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The 100-year-old Forbes brand is now majority owned by a 28-year-old automotive technology CEO.

Twitter has a new CEO.

Elon Musk will no longer be Twitter’s CEO.

“Excited to announce that I’ve hired a new CEO for X/Twitter,” wrote Elon Musk today on the platform. He then dropped another bombshell — considering the frathouse that is tech’s top leadership — that the company’s new leader would be a woman.

My role will transition to being exec chair & CTO, overseeing product, software & sysops.As noted in his tweet, Musk will not be leaving Twitter entirely; he will instead transition to executive chair & CTO, overseeing product, software & sysops (system operations).More to come…

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Elon Musk claims he’s hired someone to replace him as CEO of Twitter. But for now, the tech tycoon isn’t revealing who that is. “Excited to announce that I’ve hired a new CEO for X/Twitter,” the mega-billionaire tweeted Thursday. “She will be starting in ~6 weeks! My role will transition to being exec chair & CTO, overseeing product, software & sysops.” Back in December, Musk said he would step aside as Twitter’s chief executive once he found “someone foolish enough” to take over the role. Even then, however, the billionaire will retain control of the social network and remain closely involved in running it. Musk closed a $44 billion deal for Twitter in October 2022, but he’s since said he now values the company at less than half that — at $20 billion.

Users of Windows 10 and Windows 11 are being urged to make a crucial update to avoid online attacks.

The National Association of Theatre Owners has named Amanda Matin as their first chief of staff. Martin will report directly to president and CEO Michael O’Leary while working across all NATO organizations, including the Cinema Foundation and CinemaCon, in this newly created position.

network reversed course and renewed the drama series “S.W.A.T.” for a seventh and final season. A description for the “East New York” finale teases that the “Haywood’s (Amanda Warren) leadership is called into question after a tragic shooting close to home, and her relationship with Suarez (Jimmy Smits) is put to the test.” “True Lies” will wrap up its run with a two-part finale.

There will be no second season for CBS’ True Lies. The network has canceled the reboot of James Cameron’s hit 1994 action comedy movie after one season. The news comes ahead of the show’s Season 1 finale on May 17.

All Fire Stick TV users are being urged to check whether or not devices have completed an urgent upgrade from Amazon.

Grimes’ new obsession is artificial intelligence.

Fox News parent Fox Corp. has sent a cease-and-desist order to Media Matters for America in an effort to stop leaked footage of Tucker Carlson, which shows the fired Fox News host making offensive and crude remarks. Media Matters The company claims the “proprietary material” was given to the media watchdog “without Fox’s authorization.”

The Information, we now have a glimpse behind the curtain: In OpenAI’s case, the figure totals $540 million in losses last year as the startup developed ChatGPT.And while revenue is pacing to hit hundreds of millions per annum, expenses are set to grow, too. Specifically, the report mentions that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman may be aiming to raise up to $100 billion in the next few years to develop artificial intelligence so smart it can improve itself.

Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which serves as labor representatives for Hollywood’s studios, have released a new statement breaking down their stance on the various sticking points that caused a deal with the Writers Guild of America to fall apart. In a four-page document that can be read here, the AMPTP addressed several issues that were raised by the WGA in their pattern of demands, most notably the guild’s proposal for a minimum of six writers on all TV productions with more required depending on the number of episodes.

Grimes has launched a new website making it easier to replicate her voice using AI, should you want to. It was only last month that the musician gave her blessing for people to do so.The website allows users to upload audio of themselves singing or to record directly into the software via their computer microphone. Once processed, the same audio will be returned but with a computer-generated Grimes voice.“This is all a beta test so it may be imperfect at first”, she explained in a tweet.

Grimes is stepping into the future.

Grimes has unveiled Elf.Tech, her own AI voice mimicking software that will allow users to record vocals in Grimes’ voice.The singer-producer announced Elf.Tech via her social media on April 30, confirming that it is currently in its beta testing phase. “If you go to elf.tech u can upload ur voice singing or record directly into the app (click the “create” button to do this).

People who use iPhones have been urged to check their devices to ensure that an urgent update has taken place.

