Investors claim Tesla chief used Twitter, paid influencers and his TV appearance to manipulate price of cryptocurrency Elon Musk is being accused of insider trading in a proposed class action lawsuit by investors accusing the Tesla CEO of manipulating the cryptocurrency Dogecoin, costing them billions of dollars. In a Wednesday night filing in Manhattan federal …
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The world’s richest person lapsed into an unusual silence on social media during his trip to the electric carmaker’s second largest market Followers of Elon Musk didn’t know what to expect from his trip to China. Would he speak about Tesla, a company with a large market and manufacturing footprint there? Or SpaceX, with its …
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Facebook founder’s intensive workout is part of a recent trend of tech billionaires going buff You’ve got the billions, you’ve got the global brand domination – what comes next? An extreme fitness regime, of course. Mark Zuckerberg has raised internet eyebrows after revealing he has taken part in an intensive challenge in which he completed …
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Maverick head of Tesla and Twitter overtakes French billionaire Bernard Arnault, head of the LVMH luxury goods empire Elon Musk is once again the world’s richest person after leapfrogging French billionaire Bernard Arnault, after a slump in the value of Arnault’s LVMH luxury goods empire. The 51-year-old maverick head of Tesla and owner of Twitter …
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PlayStation 4/5, Xbox, PC; Blizzard Entertainment Behind the screams and stunningly-costumed demons, this is escapist junk food for gamers – which may be exactly what you’re after Diablo 4 wants you to know that it’s very serious indeed. From its gripping introduction, evoking Blizzard’s Warcraft 3-era heyday of best-in-class cinematics, to the richly macabre backdrops …
A relatable but ultimately unsatisfying exploration of what staring at a phone all day does to the soul There are people who sleep with their smartphones beneath their pillows. Out of convenience? Or through some vague hankering after a marriage of technology and dreaming, the creation of a more stretchy, psychedelic reality? There are people, …
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CEO Stephen Kick tells the eight-year story of his firm’s ambitious reboot of a lost sci-fi horror gaming classic “Anxious. Excited. Terrified.” That’s how Stephen Kick, chief executive of Nightdive Studios, was feeling when I spoke to him last week, before the launch of System Shock. A remake of the 1994 cyberpunk shooter that inspired …
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Amazon UK Services received tax credit of £7.7m for investment in infrastructure under Rishi Sunak’s super-deduction scheme Amazon’s main UK division has paid no corporation tax for the second year in a row after benefiting from tax credits on a chunk of its £1.6bn of investment in infrastructure, including robotic equipment at its warehouses. Amazon …
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In the agency’s latest effort to hold big tech accountable, the company agreed to settle the privacy violations for $5.8m A former employee of Amazon’s Ring doorbell camera unit spied on female customers for months in 2017 with cameras placed in bedrooms and bathrooms, the Federal Trade Commission said in a court filing on Wednesday …
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