Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been shortlisted in TIME Magazine’s 2022 Person of the Year awards. With his nomination this year, Musk now has the chance to secure the coveted award two years in a row. Apart from Musk, other contenders for TIME’s 2022 Person of the Year award include Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, noted…
Tesla CEO and new Twitter owner Elon Musk shared a number of optimistic updates about the social media company’s advertisers recently. Musk noted that Apple Inc. has now “fully resumed” its advertisements on Twitter. E-commerce giant Amazon is reportedly planning on increasing its Twitter ad spend as well. The update on Apple’s Twitter advertisements was…
Elon Musk’s Twitter is working on removing child sexual abuse (CSAM) at scale with “no mercy for those who are involved in these illegal activities.” Andrea Stroppa shared a thread on Twitter with updates on how Twitter has moved from being lenient toward the child abuse problem to tackling it head-on. Stroppa spearheaded the research…
Elon Musk’s Twitter Files revealed quite a bit of detail about the former executives’ abuse of power while running the platform. In November, Elon Musk promised to release evidence of Twitter’s suppression of free speech and, on Friday, announced that he would unveil Twitter’s role in suppressing the Hunter Biden laptop news. Elon Musk announced earlier on Friday that…
Elon Musk announced that he would release information on Twitter’s suppression of the Hunter Biden story at 5 pm Eastern Standard Time. He added that there would also be a live Q&A. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1598778884639653891?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1598778884639653891%7Ctwgr%5E34d5e62bfcb3298a45e311a6ba43c6b27626c1c9%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.teslarati.com%2Felon-musk-qa-twitter-hunter-biden%2F The son of U.S. President Joe Biden has been a controversial topic for political supporters on both sides. Hunter Biden was said to have…
On Friday, Ford CEO Jim Farley said that the automaker achieved its goal of becoming the second best-selling automaker of EVs in the U.S. Citing third-party industry data, Ford said that it beat out Hyundai/Kia to meet that goal. Ford is now the second best-selling EV automaker behind Tesla. The automaker said that its share of the…
Twitter has launched a beta version of its app, and users with iOS can download and beta test the new app. The complete list of required platforms to beta test the new Twitter 2.0 app is as follows: iOS or iPadOS apps: iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch running iOS 13 or iPadOS 13 or later. App Clips require iOS 14 or iPadOS 14, or…
Elon Musk was given a tour of Apple’s headquarters by CEO Tim Cook. The Chief Twit thanked Cook for taking him on the tour and shared a video of a path near a pond. Although it is not known what the two talked about, Elon Musk shared concerns on Twitter that Apple was threatening to…
Twitter 2.0 promised transparency and safety in its new company blog post. Elon Musk launched Twitter 2.0 on Wednesday, which is the latest of the many changes he has made to the platform since purchasing it. In Wednesday’s blog post, Twitter 2.0: Our continued commitment to the public conversation, Twitter makes its mission clear. “Twitter’s mission is to promote…
Real-time insurance telematics is an ideal way for drivers to receive insurance rates based on their driving behaviors. However, a new study from the Insurance Research Council (IRC) shows privacy concerns are still a significant barrier to the widespread adoption of the program. Telematics and usage-based insurance (UBI) programs are ideal because they track driving…