Indeed, Musk can now buy around 1.7 million Tesla shares for $350.02 each, a total cost of just over $595 million. Tesla stock opened Friday trade at $808.32, which means Musk hypothetically stands to profit around $778.6 million in just two trades. [Read: A look at the $17 billion stock portfolio of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation] Musk earned the shares by keeping the trailing average of Tesla’s market cap above $100 billion over both 30-day and six-month periods, having already satisfied preliminary conditions of the payout back in 2018....

There’s no questioning that sex workers face judgement and stigma, as well as blatant, systematic discrimination. In media, they’re punished for their nonconforming sexuality by being victimized, criminalized, or slut-shamed. And despite the arrival of a new era of feminist activism, it seems that yet again, feminism has left the rights of sex workers behind. “To be honest I feel like not much has changed in the adult industry since the #MeToo movement,” Erika Lust, a Swedish erotic film director, screenwriter, and producer, told us in a recent TNW Answers session....

Ethereum’s creators wanted to build a platform that would allow users all over the world to write decentralized applications, and use the Ethereum blockchain as a “world computer.” The decentralized platform made smart contracts a key part of the blockchain conversation, and demonstrated to the world how blockchain technology can be used for more than just cryptocurrency. It sounds great, but bringing the Ethereum vision to life is proving difficult for its community of supporters and developers....

Programmer Vikrum Nijjar has resurrected one of them called Kid Pix in a browser window. The app was originally released for Macs in 1989. If the name doesn’t sound familiar, it might be because the app was before your time (and mine): it was originally released for Macs in 1989. — V:IKRUM＞ (@vikrum5000) August 4, 2021 Kid Pix works like any other old paint app with options for different types of pencils, brushes, shapes with textures....

For the first time, the event streamed live on YouTube — a welcome break from the glitchy Safari experience of recent years. Here’s the best of what Apple had on offer today. Apple Arcade Apple’s App Store is set to receive a refresh, with the first thing announced being a new “Arcade” tab on mobile devices. Click the tab to find new games, strategy guides, and news or information pertaining to a wide variety of games, in several genres....

Lockdowns may have been lifted across across the world, but many of the new digital behaviors that people adopted during confinement have endured, resulting in meaningful increases in various kinds of digital activity. For context, Akamai reports that global internet traffic has grown by as much as 30% this year, while research from GlobalWebIndex shows that we’re still spending considerably more time using connected tech than we were at the start of 2020....

The project kickstarted the field that has become known as artificial intelligence (AI). At the time, the scientists thought that a “2-month, 10-man study of artificial intelligence” would solve the biggest part of the AI equation. “We think that a significant advance can be made in one or more of these problems if a carefully selected group of scientists work on it together for a summer,” the first AI proposal read....

CEO Mark Zuckerberg teased this new announcement during his tete-a-tete with Congress this week: “Later in this week we actually have a big announcement coming up on launching a big initiative around news and journalism where we’re partnering with a lot of folks to build a new product that’s supporting high-quality journalism.” A report from the Washington Post confirms that a small team of humans will curate the top stories in the tab, while everything else will be selected by the algorithm, matching stories with user interests on various subjects....

A report by TechCrunch suggests the social network tested a feature called ‘Popular Photos’ in its app last month. Currently, if you tap on a photo from the news feed, and swipe down you’re redirected back to your feed. However, with this new feature, you can tap on “See more photos” and keep scrolling down. Popular Photos also truncates the caption after 65 characters – as compared to 125 characters in the Instagram feed....

The issue has come to light after a user going by the name Joshua Maddux took to Twitter to report the unusual behavior, which occurs in the Facebook app for iOS. In footage he shared, you can see his camera actively working in the background as he scrolls through his feed. The problem becomes evident due to a bug that shows the camera feed in a tiny sliver on the left side of your screen, when you open a photo in the app and swipe down....

