The exhibition of memes is being touted as the world's first Meme Museum in Hong Kong, featuring seven main areas that showcase the internet's most renowned inside jokes. The exhibition was launched in July with 9GAG, a Hong Kong-based website known as a meme-sharing platform.
Ariana Grande performed a live music concert in Fortnite on Wednesday night. The concert was the latest in-game event for Epic, which saw Travis Scott and Marshmello perform live in the game. The video of the event is well worth checking out, but the video doesn't show the sense of presence from having an avatar zooming around the space with Grande.
Tesla has pushed the release of the electric pickup to next year, telling you that you'll get to customize your truck when "production nears in 2022." Tesla had already warned that single-motor trucks would arrive later, but that now applies to the dual- and tri- motor machines.
With most popular online video games, there’s a gap between being a good player and a great one, but SenpAI.GG thinks that the gap boils down to practice, muscle memory and — let's face it — natural ability. The company currently supports a handful of games, including League of Legends, Valorant and Teamfight Tactics.
The Tokyo Games have become a digital affair more than ever as more than 100 million unique users have visited Olympic digital platforms or used the Tokyo 2020 app through the first week of the games, with the stability of the cardboard framed beds in the athlete's village tested by Olympians who treated them as trampolines on nearly every social media platform.
Virgin Galactic has reopened ticket sales less than a month after Richard Branson, its founder,flew with other "mission specialists" for Virgin Galactic's first fully crewed spaceflight, selling multi-seat packages for groups and offering full-flight buy outs. The company also said that the private space corporation made meaningful progress towards commencing commercial service in 2022.
Quora is making its platform more appealing to creators, saying it’s “on track to be cash flow positive from ads alone,” but Quora sees tapping into the creator economy and subscriptions as a way to turn a profit. Quora's first new product is Quora+, where subscribers will pay a $5 monthly fee or $50 yearly fee to access content that any creator chooses to put behind a paywall.
Apple is expected to unveil new iPhones in September, but the iPhone 13 isn't expected to be a major upgrade from the iPhone 12. The iPhone 13 will come with a newer processor, a slightly improved design with a less noticeable "notch" cutout near the top of the screen, and better video recording capabilities.
President Biden wants 50 percent of all new cars sold in the U.S. in 2030 to be all-electric, plug-in hybrid, or hydrogen-powered, in addition to proposing new fuel economy and emissions standards that will more or less erase the Trump administration’s rollback of the previous Obama-era rules covering cars made through 2025.
Mercedes is tying into Prime Video's "Cinderella" with a campaign that leans on the female portion of the film's cast and creators and emphasizes its message of shunning convention. The effort aligns with other Mercedes initiatives, such as its long-running "She's Mercedes" platform dedicated to connecting and empowering women.
Delta is the more-transmissible strain of the coronavirus that is fast becoming the dominant strain worldwide. It’s as contagious as chickenpox and substantially more contagious than ordinary colds or flu. Delta Plus is the nickname of a Delta variant with one extra mutation. Lambda is still categorized by the World Health Organization as a “variant of interest,” less worrying than the “variants of concern” like Delta.
The Washington Post is creating a task force to figure out how to attract more young and diverse readers, tasked with overseeing new products, partnerships and initiatives to bring in these readers. This can include new formats, beats or services for the Post’s journalism, like social media and audio platforms or news distributors.
