The Tesla Pimp has never seen such demand. Ali Heniche makes his living buying luxury vehicles in Europe and flipping them to dealers to be resold. Pre-pandemic, Tesla owners were happy to take what they could get for their cars. Now, Mr. Heniche, who is based in Milan, Italy, says demand is so charged he […]
WASHINGTON—Some incidents of the debilitating medical condition known as Havana Syndrome are most likely caused by directed energy or acoustic devices and can’t be explained by other factors, a panel of U.S. intelligence analysts and outside experts reported on Wednesday. The signs and symptoms of suspected Havana Syndrome are “genuine and compelling,” the executive summary […]
Melinda French Gates is no longer pledging to give the bulk of her wealth to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and instead plans to spread it among philanthropic endeavors, according to people familiar with the matter. The billionaire made the change official in late 2021 following her divorce from Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates, […]
Art collectors and cryptocurrency investors went wild last year buying art that exists only in the digital world. Now, Desiree Casoni, a collector in Key Biscayne, Fla., is trying to figure out how to hang all her new purchases on the wall. Ms. Casoni owns more than 500 digital artworks with her investor husband, Pablo […]
WASHINGTON—The Biden administration is moving to revise federal rules to address potential security risks from TikTok and other foreign-owned apps, eight months after opting not to pursue a forced shutdown of the Chinese-owned video-sharing platform. The Commerce Department recently concluded a public-comment period on the proposed rule change, which would expand federal oversight to explicitly […]
The use of artificial intelligence to aid in companies’ sensitive decision making has long made U.S. regulators wary, particularly for its potential to supercharge human bias. But as worker shortages prompt widespread recruitment pushes, AI proponents say the technology, far from being risky, could help companies make hiring decisions fairer—not just faster. The so-called Great […]
The National Labor Relations Board on Friday will start to send ballots to roughly 6,100 workers at the facility in Bessemer, Ala. In recent weeks, organizers and managers at the facility have clashed over election procedures and company policies. The ballots must reach the NLRB regional office by March 25. Last year about 71% of […]
A few hours after Toby Robicelli first strapped on the $300 virtual-reality headset he got for Christmas, the Baltimore teenager, who was playing a shooter game called “Superhot VR,” lost his balance and fractured his kneecap. “We set it up around 2:00,” said Toby’s mother, Allison Robicelli, of the tech gadget, “and by 8:00 we […]
Sony Group Corp.’s videogame unit said Monday that it is buying videogame developer Bungie Inc., the studio that created the Halo and Destiny franchises, in a deal valued at $3.6 billion. Bungie is known as the original creator of Halo and Destiny, popular first-person shooter franchises. Today Halo is owned by Sony rival Microsoft Corp. […]
Chris Galdieri hasn’t checked his work voice mail in nearly two years and he isn’t sorry. Like millions of office workers, Mr. Galdieri, a professor at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, N.H., was sent home at the start of the pandemic. A few months later, when he came back to pick up some books, he […]
