‘We never got paid’: SpaceX contractors call out unpaid bills

For SpaceX, the roughly $2.5 million in liens is tiny compared with the size of its business.

SpaceX is building launch facilities, office buildings and even a shopping center in rural Texas, as billionaire Elon Musk‘s space venture rapidly expands its rocket and satellite business across the Lone Star state.

Cruise’s autonomous vehicles return to Phoenix—this time with safety drivers

Cruise faced intense pressure last year after a number of incidents showed vehicles stopping suddenly or obstructing emergency responses.

Cruise is bringing supervised autonomous driving back to Phoenix this week, more than six months after the company pulled all of its self-driving cars off of the road following regulatory scrutiny.

Sources: Lakers to start talking with candidates

The Lakers are expected to start contacting coaching candidates in the coming days, with an initial concentration on sitting assistants and ex-head coaches with whom they have less familiarity.

Sources: Lions signing Goff to $212M extension

The Lions are signing quarterback Jared Goff to a four-year, $212 million contract extension that includes $170 million guaranteed, sources told ESPN's Adam Schefter on Monday.

This Unemployed Guy Feels "Emasculated" Because His Wife – Who Earns All Their Income – Called Him A "Househusband," So He Stopped Doing Chores

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Protesters Are Fighting to Stop AI, but They’re Split on How to Do It

PauseAI protests are underway in London, New York, San Francisco, and across the globe. Its members have wildly different opinions on what the group should do next.

The Trump Trial on Cable TV: Play-by-Play and Drawings on an iPad

With no cameras recording Donald Trump’s criminal trial, anchors and producers are improvising to animate dramatic moments like Michael Cohen’s testimony.

Square Enix plans to ‘aggressively pursue’ multiplatform game releases

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Everybody’s getting bitten by the multiplatform bug; now, it’s Square Enix. In its earnings report released earlier today, the publisher shared plans to increase profits, stating that it will “aggressively pursue a multiplatform strategy that includes Nintendo platforms, PlayStation, Xbox, and PCs.”

Right now, Square Enix’s biggest games, like Final Fantasy XVI and Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, have been restricted to the PlayStation, with PC releases for...

Apple finally adds iPhone alerts for third-party Bluetooth trackers

Apple and Google collaborated on the new Detecting Unwanted Location Trackers industry standard. | Image: Apple

A new industry specification devised by Apple and Google to address the safety risks of Bluetooth tracking devices is now live. Apple announced this week it has implemented alerts for unknown third-party Bluetooth trackers in iOS 17.5, following Google starting to roll it out across Android devices running 6.0 and higher last December.

The Detecting Unwanted Location...

Melinda French Gates to leave the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

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Melinda French Gates has stepped down from her position as co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

French Gates, who will officially leave on June 7th, will continue her philanthropy elsewhere, to the tune of $12.5 billion. The money stems from an agreement with her ex-husband, Bill Gates, and does not come from the foundation’s endowment. In her X post, she says she will focus on programs “on behalf of...

Dallas' new deep threat and Boston's new defensive groove: Keys to pivotal Game 4s

The Celtics bounced back in Cleveland, while the Mavs got another win closer to an upset of the top-seeded Thunder. What lies ahead in Monday's Game 4s?

What marijuana reclassification could mean for medical research

The U.S. pot sector could see an influx of medical research funding from healthcare investors amid renewed interest from pharmaceutical firms.

The U.S. pot sector could see an influx of medical research funding from healthcare investors amid renewed interest from pharmaceutical firms, should a proposal to reclassify cannabis as a lower-risk substance be approved, industry experts said.

Someone Allegedly Put Their Baby On The Floor At The Taylor Swift Eras Tour Paris Show, And The Venue Responded

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OpenAI's GPT-4o Model Gives ChatGPT a Snappy, Flirty Upgrade

Prepare for ChatGPT to get more emotional. OpenAI demonstrated upgrades that make the chatbot capable of snappier conversations and showed the AI helper picking up on and expressing emotional cues.

The First Person to Receive a Pig Kidney Transplant Has Died

The hospital that carried out the procedure two months prior says there’s “no indication” that the transplant was related to his death.

Sauber aiming for a ‘reset’ after a difficult Miami Grand Prix

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Like many rivals, Sauber is bringing some upgrades to Imola where they are hoping for better results than they saw in Miami

Formula 1 returns this week, with the grid kicking off the European portion of the schedule with the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix. This week is likely to be an emotional one for the sport, as the grid returns to Imola for the first time since 2022, with last year’s race canceled due to devastating flooding in the region. In...

PGA Championship: Top 25 players with best chance to win at Valhalla, ranked

Scottie Scheffler during the final round of the 2024 RBC Heritage. | Photo by Andrew Redington/Getty Images

The PGA Championship is now upon us, so here are the top 25 players with the best chance to win at Valhalla.

The PGA Championship has produced an impressive list of winners over the past decade.

Brooks Koepka has won three Wanamaker Trophies, while Justin Thomas has claimed two. Phil Mickelson became the oldest major champion three years ago at Kiawah Island, and Collin Morikawa...

Tile owner Life360 picks satellites over partnering with Apple or Google

Life360 owns Tile, which makes popular location trackers like the Tile Pro. | Photo by Victoria Song / The Verge

Tile is promising satellite connectivity for its Bluetooth trackers in a move that could boost the company as an independent alternative to its Big Tech rivals: Apple’s Find My network and Google’s newly revamped Find My Device network.

Life360, the family locator and safety service company that bought Tile in 2021 announced a partnership with the satellite company...

Denon adds Siri to its smart speakers

Denon Home smart speakers now support Apple’s Siri voice assistant. | Image: Denon

Way back in 2021, Ecobee’s thermostats became the first non-Apple device to integrate Siri voice control into its hardware, following Apple’s making the voice assistant available to third-party devices at WWDC that year. Fast-forward a few years, and there’s finally another device with Siri on board: Denon smart speakers.

While primarily known for its receivers, Denon’s line of wireless...

Cruise is back driving autonomously for the first time since pedestrian-dragging incident

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Cruise’s autonomous vehicles are officially back on the road and driving autonomously for the first time since one of its driverless vehicles dragged a pedestrian over 20 feet in San Francisco.

Cruise said last month that it would resume testing with manually driven vehicles focused on mapping and gathering road information — minor tasks for a company with as many autonomous miles as Cruise. But Cruise needs to show local officials that it is suitably...