Egypt’s Mtor nabs $2.8M pre-seed for its online auto parts marketplace
Egyptian online auto parts marketplace Mtor has raised $2.8 million in pre-seed investment led by MENA-focused venture capital firm Algebra Ventures. Other investors...
Where to watch Elf | Digital Trends
Twenty years ago, who would have guessed that Elf would become one of the all-time great Christmas movies? It was only the second...
Where to watch How the Grinch Stole Christmas
“You’re a mean one, Mr. Grinch. You really are a heel. You’re as cuddly as a cactus, you’re as charming as an eel,...
For $200, George Santos will gossip with you on Cameo
George Santos, Republican ex-congressman, certified grifter and unlikely gay icon, is now on Cameo.
Santos’ stint in Congress — checkered with a slew of...
Bitcoin is on the move, Spotify cuts staff and more money floods AI
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Kodiak’s military prototype AV is a Ford F-150 pickup
Kodiak Robotics has unveiled its first autonomous test vehicle for the U.S. Department of Defense, a Ford F-150 pickup truck that the startup...
UK age assurance guidance for porn sites gives thumbs up to AI age checks,...
The U.K.’s Internet regulator has set out draft guidance for how porn sites will need to meet a newly introduced hard legal requirement...
Max Q: A Starlink terminal and a Kuiper terminal walk into a bar
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Why space parachutes are so hard
A new lawsuit alleging safety issues at Blue Origin
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Twilio lays off another 5% of employees following activist pressure
Just a few hours after Spotify announced a large round of layoffs, Twilio is also announcing hundreds of job cuts. Around 5% of...
‘Animate Anyone’ heralds the approach of full-motion deepfakes
As if still-image deepfakes aren’t bad enough, we may soon have to contend with generated videos of anyone who dares to put a...