Rivian R2 production has started despite tornado damage to factory

by News Feed Editor | Apr 22, 2026 | Technology

Rivian has rolled the first customer-ready R2 SUVs off the production line at its factory in Normal, Illinois, just days after it was hit by an EF-1 tornado that tore off part of the roof. Despite the damage, founder and CEO RJ Scaringe told Bloomberg Television on...

Cosmetics giant Rituals confirms data breach of customer membership records

by News Feed Editor | Apr 22, 2026 | Technology

Netherlands-based cosmetics giant Rituals has confirmed a data breach affecting customers’ personal information after hackers stole reams of data from its membership database. The company disclosed the breach on Wednesday, according to an email sent to customers that...

Cathie Woods’ ARK makes its first lead investment in startup Lucra — and it isn’t AI 

by News Feed Editor | Apr 22, 2026 | Technology

ARK Invest Venture Fund has made its first-ever lead investment in an early-stage startup called Lucra, firm founder Cathie Woods told TechCrunch.   “We feel pretty excited about it,” Woods (pictured above) said in the recent interview regarding the investment in the...

X makes it more expensive to post links through its API

by News Feed Editor | Apr 22, 2026 | Technology

Social network X has made it more expensive to post links through its API. The change is designed to thwart spam and “vectors of misuse,” the company said. The new pricing increased costs from $0.01 per link to $0.20 Last week, the X developer account posted changes...

Snap Map’s new ‘Place Loyalty’ badges will show the spots you visit most often

by News Feed Editor | Apr 22, 2026 | Technology

Snapchat is rolling out a new “Place Loyalty” feature that will show users when they’re among the most frequent visitors to a place on Snap Map over the past year, the company announced on Wednesday. If you’re in the top 25% of users who visit a certain place, you’ll...

AI is spitting out more potential drugs than ever. This start-up wants to figure out which ones matter.

by News Feed Editor | Apr 22, 2026 | Technology

AI’s biggest impact in science is Google DeepMind’s use of a deep learning model to predict the complex structures of proteins — the molecules that drive virtually every process in living cells. But as AI models continue to spit out more candidates for potential...