Tag Archives: YouTube

Weekend Beyond Cars Roundup April 6, 2024

Chemtrail bans introduced in seven states now that Republicans have solved all the real problems Spooky – Photo: Mario Tama / Staff (Getty Images) Senator Doug Mastriano of Pennsylvania recently made headlines when he put forward legislation that would ban chemtrails, which are not real and only exist in the minds of unhinged conspiracy theorists.… Read More »

Millennials gave birth to “Generation Alpha.” Are these children already doomed?

Zoomers are afraid of them. Boomers want more. Millennials will continue to make them for the rest of the year. Generation Alpha, born between roughly 2010 and the end of 2024, is the demographic successor to Gen Z. The oldest members aren’t quite ready for a quinceañera, while the youngest will be conceived in the… Read More »

Weekend Beyond Cars Roundup March 16, 2024

Photo: Stephen Brashear (Getty Images), Stephen Brashear (Getty Images), Patrick T. Fallon / AFP (Getty Images), Thierry Monasse (Getty Images), Mario Tama (Getty Images), BRETT PHIBBS / Contributor (Getty Images), Brian W. Schaller / Wikimedia Commons, Screenshot: CboysTV on YouTube, Alternate Flights Hotel key cards and Dawn dish soap used in 737 Max production while… Read More »

Unionized Google workers learned their jobs were over while testifying before the City Council about why they needed higher pay

Instead of meeting employees at the bargaining table, Google decided to do what could be described as the equivalent of throwing the table into the air. This week, YouTube Music employees, who were recently embroiled in a tense union fight with Google, were fired while they were testifying before the Austin City Council. In a… Read More »

A stupid idea that worked

February 12, 2014 isn’t a significant date in IndyCar’s vast history, but it does represent a nice note among the experiments that touched on bigger things. Ten years ago, on February 12, during a pre-season test at Sonoma Raceway, the Arrow McLaren team – then known as Schmidt Peterson Motorsports – and lead driver Simon… Read More »

Google, Paramount, Disney and others commit to job cuts by 2024

The media and entertainment industry’s reckoning will continue in 2024 with more layoffs as rising costs and debt-ridden balance sheets continue to weigh on the troubled sector. Partly in an effort to appease Wall Street, these companies have cut billions of dollars in costs over the past year. Furthermore, under pressure from profits, they rolled… Read More »

What is ‘new denial?’ An alarming wave of climate misinformation is spreading on YouTube, says Watchdog

If you’ve been on YouTube lately, you may have come across someone claiming that wind and solar energy don’t work, that rising sea levels will help coral reefs thrive, or that climate scientists are corrupt and alarmist. These are all false and misleading statements taken from a handful of thousands of YouTube videos analyzed by… Read More »

Climate denial is taking a turn on YouTube

The voices denying climate change have chosen a new refrain. Instead of rejecting the fact that the Earth is warming, they are now targeting skepticism about climate solutions, as well as scientists and activists and the idea that climate change will cause harm, according to a new report from the Center for Countering Digital. Hate,… Read More »

Two spillover stocks that are crushing it in artificial intelligence and could soar in 2024

Data from Grand View Research shows that the artificial intelligence (AI) market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 37% through 2030, pushing it past $1 trillion in value before the end of the decade. So it’s not surprising that countless tech companies have restructured their businesses to prioritize AI, creating… Read More »