Major airline faces backlash after using ‘ghost flights’ to exploit a legal loophole: ‘They weren’t even selling tickets’::Ultimately, it’s incumbent on lawmakers to take steps to ensure this practice is discouraged.
Facebook’s VR Headset Not Selling, Literally Giving It Away::Last fall, Meta-formerly-Facebook unveiled its Meta Quest Pro, a long-rumored, higher-end follow-up to the company’s best-selling Quest 2 VR headset. The sleek device, which initially went on sale for an eye-watering $1,500, has really struggled to catch on since...
Fake components went into 68 jet engines, including ones on Boeing 737 and Airbus A320 planes, says lawsuit::Airlines, regulators, and others are scouring their records to hunt down suspect components sold by AOG.
Quantum ‘yin-yang’ shows two photons being entangled in real-time::The stunning experiment, which reconstructs the properties of entangled photons from a 2D interference pattern, could be used to design faster quantum computers.
Tesla is reportedly under investigation by the DOJ and SEC over it’s mysterious ‘Project 42’::The project was internally believed to involve building a glass house for Elon Musk, the Journal previously reported.
Spotify has removed offensive imagery associated with a controversial song by Christian rapper Tyson James and his 11-year-old son Toby James, following a complaint by GLAAD....
Google accused of rigging market to secure dominant search monopoly in biggest US antitrust trial for years::The historic legal battle against federal government lawyers - which comes just a week after Google’s 25th birthday - is set to be the biggest in almost two decades. The outcome of the case could have repercussions for...
Blue checkmarks on X are ‘superspreaders of misinformation’ about Israel-Hamas war::The vast majority of viral misinformation about the war in Israel being posted on X (formerly Twitter) is being pushed by verified users, according to recent study by NewsGuard.
WhatsApp’s AI shows gun-wielding children when prompted with ‘Palestine’::By contrast, prompts for ‘Israeli’ do not generate images of people wielding guns, even in response to a prompt for ‘Israel army’
Best Buy to end DVD & Blu-ray disc sales::Best Buy plans to phase out sales of DVDs and Blu-ray discs both in-store and online by early 2024, the company said.
Hackers are using a fake Android app named ‘SafeChat’ to infect devices with spyware malware that steals call logs, texts, and GPS locations from phones....
Cat accused of wiping US Veteran Affairs server info after jumping on keyboard::US govt confirms outage, leaves feline in a quantum state of uncertainty
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Black holes keep ‘burping up’ stars they destroyed years earlier, and astronomers don’t know why::Years after ripping stars to shreds, 24 black holes suddenly flared up with radio waves in inexplicable ‘burping’ bouts. Half of all star-killing black holes may experience the same.