Gizmodo : Economy

It would appear that the days of crisp dollar bills and shiny pennies are falling behind us. The number of ATMs in the U.S. is reportedly on the decline as we move to a society hellbent on credit cards, mobile payments, and tap-to-pay.

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Sorry to all those folks who shelled out for that big expensive Meta Quest Pro headset when it launched for $1,500 in October. A little under a half year after release, Meta has decided to slash the price of its most-recent VR offering by over a third.

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Gizmodo : Economy

The folks handling the ongoing FTX bankruptcy admitted Thursday it is still on the hook for around $9 billion in customer funds that it simply cannot locate under the morass of financials left over from the exchange’s collapse.

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A Federal Reserve Zoom event was canceled only moments after it was scheduled to start Thursday night following an outburst of pornographic images that took over the screen. The video conference was held by Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller, but he was unable to deliver his opening remarks as the images…

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Ars Technica spaceflight reporter Eric Berger writes that prominent launch provider ULA is up for sale and that investment firm Morgan Stanley and consulting firm Bain & Company are overseeing the transaction.

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Elon Musk presented Tesla’s much-hyped “Master Plan 3" on Wednesday, in the company’s first “investor day” livestream. But, instead of revealing a new Tesla model, specifying the date of the repeatedly delayed cybertruck launch, introducing a more affordable electric car (as previously promised), or announcing some…

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Rocket Lab is riding the wave from last year’s success, gearing up for rapid back-to-back launches from sites in New Zealand and the United States. One of the planned launches will initiate a new partnership with U.S. space tech company Capella Space.

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Digital World Acquisition Corp. (DWAC), the Donald Trump-backed shell company angling to take the former president’s social media platform Truth Social public, has run into yet more trouble.

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Tesla is gearing up for its first annual investor day and the release of the company’s third “master plan” at 4pm ET on Wednesday, March 1, at Tesla’s Austin, Texas Gigafactory. CEO Elon Musk is expected to take to the stage at the investor day and outline his vision for his the company’s future, an exercise that will…

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Dish Network, the television provider and satellite/telecoms company, has been hacked, according to a statement published Tuesday on its website.