Social media star Haliey Welch, better known as “Hawk Tuah Girl,” has bestowed Jeff Bezos with a nickname. On Thursday, Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of X, formerly Twitter, and the CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, said Bezos didn’t think Donald Trump would win the 2024 election. “Just learned tonight at Mar-a-Lago that Jeff Bezos…
Vietnam has positioned itself in recent years as an attractive destination for Big Tech companies looking to move away from China. But Hanoi’s policies regarding social media have increasingly been following Beijing’s lead. The Southeast Asian nation is now ramping up already tight controls over online platforms with new rules that will require companies to…
A video of President Joe Biden appearing to “wander off” into the Amazon rainforest has gone viral on social media. The clip comes from the end of Biden’s press conference Sunday from a section of forest in Manaus, Brazil, where he delivered remarks about conservation and the investments his administration has made in clean energy…
WASHINGTON: A survey has found that students who use dating apps have a “higher number of sexual partners” than non-swipers and could be contributing to the spread of sexually transmitted infections. “We show the use of dating apps among college students is linked to an increase in unprotected sexual behaviours and a higher number of…
Nearly 1,500 Hong Kong school pupils will be offered psychological counselling services on campus if they suffer from depression or anxiety under a new initiative to improve support networks by expanding the pool of counsellors. With support from annual fundraising drive Operation Santa Claus (OSC), local charity Mind HK will launch the Improving Access to…
During the G20 social event this past weekend, Brazil’s First Lady, Janja Lula da Silva, didn’t mince words when addressing billionaire Elon Musk. SpaceX CEO recently appointed to lead Trump’s new DOGE initiative alongside Vivek Ramaswamy faced sharp criticism after his social media platform, X, was suspended in Brazil for a month this year over…
Australian legislators are reported to be looking closely at draft legislation that would ban young people under the age of 16 from using social media even if they have parental consent. This raises the question of just how dangerous access to social media can be and whether Hong Kong should be looking at similar legislation….
Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir Technologies speaks during the Digital X event on September 07, 2021 in Cologne, Germany. Andreas Rentz | Getty Images Palantir shares continued their torrid run on Friday, soaring as much as 9% to a record, after the developer of software for the military announced plans to transfer its listing to…
As United States President-elect Donald Trump prepares to return to the White House, TikTok could be in line for a reprieve from the very leader who led the charge to ban the embattled video-sharing platform. Under a law signed by US President Joe Biden in April, ByteDance, the Chinese owner of the wildly popular app,…
Pavlo Gonchar | Lightrocket | Getty Images The chief financial officer of Trump Media and two other corporate insiders sold more than $16 million worth of company stock in the week following the presidential election, according to new disclosures. Most of the stock was sold by CFO Phillip Juhan, who in August adopted a trading…