Entrepreneur Ankur Nagpal raised a $70 million venture fund last year, called Vibe Capital, from over 200 investors. But now, as the market shifts and LPs are less interested in venture capital, the O...
[photo1]Jake BittleThis story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.California is no stranger to big swings between wet and dry weather. The "atmospheric river" st...
On Thursday morning, the chief executive of what is perhaps the world's most popular social app went before Congress. Like so many social media CEOs before him, Shou Zi Chew's mission was to persuade ...
Seven Ohio cops who raided a rapper known as Afroman's house last summer are now suing the rapper after Afroman made music videos using footage from the raid. The Adams County Sheriff's Office police ...
Four and a half months after the chaotic rollout of paid checkmarks, Elon Musk's Twitter is following through on a plan to remove verification from individual accounts that don't pay $8 per month for ...
If you grew up in America, the early history of home computers in the UK might not be familiar to you. But Great Britain produced innovative personal computers that were as equally successful and infl...
The last decade or so has seen the creeping techification of the auto industry. Executives will tell you the trend is being driven by consumers, starry-eyed at their smartphones and tablets, although ...
[photo1]English trainee solicitor, Tauseef Sadeeq, pleaded guilty to 20 counts of fraud involving insurance compensation. Sadeeq's scheme had insurers pay client funds into his own personal account --...
Payments and shopping service Klarna is the latest company to announce its integration with ChatGPT.The company said it is "one of the first brands to work with OpenAI to use its protocol to build an ...
Coinbase was issued a Wells notice from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday, and executives from the company took to Twitter Spaces to discuss the decision and what Coinbase's nex...
Hivemapper, the startup that puts dashcams on ride-hail and delivery vehicles to map the world, is getting a little closer to its goal of toppling the B2B mapping empire that Google has built.With onl...
Amid questioning about TikTok's use of biometrics in today's Congressional hearing, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew offered some insight into how the company vets potentially underage users on its platform. A...
Canceling a subscription should be just as easy as signing up for the service, the Federal Trade Commission said in a proposed "click-to-cancel" rule announced today. If approved, the plan "would put ...
Proposals to pay for broadband networks by imposing new fees on Big Tech companies "are built on a false premise," Meta executives wrote in a blog post today."Network fee proposals do not recognize th...
The U.K. Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) expressed concern today that the $61 billion Broadcom-VMware deal announced last year could result in more expensive servers for U.K. businesses."We ar...
Two months after dumping Newsmax instead of paying a new fee, DirecTV has reached a deal to put the conservative news network back in the satellite provider's channel lineup.Newsmax had waged an aggre...
[photo1]Florida attorneys -- and spouses -- Jared Beck and Elizabeth Lee Beck had their Twitter accounts suspended four years ago. The Becks, who met as summer associates at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & S...
[photo1]Law school can be a breeding ground for stress and anxiety, leaving students struggling with mental health difficulties, as well as alcohol and drug use problems. Because of the gravity of the...
Despite a number of recent controversies, from unpopular monetization changes to rampant ads to high-profile creators leaving for YouTube, Twitch thinks now is the best time to be on the platform."I d...
A group of independent international researchers has released its full analysis of newly uncovered metagenomic data collected by the Chinese Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in January and F...