Tesla CEO Elon Musk has recently sold 7.92 million shares of the carmaker worth about $6.9 billion, according to regulatory filings made public Tuesday.The stock sale, which occurred between Aug. 5 and 9, comes amid a legal battle between Musk and T…
Vin Scully, the beloved Dodgers broadcaster who informed and entertained generations of baseball fans over a career that lasted six decades, died Tuesday at the age of 94. Scully’s death was announced Tuesday evening by the Los Angeles Dodgers.”We …
Nichelle Nichols, who became a role model for Black actresses playing the role of Lt. Nyota Uhura in Star Trek: The Original Series, died Saturday at the age of 89. Her son announced her death on Facebook Sunday.”Last night, my mother, Nichell…
Google’s latest multiplayer game is set to appear on the company’s search page on Sunday and pays homage to Petanque, a sport similar to bocce and lawn bowling. Invented in the South of France in 1907, Petanque is a leisure activity played by friend…
The price of Twitter Blue, the social network’s new premium subscription service, is about to increase — a little more than 8 months after it made its debut.The service, which launched in the US and New Zealand in November, allows subscribers to pa…
Samsung notched its best second-quarter profit since 2018, on strong sales of chips amid a cooling smartphone market.The Korea-based company said Wednesday that its operating profit for the three-month period ended June 30 would come in at around 14…
Elon Musk had a brief affair last fall with the wife of Sergey Brin, leading the Google co-founder to file for divorce earlier this year, The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday. The two entrepreneurs were formerly close friends, but the affair…
In addition to being Father’s Day, Sunday is also Juneteenth, an annual holiday celebrated every June 19 to commemorate the end of slavery in the US. To celebrate both occasions, Google created a Doodle that spotlights the Black family and fatherhoo…
Facebook parent Meta has halted development of a much-rumored smartwatch featuring two cameras, Bloomberg reported late Wednesday. The device, expected to make its debut as early as this summer, had reported to sport two cameras for taking photos an…
Facebook parent company Meta Platforms said Tuesday its stock will begin trading on the Nasdaq exchange under the ticker symbol META on June 9, replacing the FB symbol it went public with a little more than a decade ago.The ticker symbol change come…
Stacey Park Milbern, who died two years ago on her 33rd birthday, is remembered as a dynamic leader with a knack for organizing people. Over her life, this pioneer in the disability justice movement also advocated for fair treatment of people of color,…
The suspected shooter in the massacre at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket invited a small group of Discord users to join a private chat room to review his plan about 30 minutes before beginning his attack, The New York Times reported on Tuesday, cit…
A state judge has struck down a landmark California law requiring women be included on corporate boards as unconstitutional.Superior Court Judge Maureen Duffy-Lewis said in a ruling dated Friday that the 2018 law violated the equal protection clause…
A gunman who killed 10 people on Saturday at Buffalo, New York, supermarket broadcast the attack Twitch, a livestreaming site.The suspected shooter, an 18-year-old white man identified as Payton Gendron from Conklin, New York, was arrested after ope…
A federal appeals court on Wednesday ruled that a Texas law that prohibits large social media companies from banning users or blocking posts based on political viewpoints can go into effect.The 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision, which was pu…