Netflix Added More Than 9 Million Subscribers in First Quarter
The company’s revenue was 15 percent higher compared with last year, and it solidified its standing as the entertainment company’s dominant streaming service.
THURSDAY, 18 APRIL 2024, 22:36
The company’s revenue was 15 percent higher compared with last year, and it solidified its standing as the entertainment company’s dominant streaming service.
A jury found Avraham “Avi” Eisenberg guilty on all three counts of fraud and manipulation in a $110 million crypto trade scheme using the Mango Markets platform. Axios: The case was the first known test for a jury to decide whether existing U.S. laws governing fraud and market manipulation apply to the world of decentralized finance (DeFi). The 28-year-old Eisenberg will be held to account for...
Vivo has launched its latest smartphones in South Africa — with a focus on photography and after-sales support.
One juror in former US president Donald Trump’s criminal case in New York has been excused over fears she could be identified. It could get even messier.
U.S. aircraft manufacturer Boeing plans to enter the flying car business in Asia by 2030, looking to tap demand for the fast travel the vehicles could provide in the region’s traffic-choked cities. Nikkei: Boeing Chief Technology Officer Todd Citron revealed the plans in an interview with Nikkei. The company is developing electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) craft at subsidiary Wisk...
From The Sympathizer to Conan O’Brien Must Go, here’s everything you need to be watching on Max this month.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. launched his campaign one year ago this week.
Nigeria will criminalize the destruction of broadband fiber cables following repeated complaints by MTN Nigeria and other telecommunications companies that they are losing billions of naira, Bloomberg News reported, citing people familiar with the matter. From the report: Nigeria’s works ministry, which supervises federal road constructors, is finalizing the regulation that will be signed as an...
The U.S. Copyright Office has granted a copyright registration to Elisa Shupe, a retired U.S. Army veteran, for her novel “AI Machinations: Tangled Webs and Typed Words,” which extensively used OpenAI’s ChatGPT in its creation. The registration is among the first for creative works incorporating AI-generated text, but with a significant caveat – Shupe is considered the author of the “selection,...
The grant to the memory chipmaker is the latest federal award aimed at boosting U.S. chip manufacturing.
Shoprite CEO Pieter Engelbrecht recently revealed that the Sixty60 app was being rewritten.
Speakers at a conference for Constitutional Sheriffs claimed that militias need to patrol polling stations to stop the “expected flood” of immigrant voters.
An anonymous reader shares a report: A financially motivated criminal hacking group says it has stolen a confidential database containing millions of records that companies use for screening potential customers for links to sanctions and financial crime. The hackers, which call themselves GhostR, said they stole 5.3 million records from the World-Check screening database in March and are...
South Africa’s Zando hopes to tackle fast-fashion Chinese e-commerce retailers Shein and Temu in its home market.
The second golden age of portable gaming is here! Mostly. These are the top gadgets for taking your video games on the go.
The car company popularized EVs. Now, facing intense competition from China, it has to figure out what to do next.
Scientists estimate Vasuki indicus was up to 15m long, weighed a tonne and would have constricted its prey
Fossil vertebrae unearthed in a mine in western India are the remains of one of the largest snakes that ever lived, a monster estimated at up to 15 metres in length – longer than a T rex.
Scientists have recovered 27 vertebrae from the snake, including a few still in the same position as...
Meta debuted a new version of its powerful Llama AI model, its latest effort to keep pace with similar technology from companies like OpenAI, X and Google. The company describes Llama 3 8B and Llama 3 70B, containing 8 billion and 70 billion parameters respectively, as a “major leap” in performance compared to their predecessors. Meta claims that the Llama 3 models, trained on custom-built...
Rad Power Bikes’ new bikes have a renewed focus on safety, with encapsulated batteries, class switching, and now … turn signals.
Bitcoin aficionados are hoping that a scheduled reduction in the number of new coins going into circulation will cause the price of the cryptocurrency to skyrocket.
Tigran Gambaryan, an American compliance official for the giant cryptocurrency exchange Binance, flew to Nigeria in February for a planned two-day business trip. He hasn’t returned.