Mario Gabelli’s legal threat influenced the doomed Paramount merger

A legal threat from investor Mario Gabelli was a “major factor” in this week’s unraveling of Shari Redstone’s $8 billion deal to merge Paramount Global with its “Mission: Impossible” production partner Skydance Media, The Post. When Redstone made a surprise move to pull the plug on the deal this week — just before a special … Read more

Head-to-head review: 2025 RockShox Zeb vs Fox 38

This isn’t the first time we’ve pitted the RockShox Zeb against the Fox 38, and it certainly won’t be the last. Both companies continue to battle for dominance, releasing minor and not-so-minor revisions each season in search of that top spot. That’s not to say there aren’t other worthy contenders out there, but for the … Read more

Everything in Helldivers 2 Viper Commandos Warbond

Helldivers 2 Viper Commandos Warbond is here and it’s the first reworked offering based on player feedback. Arrowhead have said that going forward they will focus on quality over quantity, meaning that Warbonds will be released less frequently and contain fewer items overall, but there will be a stronger thematic connection between items and have … Read more

$20 minimum wage in California led to higher fast food prices, less traffic, study shows

CABIA President Tom Manzo joined Fox & Friends to discuss how the minimum wage increase has affected the fast food industry as thousands are forced out of a job. California’s new $20 minimum wage for fast food workers has already caused restaurant prices to rise and foot traffic to drop since it went into effect … Read more

How “Super Photons” are shaping the future of physics

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Artist’s impression of a Bose-Einstein photonic condensate (yellow) in a bath of dye molecules (red) that has been stirred by an external light source (white flash). Credit: A. Erglis/Albert-Ludwigs University of Freiburg Researchers at the University of Bonn have demonstrated that super photons, or the photo Bose-Einstein condensates conform to the fundamental theorems of physics, … Read more

Luma AI Dream Machine video generator crashed with traffic

It’s time to celebrate the incredible women leading the way in AI! Nominate your inspirational leaders for VentureBeat’s Women in AI Awards today before June 18. Learn more The rapid AI video generation market has changed, again: Luma AI, a startup backed by famous Silicon Valley venture firm Andreessen Horowitz, today announced the free public … Read more

The United States grows more dominant among the world’s largest companies

With JPMorgan at the top of the list, the United States has extended its lead as the home of the world’s largest companies according to the annual Forbes Global 2000 ranking. Strong US markets are to be commended. from Hank TuckerForbes Staff WAs Americans continue to grapple with high grocery prices and the highest mortgage … Read more

Was this sea creature our ancestor? Scientists turn a famous fossil on its head.

Over the past 500 million years, vertebrates have evolved into a dizzying variety of forms, from hummingbirds to elephants, bullfrogs to hammerhead sharks, not to mention our unique species of great ape. But beneath all that diversity, vertebrates share some key features. We all have a spine made of vertebrae, for example, along with a … Read more

Why the gradual death of the console franchise makes business sense

In 2021, GamesIndustry.biz spoke with former PlayStation CEO Jim Ryan about his hopes for the company’s future. And he gave this answer: “I would like to see a world where the games we make on PlayStation can be enjoyed by many tens of millions of people. Maybe hundreds of millions. Right now the success with … Read more