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Gen Z discovers way to determine co-workers’ ages — and it starts with your email address

Gen Z has a new way to determine if someone is “old.” According to one Reddit user, your email might be giving away your...

New Yorkers are paying $1,200 for a better, faster commute

How much would you pay to shorten your NYC commute? Astoria resident Sam Ressler, 26, shelled out $1,200 to reclaim precious minutes, speeding up...

Charlie Javice, Frank founder convicted of defrauding JPMorgan out of $175M

Charlie Javice, the founder of student-finance startup Frank, was convicted on Friday of defrauding JPMorgan Chase & Co. in connection with the bank’s...

Elon Musk’s xAI buys social media platform X for $45B: ‘Futures are intertwined’

Elon Musk made a shock announcement Friday that his artificial intelligence venture xAI has acquired his X social media platform in an all-stock...

Ford files patent to bring old-school stick shifts to electric vehicles — but Gen Z drivers don’t know how to use them

They’re sticking it to Gen Z. Ford’s new electric vehicles could soon see a retro addition: manual gear shifters. A patent application from the automaker...

OpenAI raises $40B at $300B valuation in round led by SoftBank

Sam Altman’s OpenAI has raised $40 billion in a new funding round led by investment giant SoftBank as it looks to stave off...

Exclusive | FTC Commissioner Melissa Holyoak working remotely from Utah –

A powerful member of the Federal Trade Commission has been working her high-profile post remotely — despite President Trump’s demands that federal employees...

Trump says TikTok sale deal to be announced before Saturday deadline

President Trump said he expects to announce terms on a deal with TikTok’s China-based parent company, ByteDance, to sell the popular video-sharing app...

Alphabet’s Isomorphic Labs raises $600M for AI drug business

Isomorphic Labs, Google’s artificial intelligence drug business, raised $600 million in its first external funding round, the company said on Monday. Thrive Capital, a...

Trump vows to make US ‘undisputed Bitcoin superpower and crypto capital of the world’

President Donald Trump vowed to make America “the undisputed Bitcoin superpower and the crypto capital of the world” in remarks to the Blockworks Digital Assets...

Why Trump’s TikTok deal worries deep-pocketed investors

Deep-pocketed investors are growing wary of plowing money into the Trump-backed proposal for US ownership of TikTok because of possible massive civil liabilities...

Google users can now delete embarrassing messages after sending

Maybe you made a typo — or, worse, hit send on a regrettable “drunk text.” Google Messages users can now stop hangxiety before it...