WikiLeaks has a new top dog. Its contentious figurehead and founder, Julian Assange, will step aside, letting former WikiLeaks spokesperson Kristinn Hrafnsson take the reins due to what WikiLeaks calls “extraordinary circumstances” that have seen Assange “held incommunicado.” Assange created the organization in 2006 and has served as its editor-in-chief ever since. Hrafnsson, an Icelandic…
Fear not, citizens — the law enforcement apparatus of California has apprehended or is hot on the trail of more than a dozen hardened criminals who boldly stole from the state’s favorite local business: Apple . Their unconscionable larceny amounted to more than a million dollars’ worth of devices stolen from Apple Stores — the…
Urban-X, the urban-tech startup accelerator backed by MINI and early-stage urban-tech fund Urban.Us, hosted a demo day today for its fourth cohort of companies at its Brooklyn HQ. The seven presenting companies offered solutions to issues plaguing modern cities, including toll-road pricing, energy and construction management, and even the inefficiencies of modern cycling helmets. In a…
Earlier this month, media startup Tech In Asia surprised its readers when it announced plans to implement an $18 per month paywall. More expensive than packages for the Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal, the subscription went live this week. It’s designed to make the business self-sustaining after a tricky period of business in which…
Nintendo has won a copyright case against MariCar, provider of a hugely popular Tokyo tourist attraction that lets you go-kart around the city’s streets wearing costumes inspired by Nintendo’s famous video game characters The post Nintendo wins battle against Tokyo’s Mario-inspired go-kart tourist attraction appeared first on Digital Trends. Source link Shiv EswarShiv has over…
Elon Musk, founder and CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, is in deep trouble in the US. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed a lawsuit against the serial entrepreneur for fraud, alleging that he made “false and misleading” statements regarding his intention to take Tesla private with the aid of Saudi Arabian cash. This…
Sheryl Sandberg and Jack Dorsey — representing Facebook and Twitter, respectively — recently testified before Congress, this time evading questions about bias on their platforms. We frequently turn to tech executives to answer for such issues because they have the agency to make changes. But they are not alone. Overlooked are the tech employees —…
Update: There’s a live stream of the SEC press conference detailing the complaint: The Securities and Exchange Commission lodged a complaint today against Elon Musk following tweets sent last month by the CEO involving a planned private takeover of the electric car company at $420 a share. The filing from the Southern District of New York…
Tesla CEO Elon Musk described fraud charges filed Thursday by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission an “unjustified action” that has left him “deeply saddened and disappointed” in a statement sent to TechCrunch. The SEC alleges in a complaint filed against the CEO that Musk lied when he tweeted on August 7 that he had “funding…
Facebook might be doing its best to stay out of political scandals in the latter half of 2018, but the company had a presence, front and center, at one of the most contentious Senate hearings in modern history. Facebook’s Vice President of Global Public Policy at Facebook, Joel Kaplan, was spotted sitting prominently near his…
