It’s official: Amazon’s second Prime Day event of the year is taking place in early October. The two-day shopping event, which Amazon is calling Prime Big Deal Days for the second year in a row, will kick off at 12:01 a.m. PT / 3:01 a.m. ET on Tuesday, Oct. 8, and run through Wednesday, Oct. […]
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The hearing on the U.S. Coast Guard’s Titan submarine began with a startling revelation. “I told him I’m not getting on,” former OceanGate engineering director Tony Nissen told a panel of Coast Guard investigators, referring to a 2018 conversation in which CEO Stockton Rush allegedly asked Nissen to act as pilot on an upcoming expedition
The Penguin arrives this week on HBO, expanding the gritty criminal world of Matt Reeves. The Batman film into a spin-off series centered on Colin Farrell’s villainous character. Although his rogues gallery moniker remains the same, the Penguin’s real name was changed in the 2022 film to Oswald Cobblepot, his name since his birth in
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is leaving the internal committee OpenAI created in May to oversee “critical” security decisions related to the company’s projects and operations. In a Blog entry OpenAI announced today that the committee, the Safety and Security Committee, will become an “independent” board oversight group chaired by Carnegie Mellon professor Zico Kolter, Quora
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Instagram may implement a way to share comments on other Instagram posts in Threads, according to Alessandro Paluzzi, who often reverse engineers Meta’s social media apps to find future features. Paluzzi shared an image showing that when commenting on an Instagram post, there could be a new drop-down menu that allows users to choose to
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Insight Partners It is reportedly close to making capital commitments of more than $10 billion for its 13th fund, According to the FT. The FT report notes that two of Insight’s portfolio companies were acquired last week. One of them, threat intelligence firm Recorded Future, was sold to Mastercard for $100 million. $2.65 billionwas wholly
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Last summer, film fans mourned the death of actress Shelley Duvall, 75. Best known for The Shining, Time Bandits, and many other films, he began to distance himself from acting in the early 2000s before retiring completely after the 2002 independent film. Manna from heaven. But in 2022, she surprised everyone with the news that
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Nick Frosst, co-founder of Canadian AI startup Cohere, valued at $5.5 billion, has been a musician his entire life. He told britcommerce that once he started singing, he never shut up. That remains true today. In addition to his full-time job at Cohere, Frosst is also the frontman of Good Kid, an indie rock band
The names, songs, and networks may have changed over the years, but Power Rangers has always stuck to the same strategy. Whichever season you watched, you pretty much knew what you were getting into week to week, which helped make it a reliable show for kids around the world back in the day. Surprisingly, the
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At some point midway through the film, as Driver’s Caesar speaks to the camera, the screen goes blank for a moment. There was confused applause from those who thought it was all over (if only we had been so lucky), but then, with the lights still off, a man ran up onto the stage in
