June, 2025

June, 2025

TikTok Hits Cannes, Where a U.S. Ban Seems a Distant Dream
TikTok executives hosted happy hours and played pickleball with influencers on the French Riviera this week, even as a U.S. ban loomed over the company....

How Vera Rubin Telescope Scientists Will Deal With 60 Million Billion Bytes of Imagery
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory will make the study of stars and galaxies more like the big data-sorting exercises of contemporary genetics and particle physics....

Trump Is Selling a Phone + The Start-Up Trying to Automate Every Job + Allison Williams Talks ‘M3GAN 2.0’
“They’re calling it the T1 Phone 8002 Gold Version, which sounds kind of like a Taylor Swift album.”...

Hybrid Cars, Once Derided and Dismissed, Have Become Popular
Automakers and car buyers are taking a second, harder look at hybrids after leaving them behind for electric vehicles....

Chinese Tech Giants Have Big Ambitions in Brazil
Confronted with tariffs and scrutiny in the United States and Europe, Chinese consumer brands are betting that they can become household names in Latin America’s biggest economy....

Tesla’s Robotaxi, Long Promised by Elon Musk, Joins a Crowded Field
Mr. Musk says the driverless taxis could begin ferrying passengers on Sunday in Austin, Texas, where other companies already have similar cars on the road....

Inside the Stream: Streaming Beats Traditional TV, With Tubiâs Help
In May, 2025 a milestone was reached according to Nielsen’s The Gauge: total streaming viewership surpassed total broadcast plus cable viewership for the first time. Streaming had a 44.8% viewersh...

Labubu Is Becoming Its Own Asset Class
If you’ve scrolled through Instagram lately or wandered the halls of Art Basel, you’ve likely spotted a wide-eyed, snaggle-toothed gremlin dangling from a Hermès Birkin or peeking out of a Balenc...

Applebee’s and IHOP to Deploy AI-Powered Tech Support and Personalization
Restaurant chains Applebee’s and IHOP will reportedly begin using artificial intelligence (AI) tools for both customer-facing and back-of-house tasks. [contact-form-7] The chains’ pa...

Credit Card Competition Act Not Part of GENIUS Bill, But Swipe Fee Debate Endures
The debate over regulation of the credit card industry will likely linger no matter what the fate of the Credit Card Competition Act (CCCA) might be. [contact-form-7] For a while, it looke...

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