On Tuesday, two AI startups tried convincing the world their AI chatbots were good enough to be an accurate, real-time source of information during a high-stakes Presidential election: xAI and Perplexity. Elon Musk’s Grok failed almost instantly, offering wrong answers about races’ outcomes before the […]
Day: November 6, 2024
Faber launches third VC fund with $34M first close, aims for $64M
The startup ecosystem in the Iberian Peninsula — the region encompassing Spain and Portugal — has been on a roll the last couple of years. The value of Spanish startups surpassed €100 billion in 2023, according to Dealroom data, with venture investment of €2.2 billion across […]
PlayStation 5 Pro review: A superpowered $700 console for gamers who won’t buy a PC
It’s pretty easy to tell if the PlayStation 5 Pro is for you. If you have no problems with the PS5’s existing performance, if you balk at the $700 price tag, or if you don’t have a modern 4K TV, you can just ignore this […]
Donald Trump Defeats Kamala Harris in the 2024 Presidential Election
In a decisive victory, Trump won every swing state that has been called so far.
The Manosphere Won
Donald Trump owes at least part of his victory to the manosphere—the amorphous assortment of influencers who are mostly young, exclusively male, and increasingly the drivers of the remaining online monoculture.
Apple may update Find My to let you share locations of lost items
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Nintendo president confirms Switch successor will be backward-compatible
Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa said that the company’s upcoming Switch successor will be backward compatible.
What Trump’s win might mean for Elon Musk
Elon Musk – the billionaire CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI, and the owner of The Boring Company, Neuralink, and X – took a sharp swing to the right this election to support president-elect Donald Trump, using his vast wealth, influence, and megaphone on X […]
‘For You’ feeds fail on election night, offering outdated information, angering users
“For You” algorithms that promote the most interesting content across a social network, personalized to the individual user, offered a disjointed, outdated, and nearly unusable experience on election night in the U.S. as they highlighted hours-old posts that no longer reflected the current state of […]
Corning, maker of toughened Gorilla Glass for phones, faces EU antitrust probe
On Wednesday, the European Union opened an investigation of U.S. manufacturer Corning over possible anti-competitive practices. Corning may not be a name that’s super familiar to the average tech consumer, but you are almost certainly within touching distance of its products as its a leading […]