AI bot trolls politicians with how much time they’re looking at phones
Sure, we’ve all snuck a look at our phones in dull meetings. But if you’re working on the taxpayer’s dime, you’d better be ready for artificial...
That Time Spider-Man Went Back in Time for Plant Genocide
What makes a Worst Episode Ever? A total absence of fun? Anything resembling a coherent plot? An inability or perhaps unwillingness to honor its source material?...
Volvo, Daimler, Traton invest $593 million to build electric truck charging network
Volvo Group, Daimler Truck and Volkswagon’s AG heavy-truck business the Traton Group announced on Monday a non-binding agreement to build a network of high-performance public charging...
VW offloads Bugatti to Rimac to form new EV company Bugatti-Rimac
Croatian electric supercar startup Rimac Automobili is taking over Bugatti. Rimac will own a controlling 55% share in the new company, Bugatti-Rimac, with VW’s Porsche owning...
ManoMano raises $355 million for its home improvement e-commerce platform
French startup ManoMano has raised a Series F funding round of $355 million led by Dragoneer Investment Group. The company operates an e-commerce platform focused on...
The Many Lives of Spider-Woman
Jessica Drew has lived a long, strange life in the pages of Marvel Comics. From unlikely origins to parenthood struggles—with a secret invasion in between—Jessica’s tale...
Don’t Let Your iPhone Even Get Near This Cursed Wifi Network
A security researcher and his iPhone’s wifi have gotten strangely familiar with Murphy’s law in the past few weeks. Based on his experience, we now know...
Airbnb’s party crackdown has blocked more than 100,000 bookings
Sorry, Gen Z. Airbnb is holding the line on its under-25s house ban, even as America emerges from lockdown — and more people are being blocked...
Custom Magic 8-Ball Answers Just One Morbid Question: How You’re Going to Die
Since 1946, the indecisive have been relying on Abe Bookman’s Magic 8-Ball to help guide their most critical life decisions, but there’s one question the toy...
Bugatti Merges with Electric Supercar Startup Rimac
Electric supercar startup Rimac and Porsche today announced that it would take over Bugatti from Volkswagen to form a new company called Bugatti Rimac. The Croatian sports car...
