A 10-Year-Old GameStop Investor Cashed In. His Return? Over 5,000%.
New York Times
“All of a sudden, I heard ‘ding, ding, ding, ding, ding,’” Ms. Carr, 31, referring to the stock alerts, said in an interview on Friday. “I grabbed my phone, and…
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Here’s a Way to Learn if Facial Recognition Systems Used Your Photos
When tech companies created the facial recognition systems that are rapidly remaking government surveillance and chipping away at personal privacy, they may have received help from an unexpected source: your…
A Vast Web of Vengeance
A Waterfall of Maggots Ms. Atas vanished from the public record for the next nine years. But around 2001, according to Ontario court filings, she was arrested and charged with…
The Silicon Valley Start-Up That Caused Wall Street Chaos
The online trading app Robinhood[1] became a cultural phenomenon and a Silicon Valley darling with a promise to wrest the stock market away from Wall Street’s traditional gatekeepers and “let…
They’re Flocking to America to Make a Fortune Playing Video Games
And salaries are growing in North America. The average for a player in a team’s starting five has climbed to $460,000 from $300,000 since 2018, Mr. Greeley said. The highest-paid…
What went wrong with America’s $44 million vaccine data system?
MIT Technology
Pang says he spent three weeks trying to sign into VAMS, but he constantly ended up in the dashboard for patients instead of clinic administrators. In the meantime, his staff…
Inside a Pro-Huawei Influence Campaign
LONDON — Edwin Vermulst, a trade lawyer in Brussels, did not think twice before he agreed to write an article for Huawei, the Chinese telecommunications giant, that would criticize a…
22 Best T-Shirt Mockup Templates
Graphic Design Junction
Best t-shirt mockups realistic look with many options. Professional photoshop t-shirt mockup templates are perfect to create a stunning t-shirt design presentation. These t-shirt mockups[1] allow you to showcase your apparel…
Billionaires Bicker Over Space Toys
This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays.[1] Small satellites could help bring internet access to more of the world’s…
An AI saw a cropped photo of AOC. It autocompleted her wearing a bikini.
In their study, Steed and Caliskan once again found that those distances mirror the results of IAT. Photos of men and ties and suits appear close together, while photos of…
