Models ditch photoshoots, ‘stressful’ casting in favor of selling their likeness to AI
AI Fashion pays models to upload a few dozen photos of themselves in order to use their likeness in fashion campaigns and other advertisements.
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Weight loss drug wins 25,000 new US users a week
Novo Nordisk is under pressure to cut US prices of its weight loss drug, as demand soars.
Amazon CEO's anti-union comments 'threatened' employees and violated labor laws, judge rules
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy had a lot to say about his employees’ efforts to unionize in 2022. But those comments, made casually to media outlets, violated federal labor laws, a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) judge ruled this week. Read more...
Daily Wire obtains gag order against Candace Owens despite Ben Shapiro wanting debate: report
The Daily Wire secretly sought to muzzle Owens even as star host Ben Shapiro and company CEO Jeremy Boreing were publicly negotiating with her.
Max streaming service reportedly to crack down on password sharing after move boosts Netflix
The cost of the "extra members" on Max’s platform will be cheaper than $9.99, according to Bloomberg.
Why do we get sleepy while riding in cars?
There’s nothing like riding passenger on a road trip and l etting the car lull you to sleep, but why is it that riding in a car makes folks so darn eepy? A 2018 study conducted by RMIT University Australia found that the natural vibrations we experience when in moving vehicles
NASA's new solar sail is about to orbit the Earth
Nearly a week after launching to space, a microwave-sized cubesat phoned home for the first time as it prepares to embark on its mission of sailing through low Earth orbit. Read more...
We're driving our cars cars to death so we can save money
A version of this article originally appeared on Jalopnik . Read more...
The Dow rises 220 points with all eyes on Apple earnings
The Dow Jones and other major stock indexes opened higher a day after the Fed confirmed that there won’t be any more interest rate hikes . The April jobs report is due Friday, which will influence the stock market’s performance. Read more...
Taylor Swift’s songs returning to TikTok after Universal Music licensing deal
Universal and TikTok said they were working "expeditiously" to return music by the label's artists to TikTok.
Not even Tesla interns are safe from Elon Musk's cost-cutting
Elon Musk’s drive to slash costs at Tesla is hitting almost every corner of the company, from senior-level executives to summer interns just weeks away from employment. Read more...
Google paid Apple $20B in 2022 alone for default status: docs
The massive sum appeared in unsealed testimony by a top Apple executive in the trial’s early days last fall and marked the first public confirmation of the figure.
Ozempic maker Novo Nordisk denies flooding market with 'junk' patents after FTC challenge
Novo Nordisk responded today to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) suggestion that it filed ‘junk’ patents to prevent competition and raise prices. Read more...
Cocoa prices have fallen 30% in just a couple weeks
After starting the year on a tear that put the fear of God in Easter baskets everywhere , cocoa prices are backing sharply off record highs. Futures for the commodity have dropped nearly a third from the place it was at just a few weeks ago. It’s trading at just under $8,000 a
Fired ABC weatherman Rob Marciano’s ‘heated screaming match’ with ‘GMA’ producer was ‘last straw’: report
News of Marciano's tirade, which was reported by The Daily Beast, got back to Ginger Zee, ABC's chief meteorologist, who then alerted her superiors.
Google paid Apple $20 billion to be Safari’s default search engine
Google put an eleven-figure price tag on being the go-to search tool on Apple’s Safari browser. Read more...
Huawei is secretly funding U.S. research despite being blacklisted, report says
Despite being on the U.S. trade blacklist since 2019 , Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei has secretly been the sole funder of a research competition involving U.S. universities that is administered by a Washington, D.C.-based foundation, a report found. Read more...
Carvana stock skyrockets 37% after the used car company reported record profits
Carvana stock hit its highest level in years on Thursday after the used car retailer reported record results and made a profit last quarter . Read more...
Does Perplexity’s “answer engine” threaten Google?
Taking aim at one of the best business models of all times
How not to work on a plane
Hours without interruption and work to do. What could go wrong?
Why does BHP want Anglo American?
Its $39bn takeover offer is the latest in a string of mining mega-mergers
More than 16,000 pounds of ground beef sold at Walmart recalled over E. coli contamination
More than 16,000 pounds of ground beef sold at Walmart stores across the US have been recalled over a possible E. coli contamination, the US Department of Agriculture said. The beef comes from Cargill Meat Solutions in Hazleton, Pa., per a “high class” warning issued on the
Home prices aren't going down in a single major U.S. metropolitan area
The U.S. housing market doesn’t look like it’s getting any more palatable for potential homebuyers anytime soon — at least not in the country’s major metropolitan areas. Read more...
Robotaxis wouldn't be able to dodge traffic tickets under new California bills
It’s no secret that legislation tends to lag behind technological and social advancements, but as technology advances at higher rates than ever before, legislation needs to react faster. Autonomous vehicles have been on California roads for years, but California law only
Post Office 'saw postmasters as enemies'
A former top lawyer at the postal group admitted its security team to an "adversarial" approach
Elon Musk's Starlink satellite internet terminals keep working in places they're not supposed to
Starlink satellite internet terminals are reportedly still operating in unlicensed places, despite the company’s warning last month that the service would be shut down by May 1 in those areas. Read more...
A belligerent plane passenger got banned from United Airlines for life and fined $20,000
A federal judge ruled last week that a British airline passenger must pay $20,638 for interfering with the flight crew on a United Airlines flight between London and Newark, New Jersey on March 1. According to the Department of Justice’s account , the unruly passenger got into
Planes have a secret wind turbine generator — just in case
Aircraft safety is a hot topic these days, with Federal Aviation Administration investigators looking into door seals at Boeing, aircraft slides flying off mid air and engine failures plaguing several planes in recent months. But what happens if the power in your plane actually
Peloton CEO steps down, fitness unicorn to slash headcount by 15%
Peloton’s chief executive officer is stepping down from the role as the fitness company plans to cut roughly 15% of its global workforce. Chief Barry McCarthy told Peloton’s roughly 3,500 employees of his resignation in a note sent Thursday morning that his “one lasting legacy
