Rumors of a merger between the two companies have circulated since 2017. According to The Marker, shareholders in Outbrain will receive $250 million, plus 30 percent of the shares in the new venture. Even if you’re unfamiliar with their names, you’re undoubtedly aware of their work. You know when you scroll to the bottom of an article and get “recommended” low-quality clickbait content about teeth whitening products, or salacious gossip about a former child actor with well-established mental health issues?...

This is according to a new report from the LA Times, that itself was spurred on by an exclusive investigation by Business Insider that claimed to have uncovered evidence that Tesla was knowingly selling potentially dangerous vehicles. BI’s original article purported that from 2012, Tesla shipped Model S’ with battery packs that had leaky cooling systems, which could, in some extreme cases, lead to fires. The report chronicled how the EV maker supposedly knew that its battery packs weren’t up to par and, despite employee concerns, continued to plow on with production anyway....

Now, Tesla wants to cash in on the abundant investor interest… again. The Musk-led wunderstock is looking to raise an additional $5 billion, having recently filed to sell the equivalent of 0.8% of the company’s outstanding shares, reports MarketWatch. The move comes just three months after Tesla’s share price sank 16% in one day after the company disclosed a separate $5 billion offering, contributing to what MarketWatch noted was its biggest drop in history....

Echoing the “giga” spirit of the day, the beer is going to be called “Giga Beer” and “Giga Bier” (the German equivalent), and the bottle’s design is inspired by the futuristic lines and angles of the Cybertruck. Here’s what our dear Elon said during the event: Given that Musk likes to tease around with crazy ideas that add to his ‘cool engineer-entrepreneur’ profile, one would think that this was a joke....

The SEC filing, made earlier today, disclosed that Tesla has bought $1.5 billion worth of Bitcoin, pushing its price to over $40,000 in the process. The EV company is also reportedly entertaining the idea of letting customers use the cryptocurrency to buy its cars in the future. However, take that with $1.5 billion worth of salt, because there is still regulatory uncertainty around that. [Read: How much does it cost to buy, own, and run an EV?...

Yes, I know lots of people are gonna read the headline and say things like “who gives a shit?” and “grow up” and “who the fuck are you?” but they can do what they want. I’m on a mission. Nay, quest. The new Google Docs sharing menu is my One Ring and this article the Mount Doom I must cast it in. Don’t think too hard about that metaphor. [Read: This AI-driven meme generator delivers the avant-garde content you need] At this point, I should probably actually tell you about the new Google Docs sharing function....

As Electrive points out, news of the Solo first surfaced about four years ago, and deliveries were supposed to commence two years ago, but nothing happened — until now. According to an announcement from Electra Meccanica, the company that designs and makes the Solo, the car is today entering production. It will be produced under contract by manufacturing partner and investor, Zongshen Industrial Group, in Chongqing, China. [Read: California bill no longer holds escooter operators liable for user accidents] Zongshen is better known for producing motorcycles — it claims to make over a million a year — and not electric cars, but don’t let that put you off, because the Solo EV is part motorcycle and part one-person car....

You’re in the car driving on a family trip. Your spouse is riding shotgun, hammering away on a laptop, trying to get some work done. In the backseat, one kid is listening to their music on a smartphone, while another is watching YouTube videos on a tablet. Then, like an instant tsunami warning, it takes mere seconds for everyone to start fighting over who gets to use the battery charger to save their suddenly flagging device....

The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration has launched an investigation into Tesla’s Autopilot system in response to the crashes. The incidents took place between January 2018 and July 2021 in Arizona, California, Connecticut, Florida, Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, North Carolina, and Texas. The probe covers 765,000 Tesla cars – that’s virtually every car the company has made in the last seven years. It’s also not the first time the federal government has investigated Tesla’s Autopilot....

If you enjoy live streaming your adventures or shooting quick social media videos or just documenting life happening around you, you quickly learn how often you get in the way. Yeah…you. If you try to shoot video with a phone in your hand without the benefit of a mount or any help, you invariably split your focus between what you’re shooting on your screen and moving in the real world, like not tripping over curbs or running into doors....

