The entire story of Twitter / X under Elon Musk

Elon Musk bought Twitter, and now he’s rebranding it as X. Signs have gone up (and back down), icons are changing, and an old plan is new. How’d we get here? On April 4th, 2022, we learned that Musk had purchased enough shares of Twitter to become its largest individual shareholder. Eventually, he followed up…

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X says its payments service will finally launch this year

X is one step closer to finally launching its payments platform. According to X CEO Linda Yaccarino, the X Money service will debut “later this year” with Visa announced as its first partner. In her announcement, Yaccarino says the service will support “secure + instant funding to your X Wallet via Visa Direct,” allowing users…

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Kate Middleton visits Holocaust survivors in 1st official appearance after announcing cancer remission

Kate Middleton made a last-minute appearance at a special ceremony commemorating Holocaust Memorial Day. She appeared at the event alongside her husband, Prince William, who gave a speech at the ceremony honoring the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. While there, the couple met with survivors of the Holocaust and posed…

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Jim Acosta announces he’s leaving CNN

CNN anchor Jim Acosta announced on Tuesday that he would exit the network, urging viewers not to “give into the lies” on his way out.  “You may have seen some reports about me and this show and after giving all of this some careful consideration, and weighing an alternative timeslot CNN offered me, I have…

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All the news about EV charging in the US

An EVgo charging station that has each DC fast-charging cable option including CCS, CHAdeMO, and Tesla’s NACS. | Image: Umar Shakir / The Verge The state of electric vehicle charging in North America is shaping up like the smartphone charging wars — but focused on much more expensive hardware. Right now, like USB-C and Android…

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All the news about Nvidia’s RTX 50-series GPUs

Nvidia’s RTX 50-series GPUs are just around the corner, with the first releases — the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 — dropping on January 30th. The RTX 5070 Ti and RTX 5070 will follow that with their own releases in February, but some are already getting a sneak peek at the GPUs’ software benefits through…

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Illinois ‘super mayor’ conducted ‘systematic’ cover-up of excessive spending, Lightfoot investigation finds

Dolton, Illinois, Mayor Tiffany Henyard’s administration was engaged in a “systematic effort” to cover up the Illinois town’s financial situation as Henyard and other officials failed to track the spending of hundreds of thousands of dollars, according to an investigation by former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot. Lightfoot, who now works as a consultant with Charles…

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