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SpaceX cleared to fly Starship again after booster failure in May
This will be the first Starship test flight for SpaceX as a public company, testing the market’s appetite for the company’s “fly, fail, fix” approach to rocket development, which often ends in fireballs.
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Would David Ellison Really Pull Paramount Out of California if the State Tries to Block Warner Bros. Merger?
Is David Ellison considering a nuclear option of relocating Paramount’s headquarters from California — and potentially diverting billions of production dollars from the Golden State — if California Attorney General Rob Bonta files an expected challenge to the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery deal? That was the suggestion in an anonymously sourced item published by Semafor on…
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LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire, citing ‘serious concerns’ over civil liberties and privacy
The LAPD, one of Flock’s biggest government customers, is ending its contract with the company citing civil liberties concerns.
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Killings continue on Del Monte farm in Kenya, families say, after G4S hired for security
Exclusive: Three men killed in incidents over past year allegedly involving G4S guards, who replaced in-house team after previous deaths Bereaved families and politicians have raised alarm about continued killings on Del Monte’s pineapple farm in Kenya despite the company hiring G4S to replace its in-house security team after previous deaths were exposed by the…
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Amid Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced furore, Ubisoft’s latest financial report removes widely mocked claim microtransactions make games “more fun”
Did you know that microtransactions make games more fun? That might seem like a dubious statement, but it was one Ubisoft was more than happy to put its name to last year. However, it appears the company might have learned a lesson from the pushback it subsequently endured across the internet: as complaints around the…
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Digger Trailer Reveals Tom Cruise in What May Be His Least Recognizable Role Ever — And I Can’t Wait to See More
Today’s first trailer for Digger shows Top Gun star Tom Cruise in his least recognizable role yet — as an aging CEO who realizes he must save the planet from a natural disaster he created.
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Paramount-WBD Merger Is Competition Killer, State Attorneys General Allege In Proposed Blockbuster Antitrust Action
From Sacramento to Albany and several state capitals in between, regional attorneys general are steeled to stop Paramount Skydance’s $110 billion merger with Warner Bros Discovery in an antitrust lawsuit that could hit the courts Monday. Coming as barbed threats circulate that the David Ellison-owned PSKY could exit the Golden State in retaliation, the long…
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The New York nurses replaced by AI: ‘It should concern every patient who cares about quality of care’
Twelve utilisation review nurses at Montefiore hospital in the Bronx were laid off after the hospital introduced AI-powered software, according to their union, which says the move effectively replaced experienced staff with automation. The nurses and their union argue this matters beyond one workplace dispute because it raises wider concerns about patient care, transparency and…