Wonder what I’m talking about it? Well, OCEARCH is an organization dedicated to supporting marine life. One of the things it does to try and achieve this is to track marine life across the globe. Mainly, it’s a shark tracker, but OCEARCH also keeps an eye on other sea animals, including dolphins and turtles. You can go and have a look at the web app here. Thing is, this isn’t where its true joy lies....

The astronauts took off lying on their backs in the seats, and facing in the direction of travel to reduce the stress of high acceleration on their bodies. Launching from Kennedy Space Centre, the spacecraft travelled out over the Atlantic, turning to travel in a direction that matches the ISS orbit. The first rocket section separated at just over two minutes. The main dragon capsule separated from the second stage burn a few minutes later and continued its journey....

According to company CEO Samuel Ben, however, the firm isn’t responsible for those losses. Instead, he says Telegram scammers tricked users into handing over access to their funds during an extended maintenance period. Ben also claimed the pesky scammers returned to steal more funds when Satowallet attempted to establish Know-Your-Customer policies earlier this year. Eventually, he firmly passed the buck to its hosting provider OVH, publishing rather peculiar claims in a blog....

TeslaCEO Elon Musk tweeted on Wednesday that the long-awaited Roadster will be once again… delayed. Assuming 2022 is not mega drama, new Roadster should ship in 2023. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 1, 2021 As you can see, 2023 isn’t a set date, but rather a prediction, assuming that nothing big and unexpected occurs in 2022. Truth be told the chip and supply chain shortages have caused unforeseen delays in the automotive industry and Tesla is no exception....

Given that environment, it would be easy to think it’s a bad time out there for anyone looking for a new job, particularly if they work in the tech industry. The truth, of course, is a little bit different. However, many sectors and jobs within tech remain remarkably buoyant as the effects of the pandemic give with one hand and take with the other. While some ecommerce companies, like Shopify, are feeling the pinch as future growth predictions failed to materialize once we went back to normal habits, the flipside is that the cloud computing and SaaS sectors are experiencing growth....

The UK government won a 20% stake in OneWeb during an auction in New York on Friday, pending court approval. The bid, reportedly made through a consortium, was worth more than $1 billion in total. [Read: A look inside Europe’s $7 trillion technology market] The move sets the UK government squarely against billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, both of whom are pouring huge sums of cash into their own broadband-beaming satellite plays, Starlink and Blue Origin....

We’ve known since the Project Scarlett reveal that the console would have backwards compatibility, and Microsoft reiterated that fact during its reveal of the console at the Game Awards. Xbox head Phil Spencer later told GameSpot that this would be a feature at launch: “We wanted to make sure we had that, day one, we could deliver on the compatibility promise, and so I’ve been playing quite a few [Xbox 360] games on my [Xbox Series X] and Xbox One games on the [Xbox Series X] and that’s just to ensure that we can be there day one....

Flash forward a month. You’re gonna be racking your brain for an incredibly cool holiday gift on a short timeline…and you’re going to think back to this moment. Right now. Because this is the moment you could have scratched a whole bunch of people off your gift list with all 10 of these super fun toys and puzzles featured in this pre-Black Friday sale. And you’re really going to be kicking yourself because you could have saved an additional 15 percent off each of these items by using the code SAVE15NOV during checkout....

These little robots in disguise represent a breakthrough in our ability to treat diseases such as cancer. Background: There’s a party going on in our brains 24/7, but the guest list is very exclusive. The blood-brain barrier, a protective border that keeps out the riff-raff, takes its job very seriously. In fact, it’s difficult for doctors to treat diseases such as some types of cancer because of the challenge involved in getting drugs past this barrier....

It’s an impressive technical achievement, but that dominance has also made top-level chess less imaginative, as players now increasingly follow strategies produced by soulless algorithms. But a new research paper shows that AI could still make the game better for us puny humans. The study authors developed a chess engine with a difference. Unlike most of its predecessors, their system isn’t designed to defeat humans. Instead, it’s programmed to play like them....