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A banner for the Mediterranean restaurant chain Cava is displayed outside of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) as the company goes public on June 15, 2023 in New York City.Spencer Platt | Getty ImagesCava's stock rose 7% Tuesday morning after the Mediterranean restaurant chain released its earnings report a day early.Investors were expecting Cava to report its earnings after the bell on Tuesday afternoon, but the company issued its press release Monday evening instead after early versions of the results appeared in news…

A new survey shows that Elon Musk isn’t driving away Tesla buyers with his Twitter drama, but that was right before his latest and biggest blunder. Ever since his acquisition of Twitter, Elon Musk seems to be getting into a controversy after the next. There have been some serious concerns about his drama negatively affecting Tesla’s sales. This summer, a survey of 5,000 Tesla owners showed that the number reason owners were walking away from the brand was “disapproval of Musk”. It added to…

NVIDIA is facing a lawsuit filed by French automotive company Valeo after a screensharing blunder by one of its employees. According to Valeo's complaint, Mohammad Moniruzzaman, an engineer for NVIDIA who used to work for its company, had mistakenly showed its source code files on his computer as he was sharing his screen during a meeting with both firms in 2022. Valeo's employees quickly recognized the code and took screenshots before Moniruzzaman was notified of his mistake.To note, Valeo and NVIDIA are working together…

Apple has pulled all advertising from X (formerly Twitter) after Elon Musk faced backlash for “endorsing an antisemitic post.”According to Axios, sources have confirmed Apple “is pausing all advertising” on the site following “Musk's endorsement of antisemitic conspiracy theories as well as Apple ads reportedly being placed alongside far-right content.”The move comes after Musk faced backlash last week for responding to an antisemitic post on the platform. Following the reply, Tesla stock dropped, losing tens of billions…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeAn eagle-eyed viewer has spotted an apparent blunder in the background of Christopher Nolan’s new film Oppenheimer.Released in cinemas on Friday (21 July), Oppenheimer stars Cillian Murphy as J Robert Oppenheimer, the scientist often referred to as the “Father of the Atomic Bomb”.The film is told using three timelines, with scenes of Oppenheimer’s early life and work on the A-bomb…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeEagled-eyed Netflix viewers have spotted a hilarious blunder in the new action thriller Extraction 2.The film, a sequel to the 2020 Chris Hemsworth film Extraction, was released on the streaming service last Friday (16 June).In Extraction 2, Hemsworth reprises his role of skilled mercenary Tyler Rakes, who is tasked with rescuing a woman and two children from a state-of-the-art prison…

Twitter Circles’ Privacy Bug If there is one thing that everyone wants, it is for their conversations to be treated as they want. If you talk to a person, it’s because you don’t want others to find out about the message, but if you do something public, it’s because you want information to be known. That is why privacy is so important on the Internet, something that now seems to be absent on Twitter since an error has been discovered with which Twitter Circles messages are made public. The Circles Function Back…

There have been rumors of Spotify HiFi floating around for years now, with some members of its leadership seemingly confirming its existence. The Verge recently discovered that the service has been 'good to go for nearly a year', but its release was pushed back after Apple released Apple Music Lossless for no extra cost for users.Talking to the Co-president, Gustav Söderström, The Verge has done some reading between the lines, connecting that Spotify was planning to make users pay extra for Spotify HiFi, along with other…

The Settlers: New AlliesRating: 2.5/5Developer: UbisoftPublisher: UbisoftPlatform: PCPrice: Rs 5,000 Settlers have a long history of delivering solid RTS or Real Time Strategy games that feature robust tech trees and gameplay. The new Settlers game, called New Allies, is supposed to be a simplified down version of the game that tries to take the best elements of a strategy game and boil it down to something anyone can play. While this sounds great on paper, in practice, what you get is a watered-down experience that…

Ford Motor (F)'s decision to halt production and shipments of its electric pickup truck further undermines our confidence in the automaker. We have little patience left for more missteps and are ready to ditch this long-held holding if there isn't a significant turnaround this quarter. The company on Tuesday announced it had issued a stop-shipment order and pause in production last week for its electric F-150 Lightning pickup, the result of a potential battery issue. The announcement comes just a day after Ford said it…