From Billie Eilish and Sabrina Carpenter to Kendrick Lamar and SZA, 2025 promises to be another big year for live music events. That may also mean concertgoers will be shelling out more for their favorite shows. After rising steadily post-pandemic, admission to movies, theaters and concerts jumped 20% since 2021, according to the Bureau of Labor […]
TikTok Traffic Bounces Back as Creators Diversify Amid Shutdown Fears
Muhammed Selim Korkutata | Anadolu | Getty Images TikTok has nearly bounced back to its original traffic levels after usage fell 85% when the app temporarily shut down earlier this month, according to Cloudflare Radar. “DNS traffic for TikTok-related domains has continued to recover since service restoration, and is currently about 10% lower than pre-shutdown […]
Josh Brolin contracted Bell’s Palsy due to extreme stress
Josh Brolin’s health was on the line during a “stressful” move to Montecito, California. On SiriusXM’s “Literally! With Rob Lowe” podcast, Brolin explained to the host that he contracted a “mild case” of Bell’s Palsy due to his move. “I got so stressed out about moving here because it represented something very specific to me […]
DeepSeek Has Gotten OpenAI Fired Up
It’s been just over a week since DeepSeek upended the AI world. The introduction of its open-weight model—apparently trained on a fraction of the specialized computing chips that power industry leaders—set off shock waves inside OpenAI. Not only did employees claim to see hints that DeepSeek had “inappropriately distilled” OpenAI’s models to create its own, […]
MicroStrategy announces pricing of strike preferred stock offering
According to SaylorTracker, MicroStrategy is up over 65% all-time on its Bitcoin investment and is trading at a net asset value of 1.73x.