Hey everyone, welcome back to Soundbite. This week we’re talking about the Montgomery Brawl, of course. As always, reach me through email, and if you haven’t yet subscribed to this newsletter, please do so here . Over the weekend, if you somehow missed it, a fight of epic proportions broke out on a dock in … Read more
I’m Tom Hancock, a senior reporter in Hong Kong. Today I’m looking at what deflation in China means for the world. Send us feedback and tips to ecodaily@bloomberg.net or get in touch on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, via @economics. And if you aren’t yet signed up to receive this newsletter, … Read more
Elon Musk said a potential fight with Mark Zuckerberg will be streamed on the rebranded social network known as X. “Zuck v Musk fight will be live-streamed on X,” Musk wrote Sunday in a post on his platform, formerly known as Twitter. He added that proceeds from the proposed “cage match” with the Meta Platforms … Read more
Lorenzo Di Cola | Nurphoto | Getty Images Social network Twitter, recently rebranded as X, has commandeered the handle “@music” from open-source software developer Jeremy Vaught, who told CNBC he created the account in 2007, and had built a community of around half a million followers there. While Elon Musk-led X gave Vaught no choice … Read more
A day after an actress broke down on social media saying only one person showed up to see her play at the Edinburgh Festival, she performed to an almost sold-out crowd the following day, all thanks to the celebrities rushing to console her on Twitter, reported CNN. A day after an actress broke down on … Read more
A trash jar can amplify that personal focus, since keeping one requires such extreme attentiveness to one’s consumption patterns. Kellogg says it’s simply not worth putting all your energy into a trash jar if it leaves no bandwidth for chipping away at some of those bigger, system-level problems. Sure, shopping zero-waste might support a reuse-centric … Read more
Superconductivity: Science vs. Social Media The breathlessness that’s greeted a new material made of lead and copper is, well, breathtaking. LK-99 is heralded as a room-temperature superconductor that, if it survives the barrage of peer reviews, could transform the world as we know it. Everything from electricity to transportation to medicine to chip technology might … Read more
TikTok videos promoting the ingestion of a powdery laundry detergent have gone viral, with users falsely claiming that the substance isn’t toxic. Dubbed by health specialists as the “stupidest health trend” they have ever seen, Borax has taken over certain quarters of TikTok, with several users talking about having “jumped on the Borax train” – … Read more
Big changes to Twitter The internet is abuzz as the app formerly known as Twitter announced a name change last week. X.com now redirects to Twitter.com; the company’s headquarters now sports a flashing X where there was once was a bird logo, and the app now appears as “X” in the Apple and Google app … Read more
One day last October, as chants of “Kale yeah, kale yeah!” and “Power to the parsnips!” echoed throughout a Connecticut campground, 100 or so Daily Harvest employees were indulging in some months-delayed corporate bonding. They were at Harfest, the vegan meal startup’s two-day retreat, where, along with talking business and playing games, there was a … Read more