On Thursday, Tesla ( TSLA ) shareholders will find out whether Elon Musk’s record $56 billion pay package will be reinstated after a Delaware judge struck down an earlier one. “I am voting yes without enthusiasm; I’m voting yes out of principle,” early investor Ibrahim AlHusseini told Yahoo Finance. Personal feelings aside, he said Tesla … Read more
I have had many conversations over the years about life extension, and the idea often meets with resistance. People get upset when they hear about an individual whose life is shortened by a disease, but when faced with the possibility of the overall extension of human life, they react negatively. “Life is too hard to … Read more
As of Wednesday, X users are no longer able to see which posts others have liked, with a few exceptions. Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP via Getty Images hide title change the subtitles Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP via Getty Images X, the app formerly known as Twitter, is implementing another controversial change. Starting this week, users won’t be able to … Read more
Cracking and self-healing of peptide glass. Credit: Nature (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07408-x A team of materials scientists from Tel Aviv University and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, both in Israel, working with a colleague from the California Institute of Technology in the US, have discovered that mixing a certain peptide with water results in creating a … Read more
What a Google ‘top stories’ search result looks like with and without AI Summary The dramatic impact Google’s AI-written summaries are having on search results visibility for publishers has been revealed through exclusive new research. An investigation led by The Press found that AI-written summaries returned nearly a quarter of news-related search queries in mid-May … Read more
Traders work at the GameStop trading floor on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., June 12, 2024. Brendan McDermid | Reuters GameStop’s The annual shareholder meeting was interrupted by computer problems on Thursday after servers crashed under the overwhelming interest in the stream, a customer service representative … Read more
The sun unleashed a flurry of radiation-filled explosions in May. When they crashed into Earth’s magnetic bubble, the world was treated to iridescent displays of the northern and southern lights. But our planet was not the only one in the line of solar fire. A few days after Earth’s light appeared, another series of explosions … Read more
Already a hit on PC through early access, V Rising is coming to PS5 as it enters version 1.0. This is an isometric action RPG not unlike Diablo, but instead of focusing on loot, this blood-sucking adventure emphasizes crafting and building. It’s a nice mix of genres, but it’s fair to say that the game … Read more
Intensity map and geographic location of the 2023 Turkey earthquake. A black star indicates the epicenter of the earthquake (https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes). Credit: Journal of Applied Geodesy (2024). DOI: 10.1515/jag-2024-0024 A recent study in Journal of Applied Geodesy suggests. Developing early warning systems for earthquakes can be very helpful in preventing death and destruction. One such proposed … Read more
Keith Gill, the meme stock trend setter known as Roaring Kitty, may have sold his recently disclosed options at GameStop amid a surge in trading, market experts speculated. Gill — who made a surprise return to social media last month after not posting anything online for years — had revealed a sizable GameStop stock and … Read more