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News Image Grab NordVPN for Next to Nothing With This 74% Off VPN Offer

It's been a long time since we've seen such a promotion at NordVPN. We're telling you everything about this exclusive offer.

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Perplexity is reportedly looking to fundraise at an $8B valuation

AI search engine Perplexity is in fundraising talks and hopes to raise around $500 million at an $8 billion valuation, according to The Wall Street Journal. If a deal happens with those terms, it would more than double Perplexity’s valuation from its $3 billion valuation when it raised from SoftBank over the summer. The WSJ […]

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Children Film festival Cinekid 2024 kicks off in Amsterdam

The Cinekid children's film festival opens on Sunday afternoon in Amsterdam with the world premiere of the Dutch animated film Victor Vleermuis.

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Women in AI: Marissa Hummon thinks AI will help make the power grid greener

This is part of TechCrunch’s ongoing Women in AI series, which seeks to give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved time in the spotlight.

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News Image DC Came to NYCC With Absolute Reveals and Some Big Returns

For 2025, DC's putting its weight behind its new Absolute books, more crossovers, and the return of Vertigo.

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News Image Elon Musk is offering people $1 million to vote

Tech billionaire Elon Musk gave a $1 million check to an audience member at a rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where he’s been Trump-stumping, on Saturday. And he said he will continue to give that prize to one random voter per day until the Presidential election on November 5th. The move could very well break US election law. Only people who have signed a petition from Musk’s America PAC are eligible for the sweepstakes-style offer. And only registered voters are eligible to sign the petition. According to its terms, Musk will give $1 million to someone in Pittsburgh today, but will later expand to anyone living in swing states like Georgia, Nevada, or Arizona. It’s against federal law to impel anyone to vote or get registered to...

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News Image Borderlands Will Always Shoot to the Beat of Its Own Gun

Gearbox's shoot-n-loot franchise will always get to party like it's still 2009, and y'know what? Maybe it deserves to.

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News Image Take Aim With This Glorious Ultraman Trading Card Art

io9 has your exclusive first look at some of the new cards coming to wave 2 of Ultraman: The Trading Card Game.

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Lyft is working on a ‘service animal opt-in feature’ for passengers

Uber and Lyft need to do more to support disabled passengers, especially those who are blind or visually impaired, according to protesters who gathered outside the companies’ headquarters on October 15. Wired spoke to protesters who shared stories about drivers passing them by or refusing to let them bring their guide dogs on a ride. […]

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News Image Hasbro’s New Skeleton Crew Figures Are Full of Cute Kids and Plastic Jude Law

Hasbro brought the galaxy far, far away to New York Comic Con this year to show off its first figures inspired by the next live-action Star Wars show, Skeleton Crew.

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Can AI sandbag safety checks to sabotage users? Yes, but not very well — for now

AI companies claim to have robust safety checks in place that ensure that models don’t say or do weird, illegal, or unsafe stuff. But what if the models were capable of evading those checks and, for some reason, trying to sabotage or mislead users? Turns out they can do this, according to Anthropic researchers. Just […]

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Suspect arrested for explosion in house in Meppel, residents cannot return home

The police near Heerenveen have arrested the resident of the house in Meppel suspected of causing an explosio

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News Image Alien: Romulus is Bringing Its Terror to VHS in December

Find yourself a VCR, grab some popcorn, and watch Alien: Romulus old school style during the holidays.

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