Trump’s ‘Access Hollywood’ tape is making the rounds on TikTok
“Grab them by the p***y.” Thought that phrase was buried in the past? Think again. With the election on the horizon, the notorious conversation between former President Donald Trump and Billy Bush,...
View ArticleWhy Sony killed the PS5 game ‘Concord’—and the entire studio that made it
Sony Interactive Studios is swinging the axe with a ferocity even God of War’s Kratos would have trouble matching. The video game company announced plans Tuesday to shut down two internal studios and...
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Amid backlash and fears, AI startups are quietly creeping into Hollywood
Keanu Reeves has fought machines on-screen. Now, his performances are teaching them. In September, Lionsgate inked a deal with Runway, permitting the AI firm to train a new generative AI model on its...
View ArticleU.S. shippers are avoiding East Coast ports. Here’s why
U.S. shippers are steering clear of East and Gulf Coast ports amid worries the 45,000 dockworkers at those trade hubs will go on strike again if their union leader does not land a new contract with...
View ArticleBillions spent on swing state political ads is leaving voters frazzled
Libby Brouwer was so fed up with political advertisements interrupting her YouTube viewing in the battleground state of Michigan that she opted to pay $13.99 per month to go ad-free. And don’t get her...
View Article7 last-minute Halloween costume ideas inspired by memes and pop culture in 2024
Time flies and the next thing you know, Halloween is only a day away. If you have majorly procrastinated on your costume, never fear. Pop culture has your back as it contains a treasure trove of...
View ArticleWhy the upcoming U.S. jobs report will be one of the most distorted in years
Four days before Election Day, the government will issue its final snapshot of hiring and unemployment in the United States after a presidential race in which voter perceptions of the economy have...
View ArticleElon Musk wants you to submit medical data to his AI chatbot
Billionaire and X owner Elon Musk put out a call on his social media platform Tuesday for people to submit their medical scans to Grok, his AI chatbot. But experts are advising people to use caution...
View ArticleWhy U.S. union steelworkers are optimistic about clean energy jobs
The United Steelworkers union is counting on clean energy projects to spur membership growth, offsetting losses at oil refining and petrochemical plants, a union official said, even if Donald Trump...
View ArticleCourt sides with Elon Musk over a 2018 dispute with the United Auto Workers
A federal agency was wrong to order that Tesla CEO Elon Musk delete a 2018 social media post that union leaders saw as a threat to employee stock options, a sharply divided federal appeals court has...
View ArticleTGI Fridays list of closing restaurants keeps growing as store locator keeps...
In a continued wave of retail closures, TGI Fridays has significantly scaled back its U.S. presence. As of today, the casual restaurant chain has just 163 remaining locations, according to the store...
View ArticleJPMorgan Chase is suing customers over the viral check fraud scam
JPMorgan Chase has begun to file lawsuits against people that exploited the viral “infinite money glitch”—or committed check fraud—this summer. In August, posts began circulating on social media...
View ArticleGoogle’s AI-aided cloud computing gains heat up the race against Amazon,...
Google-parent Alphabet’s breakout cloud sales in the July-September quarter bode well for top cloud providers Microsoft and Amazon.com, and signal that market for AI-aided computing power is only...
View ArticleDOT and Delta reveal plans for wheelchair-adaptive seats on planes
It’s been a long time coming, but air travel is about to get a little less complicated for travelers who use wheelchairs. This week, the Department of Transportation (DOT), the Federal Aviation...
View ArticleArizona students just pressured the Tucson school district to pass an...
The Tucson Unified School District (TUSD) in Arizona just passed a bold climate action plan—and the effort was spearheaded by student activists. In a 3-2 vote Tuesday night, the TUSD board adopted a...
View ArticleThe Harris campaign is running the biggest political ad of all time on the...
The single biggest ad of the election—ever, for that matter—is running in Las Vegas. Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign is running the first-ever political ad on the Sphere, the gargantuan new...
View ArticleU.S. picks winning bids in the Atlantic Coast’s first commercial sale for...
The U.S. government chose winning bids Tuesday to develop wind power off New England in the first commercial sale for floating offshore wind project on the Atlantic Coast. The Bureau of Ocean Energy...
View ArticleRobert Downey Jr. threatens to sue any future executives who use his AI replica
Robert Downey Jr. doesn’t think Marvel executives would ever recreate his portrayal of Tony Stark using artificial intelligence. But if they did, he would lawyer up—even posthumously. On a recent...
View ArticleElon Musk wants everyone to have more kids—but a Trump presidency won’t help...
Across social media and in interviews, Elon Musk has repeatedly aired his concerns about the declining birth rate, calling it “the biggest danger civilization faces” and urging his followers to have...
View ArticleDropbox lays off 20% of its workforce as CEO blames ‘excess layers of...
Dropbox is dropping a huge chunk of its head count. CEO Drew Houston relayed to employees that the company was shedding 20% of its workforce, equivalent to 528 roles, in a letter published on...
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