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Elon Musk and his social media platform, X, reached a tentative settlement on Wednesday with former Twitter employees after a years-long legal battle over severance pay. Former staff had sought $500m in a proposed class action suit against the billionaire.A court filing released on Wednesday stated that both parties had reached a settlement agreement in principle and requested that a scheduled 17 September hearing in the case be postponed while they worked to finalize a deal. The filing did not disclose any details of the tentative agreement and it is unclear what level of compensation that former employees may receive.Former…

Back in his hometown of Dallas, rapper BigXthaPlug was hosting a release party for his third studio album, I Hope You’re Happy, his take on country. But just hours later, though, at 2:20 a.m. on Friday, X, born Xavier Landum, was arrested and booked on charges of marijuana possession (less than two ounces) and unlawful possession of a firearm, per People, who reviewed Dallas County Jail records. BigX’s representatives did not immediately respond to Rolling Stone’s request for comment.  I Hope You’re Happy follows massive successes for BigX. Though he broke through as a soul-sampling rapper with the now-platinum album…

Aug 22, 2025, 04:10 PM ETHall of Fame jockey Ron Turcotte, who rode Secretariat to the Triple Crown in 1973, has died. He was 84.Turcotte’s family said through his longtime business partner and friend Leonard Lusky that the Canada-born jockey died of natural causes Friday at his home in Drummond, New Brunswick.He won the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes twice each, most notably sweeping the three with Secretariat to end horse racing’s Triple Crown drought that dated to Citation in 1948.”Ron was a great jockey and an inspiration to so many, both within and outside the racing world,” Lusky…

During her training in anthropology, Dorsa Amir, now at Duke University, became fascinated with the Müller-Lyer illusion. The illusion is simple: one long horizontal line is flanked by arrowheads on either side. Whether the arrowheads are pointing inward or outward dramatically changes the perceived length of the line—people tend to see it as longer when the arrowheads point in and as shorter when they point out.The Müller-Lyer illusion.Franz Carl Müller-Lyer, restyled by Eve LuMost intriguingly, psychologists in the 1960s had apparently discovered something remarkable about the illusion: only European and American urbanites fell for the trick. The illusion worked less…

Lily JamaliReporting fromSan FranciscoGetty ImagesUS Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick said on Friday that the federal government will take a 10% stake in US chipmaker Intel.”This historic agreement strengthens US leadership in semiconductors, which will both grow our economy and help secure America’s technological edge,” Lutnick wrote on X in a post accompanied by a photo of himself with Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan.President Donald Trump revealed the deal earlier on Friday during remarks in the Oval Office, calling it a “great deal for them”.Shares of the Santa Clara, California-based chipmaker soared more than 5% on Friday.Intel said in a statement…

Tom GerkenTechnology reporterGetty ImagesTikTok is planning to lay off hundreds of staff in the UK which moderate the content that appears on the social media platform.According to TikTok, the plan would see work moved to its other offices in Europe as it invests in the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to scale up its moderation.”We are continuing a reorganisation that we started last year to strengthen our global operating model for Trust and Safety, which includes concentrating our operations in fewer locations globally,” a TikTok spokesperson told the BBC.But a spokesperson for the Communication Workers Union (CWU) said the decision…

A selection of Kia EV6 sedans, which are fully electric vehicles, are displayed at a dealership, Friday, July 18, 2025, in Manchester, N.H. Charles Krupa/AP hide caption toggle caption Charles Krupa/AP The clock is ticking on the federal EV tax credit for electric vehicle purchases, worth up to $7,500. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act eliminated the credit, which expires Sept. 30. But this week the IRS clarified that the deadline has a little bit of flexibility. Specifically, as long as a shopper enters a binding contract to buy a vehicle before Sept. 30, the purchase can qualify for the…

David Ketchum, the prolific television writer and comedic actor best known for his role as the hapless Agent 13 on the cult 1965 sitcom Get Smart, died Aug. 10. He was 97. The Ventura County Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed Ketchum’s death to PEOPLE. The office did not immediately respond to Entertainment Weekly’s request for comment on Friday. Ketchum made his TV debut in 1961, appearing on episodes of such programs as The Jim Backus Show and The Munsters before joining season 2 of Get Smart in 1966 as Agent 13, a character whose signature became finding himself stationed in tight, uncomfortable…

For the first time, scientists have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to study the origins of a bizarre, record-breaking radio signal that flashed past Earth earlier this year.Tracking the bright radio burst to the edge of a galaxy some 130 million light-years from Earth, the researchers used JWST’s infrared eye to identify a powerful explosion of energy coming from a large, old star that may be the strange signal’s progenitor. The team also zoomed in on specific stars clustered nearby, painting a picture of the radio burst’s original environment with unprecedented clarity.The findings, described in two papers published…

Of course, creating an interactive experience such as this one has a lot more spinning plates than a typical theater production. As such, planning began well over six months prior to the party, and included bringing in one of the immersive industry’s heavy hitters, Chris Waters of Constructed Adventures. “He never misses. His ideas are spectacular,” says Waters of Harris, who was the one to come up with the concept of framing the event around a wellness cult. “It’s wild how invested he was, considering he was often in another country doing something for work. It was really cool to…