You can tell a lot about a company by what they're willing to sue over. Take Instacart, which just filed a lawsuit against New York City. Its beef? The company doesn't like five new city laws, set to take effect in January. They would require Instacart to pay workers more and give customers a tipping option of at least 10...
After a week of viral clips and outrage from anime fans and AI-haters alike, Amazon has taken down the AI-generated English dub for Banana Fish. The embarrassingly bad dub of the action-packed yaoi was a first for Amazon and was labeled as an “AI Beta” in the series’ language options. Instead of hiring voice actors with all of Jeff Bezos’...
With Christmas just around the corner our family is in full holiday mode. That means hosting, baking, and making tasty treats like this peppermint date bark. It’s naturally sweetened with dates and is full of nutrients. This dessert looks pretty on the plate for guests, but it shines just as bright for an everyday dessert for the family. I’ll make...
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - In the distant past, an ancient Egyptian woman of high social standing was mummified and placed in an ornate sarcophagus. Although the sarcophagus has never been opened, scientists believe that exceptional funerary objects were likely included to accompany her on her journey to the afterlife, as was customary in Egyptian tradition.For thousands of years, her...
Tomorrow evening, at PlayGround Global in Palo Alto, some very smart people who are building things you don’t understand yet will explain what’s coming. This is the final StrictlyVC event of 2025, and truly, the lineup is ridiculous. Image Credits:Aaron V Barrera Photography The series has traveled around the globe under the auspices of TechCrunch. Steve Case rented a theater...
“We’ve seen what happens when a child gets even a small financial head start. Their world expands,” Michael Dell said Tuesday. Source link...
Samsung is offering some valuable perks to customers planning to shell out thousands of dollars on its first tri-folding smartphone, the Galaxy Z TriFold. The foldable will be available for purchase in South Korea starting December 12. The company has announced a special program for Galaxy Z TriFold customers, offering an exclusive benefit in the event of display damage. Samsung...
Zodiac Killer Project review – all filler, all killer David Jenkins Film essayist Charlie Shackleton takes dead-aim at the true crime industrial complex in this cheeky documentary about a dream project that wasn’t to be. 4 Anticipation. Shackleton has the insight and self-lacerating panache of a British John Wilson. 4 Enjoyment. A formally playful look at documentary ethics (or lack...
Starring actress Aoi Miyazaki and pop star Mika Nakashima, Kentaro Otani’s 2005 film adaption of Ai Yazawa’s manga ‘Nana’ endures because it captured something rare and radical within Japanese pop culture: female friendship that is messy, intimate and life-changing. Shoujo manga (‘girl comics’) took my peers and I by storm in our formative years. Usually, these were sugary stories about high school girls...
The Trump administration has agreed to inject up to $150 million into xLight, a semiconductor startup developing advanced chip-making technology, marking the third time the U.S. government has taken an equity position in a private startup and further expanding a controversial strategy that has put Washington on the cap tables of American companies. The Wall Street Journal reported Monday that...
