Cloudflare operates as a content delivery network and distributed DNS (domain name server) and it is down this morning. This is causing many other sites to be down like X. Its services protect website owners from peak loads, comment spam attacks and DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks. UPDATE: Some systems are recovering. You can …
Tesla’s imminent wide release of FSD (Full Self-Driving) update to version 14.1.2. Some testers believe FSD 14.X will enable unsupervised driving by December. Chuck Cook is confident about FSD progress. Backseat driving demos could supercharge word-of-mouth sales, making FSD irresistible and potentially overwhelming Tesla’s production capacity. Today’s stock rally (from ~$423 to $440), attributing it …
Kalshi, the federally regulated prediction market platform, announced a Series D funding round over $300 million. It was co-led by Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz, with investments from Paradigm, Coinbase Ventures, and others. It gave Kalshi a $5 billion valuation. The company, founded in 2020 by Yale graduates Tarek Mansour and Luana Lopes Lara, has …
Elon Musk has just confirmed that 𝕏 Money is working internally and will start extending to outside beta users soon. 𝕏 Money is a digital payment service providing peer-to-peer transfers, a wallet for storing funds, and Visa integration for bank/debit card connections. It may add crypto and investment features later. Currently in internal beta, expanding …
Tom Lee, co-founder and head of research at Fundstrat Global Advisors and the chairman of Bitmine (an Ethereum treasury company), provides a bullish outlook on both Bitcoin and Ethereum. They each have distinct use cases and potential for massive growth. The conversation covers the bull cases for each asset, short-term catalysts, regulatory developments, and broader …
© Florian Giday, Managing Director of Arthy The rise in return rates is becoming a major concern for e-commerce, directly impacting profitability. The cost of retail returns in the United States soared to an astonishing $817 billion, with online retail contributing to about a quarter of this figure. Out of the $1.3 trillion in online …
People say that X aka Twitter was a bad investment because advertising revenue is down from when Elon Musk purchased it at $44 billion. The losses are not that bad while advertising is down, Elon was able to drastically reduce costs and headcount. X also added subscription revenue. A major thing that people forget is …
The technology of Elon Musk (Musktech) companies will be getting powerful combination products over the next 12 months. The technology products from each individual company are already . Driver assist operators validating Tesla FSD 12.5 observed the vehicles were using a SpaceX Starlink mini. Neuralink can connect to devices that use Bluetooth so it could …
While general awareness surrounding the term artificial intelligence (AI) has undoubtedly grown over the past couple of years — as highlighted by its rising number of Google searches — it is still difficult to put into numerical terms the impact this technology has had across a myriad of industries. Searches related to the term ‘artificial …
The Unitree H1 Humanoid robot can outrun a human being. In this video we review the Unitree H1 robot and other humanoid robots and briefly consider the expected impacts on our world. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is …
EEOC Commissioner informs Mark Cuban that his hiring practice tweets describe a violation of Title VII law. As a general rule, race/sex can’t even be a motivating factor—nor a plus factor, tie-breaker, or tipping point. It’s important employers understand the ground rules here. If the EEOC determines that employers are in violation of anti-discrimination laws, …