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Elon Musk posted twice as often on UK race and immigration as about SpaceX in IPO run-up
Guardian analysis of X feed shows how keen world’s richest person was to air his views and ‘interfere’ in British politics Elon Musk posted about race and immigration in the UK on his social media network X twice as often as he did about SpaceX, which he also owns, in the run-up to the aerospace…
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Pokémon Trading Card Game’s awful scalping problem finally caught Nintendo’s attention
Unfortunately, Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa is still placing the responsibility to fix it on The Pokémon Company
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OpenAI’s apparent failure to visit key site raises questions over UK investment
Exclusive: £20bn of ‘potential’ £30bn AI investment touted by UK ministers appears to have been hypotheticalIt was to be the biggest undertaking in Britain for OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. Stargate UK – a multibillion-pound UK datacentre project – would represent “a major step forward in the US-UK technology partnership”.But the plans were paused in…
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As auto costs rise, will the US miss the golden age of electric vehicles?
Shifting demands and political ideology have left the industry vulnerable to global competition from cheap Chinese carsEarlier this month, an intriguing new Detroit-based electric vehicle startup hit the market – Slate Auto, a Jeff Bezos-backed venture offering something US buyers rarely see these days – a pick up truck billed as “affordable”.Its base price is…
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Art heir sues claiming his late mother’s Chinese art scrolls potentially worth millions were sold for as little as FORTY FIVE dollars
An Oregon man hired an estate sale company to sell his late mother’s belongings. It was not until he gave up the items that he discovered precious scrolls hidden at the bottom of two chests.
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Alexi Cory-Smith, Bella Figura Co-Founder and CEO, Dies at 58
The firm, which acquires and manages rights across music publishing and recordings, announced Cory-Smith’s unexpected passing on Friday (July 3).
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3 Nuclear Startups Hit a Big Milestone. Why It Matters—and Why It Doesn’t
The companies’ Fourth of July plans include celebrating new reactor designs coming online. But there’s still a long way to go before they deliver energy at a meaningful scale.
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Amazon updated 2023’s Fire HD 10 tablet with 4GB of RAM
The Fire HD 8 that launched in 2024 was the last new addition to Amazon’s budget-minded tablet lineup, but the company has quietly updated the Fire HD 10 that debuted the year before. In 2023 it was offered with multiple storage configurations that each came with 3GB of RAM, but the 32GB version now ships…
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Unifrance Reelects Gilles Pélisson as President as French Film and TV Promotion Org Expands Global Ambitions
Gilles Pélisson has been unanimously reelected as president of Unifrance for a second three-year term, extending his mandate at the helm of the French film and TV promotion body. The former TF1 Group chairman and CEO first took over the organization three years ago and has been working alongside Unifrance executive director Daniela Elstner to…