One of Britain's richest men, who used to own Sale Sharks and Stockport County, has snapped up a £37m stake in Manchester-headquartered online retail and software giant THG.

John Oliver gave it a thorough roasting on Sunday night’s episode of “Last Week Tonight” on HBO. The app was designed for those who are seeking exemptions from Title 42, a Trump-era immigration policy that severely restricts who qualifies for asylum in the United States.

Will there ever be a great book about the film business as it is now?

Acer has added to its eco-conscious range of technology with its brand new Chromebook Vero 514 which aims to save you stress with its unique design and features, while also saving the environment and your bank balance at the same time.

The man behind Trafford Centre’s stunning transformation into a dystopian rainforest says he used AI to reimagine the centre because he believes it is ‘outdated’. Bryan Blears shared images of the Trafford Centre looking drastically different from before thanks to the AI image software called Midjourney.

Rachel Narozniak Following the financial fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic and its pause on in-person programming, the dance music industry is back and better than ever. Data from the 2023 IMS Business Report demonstrates the resiliency of the global dance music industry, which grew by 34% in 2022 to reach a valuation of $11.3 billion — a 16% increase from the pre-pandemic period. In 2019, the global dance industry was valued at $8.7 billion. “This is not just about bouncing back; this is bouncing back and almost bouncing off the trampoline,” said Mark Mulligan, managing director and analyst at MIDiA Research. In addition to authoring the report, Mulligan presented its key findings at IMS Ibiza on April 26.

As the cost of living crisis continues, households are doing everything possible to save money, especially on energy bills. Switching devices off at the mains, such as TVs and games consoles, is a common way to cut back on power usage.

Lots of people across the country are looking to for ways to cut costs as energy prices remain sky high.

Tucker Carlson and Fox News have agreed to part ways, the network said Monday.

A West Lothian dad is the envy of superhero and sci-fi fans everywhere thanks to his impressive collection of movie memorabilia.

Fox News’s $787.5 billion settlement with Dominion Voting Systems does not require that the network do an on-air a retraction or apology, sources confirmed.

A screen displaying travel information for commuters in British Sign Language has gone live at Manchester's Piccadilly railway station.

The public has been warned to be vigilant about scams surrounding the upcoming emergency alert test this week.

transform Twitter into a super-app, Elon Musk now says he’s going to dive into the artificial intelligence chatbot arena to save the world from “political correctness.”Musk told Tucker Carlson on Monday that he plans to create his own chatbot, after taking credit for jumpstarting the development of ChatGPT, the hugely popular chatbot software from OpenAI.“I’m going to start something which I called TruthGPT, or a maximum truth seeking AI that tries to understand the nature of the universe,” Musk told Tucker Carlson on Monday.Elsewhere in his “Tucker Carlson Tonight” interview, the embattled Twitter CEO boasted that he came up with the name “ChatGPT” as well as the concept and “had a number of dinners around the Bay Area with some of the leading figures in AI” through its development.Musk was one of a group of high profile early funders of OpenAI in 2015, and an original co-chair of the company behind ChatGPT that is working with Microsoft. He told Carlson he recruited the initial team, in particular naming Ilya Sutskever, who is considered one of the co-founders of the company and who Musk said “was really quite fundamental to the success of OpenAI.”“I put a tremendous amount of effort into recruiting Ilya and he changed his mind a few times, and ultimately decided to go with OpenAI.

Millions of Android users have been issued a warning as security experts urge people to check their phones immediately.

Add this to the list of terrifying things we now have to worry about as technology continues to progress…

Seth Macfarlane’s production company, Fuzzy Door, has launched a new technology division and hired former Siri CMO, Faith Sedlin, as its president, according to an announcement on Tuesday.In the role, Sedlin will oversee all operations for the new division, including the company’s production tool, ViewScreen. Created on MacFarlane’s request, ViewScreen allows for the visualization of virtual assets in real time and has been used on shooting/editing virtual lead characters on Hulu’s “The Orville: New Horizons” and the upcoming “Ted” TV series for Peacock.