• How budget airlines actually end up costing MORE than ‘pricier’ carriers due to their hidden costs

    BUDGET airlines like Ryanair, Wizz Air and easyJet could end up costing passengers more money compared to the likes of British Airways and Jet2. Consumer watchdog Which? compared the cost of flying

  • Quest operating system: Meta opens Quest operating system to third-party device makers

    Meta Platforms is sharing its Quest headset's operating system with rival device makers, including Microsoft, for the first time, it said on Monday, as it works to extend its influence over the emerging virtual and mixed reality industry. The move will allow partner companies to build their headsets using Meta Horizon OS, a rebranded operating system that brings capabilities like gesture recognition, passthrough, scene understanding and spatial anchors to the devices that run on it, the company...

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    '$60,000 is the cost that I bear': Jim Chilton has extra costs due to his ranch sharing a border

    Jim Chilton and his wife Sue, have owned a ranch that shares a boundary with the U.S.- Mexico border since 1987, and are seeing a spike in their expenses because of their location.

  • Meta underestimated the cost of AI

    Meta's first-quarter earnings report reveals the company's AI plans are costing more than anticipated.The tech giant is upping their estimate of capital expenses and expects the increase to continueas it invests "aggressively" in "AI research and product development efforts."The expenses are expected to be roughly $5 billion more than the original estimate, reaching between $35 and $40 billion. The original prediction was between $30 billion and $37 billion.Meta's minimum estimate for full-year...

  • Amazon sales soar with boost from artificial intelligence and advertising

    Revenue at Amazon Web Services increases to $25bn as retail giant releases earnings report surpassing Wall Street expectationsAmazon profits soared once again in the first quarter of 2024, the company announced on Tuesday – the latest in a series of robust earnings reports for the retail giant. The company attributed the boost to artificial intelligence and advertising sales.Amazon reported overall revenue of $143.3bn in the first three months of the year – up 13% from the same period in 2023...

  • Letter: Foster system is failing keiki, costing legal fees

    Something seems to be terribly wrong with our foster care system. Several children have died in past few years while they were supposed to be taken care of. And now comes a $750,000 lawsuit being settled by the state (“State to pay $750,000 in foster abuse case,” Star-Advertiser, April 16).

  • Grindr sued over claims it revealed users' HIV status to advertisers

    Hookup app Grindr is accused of revealing users' HIV status in a lawsuit filed in London's High Court. The lawsuit claims that user data was shared with Grindr's advertisers via "covert tracking technology," identifies more than 650 claimants, and claims thousands of users were affected. — Read the rest

  • Hyundai is the latest brand to pause advertising on X due to antisemitism

    Hyundai motor company is the latest major brand to pause its advertising on “X” formerly known as Twitter due to antisemitism.

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    Hyundai is the latest brand to pause advertising on X due to antisemitism

    By Ramishah Maruf, CNN New York (CNN) — Hyundai said on Thursday it paused advertising on X, formerly known as Twitter, a day after an ad from the automaker reportedly appeared adjacent to an antisemitic and pro-Hitler post on the social media site. On Wednesday, user Nancy Levine Stearns posted screenshots of a paid Hyundai

  • Meta’s Quest 2 will now only cost you $199

    At its new price point, Meta's previous-generation headset is a great deal for anyone just getting started with VR.

  • Meta Expands VR Operating System to Third-Party Hardware Makers

    Facebook parent company Meta today announced the upcoming expansion of Meta Horizon OS, a virtual and augmented reality operating system that will be available to third-party hardware manufacturers that want to design their own headsets. Right now, Meta sells the Quest line of headsets, but the company wants to provide the software for third-party VR and AR products in the future, much like Microsoft offers Windows for all manner of third-party PCs. Meta Horizon OS is the mixed reality...

  • Jesse Watters Claims Limousine-Riding Trump ‘Knows’ Cost of Living

    Fox NewsJesse Watters on Wednesday fawned over Donald Trump’s post-trial appearance at a Harlem bodega the day prior, highlighting onlookers’ supportive chants and insisting that the limo-riding former president—who has repeatedly claimed that shoppers have to show photo ID to simply buy a loaf of bread—“still knows the cost of living.”The Fox News host opened his show with selected clips from Trump’s stop at Sanaa Convenient Store. The location drew headlines two years ago when a clerk, who...