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Meta Platforms Inc. may have got caught in a downward spiral over the past year, but Mark Zuckerberg seems to be putting it back onto a more fruitful direction, at least for now. Meta's decline in ad revenue for the third straight quarter wasn't as big as expected; there was a $40 billion buyback for shareholders; and daily active users — Meta's “North Star” for years — blew past the psychological 2 billion barrier, according to fourth-quarter earnings it announced on Wednesday night. More important, Chief Executive…

It’s been a real tough month for the few but extremely innovative solar EV companies out here. Having just announced a shifting of its business strategy and a request to suspend all payments to its operating company, Lightyear has officially declared bankruptcy. Sono Motors’ flagship solar EV, the Sion, is staring down a similar barrel, as the startup fights to raise more funds to keep it alive. Meanwhile, Aptera has a production-intent design, but still needs millions of dollars to get it to production.…

Arcimoto was once the darling of the electric vehicle startup world, riding a green wave of EV investments to a $1 billion valuation in 2021. But the Eugene, Oregon-based electric automaker has since experienced a slow and arduous fall from grace. After multiple bumps in the road, a potential sinkhole may have opened in front of the company in the form of looming bankruptcy. Arcimoto’s three-wheeled electric vehicles, dubbed the Fun Utility Vehicle or FUV, were once touted as cost-effective…

The growth of Google's Android ecosystem is on the brink of stalling in India due to an antitrust order that asks the company to change how it markets the platform, the US company has said in a Supreme Court challenge seen by Reuters.The Competition Commission of India (CCI) in October fined Alphabet-owned Google $161 million (roughly Rs. 1,300 crore) for exploiting its dominant position in Android, which powers 97 percent of smartphones in India, and asked it to change restrictions imposed on smartphone makers related to…

We have some rather grim news if you’re a fan of overclocking your graphics card — MSI Afterburner is in trouble. According to the author of MSI Afterburner himself, the program is not receiving any funding and may be unable to continue. However, there is hope — MSI wants to keep the project alive. MSI MSI Afterburner is, arguably, the most popular software used for tuning a graphics card. This includes overclocking and undervolting. While it can have a bit of a learning curve, it’s effective and fairly accessible,…

The Universe should be humming.Every supernova, every merger between neutron stars or black holes, even rapidly spinning lone neutron stars, could or should be a source of gravitational waves.Event the rapid inflation of space following the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago should have produced its own cascade of gravitational waves.Like a rock thrown in a pond, these massive events should send ripples reverberating through the very fabric of space-time – faint expansions and contractions of space that could be detectable…

On the surface, you wouldn’t expect a period-set romantic epic that holds a miserly 19 percent Rotten Tomatoes score to get caught up in one of the longest-running hot-button geopolitical issues, but that was precisely the criticism faced by 2017’s forgotten failure The Ottoman Lieutenant, with questions asked about its origins, existence, and narrative accuracy. The seemingly-inoffensive story finds an idealistic American leaving the United States after meeting Josh Hartnett’s doctor, who operates a mission located…

Cryptocurrencies regained some ground following Wednesday’s plunge, offering investors a respite from a rout fueled by Binance Holdings Ltd.’s withdrawal of its offer to buy FTX.com. Cryptocurrencies regained some ground following Wednesday's plunge, offering investors a respite from a rout fueled by Binance Holdings Ltd.'s withdrawal of its offer to buy FTX.com.Bitcoin rose as much as 4.4% after tumbling as low as $15,574, a level unseen since November 2020. Ether climbed 3.6%. The MVIS CryptoCompare Digital Assets…

Along with the thousands of men, women, and children who have died since Russia invaded Ukraine in February, there have been hundreds of casualties in the Black Sea among the resident dolphin and porpoise populations.Scientists who study the region reported an "unusual increase" in strandings and bycatch – when animals are unintentionally caught by fishermen – of dolphins, porpoises, and whales, in the spring and summer of 2022, according to a recent report from ACCOBAMS, or the Agreement on the Conservation of Cetaceans…

The work-in-progress Britishvolt site itself could be in demand Britishvolt, a UK startup planning a battery Gigafactory in northeast England that would supply future EVs, is reportedly facing a cash crisis that has left it on the brink of bankruptcy. The Financial Times reports that the company’s financial position has deteriorated as a result of the UK government turning down a request for GBP30m…