Siddhant Awasthi, who was also in charge of the Model 3 program, announced his departure on LinkedIn after three years overseeing the Cybertruck’s dismal rollout. A recent recall notice shows that just 63,619 have been sold in the US since its 2023 launch — far from the 250,000 annual sales that Elon Musk once predicted.
NFL analyst Mina Kimes, one of several ESPN personalities who promoted Papaya Gaming’s Solitaire Cash app on social media, says she’s “deeply embarrassed” for the endorsement. Papaya is currently tied up in a federal lawsuit over whether it used bots to control what were advertised as skill-based games.
For employees at Insta360, that would be a very literal question. The Chinese camera company recently gave 21 staffers a bonus in the form of gold keycaps, the heaviest being the space key, which South China Morning Post reports weighs 35.02 grams and is valued at $45,000.
Never mind Liquid Glass, the new Apple TV intro was made using the real stuff, filmed by shining colorful lighting behind a glass model of the logo. With big companies like Coca-Cola and Google putting out entirely AI-generated marketing, it’s nice to see some things being made the old-fashioned way.
If you can’t wait until November 26th to experience the final season of Stranger Things (which has taken more than three years to release), you can now watch the first five minutes of its first episode, “The Crawl.” It’s been an age since we’ve seen Will Byers (Noah Schnapp) looking so baby-faced.
Following similar lawsuits in Louisiana and Kentucky, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced on X that he’s suing the gaming company for “putting pixel pedophiles and profits” over child safety.
“We cannot allow platforms like Roblox to continue operating as digital playgrounds for predators where the well-being of our kids is sacrificed on the altar of corporate greed.”
Internal documents seen by Reuters show that the social media giant expected to make 10 percent of its overall revenue from running ads for illegal online casinos, fraudulent e-commerce and investment schemes, and banned medical products last year. Platform users are shown an estimated 15 billion “higher risk” scam ads every day.
A new Theme Packs app has appeared on the Google Play Store that says it’ll instantly update the wallpaper, icons, sounds, GIFs, and more on Pixel devices in a single tap. The first seasonal pack is themed around Wicked: For Good, but as Droidlife notes, it’s not ready yet: the app doesn’t do anything if you install it.
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