Month: July 2024

Strong earnings report pushes Meta shares up amid heavy AI spending

Stock price grew around 5%, which revealed the company outperformed analysts’ expectations for its second quarter Meta’s shares rose in after-hours trading on Wednesday off the back of a strong earnings report that comes as the company is spending heavily on AI tools. The company’s stock price grew around 5% following the report, which revealed …

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Venture capitalists including Mark Cuban back Kamala Harris’s campaign

More than 100 Silicon Valley investors, including LinkedIn co-founder Reed Hastings, launch website VCs for Kamala A group of more than 100 Silicon Valley investors, including Mark Cuban, the TV host and NBA owner, and Reed Hastings, a co-founder of LinkedIn, launched a website in support of Kamala Harris. A statement said vcsforkamala.org expressed support …

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Bitcoin bros told me they can deliver Trump election at culty crypto carnival: ‘No mercy in November’

The ex-president and RFK Jr were among the stars of this year’s bitcoin conference, where there was no line for the women’s bathroom Last week, downtown Nashville transformed into a carnival as thousands of people descended on the Bitcoin 2024 conference. The most enthusiastic attendees wore bitcoin orange or “Make America great again” red – …

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Eliza & The Delusionals: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)

The Gold Coast trio’s frontwoman shares her list of clips – including Creed, dogs, and multiple TikTok trends she wants to try with her bandmates Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email I have such a love-hate relationship with the internet and TikTok. I honestly find myself doomscrolling way more than I’d like to admit, …

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The Xbox 360’s pioneering online store has gone offline – and it marks the end of a gaming era

In this week’s newsletter: We’ve become so used to digitally downloading games now that it’s easy to forget how novel it once was, thanks to places like Xbox 360’s Marketplace • Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here The Xbox 360 digital store is the latest to go offline, following the …

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Delta faces $500m in costs from CrowdStrike global tech outage

Multiple-day outage caused airline to lose revenue by cancelling and delaying thousands of flights Ed Bastian, CEO of Delta Air Lines, says the airline is facing $500m in costs related to a global tech outage that disrupted emergency services, communications and thousands of businesses. Speaking on CNBC, Bastian said on Wednesday that the monetary amount …

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Thank Goodness You’re Here! review – sheer vivacity and dark charm

PC, PS4/5, Switch; Coal Supper/PanicIn this brilliantly surreal, slapstick cartoon puzzler set in a fictitious northern town, you (a junior salesman) help an array of weird characters with odd jobs It is a classic British comedy setup. An unknown junior salesman at a large firm is sent on a seemingly mundane trip to an idiosyncratic …

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New online therapies could help at least twice number of people recover from anxiety

Exclusive: Four internet treatments developed by University of Oxford will be rolled out across NHS trusts New NHS-approved online therapies could help two to three times the number of children and adults recover from anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder, research suggests. One in five children and young people in England aged eight to 25 have …

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Microsoft beats revenue forecasts but poor performance of cloud services drags share price

Firm’s earnings were up 15% year-on-year, but Azure’s lower returns resulted in share prices falling by as much as 7% Microsoft outperformed analyst predictions in its latest quarterly earnings report, revealing on Tuesday that its revenue was up 15% year-over-year. But growth of the company’s closely watched Azure cloud computing services failed to meet expectations …

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Star Wars Outlaws: what to expect from Ubisoft’s galactic adventure

Set in the year between Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, Outlaws follows Kay, an ambitious street thief as she plots a giant heist. We meet the gang behind the gang About 10 minutes into the latest preview build of Star Wars Outlaws, Ubisoft’s forthcoming open-world adventure, lead character Kay Vess enters Mirogana: …

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