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Labubus, the mischievous elf plush toys seen hanging on every celebrity’s designer bag this summer, have gone viral across the world, but now we know exactly how popular—and profitable—they have been. On Tuesday, the Chinese company Pop Mart, which manufactures and sells the Labubu franchise, released its financial report for the first half of 2025,…
On a drab, overcast March day in Amsterdam in 2022, Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares took off his face mask and strode onto a makeshift stage to confidently explain to a crowd of journalists and analysts how the company that had recently unified brands as diverse as Fiat, Peugeot, Maserati, Ram, and Opel was going to…
OpenAI is reportedly on the verge of a roughly $500 billion valuation, a figure that would make it the most valuable private company in the world—bigger than SpaceX, TikTok’s parent company Bytedance, and even public giants like Palantir. It’s a staggering number for a company with an “astronomical burn rate.” How is this even possible?…
While Netflix seemingly led the way for other streaming networks to create compelling original programming, Hulu actually beat them all to the punch. In 2011, a year before Netflix’s Lilyhammer and two years before the arrival of House of Cards, the burgeoning streamer premiered The Morning After, a pop-culture-focused news show that ran for 800…
If you’ve been hunting for a new GPU, you already know that getting one for its suggested retail price isn’t guaranteed. High demand, low supply, and a constantly shifting economic space have caused the new 50 Series graphics cards to hit the market well above the expected price, at least at launch. Thankfully, the situation…
A United States Senate investigation has identified more than 500 credible reports of human rights abuses in US immigration detention since January, including alarming allegations of mistreatment of pregnant women and children. As of late last month, the investigation—led by US senator Jon Ossoff, a Democrat of Georgia—had unearthed 41 cases of physical and sexual…
As legal cannabis has expanded around the United States for both recreational and medical use, companies have amassed troves of data about customers and their transactions. People who have applied for medical marijuana cards have had to share particularly personal health data to qualify. For some patients in Ohio who use medical weed, a recent…
More than two decades after Kirby Air Ride launched on GameCube, Kirby Air Riders is coming to Nintendo Switch 2 on Nov 20. Director Masahiro Sakurai announced the news in a Nintendo Direct that aired today, alongside a detailed look at the upcoming racing game. “It basically is like Mario Kart,” Sakurai says. The sequel…
“There are limitations to what we can see with this data, but what we have so far is accurate,” says Heintz. “If anything I think it’s undercounting the scale of the problem.” The data the researchers obtained is only a snapshot of some alleged sextortion activity linked to scam centers. For instance, advertising industry mobile…
Other Ergonomic Mice to Consider There are several more options on the market to consider. These didn’t cut it as our top picks for one reason or another, but we still like them enough to recommend. Razer Pro Click V2 Photograph: Henri Robbins Razer Pro Click V2 for $120: The biggest draw of the Pro…