In case you don’t remember — because it’s been over a year since Zuckerberg first mentioned the plan — the idea behind this group is that it’ll be able to overrule Facebook’s upper management in policy decisions and content moderation. There will be 40 members in total, from a variety of different backgrounds, none of whom have any connection to Facebook itself. It’ll also be funded by an independent $130 million trust....

Speaking to Reuters, Patrick Ellis, one of the board members of the Switzerland-based Libra Association, said there were currently no plans to determine how or where the digital currency would launch next year. “At this stage, there is no strategy set in stone for the markets or the product, or how it will actually get rolled out,” Ellis added. However, when asked whether Libra would actually launch in 2020, Ellis simply said “yes....

Oh you don’t remember that scene? It’s the one where Kenobi fiddles with the straps of his headset for three full minutes on screen before mumbling “hang on, it’s blurry. Wait. What am I supposed to be seeing? Is that Jabba the Hutt? Where’s the slider-thingy that makes the image clear? What side is it on? Oh. There it is. Ah! That’s Leia.” Then, inside the virtual Star Wars world, Leia’s cutesy avatar emotes a scared face and says “Help me Obi… uh, am I muted?...

The likes of Mastercard, Visa, Uber, and PayPal are all backing the social media giant’s upcoming digital coin due to be unveiled later this month, and officially rolled out next year, reports The Wall St Journal. The Big F has already signed up more than a dozen companies. Each of these firms will invest a reported $10 million to help support GlobalCoin, and to be part of the coin’s governing consortium called the Libra Association....

Instead, the images awkwardly read “passwqord.” Somehow, this little blunder slipped past an entire team of designers, brand creatives, and communications reps. Incredible. (In all fairness, it seems we also missed it when we reported on the new logo yesterday.) Anyways, take a look at the work of hundreds of professionals: Of course, one can’t help but cut Facebook some slack for its absentmindedness. The company’s got bigger fish to fry — like US representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez grinding its flustered leader over its political advertisement practices, and losing thousands of content moderators because they couldn’t handle the terrible working conditions....

Facebook is currently testing this app in Peru, one of the 55 countries where Free Basics exists. The social network has partnered with local telecom companies such as Bitel, Claro, Entel, and Movistar. [Read: Twitter’s new test feature asks you to mind your language] These carriers will provide a free daily data cap to Discover users that they can use to visit any website. The data limit varies per carrier; some of them are offering 10MB per day in Peru — which is not much event to visit compressed mobile sites....

Over the weekend, motoring and EV outlets were in a buzz with the news that Genesis — the luxury offshoot of South Korean carmaker Hyundai — has trademarked six car names all suffixed by the letter “e,” showing the company is readying efforts to overhaul its lineup. Early in the year, the company confirmed it has two electric crossovers in the works, but details on its incoming vehicles lineup remained scarce....

Soros accused Zuckerberg of engaging in “some kind of mutual assistance arrangement with Donald Trump that will help him to get re-elected” by continuing to run political ads on Facebook. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has taken the opposite approach, banning all political advertising worldwide last October. — jack ??? (@jack) October 30, 2019 Facebook, meanwhile, continues to run them, while exempting them from fact-checking and allowing campaigns to target their ads at specific groups of voters....

As reported by Reuters, the European nation is sitting on enough lithium to make 400 million electric cars. The precious metal, geologists say, is thousands of meters deep below the earth’s surface in molten form, beneath the Rhine river. It spans an area 300 km long and up to 40 km wide, in the Upper-Rhine Valley in the Black Forest area of southwest Germany. That amount of lithium is great news for the German — and wider European — electric car industry....

The US blacklisted Huawei back in May over its alleged ties with the Chinese government and imposed export sanctions on the company’s products. The US then pressured Germany to do they same by excluding Huawei from an auction on providing the country with gear for its 5G infrastructure — but the new security rule book shows Germany has no intention on caving. “Germany’s approach did not and does not foresee any clause that would exclude any one company,” a senior government official told Reuters, under anonymity....