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Jennifer Lopez won’t officially launch her This Is Me...Now tour until the summer, but the pop superstar’s newest circuit has already undergone multiple scheduling changes. The “Let’s Get Loud” and “Dear Ben” singer canceled several shows initially set to take place Aug. 20 through Aug. 31, The Times has confirmed. Among the now-canceled gigs are an Aug. 25 show at Atlanta’s State Farm Arena and an Aug. 31 concert at Houston’s Toyota Center. Concerts in Tampa, New Orleans and Nashville were also among the affected…

Volkswagen has canceled plans to build its all-electric ID.3 at its main factory in Wolfsburg, Germany, due to low demand, adding that “every euro that we do have to spend counts.” It will keep production at its EV-only plant, where it has been shaving off jobs for months. Volkswagen had planned to build its ID3 BEV hatchback at the Wolfsburg plant but says that low demand will keep its production at the automaker’s EV-only plant in Zwickau, in eastern Germany, reports German news outlet Handelsblatt.…

Rapper Busta Rhymes appears to have scrapped the entirety of his Blockbusta 2024 tour, which was set to kick off in San Francisco on March 13.All 24 dates on the “I Know What You Want” rapper’s upcoming outing were listed as canceled Friday on the Ticketmaster website and Rhymes’ official website, including his March 15 show at the Hollywood Palladium and a March 16 stop at the House of Blues in Anaheim. Shows in San Diego and Chicago were listed on Rhymes’ official website, but tickets were not…

Tyla is postponing her world tour due to an injury. The Grammy winner took to Instagram on Thursday, announcing the news. “For the past year I’ve been silently suffering with an injury that has tragically worsened,” she disclosed. “I’ve seen doctors and specialists with high hopes but the pain has only become more agonizing as has the severity of the situation.” The South African singer added that she is “absolutely heartbroken” to not be able to proceed with her tour, which was scheduled to…

Singer, who has been ailing from an unspecified injury, hopes to get back on stage this summer An injury has forced Tyla to cancel her upcoming world tour, which was set to kick off in Oslo on March 21. “Words cannot describe my frustration of this pivotal point in my career,” she wrote to her fans on Instagram. North American ticketholders will be automatically refunded; the ticket vendors will contact international ticketholders. “For the past year I’ve been silently suffering with an injury…

From funky costumes to unexpected fluffy companions, rideshare drivers are full of surprises. However, so are the passengers, and as Reddit user smkAce0921 learned, they’re not always pleasant.In a post on the platform’s ‘Malicious Compliance’ forum, he explained that a couple of years ago, when he was Ubering, people started increasingly employing a scheme that was meant to get them out of paying a significant portion of the journey cost.Not to be outdone, the Redditor began fighting back at the dirty…

Hello, folks, welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s newsletter covering noteworthy happenings in the tech industry. This week, investment firm KKR announced that it would acquire VMware’s end-user computing business from Broadcom for $4 billion. As Ron explains, that business included VMware Workspace One and VMware Horizon — two remote desktop apps that had been part of VMware’s family of products. Elsewhere, Mistral, the French AI startup, launched a new model to rival OpenAI’s GPT-4 — and its own cheekily…

After extensive layoffs at the publisher, it has also been reported that Respawn Entertainment‘s upcoming Star Wars FPS has been cancelled. Per a report from IGN, EA is shuttering development on the game as part of an effort to cut costs across the board. This is in addition to laying off over 5% of staff members, or around 670 people. In a note to staff, EA Entertainment president Laura Miele wrote that “it’s always hard to walk away for a project”. “This decision is not a reflection of the team’s talent, tenacity, or…

PlayStation has announced it is cutting 8 per cent of its global workforce, with 900 members of staff now without a job. The news was confirmed yesterday (February 27) by Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Jim Ryan, who is also set to step down next month, in a blog titled “difficult news about our work force”. The “extremely hard decision” means PlayStation’s London office will close completely, while  Insomniac Games, Naughty Dog, Guerrilla Games and PlayStation’s technology, creative and support teams will also be…

Apple is scuttling its secretive, long-running effort to build an autonomous electric car, executives announced in a short meeting with the team Tuesday morning. The company is likely cutting hundreds of employees from the team and all work on the project has stopped, TechCrunch has learned. Some remaining employees will be shifted to Apple’s generative AI projects, according to Bloomberg, which first reported the project’s cancellation. Others will have 90 days to find a reassignment to other…