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Elon Musk's Tesla bought $1.5 billion of bitcoin in January. Picture Alliance/Getty Images David Beasley, director of the UN's World Food Programme, said billionaires need to step up and help. Beasley said $6 billion would help 42 million who are "literally going to die if we don't reach them." World's richest man Elon Musk says he would sell Tesla stock if the UN can prove how the money will solve the crisis. Billionaire Elon Musk said he would sell Tesla stock and donate the proceeds if the United Nations could prove that just a tiny percentage of his wealth could solve the world's hunger crisis. Musk was responding to comments by David Beasley, director of the UN's World Food Programme, who told CNN's Connect the World last week that a $6 billion donation from billionaires like Musk and Bezos could help 42 million people who are "literally going to die if we don't reach them." Musk is currently the world's richest ...

Roblox, the gaming platform that is immensely popular amongst young players, said on Twitter Sunday evening that it is back online worldwide. Roblox is back online everywhere! Thank you for your continued patience as we get back to normal. — Roblox (@Roblox) October 31, 2021 The recovery came after an outage that lasted three days , a somewhat rare streak of blackout for a tech firm of Roblox’s colossal size. The company said earlier that the cause was an “ internal system issue .” “A core system in our infrastructure became overwhelmed, prompted by a subtle bug in our backend service communications while under heavy load,” David Baszucki, Roblox’s founder and CEO explained in a post after operations were restored. “This was not due to any peak in external traffic or any particular experience. Rather the failure was caused by the growth in the number of servers in our datacenters. The result was that most services at Roblox were unable to effectively communicate and deplo...

Roger Stone arrives for the Conservative Political Action Conference held in the Hyatt Regency on February 27, 2021 in Orlando, Florida. Joe Raedle/Getty Images Former Trump adviser Roger Stone is threatening to run to unseat Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. Stone said he may be "forced" to run for governor if DeSantis does not conduct a vote audit in the state. Trump won Florida by a comfortable margin in 2020, and DeSantis has dismissed calls for a forensic audit. Longtime Trump ally Roger Stone is threatening to run to unseat Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis if the latter does not conduct a vote audit in the state. "I heard governor Ron DeSantis say that Florida had the most honest election in our history in 2020, yet I know for a certainty there are one million phantom voters on the Florida voter rolls. These 'voters' simply do not exist," wrote Stone in his Telegram channel to some 20,000 subscribers on October 31. "If Gov. Ron DeSantis does not ord...

Attorney for the President, Rudy Giuliani speaks to the media at a press conference held in the back parking lot of Four Seasons Total Landscaping on November 7, 2020 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images The Trump campaign mistakenly booked a landscaping business for a 2020 press conference. While Rudy Giuliani spoke at the briefing, a reporter told him the election was called for Biden. Since the press conference, Four Seasons Total Landscaping has sold millions in merchandise. In a hilarious Halloween tribute, Four Seasons Total Landscaping said in a tweet that it would be celebrating the holiday as the Four Seasons Hotel, a reference to the Trump campaign mistakenly booking the commercial landscaping and snow removal business instead of the luxury hotel chain for a press conference last November. "This year our costume was an obvious one," the business' tweet said . -Four Seasons Total Landscaping (@therealfstl1992) November 1,...

A file photo shows detainees sitting in a holding area watched by military police at Camp X-Ray inside Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Petty Officer 1st class Shane T. McCoy/US Department of Defense Handout via Reuters A military jury sentenced a terrorist to 26 years but some wrote a letter requesting clemency. The letter said the torture Majid Khan experienced "is a stain on the moral fiber of America." Khan said he was subject to force-feeding, waterboarding, and physical and sexual abuse. A military jury wrote a letter condemning torture tactics used by the CIA against a convicted terrorist after sentencing the man to 26 years in prison, The New York Times reported. On Thursday, the jury, which was made up of active-duty senior military officials, heard graphic descriptions of the torture Majid Khan, 41, was subjected to while being held at CIA black sites. Khan, who graduated from a high school near Baltimore, served as a courier for Al-Qaeda before he was c...

From left, Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo. and Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., attend the House Judiciary Committee oversight hearing of the United States Department of Justice with testimony from Attorney General Merrick Garland, Thursday, Oct. 21, 2021 on Capitol Hill in Washington. Michaels Reynolds/Pool via AP US Rep. Matt Gaetz spoke at a Halloween campaign rally for Congressional candidate Anthony Sabatini. Large amounts of chemicals found in one of the explosives Gaetz referenced can cause an explosion. C4, which Gaetz also mentioned, is an explosive used in military combat units for demolition. At a Halloween campaign rally for Congressional candidate and Florida state Rep. Anthony Sabatini, US Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., complained about metal detectors in the House of Representatives and joked about blowing them up with explosives, a remark which made attendees laugh and clap. Gaetz falsely claimed the metal detectors, which were installed after pro-Trump rioters breached the Ca...

On the last Gang recording session in early October before the birth of our first grandchild, I tried to stir the pot by attacking Democratic Progressives for capsizing the second of two Infrastructure bills. The moderates, led by the recalcitrant Joe Manchin and his silent sidekick Kyrsten Sinema, were successfully gumming up the Democrats’ best chance for holding control of the House and perhaps Senate. What else is new, you say? In tech news, Facebook was busily exploiting the tone deaf policy of getting slightly irritated with growing pressure from whistleblowers, former venture capital critics who built their careers on the company’s early success, and a two-fisted teamup from a Congress in over its head and the media looking for a good story to replace Donald Trump’s devolution as credible threat. Today, Facebook ads talk of reforming Section 230 and otherwise providing rules for the company to follow. Infrastructure bingo has whittled down the cost by 60%; the plan is to get i...

A container of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine is seen at the United Memorial Medical Center on December 21, 2020 in Houston, Texas. Getty Images/Go Nakamura Use of Moderna's vaccine in kids 12 to 17 years old will most likely be delayed to early next year. The drug company said the FDA told them they needed more time to review. The FDA is looking into the risk of myocarditis, a rare heart condition. The Food and Drug Administration on Friday told Moderna it needed more time to review a rare heart risk from COVID-19 vaccines in youths before it could allow the emergency use of the vaccine in people between the ages of 12 and 17, the drug manufacturing company said on Sunday. Moderna said the FDA told them they need more time to review the risk of possible myocarditis - a heart muscle inflammation - after vaccination, which could delay approval until after January 2022. "The Company is fully committed to working closely with the FDA to support their review and is gratef...

FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images A Southwest pilot reportedly said an anti-Joe Biden phrase during an in-flight announcement. The phrase, "Let's Go, Brandon" has been used as a code to criticize Biden. Southwest on Sunday said it is investigating the incident. Southwest Airlines is conducting an investigation following reports that one of its pilots said an anti-Joe Biden chant during an inflight announcement. In an article published on Saturday, the Associated Press's Colleen Long wrote that she was on a flight from Houston to Albuquerque on Friday when the pilot said the phrase "Let's Go, Brandon," at the end of his announcement. Long wrote that there were "audible gasps from some passengers." She was almost removed from the aircraft after she tried to get the pilot to comment. Insider's Jake Lahut previously reported the phrase started at a NASCAR event earlier this month when a crowd was chanting "Fuck Joe Bid...