He stepped down from the position of CEO after his company FTX filed for bankruptcy.

Earlier in the spring, effective altruism believer Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) was worth $26 billion. As crypto prices dropped, so did SBF’s fortune. However, the turn of events in the past week has meant that the billionaire’s riches have evaporated entirely, leaving him with nothing, just like those who invested in his company, FTX, CNN.

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SBF’s fall came even faster and a week after the founder of FTX alleged that competitors were having a go at his crypto exchange, the venture formally declared bankruptcy. As the tables turned on FTX, all that was wrong with the company came out in the open.

German-based technology company Continental Automotive claims to have secured its first significant order in the third quarter for its semi-dry brake system called ‘Future Brake System’ (FBS).

The mass manufacture of its semi-dry brake system (also known as FBS 2) is claimed to be worth approximately €1.5 billion (U.S. $1.55 billion), the company declared in a press release on Wednesday.

At Connect 2022, Facebook-turned-Meta Mark Zuckerberg and a fellow metaverse exec both appeared as their new, legged avatars. But only they had legs.

Meta-formerly-Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has unveiled his new avatar for the company’s bespoke Metaverse — and it still looks like total crap.

A famine is increasingly likely in East Africa as rains fail for the fourth consecutive year. Violent conflicts in the Horn of Africa are undermining efforts to help the populations in need.

A new type of plasma accelerator combines two previous methods of producing an electron beam into one compact design.

Read more about Relativistic drag predicted by Einstein is confirmed.

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Stranded On An Alien World.
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur.
Episode 368a, November 13, 2022
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur.

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Scientists overheard the “conversations” of mushrooms and the way they communicate is very similar in structure to human speech.