The iconic Corvette will lose its stinky engine and become an EV

One of Chevrolet’s most iconic cars will finally be transformed into an EV. On Monday, GM’s president Mark Reuss confirmed on his Linkedin account that an electrified (i.e. hybrid) Corvette is coming in 2023, followed by a fully electric one further down the road. Take a peek at Chevrolet’s alluring video: BREAKING: An electrified #Corvette will be available as early as next year and a fully electric version to follow. Stay tuned for more. pic.twitter.com/6lDUWpOIZ2 — Chevrolet (@chevrolet) Apri

Pray for the man who paraded an Ola scooter through town with a donkey

In what recalls a cinematic scene — like Cersei Lannister’s walk of atonement in Game of Thrones — a public shame parade took place on Sunday, featuring an escooter and a… donkey. A video of the incident in the Beed district of Maharashtra, India, shows a man tying his Ola escooter to a donkey and parading it around town with posters urging people not to trust the company.   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by LetsUpp Marathi (@letsupp.marathi) As reported by various Indian news outle

Don’t worry about Elon taking Twitter private and scrapping its board

It appears Twitter’s board of directors finally warmed to Elon Musk’ hostile bid and agreed to a sale – but not before it took a severe beating from the Tesla and SpaceX billionaire, Twitter founder Jack Dorsey and other prominent users on their own social network. Musk, who on April 25, 2022, sealed a deal to buy Twitter for US$44 billion, criticized board members for owning almost no shares of the company they oversee. Dorsey, who will step down from his seat on Twitter’s board at the end of h

A bunch of Bored Apes were stolen again, but don’t blame Web3 for it

It’s happened again. Scammers struck the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) universe and stole some tokens. But, don’t worry, you can’t blame web3 for it. Nope. Not at all. Hackers used good old web 2.0’s trick of hacking the project’s Instagram, and luring people to click on unsolicited links. Here’s what happened: after BAYC’s account was hacked, attackers posted a message about claiming land on the project’s metaverse through an airdrop. It asked people to connect their MetaMask (or any other equiva

More than 5 billion people now use the internet

DataReportal’s new Digital 2022 April Global Statshot report – published in partnership with We Are Social and Hootsuite – reveals that more than 5 billion people around the world now use the internet. This impressive total marks another important milestone on our journey towards universal internet accessibility, and means that 63 percent of the world’s total population is now online. There’s much more to this story than a headline user figure though, and this article offers extensive analysis t

The Apple Store is so 2001 — here comes the Meta Store

It seems every few years a major tech company tries its hand at replicating some of the Apple Store’s success. Since the first Apple Stores opened in 2001, we’ve seen the Microsoft Store, the Amazon 4-Star store, and the Google Store — Microsoft and Amazon’s stores have since been abandoned. Now it’s Meta‘s turn, and you’ll never guess what it’s called. Just kidding. It’s the Meta Store. So far, the first Meta Store looks… pretty much exactly like what you’d expect. Located in Burlingame, Califo

Here’s how to delete or deactivate your Twitter account

Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. Tired of Facebook too? We’ve got a guide for that. Oh, and Instagram? Yep, here’s how to delete that too.  Updated 4/25/22: So Elon Musk just bought Twitter for 44 billion dollars. Coincidentally, you’re also thinking now’s about the right time to get rid of your Twitter account. Maybe it’s best to just get away from it all and watch the imminent chaos from th

Analysis: Here’s what to expect now that Musk owns Twitter

Elon Musk’s the topic du jour, once again, as his teased takeover of Twitter has come to its inevitable end. It’s a done deal: the world’s richest man has purchased Twitter. Cue the Imperial March. While we’re all waiting to see what happens now, it’s worth speculating on what the ramifications of the soon-to-be completed takeover could mean. Here’s what we know so far: Musk intends to take the company private. He intends to change Twitter’s moderation practices. Going private Twitter is current

Breaking: Elon Musk buys Twitter

Elon Musk has purchased Twitter. In what’s become the biggest “will they/won’t they” story since Ross and Rachel, the Twitter board has finally decided to accept Musk’s $44 billion takeover offer. Early speculation on Monday morning led Twitter stock to rally after a weeks-long slump. Ironically, the stock’s recent decline in performance had been attributed to a lack of confidence in the Musk/Twitter deal. That’s over with now, and we can expect stocks to take at least a short-term hike in the w

The W boson is bigger than we thought — a physicist explains

“You can do it quickly, you can do it cheaply, or you can do it right. We did it right.” These were some of the opening remarks from David Toback, leader of the Collider Detector at Fermilab, as he announced the results of a decadelong experiment to measure the mass of a particle called the W boson. I am a high energy particle physicist, and I am part of the team of hundreds of scientists that built and ran the Collider Detector at Fermilab in Illinois – known as CDF. After trillions of collisio


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