Anne Wojcicki, co-founder and CEO of 23andme Inc., during the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival in Austin, Texas, USA, on Friday, March 10, 2023. Jordan Vonderhaar | Bloomberg | All seven independent directors of 23andMe resigned from the company’s board on Tuesday. CEO Anne Wojcicki said in a memo to employees that she was “surprised […]
For Taylor Swift, karma is a cat purring on her lap. But for one South Carolina man, karma takes a different form—a poisonous snake that bites his hand. Jeffrey Leibowitz, a snake influencer who runs “Venomous Snakes Classified,” a Facebook group with nearly 50,000 members, once wrote, “Antivenom is for cowards.” Videos from VICE In […]
An aerial photo shows Amazon delivery trucks outside an Amazon distribution center in Richmond, California on July 16, 2024. Justin Sullivan | Amazon to raise the national average wage for contracted delivery drivers from $20.50 to about $22 an hour, the company said Thursday. The pay increase is part of the $2.1 billion Amazon is […]
A pedestrian walks past the Google office in New York City on January 25, 2023. Leonardo Munoz | View press | Getty Images One month after losing a landmark antitrust case brought by the Department of Justice, Google has to go to court again to face federal prosecutors for a second time. In August, a […]
Guy “Dr Disrespect” Beahm promotes his apparent return months after going offline to a “sexting” controversy around his original 2020 Twitch ban. He even tried to pre-empt the pedophile jokes that now regularly flood the mentions under his social media posts. “Where is he from, Epstein Island?” the disgraced streamer tweeted on Thursday. Meet the […]
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Whether you like it or notGM is Development of our own infotainment operating system for its cars. Unfortunately, it doesn’t sound like the system is very good. And you’ll have to dig deep into your pockets if you want to use some of the system’s main features. What is the best navigation app? | Jalopinions […]
A woman has urged people not to get “settled” in relationships after her boyfriend surprised her at dinner with friends in another state. Abby Hunt, 25, lives in Nashville, Tennessee, and met her partner Zach Huver 10 months ago through a dating app. Newsweek“There was an instant connection between us.” After nearly a year of […]
JD.com’s Hong KongThe listed shares fell 10 percent to HK$101.10 as of 2:23 p.m. local time on Wednesday, triggering a broader sell-off in Chinese e-commerce and technology stocks. Walmart is refining its strategy in the world’s second-largest economy, where its long-time e-commerce partner is struggling as are major competitors Alibaba Group Holding And PDD investmentsOwner […]
