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A decomposed body found inside an impounded Tesla in Los Angeles has been identified as that of a teenage girl who went missing last year.Several local news outlets reported the vehicle was registered to the singer d4vd, whose real name is David Anthony Burke, 20. Neither his representatives nor police responded to requests for comment. Authorities have not implicated d4vd in her death.Celeste Rivas, 15, was found dead inside the vehicle, the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed Wednesday. Officials have not determined her cause of death.The body was discovered Sept. 8 at a tow lot in Hollywood after…

The founders who previously sold their livestreaming video startup Periscope to Twitter are back with a new startup — and no surprise, it’s an AI-focused company this time around. On Wednesday, former Twitter head of product Kayvon Beykpour announced the launch of Macroscope, an AI system aimed at developers and product leaders that summarizes updates to a codebase and catches bugs, among other things. The startup was co-founded by Beykpour, now Macroscope CEO, in July 2023, along with childhood friend Joe Bernstein, also previously of Periscope and their prior enterprise startup, Terriblyclever, which was sold to Blackboard in 2009. They’re…

by Lacey Pfalz Last updated: 11:25 AM ET, Thu September 18, 2025 Princess Cruises is offering newly enhanced cruises onboard one of its new ships, the Sun Princess, for Western Mediterranean voyages, with new ports of call on sixteen departures spanning April 4, 2026 through October 17, 2027.The cruise line is now offering stops to Mallorca (Palma), Spain; Corsica (Ajaccio), France and an overnight stay in La Spezia, Italy, offering two days of exploration that can include a visit to Florence, Pisa and the Tuscan countryside. Gibraltar will no longer be an included stop in these changed trips.  The Sun…

For decades, Fortune 500 companies had to hire market research firms to get meaningful insights into customer satisfaction. These services come with a hefty price tag and often take weeks to complete. Keplar, a market research startup, uses voice AI to conduct customer interviews, providing clients with analysis much faster and at a fraction of the cost of traditional research consulting firms. On Wednesday, the two-year-old company announced that it raised $3.4 million in seed funding led by Kleiner Perkins, with participation from SV Angel, Common Metal, and South Park Commons. The idea for Keplar was conceived in 2023 when…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Seven years after her landmark debut “Invasion of Privacy,” Cardi B has returned. And, in typical fashion, she’s doing it with plenty of spectacle.The Grammy winner made her long-awaited sophomore album “Am I the Drama?,” released Friday, feel like prime-time theater. Friday’s release arrived days after she revealed she revealed her fourth pregnancy — her first child with New England Patriots wide receiver Stefon Diggs — and barely two weeks after she emerged victorious from a Los Angeles courtroom.With a title that nods to the scrutiny that has trailed her career, Cardi B channels the swirl…

EPCOT has announced that the Candlelight Processional will once again light up the stage during the 2025 International Festival of the Holidays.Held at the America Gardens Theatre on evenings from November 28 through December 30, the Candlelight Processional is a moving retelling of the Christmas story with a 50-piece live orchestra, massed choirs featuring Disney cast members, local community singers, the Voices of Liberty and a rotating lineup of celebrity narrators. Showtimes are 5:00 p.m., 6:45 p.m. and 8:15 p.m. local time.The 2025 narrated event includes a lineup of performances from fan-favorite film and television icons, award-winning artists and Disney…

Tesla is “working on” redesigning its door handles so they are less likely to trap people inside the company’s cars, chief designer Franz von Holzhausen told Bloomberg News on Wednesday. The news comes just one day after the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) opened an probe into Tesla’s door handles, and one week after a Bloomberg News investigation highlighted multiple instances where owners or passengers were stuck in their cars following a crash. Von Holzhausen didn’t specify when Tesla made the decision to rethink how its door handles work, according to Bloomberg. China has already been pushing automakers to…

At first, Clemson University took a stand for free speech. It condemned employees’ remarks that made light of Charlie Kirk’s death on social media, but the school said it was committed to protecting the Constitution. Three days later, under pressure from conservatives in the Statehouse, it fired one of the employees. As an outcry grew and the White House took interest, it fired two more.The swift developments at the public university in South Carolina reflect the intense pressure on college leaders nationwide to police insensitive comments about the conservative activist’s assassination, which leaves them with no easy choices. Colleges can…

On Wednesday, AI security firm Irregular announced $80 million in new funding in a round led by Sequoia Capital and Redpoint Ventures, with participation from Wiz CEO Assaf Rappaport. A source close to the deal said the round valued Irregular at $450 million. “Our view is that soon, a lot of economic activity is going to come from human-on-AI interaction and AI-on-AI interaction,” co-founder Dan Lahav told TechCrunch, “and that’s going to break the security stack along multiple points.” Formerly known as Pattern Labs, Irregular is already a significant player in AI evaluations. The company’s work is cited in security…

WASHINGTON (AP) — When it was all over, Kamala Harris couldn’t believe it. “I could barely breathe,” she writes in her new book about learning she had lost the 2024 presidential election to Donald Trump. One of her aides peeled “Madame President” off celebratory cupcakes before serving them to crushed staffers. Harris kept asking, “My God, my God, what will happen to our country?”The next morning was no easier. “I was ashamed to realize I was in the denial and bargaining states of grief, a very long way from acceptance,” she wrote.It’s one of several raw admissions in Harris’ book,…