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Hyundai Motor America and Kia America Inc. will pay nearly a quarter of a billion dollars after a viral TikTok challenge exposed major security flaws in their vehicles. According to Reuters, the auto manufacturers have agreed to settle a $200 million class-action lawsuit over the recent rise of car thefts. The complaint was filed after TikTok users, known as “the Kia […]
Elon Musk has found his replacement as Twitter’s top boss. The tech mogul announced the big news Thursday afternoon, nearly five months after he confirmed his intentions to resign as the company’s CEO. Although he declined to identify the incoming executive, Musk said she will begin her duties sometime next month, as he assumes the role of executive chair […]
Since the 51-year-old mogul took majority ownership, he has made seemingly never-ending changes. Last week the billionaire threatened to move National Public Radio’s Twitter account to another company’s platform because a broadcaster halted posting content to NPR’s 52 official Twitter feeds in protest. According to NPR, the media org quit Twitter after Musk said the government influenced its […]
Dr. Geoffrey Hinton first spoke about his concerns with the New York Times, saying—as a growing number of whistleblowers have also warned—it’s difficult to see “how you can prevent the bad actors from using [A.I.] for bad things.” Hinton, 75, has an extensive and almost impossible to summarize background in the larger world of academia, specifically […]
Uber has published its annual Lost & Found Index, which lists an assortment of items that passengers of the ride-sharing app have left behind over the past year. The 2023 Uber Lost & Found Index is highlighted by 50 of the most unique items left in a vehicle, which includes personal belongings such as a Danny […]
Fashion has long been an innovative realm where designers used their work to comment on culture, educate others, and to push ideas forward into the future. Lately, that process has accelerated, thanks to digital technology, the internet, and the metaverse. Nowhere is that more apparent than in the metaverse, where digitization allows designers to create […]
The family of a teenager who was publicly groomed and ultimately abducted from his home last year have a slew of questions about how such a crime was even possible, including whether the still-chaotic takeover of Twitter by Elon Musk played a factor in slowing down the investigation. The troubling case out of Utah, as […]
Khalid is expressing his concerns over the recent virality of AI-generated tracks. Speaking with a TMZ paparazzo over the weekend, Khalid was asked about the wave of recent AI-generated sounds emulating Drake’s voice, specifically whether he would be okay with someone doing the same with his voice. “I have mixed feelings about it,” he explained. […]
An AI-generated track designed to emulate a nonexistent Drake and The Weeknd collaboration has been going viral in recent days, all while criticism on the use of such tech continues to grow among artists and others in the music industry. The track, titled “Heart on My Sleeve,” appears to have originally been shared by a […]
Police have reportedly arrested a fellow tech executive for the brutal murder of Cash App founder Bob Lee, who was stabbed to death in downtown San Francisco last week. The arrest comes after San Francisco Police discovered Lee in a critical state and took him to the hospital before he succumbed to his injuries. Per local outlet Mission Local, Nima […]
