Trump's Truth Social Stock Dropped, Cybertrucks Broke, the Virtual Boy Deserves Respect, and More
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It was a bad week for Truth Social and the Tesla Cybertruck. Both showed that they might not be as great as Donald Trump and Elon Musk thought. This week also saw a terrifying AI video generator, major complaints about a dog-sitting app, and the retirement of a beloved robot. Check out the big tech stories of the week.
The Quiet Danger of Noise-Canceling Headphones
Noise-canceling headphones offer a tech bro’s solution to the world of sound. They deem everything in your natural environment as “noise” that can be canceled out, allowing you to purely listen to your devices. The technology is generally considered good for your ears by reducing the overall noise levels you’re exposed to. But even though noise-canceling headphones are good for our hearing, it’s a myth that the technology is entirely good for us. - Maxwell Zeff Read More
Drive-Through Car Wash Was Too Much for Tesla Cybertruck
This story originally appeared on Jalopnik.
After just a couple of months and a few thousand miles of ownership, Tik Tok user @captian.ad’s Tesla Cybertruck was effectively a several-thousand-pound paperweight for several hours. After taking his truck to the beach and stopping off at a car wash to clean it up, he parked the truck in his garage, where it decided to just stop working for a while. The screen, which runs all functions of the truck, went black, and wouldn’t respond at all, even after performing the factory prescribed reboot procedure. Not great. - Bradley Brownell Read More
Trump’s Truth Social Has Gone Woke
Truth Social’s stock price appears to be making a slight rebound Wednesday after losing more than half of its peak value in the month of April. That’s a bit surprising considering the fact that the far right’s favorite meme-stock company has been exposed for buying into the woke ideology of DEI. - Oscar Gonzalez Read More
Trump Media Stock Plummets After Truth Social Announces Live TV Streaming Platform
This story originally appeared on Quartz.
Shares of Trump Media & Technology Group, the company behind former President Donald Trump’s social media platform Truth Social, fell sharply again Tuesday after it announced that it’s launching a streaming platform. - Rocio Fabbro Read More
Tesla Cybertruck Hit With Stop-Sale Because of Unintended Acceleration: Report
This story originally appeared on Jalopnik.
It sure looks like Tesla has issued a stop-sale order of new Cybertrucks to address a serious problem with the truck’s accelerator pedal which could lead to unintended acceleration issues. A number of forum and social media posts on X and TikTok have brought up the issue. - Andy Kalmowitz Read More
Trump Media Stock Price in Free Fall as It Files to Issue More Shares
The company behind Donald Trump’s Truth Social has been public for just a few weeks, but the stock price has plunged 50% from its first full day on the market. Trump Media filed with the SEC on Monday to issue 21 million more shares of DJT stock, and made the first steps towards allowing Trump to resell some of his own shares, according to Bloomberg. DJT’s stock price fell 18% to $26.61 on Monday. - Maxwell Zeff Read More
Weird Teeth Give Away the Fakery In Microsoft’s Latest AI Video Generator
- Gif: Microsoft / Gizmodo
Researchers at Microsoft released a paper this week about VASA-1, a new AI tool that can generate a convincing video of someone speaking, using just a still image. Microsoft doesn’t have immediate plans to release the new tool to the public, but it’s pretty impressive. Well, it’s impressive if you don’t look too closely at the teeth. Just take a gander at those chompers. - Matt Novak Read More
The Nintendo Virtual Boy Deserves Your Respect
In 1995, Nintendo released the Virtual Boy, a video game console billed as providing gamers a unique and immersive playing experience via its stereoscopic red-and-black 3D graphic display. Within a year, following a quickly soured public reception and meager sales, the company would unceremoniously discontinue it. In Japan, Nintendo’s home country, the Virtual Boy lasted just five months. - Ed Cara Read More
‘Please Help Us Get Justice for Our Dogs’: 10 Horror Stories About the Dog-Sitting App Rover
Rover bills itself as the most popular pet-sitting app in the U.S., with tens of millions of bookings since the service was founded in 2011. But just like other gig-economy apps such as Uber and Airbnb, Rover is offered as a technology platform rather than a direct employer of pet-sitters. And that can lead to some real questions about who’s responsible when something goes seriously wrong. - Matt Novak Read More
Boston Dynamics Retires Atlas With Video of the Robot’s Coolest Jumps and Most Spectacular Falls
Boston Dynamics is retiring Atlas, the most famous bipedal robot in existence, according to a new video published on the robotics company’s YouTube page. And we’d be lying if we didn’t admit to getting a little choked up watching the trials and tribulations of Atlas over the years. - Matt Novak Read More
