When a TikTok creator named Nicole started to do a deep dive into some popular Mandela Effects, she found herself researching the old Fruit of the Loom logo. Nicole, along with many others online, remember the clothing company using a cornucopia in their logo but the company says that’s just not true. After Nicole shared … Read more
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran on Friday held the country’s first parliamentary election since the mass 2022 protests over mandatory hijab laws after the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini, with questions looming over just how many people will turn out at the polls. Iranian officials and even Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei … Read more
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — The World Trade Organization will open its biennial meeting Monday in the United Arab Emirates as the bloc faces pressure from the United States and other nations ahead of a year of consequential elections around the globe. The WTO’s 164 member nations will discuss a deal to ban subsidies … Read more
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan was sentenced to prison for the second time in 24 hours on Wednesday, this time for 14 years in a corruption case just days before Pakistan’s general election. Khan, who has been in prison since August, was convicted of exposing official secrets on Tuesday and sentenced to … Read more
A slogan related to Artificial Intelligence (AI) is displayed on a screen in Intel pavilion, during the 54th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 16, 2024. Denis Balibouse | Reuters This report is from today’s CNBC Daily Open, our international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed … Read more
The Fruit of the Loom Mandela Effect is really messing with people’s memories of the clothing company’s iconic logo. A viral TikTok has thousands of people not only thinking about what they remember the logo to look like, but also has many searching for proof that we’re not all losing our minds. A TikTok Creator … Read more
Good morning, and welcome to Friday! Atlassian’s purchase of Loom last week raised eyebrows, and not just because it missed unicorn status by a hair. But overall, it makes sense that Atlassian bought it. “Teaming and collaboration is moving to async video, and that was the one big piece missing for Atlassian,” Constellation Research’s Ray … Read more
Happy Saturday, folks, and welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s newsletter that covers the major stories in tech over the past several days. I feel inclined to begin this edition with a sobering note about the recent events in Israel and Gaza. It’s obviously impacted the tech ecosystem there, but from a purely humanistic … Read more
VATICAN CITY — A few years ago, Pope Francis told the head of the main Vatican-backed Catholic women’s organization to be “brave” in pushing for change for women in the Catholic Church. Maria Lia Zervino took his advice and in 2021 wrote Francis a letter, then made it public, saying flat out that the Catholic … Read more
By Joseph Ax (Reuters) -The choose presiding over a Georgia grand jury investigation into Donald Trump on Monday rejected the previous U.S. president’s bid to disqualify the lead prosecutor and block any indictments stemming from the probe, which is anticipated to yield expenses within the coming weeks. Fulton County Superior Court docket Decide Robert McBurney … Read more