Elon Musk says that his AI venture xAI has acquired his social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter. In an X post Friday, Musk said the all-stock transaction values xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion. Musk paid $44 billion for Twitter in 2022. “xAI and X’s futures are intertwined,” Musk wrote on X Friday. “Today, we officially take the step to combine the data, models, compute, distribution and talent.” The move may be aimed at protecting investors, who helped him buy purchase X, from losing money. Both X and xAI are privately held and share some…
Everyone is feeling some degree of stress, right? It’s impossible to go through life without it. As with everything else in our life, technology has an answer for us. Pulsetto’s wearable technology stimulates your vagus nerve, allowing you to relax and unwind. Pulsetto has vagus nerve stimulation down to a science. You can lower stress, enhance your focus, have a brighter mood, get better sleep and lower your blood pressure all with one wearable device. The Pulsetto Spring Sale is running right now, offering their device for $200 off through the end of March, but you can get an additional $50 off when…
A popular messaging app called Signal was recently the preferred communications platform for top officials in the Trump administration to discuss secret war plans. But the use of the app, widely available on smartphone app stores, to plan an attack on Iranian-backed militants in Yemen likely wouldn’t have been made public if a journalist wasn’t inadvertently added to the group chat. Ever since the revelation came to light, outcry has been growing among Democrats and intelligence experts, who worry that the case represents a serious mishandling of classified administration and could even violate the law. Signal, an encrypted messaging app, has become widely used in the…
LONDON (Reuters) – E-commerce platform TikTok Shop said it will launch to users in France, Germany, and Italy on Monday, expanding its reach further into Europe even as TikTok faces being shut down in the U.S. if Chinese owner ByteDance does not find an American buyer. The shopping arm of social media app TikTok has been available in the UK since 2021. It also launched in the U.S. in September 2023, and had strong sales over the holiday season last year. But TikTok’s future in the U.S. is uncertain unless Chinese owner ByteDance can find an American buyer. “In France,…
While gaming laptops used to be thought of as massive bricks that could never touch the power of desktops, the story is very different today. Modern gaming notebooks can typically achieve framerates close to their desktop counterparts, while also being relatively sleek and easy to use as general productivity machines. Connect them to a full-sized monitor or a TV, and it’s easy to forget you’re running a gaming rig that can easily fit in your backpack. One of the biggest advantages of a laptop is its flexibility. You don’t need to worry about bulky setups or being tethered to one…
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Netflix has tapped Fast & Furious director Justin Lin to direct its upcoming movie adaptation of BRZRKR, the popular comic by Keanu Reeves and Matt Kindt about an immortal warrior. Netflix first announced plans to create both a live-action movie and an anime based on BRZRKR back in 2021, with Reeves starring in the former and returning to voice his character in the animated show. But, we’ve heard little about the projects since. In the meantime, Reeves and author China Miéville dove back into the BRZRKR lore with The Book of Elsewhere, which was released…
President Donald Trump praised Elon Musk for opening “a lot of eyes” through DOGE’s cost-cutting mission, calling the multi-billionaire entrepreneur a “real patriot” for “paying a price” to get the job done. “This is something that’s really not good for him, and yet he’s doing it,” Trump said in a “Sunday Morning Futures” exclusive interview that aired this week. “But he’s opened a lot of eyes.” Musk has stood at the helm of DOGE since its inception before Trump took office on Jan. 20. Since Trump’s second term began, the SpaceX and Tesla CEO has pinpointed allegedly wasteful contracts, grants,…
With the Zenbook A14, ASUS has reached a new milestone of portability. It’s a 14-inch laptop that weighs just 2.2 pounds, making it feel more like a tablet than a computer when you pick it up. And with its unique Ceraluminum case, which feels like a cross between ceramic and metal, the Zenbook A14 is a more viable premium notebook than LG’s chintzy ultra-light Gram lineup. But there’s always a tradeoff between size and power, and in this case ASUS has delivered the slowest Copilot+ PC we’ve seen yet. But I suppose that just makes it a true lightweight. Now…
With the Zenbook A14, ASUS has reached a new milestone of portability. It’s a 14-inch laptop that weighs just 2.2 pounds, making it feel more like a tablet than a computer when you pick it up. And with its unique Ceraluminum case, which feels like a cross between ceramic and metal, the Zenbook A14 is a more viable premium notebook than LG’s chintzy ultra-light Gram lineup. But there’s always a tradeoff between size and power, and in this case ASUS has delivered the slowest Copilot+ PC we’ve seen yet. But I suppose that just makes it a true lightweight. Now…
