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My passionate five-year love affair with Prince Edward: Everything you could possibly want to know about Ruthie Henshall’s wirlwind romance with the young Royal
I had been performing for just two months in the musical Cats when a rumour went flying round backstage: a certain Edward Windsor was joining the production company.
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Saudi Arabia-owned Scopely continues its mobile investment spree with Umamusame: Pretty Derby director’s new company Studio AuKnow
Mobile gaming giant Scopely has made a “strategic investment” into Studio Auknow, a new company formed by the former director of Umamusame: Pretty Derby. Read more
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This slim camera has a transparent LCD screen for a viewfinder
Despite the fact that smartphones have become impressively capable shooters, standalone point-and-shoot cameras are enjoying a renaissance. The tiny Kodak Charmera is still wildly popular, while influencers are scrambling to find aging Canon cameras on eBay. Godox, a company best known for its photography lighting products, is the latest to join the simple camera craze,…
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Rocket Report: Indian startup nears first launch; SpaceX’s millenary milestone
NASA awarded Rocket Lab deals for three dedicated launches using the company’s Electron rocket.
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Alan Gignoux: Homeland Lost review – a landscape as bereft as its people
P21 Gallery, London Resonant black and white photographs show Palestinian refugees and the sites today of the homes they were forced to leave during the 1948 Arab-Israeli warThese places were once filled with conversation, smells of cooking, laughter, comfort. Now I’m staring into a silent, rubble-strewn abyss. Eyewitness accounts that accompany documentary photographer Alan Gignoux’s…
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A behind-the-scenes look at Midjourney’s medical scanner leaves many questions unanswered
Midjourney has shown more of its futuristic medical scanner. It still hasn’t shown much proof it works. The AI startup, best known for generating images, released a behind-the-scenes video of its dunk-tank ultrasound scanner, which it plans to deploy in spas and hopes will transform medicine with cheap, detailed, radiation-free imaging. The nearly 20-minute tour…
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Spain’s SETT, South Africa’s KAG Launch $28.5 Million Audiovisual Venture
Spanish state investment vehicle SETT and South Africa’s Known Associates Group are teaming on a major audiovisual venture in Spain, encompassing a Madrid-based production company and post-production studios in the Canary Islands and Basque Country. SETT, the investment arm of Spain’s Ministry for Digital Transformation, will commit €12.7 million ($14.5 million) to two public-private ventures…
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Relic announce a new Company of Heroes RTS, a wave defence roguelite for strategy buffs who don’t have time to fight a whole World War
Very good World War RTS Company of Heroes 3 is getting a standalone wave defence roguelite spin-off, Company of Heroes 3: Final Stand, in which you have to outlast 12 rounds of attackers while steadily expanding and upgrading a custom battlegroup. It’s pitched as a snackable, newbie-friendly version of the big-bellied strategy sim Katharine Castle…
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‘Something has gone completely wrong’: Palantir CEO rants on live television about his problems with the AI business model: ‘Why are they charging for tokens if it’s so valuable?’
Alex Karp seems convinced that AI companies are selling AI wrong.
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When the Law Kills Your Electric Car Dealership
Dealers who invested in Polestar won’t be able to sell in the US next year after the federal government denied an authorization that would have allowed the company to avoid a Chinese tech ban.