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A first-generation iPhone from 2007 sold for nearly $40,000 at an auction. A press release notes the pioneering smartphone, which would’ve cost $599 in 2007, was listed and sold at LCG Auctions for $39,339. Gizmodo notes that, going into Sunday, the top bid was merely $10,446, before a considerable climb for the highly regarded relic. “This factory sealed, first-release […]
The Toronto Raptors are staying ahead of the game at their OVO Athletic Centre with a new high-tech analytics board to help players with data and stats in real time. The board is massive. It takes up the entire wall at their practice facility at nearly 37 metres long. The screen is also the first of its kind across […]
To be successful, you have to be innovative. And to be innovative, you have to disrupt the world you’re trying to break into. While that may sound romantic, any successful innovator will tell you they’ve only been able to ascend the ranks of their field due to hard work, trusting their own vision, ignoring naysayers, […]
Elon Musk says he spoke with the artist formerly known as Kanye West this week about his recent Twitter activity. As previously reported, Ye’s account was restricted (not permanently suspended) after a tweet shared last week that was widely called out as antisemitic. Ye’s Instagram, which has been a source of continued headlines as of […]
Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook Inc, has alerted FB users about app-focused efforts to steal their login information. In a recently shared statement, reps from Meta—specifically, David Agranovich (Director of Threat Disruption) and Ryan Victory (Malware Discovery and Detection Engineer)—announced they had identified more than 400 malicious apps across iOS and Android. These […]
Elon Musk has proposed buying Twitter for the original offer price, a report shared Tuesday alleged. Indeed, per a piece published Tuesday by Bloomberg, Musk is claimed by “people familiar with the matter” to have said in a letter to Twitter he would buy the company at a price of $54.20 per share. Complex has reached […]
Elon Musk’s father felt like Clint Eastwood while taking out a mob of intruders in 1998. In an interview with The Sun, Errol Musk recalled the 1998 incident, which took place at a rental property he owned in Johannesburg, South Africa. Errol with his daughter, Ali, who was six years old at the time, checking in […]
It wasn’t quite the asteroid that wiped out humanity in Don’t Look Up, but Canadian Julie Bellerose was at the controls of a NASA space probe that deflected an asteroid during a planetary defence test. On Sept. 26, a space probe called Dart hit an asteroid moving faster than 22,500 km/h, millions of kilometres away from the planet. […]
NASA is on a new mission to test whether using a spacecraft to deflect an asteroid really works. NBC News reports that this is the first time NASA has run an assessment like this—and is doing so to see if it can safeguard the planet from getting hit by a disastrous space rock in the future, […]
An apparent payout mistake resulted in Google sending a security engineer and self-described hacker nearly $250,000. Sam Curry, who works as a security engineer for the blockchain tech company Yuga Labs, revealed in a recently shared tweet that it’s been several weeks since Google “randomly sent me $249,999.” At the time, Curry added, he had […]
