a merger in the future.”That might make Elon’s life a little easier, actually,” said…
CIOs are worried their AI budgets are starting to max out with nothing to show for the costs incurred.Uber COO Andrew Macdonald gave voice to the growing concerns when he said in May that he’s yet to see direct improvements in line with AI spending.The rise of budget consciousness stands…
