Facebook has been offering free account verification for public figures, media, brands or businesses since 2018. Now, the service will be fee-based and expanded to include additional benefits for subscribers. However, only individual profiles can use the Meta Verified service for the time being. An extension to corporate profiles is planned, wit...
Today is Star Wars day! Celebrate with the new series, the second season of Visions and the Simpsons
"May the Force be with you," say the heroes from a galaxy far, far away. And today is a similar-sounding "May the fourth", the fourth of May is the Star Wars Day! A new series of the original Star Wars: Visions animated mix. A combination of Star Wars and The Simpsons. A new cartoon series for the youngest Star Wars fans, The Adventures of th...
Bitcoin mining needs massive quantities of power. Blockware Solution, in collaboration with SEVA, will build a massive solar-powered mining farm in abandoned West Virginia coal mines. Bitcoin mining firms may be found all over the world. The basic issue is the enormous amount of energy they consume, which is why some firms are attempting to a...
On social media network TikTok is running a challenge that people are abusing to steal cars. It's a story so fascinating it's hard to believe. Yet it is true. It was all supposed to start in late 2021, when police officers in the US city of Milwaukee began investigating car thefts by children as young as teenagers. It was later discovered tha...
Six months after severing relations with Kanye West, Adidas is still unsure what to do with its $1.3 billion mound of unsold Yeezy goods. It's been six months since Adidas broke relations with Kanye West, and the company is still unsure what to do with the avalanche of unsold Yeezy merchandise that followed. Adidas Bjrn Gulden stated in a sta...
The Japanese have recently connected an AI to the brain that draws thoughts. In Texas, they connected a text generator to the brain, as we know it from ChatGPT. It can write summaries of what we're thinking about. Do you feel that the pace of commercial AI chatbot development is too frenetic and we should slow it down while there's still time...
This expanded collection of photographs depicts memorable old ads that ran in gaming magazines in the 1980s and 1990s, showing how radically different video game advertising was 40 years ago. It was a time when people got their gaming news from magazines that they borrowed from each other. Looking at these ads, it's clear that many advertiser...
China has massively subsidised EVs for 13 years and transformed the entire industry. It holds global dominance over the supply chain. What will be Europe's attitude towards Chinese cars? In 2022, 10.5 million battery cars (including hybrids) will be sold globally, including 6.2 million in China, where one in four cars sold is battery-powered....
Warner Bros. Discovery has officially announced a new name for its flagship streamer Max, doing away with part of the HBO name. The company announced the name change at a Wednesday press event, where it also revealed a list of upcoming projects. The retooled Max will launch first in the U.S. on May 23 and will feature an average of more than ...
