China’s BYD overtakes Tesla’s electric car sales in last quarter of 2023

After months of strikes by the writers’ and screen actors’ unions — and billions of dollars in losses to California’s economy — Hollywood is back to work. Sort of. We still need the SAG-AFTRA membership to ratify the hard-won deal for the TV and movie industry to continue its post-pandemic recovery. Like the Writers Guild…

TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew faced a bipartisan grilling on Thursday as he appeared before the House Energy and Commerce Committee to address lawmakers’ concerns about the video sharing app, which has 150 million active users in the US. Of particular concern to the committee was the company’s China-based parent company, ByteDance, and its suspected…

In December 2020, astronomers documented a burst of highly energetic light in one of the most distant galaxies ever observed. But less than a year later, the paper’s claims lay in limbo. Other scientists said it had merely been a passing satellite. “I was a bit sad that the gamma ray burst turned out to…

Federal authorities have charged the co-founders of Fresno startup Bitwise Industries with fraud months after the company laid off all of its employees and shut down without explanation. Irma Olguin Jr. and Jake Soberal surrendered to authorities Thursday after being charged in a federal complaint with conspiring to commit wire fraud and taking more than…

From footballers to singers, this month’s AI or real quiz is sure to leaving you scratching your head! Challenge yourself to get full marks in our latest AI or real quiz and see how you do at spotting pictures that have been created using artificial intelligence. And don’t forget, do your own research to find…

Want to know how much your friends are worth? Meet Flip, the shopping app that will put a price tag on every single person in your phone’s contact list. Cajole one of them into signing up for the app, and you get cash — up to $130 per person — to spend on Flip. “The…