By Hyunjoo Jin and Greg Bensinger SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Forget about famed boxing bouts like the Rumble in the Jungle or the Thrilla in Manila — billionaire social media moguls Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg have been egging each other into a mixed martial arts cage match in Las Vegas. In recent days, Twitter…
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) – The founder of OneTaste, a sexual wellness company that claims to teach “orgasmic meditation,” plans to challenge a federal criminal charge that she surveilled group members and withheld promised wages, her lawyer said on Wednesday. Reid Weingarten, a lawyer for Nicole Daedone, told U.S. District Judge Diane Gujarati…
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – A previously unknown ancient Maya city has been discovered in the jungles of southern Mexico, the country’s anthropology institute said on Tuesday, adding it was likely an important center more than a thousand years ago. The city includes large pyramid-like buildings, stone columns, three plazas with “imposing buildings” and other structures…
(Reuters) – Ecuadorean security forces have confiscated pigs, fighting cocks and more than two dozen bladed weapons, among other items, from a high-security wing of Bellavista prison in the city of Santo Domingo, the country’s military said on Friday. Police and operatives of the SNAI prison authority were shown wheeling out two pigs from the…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Three guests at the White House’s Pride party on Saturday have been banned from future events after going topless on the South Lawn, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Tuesday. “The behavior was simply unacceptable. We’ve been very clear about that. It was unfair to the hundreds of attendees who were there to…
By Helen Reid LONDON (Reuters) – IKEA is training call centre workers to become interior design advisers as the Swedish furniture giant aims to offer more home improvement services and hand run-of-the-mill customer queries to an artificial intelligence bot called Billie. In April, IKEA expanded its interior design services to the UK and United States,…
By Matt McKnight OLYMPIA, Wash. (Reuters) – In the middle of a serene forest four miles from Washington state’s capital Olympia sits a vintage rotary phone. It is not connected to a telephone line and looks out of place. But it has become a literal lifeline for people to speak words out loud to lost…
HOLA PRYSTAN, Russian-controlled Ukraine (Reuters) – Pensioner Maria Mikhailovna says she was woken by her husband in the middle of the night to find their belongings underwater after the collapse of Ukraine’s giant Nova Kakhovka Dam. “The water in the house was at waist level. At midnight everything had been dry – both inside and…
By Olga Popova MOSCOW (Reuters) – The successor to McDonald’s restaurants in Russia is growing faster than forecast, its owner said at an event to mark the new chain’s first anniversary on Monday, though customers gave mixed reviews to the new and “improved” taste. McDonald’s Corp closed its Russian restaurants soon after Moscow sent tens…
(Reuters) – One of the most notable happenings at Apple’s event for developers on Monday is likely the iPhone maker’s tweak that will keep its autocorrect feature from annoyingly correcting one of the most common expletives to “ducking.” “In those moments where you just want to type a ducking word, well, the keyboard will learn…