Elon Musk said Wednesday that he wants to privatize the U.S. Postal Service and Amtrak, according to reports from multiple news outlets. And as the most powerful oligarch in the U.S.—a man who’s been given the chance to unilaterally dismantle whatever he likes under the guise of a pseudo-government agency called DOGE—the billionaire may get …
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It seemed inevitable from the moment Donald Trump announced his sweeping 25% tariffs on all imports from Mexico and Canada that the carveouts would come. One day into the attempt to inflict pain on seemingly everyone, including his own populus, Trump has issued his first exception: Automakers have managed to lobby for an additional month …
Steve Wozniak, perhaps the last of an old guard of tech guys who generally seem pretty chill, does not think particularly highly of Elon Musk or Donald Trump. The guy credited with sparking the personal computer revolution told CNBC during an interview that Musk and Trump are bullies who are taking a sledgehammer to the …
BlackRock, America’s largest asset manager which handles over $11 trillion in assets, has agreed to purchase two ports on either end of the Panama Canal. BlackRock is buying the ports from Hong Kong-based CK Hutchison in a deal worth about $22.8 billion. The announcement of the deal comes as President Donald Trump has made threats …
YouTube announced it’s expanding its Premium subscription plan to viewers in the U.S. The new $8 a month YouTube Premium Lite plan joins the regular $14 a month Premium plan. The subscription plan lets you watch videos on YouTube without advertising for about the monthly cost of other major streaming services. YouTube May Finally Offer …
Florida has launched an investigation into misogyny influencer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan just days after the pair arrived in the United States. The Tate brothers have dual U.S. and British citizenship and were facing charges of rape and human trafficking in Romania as well as charges of rape, human trafficking, and tax evasion …
The ultra-thin MacBook is back for another 12 rounds in the ring with a growing slate of stellar lightweight laptops. Apple took the sheet off its new M4 MacBook Air models Wednesday. Though the big news is that MacBook Air now supports the full M4 chip with its 10-core GPU, we’re more excited that you …
Was the Mac mini too mini for you? Apple’s latest product (that most certainly isn’t “air,” as CEO Tim Cook suggested on Monday) is a Mac Studio now supporting the company’s most advanced chip infrastructure yet. Buyers have a choice of not one but two versions of the Studio, with either a M3 Ultra or …
Just in time for prom season, Google is officially rolling out Vision Match as part of the Google search experience on mobile. The feature was previously available as an experiment. Starting today, you can use it to describe a look you’re going for and have Google help you shop for it. Vision Match is pretty …
President Donald Trump wants to make Ronald Reagan’s long-ridiculed Star Wars missile defense program from the 1980s a reality. And he insists new tech can finally make it happen. Trump gave a rambling speech to Congress Tuesday night that included the kinds of dishonest nonsense the fascist president has long been known for. But as …
MAGA-world was perturbed last week when President Trump’s new attorney general, Pam Bondi, claimed to have finally shed light on the mysterious case of Jeffrey Epstein but, instead, released a bunch of documents that had already been publicly available for years. Now, Bondi is claiming that the reason she wasn’t able to release more documents …
A Columbia University student is facing a disciplinary hearing at the college after he used an AI program to help him land internships at Amazon, Meta, and TikTok. Roy Lee, the student facing down Columbia, told me he won’t be on campus when the hearing happens, that he plans to leave the University, and that …
The U.S. Supreme Court handed down a ruling on Tuesday that strikes down some rule that allowed the Environmental Protection Agency to limit the amount of pollution discharged into America’s waterways. The ruling was 5-4, with Amy Coney Barrett joining the court’s more liberal justices in dissenting. The case was brought by the city of …
For all of Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s supposed concern that federal employees doing nothing but collecting paychecks, they sure are going through a lot of effort to keep people who actively want to work from doing their jobs. As part of the back-and-forth of legal filings and testimonies in a case that could decide …
The Los Angeles Times has seen better days as the company’s billionaire owner continues taking a wrecking ball to the nearly 150-year-old institution. Waves of layoffs and editorial interference by Patrick Soon-Shiong, a vocal Trump supporter, has tanked morale, and now the owner has set his sights on AI as the panacea that will improve …
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