Celebs and tech luminaries including Mark Ruffalo want to create a fully open social media ecosystem

I think it’s safe to say that most humans on this planet are growing, how can I put this lightly, weary of the current billionaire stewards of our social media ecosystem. X is a hateful mess. Meta i [...]

Seinfeld, Schwarzenegger, Springsteen, and 7 more new billionaires, according to Forbes

Forbes released its 2025 World Billionaire’s List, finding more than 3,000 billionaires who have a collective $16 trillion — at minimum.Read more... [...]

What Jamie Dimon, Bill Ackman, and other CEOs and billionaires are saying about Trump's trade war

Chief executives and billionaires aren’t holding back their criticism of Trump’s sweeping tariff policy, which would impose taxes on nearly all of America’s major trading partners.Read more... [...]

Tech's biggest winners of 2025

Every December, the Engadget staff compiles a list of the year’s biggest winners. We scour over articles from the previous 12 months to determine the people, companies, products and trends that made [...]

The Morning After: Crosswalks are being hacked to imitate tech billionaires

Welcome to your Friday edition of TMA. It’s a public holiday where I’m from, so it’s a shorter briefing than usual. Barring a barrage of new cars (tariffs? shh!) revealed at the New York Interna [...]

There are more billionaires than ever — and they have almost $16 trillion

2025 has seen more new billionaires created than every year except one since tracking began. And they're not all AI-focused [...]

Crypto-focused bank backed by tech billionaires including Peter Thiel files for charter: report

A group of tech billionaires, including Peter Thiel, filed a charter to open a new U.S. bank focused on crypto business, the Financial Times reports [...]

US bans new foreign-made drones and components

The Federal Communications Commission has added foreign-made drones and their critical components to the agency’s “Covered List,” making them prohibited to import into the US. In a public notice [...]

Big tech is helping to pay for Trump's ballroom that we all definitely want

The federal government has released a list of all of the entities helping to pay for President Trump's lavish White House ballroom, according to reporting by Business Insider. Big tech is all ove [...]