Month: June 2024
Tesla’s $50 billion question comes down to the wire
On Thursday, Tesla shareholders will face a stark choice: approve Elon Musk’s enormous pay package, the largest ever awarded to a chief executive, or risk him picking up his ball and going home. The shareholder meeting on Thursday is a referendum on Musk’s tumultuous leadership, in which he took a…
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Fired SpaceX workers sue Elon Musk for sexual harassment and retaliation
Eight former SpaceX engineers filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk on Wednesday alleging sexual harassment and retaliation. Musk, who founded SpaceX in 2002, “knowingly and purposefully created an unwelcome hostile work environment based upon his conduct of interjecting into the workplace vile sexual photographs, memes, and commentary that demeaned women…
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Honor’s new AI-powered portrait mode made me feel like a movie star
Three things in life are certain: death, taxes, and Honor partnering with a luxury brand to promote its latest mobile innovation. Having already teamed up with Burberry, British Vogue and Porsche Design on a slew of high-end mobile products throughout the past year, the Chinese electronics brand has now joined…
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16TB Portable SSD devices in the pipeline as key component vendor debuts world’s first native USB4 controller — with 4GB/s read/write performance, it may even outperform your system SSD
NAND controller and storage solution firm Phison used its premier appearance at Computex to debut several new products, including the PS2251-21 (U21), the world’s first native USB4 single-chip controller. The company says this chip offers up to 4,000MB/s read and write performance, and is the first available direct USB- to…
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Samsung’s wild new Shortcut sneakers let you play music and make phone calls by dancing
If you like the idea of starting a playlist on your phone with a spontaneous moonwalk, Samsung has just made a pair of limited-edition sneakers for you. The Shortcut Sneaker, which will sadly be limited to just six pairs, has been created by a combination of Samsung, Elitac Wearables and…
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Epic Games database leak hints at a trove of unannounced games
An unofficial site tracking titles in the Epic Games library may have just leaked a ton of upcoming games, as reported earlier by Wccftech. The site, called EpicDB, was taken offline shortly after it posted information scraped from the Epic Games Store catalog on Monday, but that didn’t stop people…
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