TECHNOLOGY

Amazon Prime has released a trailer for its spin on the Shark Tank concept: Buy It Now, a JB Smoove-hosted show where people put their product ideas before a panel of investors. The twist is that they’ll also be judged by “The 100,” which Amazon says is an audience of “potential customers” (otherwise known as … Read more

(NewsNation) — Verizon phone customers across the country are reporting service outages, downdetector.com shows. As of 10 a.m. CT Tuesday, 91,613 outages were reported, according to the website. Social media users in Chicago, Los Angeles, Dallas and other cities posted about issues they were having on X, with many saying their phones were in “SOS” … Read more

Today, I’m talking with Matt Strauss, who is the chairman of direct-to-consumer at NBCUniversal. That’s a big fancy title that means Matt’s in charge of Peacock and every other streaming video offering the company has worldwide. That includes everything from Fandango and its Fandango at Home service — which used to be Vudu — to … Read more

Some Tesla Cybertruck owners are starting to get Full Self-Driving (FSD) access on their vehicles. The company’s polarizing electric pickup truck has lacked the driver-assistance software feature since its launch in November 2023. Now, members of the Cybertruck Owners Club (as reported by Electrek) are reporting that the update has been installed on their vehicles. … Read more

Tech billionaire Elon Musk said on Sunday that former President Trump must win the election in November if America wants to preserve its democracy. “Very few Americans realize that, if Trump is NOT elected, this will be the last election,” Musk posted on the social platform X. “Far from being a threat to democracy, he … Read more

(NewsNation) — The social media platform X has retained less than a quarter of its worth in the two years since Elon Musk bought it for $44 billion, new Fidelity reporting suggests. The investment company that helped Musk buy Twitter in October 2022 slashed the value of its holding by 78.7% as of late August. … Read more

DirecTV has reached an agreement to acquire Dish, alongside its parent company EchoStar’s wider satellite TV business, for a single dollar — and assume $9.75 billion of Dish’s debt. Private equity firm TPG has arranged a two-step agreement to buy the remaining 70 percent of DirecTV that it didn’t already own from AT&T for a … Read more

Autumn is here, and once again, warnings are going up about the spread of the covid-19 virus — along with the flu and RSV, or respiratory syncytial virus. To try to minimize the upsurge, the US government is once again offering free home rapid antigen tests to each US household. According to the government website, … Read more

Americans who own cryptocurrency support Vice President Harris and former President Trump in equal numbers, according to new Morning Consult polling conducted on behalf of crypto exchange Coinbase.  The polling, released Monday as part of Coinbase’s Q3 State of Crypto report, found that 47 percent of crypto owners plan to vote for Harris in November’s election, … Read more