A new initiative from Wendy’s has government officials talking about an investigation and customers calling for boycotts, but there’s some question that the so-called “surge pricing” model that was provoking those reactions is even something the fast food chain has considered. The practice — already in place at companies like Uber — would involve the […]
If you’re at all old enough to recall the “dot-com bubble” bursting in the early aughts, the current state of the tech industry should seem depressingly familiar to you. Back in the mid-’90s, with the advent of the internet, online e-commerce was booming at unprecedented levels, and businesses invested in that market — to a […]
The return of America to the moon went sideways, literally, after hectic hacking on Thursday saved the landing from being a disaster. As a result, even though many celebrated the return of America’s first moon landing since 1972, the stock in the company that made the lunar lander Odysseus dropped 32 percent in after-hours trading […]
After a service disruption Thursday effected tens of thousands of AT&T, sparking fears of a cyber attack, the company announced that evening that an internal error was the source of the problems. The company didn’t say how many of its customers had been affected by the issue, but USAToday cited data from website Downdetector as […]
Google has suspended the image-generating feature of its Gemini artificial intelligence chatbot after social media was filled with examples in which diversity replaced reality. Examples included a black George Washington, black Vikings, female popes and Founding Fathers who were Native American. The Verge reported that when it asked for “a US senator from the 1800s” […]
U.S. mobile phone users who use a variety of carriers have reported widespread outages since early Thursday morning nationwide. Some have said the outage is so severe they are unable to even dial 911. Beginning before 3:30 a.m. ET, the outages were first reported widely across social media. They appeared to mostly affect AT&T subscribers. […]
You’d think Big Tech would be content with the power they have to influence elections and indoctrinate unwitting children into woke ideology, but with the recent explosion of AI technology, it seems Big Tech is just getting started. As users of Google’s newly updated AI Gemini are quickly finding out, Big Tech doesn’t just want […]
It’s not too often that unmitigated success, adulation and fan approval can be a negative thing… but 2024 has already been a bit of an oddball year, no? Enter: “Helldivers 2,” a Sony-published shooter developed by Arrowhead Game Studios. The numbered sequel to 2015’s “Helldivers” released on Feb. 8 and became an instant smash success, […]
An autonomous vehicle was vandalized and burned in San Francisco’s Chinatown Saturday night. Video of the event was posted to the social media platform X by Gia Vang, an anchor with KNTV, the NBC station in San Francisco. BREAKING: An autonomous Waymo vehicle is intentionally set on fire in Chinatown, according to SF Fire. Firefighters […]
The smash hit video game “Elden Ring” (and winner of multiple 2022 game of the year awards) may soon be arriving on your phone. China‘s massive business titan, Tencent Holdings, is apparently developing a mobile version of the fantasy role-playing console game, Reuters reported on Feb. 5, citing three people familiar with the plan. According […]
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