The United Arab Emirates is struggled to recover from the heaviest recorded rainfall ever to hit the desert nation, as its main airport worked to restore normal operations even as floodwater still covered portions of major highways and roads. (AP video/Malak Harb)
This week the United Arab Emirates saw record rainfall, the heaviest amount in 75 years. Many have speculated that the nation’s cloud seeding operations were to blame, though experts said otherwise. Here's what to know.
Arizona felt the sting when someone noticed an enormous colony of bees at Chase Field.
Things got very chaotic in the back half of the Brewers' 8-2 win over the Rays on Tuesday night.
Investors marked time ahead of the Fed's rate decision, with earnings from Amazon on deck to test prospects for a Big Tech-fueled bump.
Phone dead? Never again, thanks to this fast-charging, travel-ready gizmo with 'amazing battery life.'
Warner Bros. Discovery could lose its NBA media rights package.
Fantasy baseball analyst Scott Pianowski breaks down what he learned from a recent industry draft, one month into the 2024 MLB season.
TikTok may be routing around the App Store to save money on commissions. According to new findings, the ByteDance-owned social video app is presenting some of its users with a link to a website for purchasing the coins used for tipping digital creators. Typically, these coins are bought via in-app purchase, which requires a 30% commission paid to Apple.
The EU has officially opened a significant investigation into Meta for election disinformation. While the European Commission’s statement doesn’t explicitly mention Russia, Meta told Engadget the EU probe targets the country’s Doppelganger campaign.
Pour one out for CodeWhisperer, Amazon's AI-powered assistive coding tool. CodeWhisperer is now Q Developer, a part of Amazon's Q family of business-oriented generative AI chatbots that also extends to the newly announced Q Business. Available through AWS, Q Developer helps with some of the tasks developers do in the course of their daily work, like debugging and upgrading apps, troubleshooting and performing security scans -- much like CodeWhisperer did.
Tesla has gutted its charging team in a new round of layoffs, despite recently winning over major automakers like Ford and General Motors and making its connector the de facto standard in North America. Tesla's Supercharger network has long been seen as one of its greatest competitive advantages. It's widely available, has far better uptime than other charging networks and the connector technology -- known as the North American Charging Standard, or NACS -- is now being adopted by essentially every major automaker with a presence in North America.
Tesla fired two key executives and trimmed hundreds of staff, gutting its Supercharger program, a leaked email shows.
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission said on Monday that it is fining the four U.S. major wireless carriers around $200 million in total for “illegally” sharing and selling customers’ real-time location data without their consent. AT&T’s fine is more than $57 million, Verizon’s is almost $47 million, T-Mobile’s is more than $80 million and Sprint’s is more than $12 million, according to the FCC’s announcement.
Economic optimism from Americans fell sharply in April as inflation sticks around and the outlook on the job market sours.
What to know about King Charles’s recent health issues, from an enlarged prostate to a cancer diagnosis.
Dan Purcell, the founder and CEO of Ceartas, recalls feeling devastated when he realized that a former partner had, unbeknownst to him, uploaded private, intimate videos of them onto a porn site. Purcell then looked into services that could help him take the videos down, but most were aimed at large enterprises rather than creators. Resolved to come up with a solution to help prevent such violations, Purcell roped in his co-founder Jonny Smyth (now CTO of the startup) to build Ceartas in 2021.
Intuition, however, a new VC firm based in Paris, is doing something radical by betting on consumer tech exclusively. Behind the scenes, Hugo Amsellem (pictured left) and Etienne Boutan (pictured right) will be the general partners of this new fund. Amsellem has worked for Jellysmack and written about consumer tech and influencers for the past few years — including this very interesting piece on loneliness and how it affects consumer tech and culture.
Mark your calendar: The holiday weekend runs Friday, May 24 through Monday, May 27 — here are some early savings you can score right now.
Eric Church addressed his polarizing performance that had some Stagecoach festival attendees fleeing for the exit.
Last spring, founders from all over the world began their treks to Techstars’ Stockholm accelerator program. The bank’s parent company, SVB Financial, was a major investor in Techstars and, like much of the startup world, Techstars had a sizable deposit there, according to sources. A day before the bank completely collapsed, Techstars Stockholm Managing Director Alfredo Jollon posted an essay on LinkedIn saying he had bought shares in SVB Financial.