Take a look at these photos from Day 2 of Ultra Music Festival in downtown Miami
David Catanese, Daniel A. Varela
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David Guetta, Martin Garrix and Seven Lions were among the featured performers during Saturday’s Ultra music festival. Other stand-out electronic music acts in Bayfront Park included Adriatique, Mathame, San Holo and Madeon. Ultra organizers say about 20% of this year’s attendees are international guests.
Cards are gaining ground in Egypt, with over 30 million in circulation (prepaid cards, particularly, are seeing more use than debit and credit cards combined). This surge in card usage, about 14% in the last four years, is primarily due to the incentives introduced by fintech companies and banks, attracting millions of Egyptian consumers who previously relied mainly on cash for their transactions. The adoption of corporate cards tells a different tale.
India's Election Commission has issued an advisory to all political parties, urging them to refrain from using deepfakes and other forms of misinformation in their social media posts during the country's ongoing general elections. The move comes after the constitutional body faced criticism for not doing enough to combat such campaigns in the world's most populous nation. The advisory, released on Monday (PDF), requires political parties to remove any deepfake audio or video within three hours of becoming aware of its existence.
If you’re an electricity nerd, chances are you’ve already spent quite a few hours looking at Electricity Maps and its mesmerizing export flow animations. This open-source data visualization project has been around since 2016. There are currently 20 people working for Electricity Maps and the company has been profitable for a few years.
The actor isn’t ready to say goodbye to Frank Reagan, he tells Yahoo. CBS’s plans to end the show in the fall have been “frustrating” when “we're still bringing it.”
Jalen Brunson scored 43 points, leading the New York Knicks to a 121–117 win over the Indiana Pacers in Game 1 of their second-round NBA playoff series.
Whether you love or hate celebrity culture, the Met Gala is an event. In the photo, Katy Perry appears to be wearing a massive gown decorated with three-dimensional floral appliques. As the pearlescent gown drapes down to the ground, its long train fades into realistic-looking moss, which cascades across the beige and red Met Gala carpet.
Boeing's Starliner launch tonight has been postponed "out of an abundance of caution" scarcely two hours before the historic liftoff. After years of delays and over $1 billion in cost overruns, the mission is set to be Boeing's first attempt to transport astronauts to the International Space Station. Once the issue is resolved with the upper stage, the United Launch Alliance Atlas V will carry the CST-100 Starliner capsule to orbit along with the two onboard astronauts — Butch Wilmore and Sunny Williams — from Florida’s Cape Canaveral at 10:34 PM local time Monday evening.
The warehouse was dim and slightly misty. On Friday, the crowd followed the white rabbit to Brooklyn for The Net Gala, a chic tech answer to The Met Gala. The theme of the event was internet surveillance, prompting attendees to clad in black, with some dazzling in Schiaparelli.
Wayve, a U.K.-born startup developing a self-learning rather than rule-based system for autonomous driving, has closed $1.05 billion in Series C funding led by SoftBank Group. The company plans to use the fresh capital injection to develop its product for "eyes on" assisted driving and "hands off" fully automated driving and other AI-assisted automotive applications. San Francisco has become known as the epicenter for autonomous driving roll-outs, with Alphabet-owned Waymo and GM-owned Cruise both operating services in the city.