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What We Lose When Malls Shut Down
As of the end of 2025, the nationwide mall vacancy rate was 112 percent higher than the overall average retail vacancy rate from the prior year. Analysts project that up to 87 percent of large shopping malls may close over the next ten years. As…
Meta lays off more than 2,000 from Menlo Park HQ
New records show thousands of Bay Area employees are on Meta's chopping block, all part of a 10% layoff announced last week expected to affect 8,000 worldwide. Three WARN filings released Thursday reveal a larger swath of engineers laid off as the…
Meta has struggled at selling anything other than ads. Will AI be different?
Meta is making a major push to expand its business beyond online advertising, including through subscriptions for AI features and services. History shows that success is not guaranteed, as Meta has struggled to find traction in any business that…
Meta eyes AI pendant as part of its ambitious new hardware strategy
Meta Platforms is preparing a broader push into AI-focused consumer hardware. A new internal memo reportedly outlines plans that include smart wearables, upgraded AI devices, and a possible artificial intelligence (AI)-powered pendant. According to…
The best new science-fiction books of June 2026
Writing this as the UK swelters under an unprecedented May heatwave, perhaps it's small wonder that so many science-fiction authors are currently imagining miserable versions of an overheated future in which their characters are struggling to…
How my career in stage design has evolved with technology
Recently, I was looking through my old work files and found 2D stage references I made more than ten years ago. Back then, these sketches were used to design stages for shows, TV studios, and esports events. I put the concept on paper as a working…
Seismic Attitude Shifts
Art-watchers in Santa Barbara understand that one reliable time and place for finding more challenging, mold-breaking, and potentially trailblazing work is out at UCSB, come the end of each academic year. In the current short-run 2026 MFA Thesis…
I tested Bose's new Lifestyle Ultra Soundbar. It delivers immersive Atmos sound, but there's a catch.
The Bose Lifestyle Ultra Soundbar is the company's latest flagship home theater speaker. It's part of the brand's renewed focus on whole-home audio, and it joins the recently released Lifestyle Ultra Speaker and Ultra Subwoofer. All three devices…
Tony Blair is back and he's seriously serious about getting serious
HAMISH Morrison is away this week participating in CarrionCamp, a new AI-powered virtual reality experience which allows you to experience what it would be like to be trapped in a gibbet and picked apart by buzzards.* Instead, we have a guest…
Tiny liquid-metal pump could power the next generation of soft robots
Engineers have developed a tiny liquid-metal pump that could help make future soft robots, wearable devices, and medical technologies smaller, lighter, and more flexible. The new invention is so compact that it is about the size of a pea, yet it…
Scotland's hidden heritage heroes: the tiny museums saving our past
Through the doors of humble buildings lurk everything from handknitted 19th century fishermen's ganseys to Pictish stones carved thousands of years ago, Jacobite artefacts to old buses and boats, glittering silver collections to an entire Spitfire.
Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) Insider Curtis Mahoney Sells 2,079 Shares
Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META - Get Free Report) insider Curtis Mahoney sold 2,079 shares of the business's stock in a transaction on Wednesday, May 27th. The shares were sold at an average price of $609.92, for a total transaction of…
Jag Capital Management LLC Sells 28,981 Shares of Meta Platforms, Inc. $META
Jag Capital Management LLC decreased its stake in Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META - Free Report) by 38.3% during the 4th quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The firm owned 46,678…
ABN Amro Investment Solutions Acquires 73,497 Shares of Meta Platforms, Inc. $META
ABN Amro Investment Solutions raised its holdings in shares of Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META - Free Report) by 138.6% during the fourth quarter, according to its most recent disclosure with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The fund…
Meta Platforms, Inc. $META Shares Sold by Marathon Asset Management Ltd
Marathon Asset Management Ltd lessened its position in Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META - Free Report) by 7.5% in the fourth quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The…
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