[ad_1] ND Stevenson is still processing. About two weeks after the release of Nimona, the animated feature based on the webcomic he wrote in college, Stevenson and I were able to chat about the journey that Nimona has been on for nearly a decade. Not just going from page to screen, but going from studio to … Read more
[ad_1] Harrison Ford attends Indiana Jones and The Dial of Destiny photocall at Carlton Pier on May 18, 2023 in Cannes, France.Photo: Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images for Disney (Getty Images) Harrison Ford has earned the right to be curmudgeonly—but the 81-year-old star of so many iconic films is known for tempering his grouchiness with sly humor … Read more
[ad_1] YouTube Music is launching a new TikTok-style short-form personalized video feed called “Samples,” the company announced on Monday. Each clip in the feed offers a glimpse into the artist, music video and feel of a song recommended to you. As with TikTok and other copycat short-form video feeds, users can swipe vertically in the … Read more
[ad_1] Google today is rolling out a few new updates to its nearly three-month-old Search Generative Experience (SGE), the company’s AI-powered conversational mode in Search, with a goal of helping users better learn and make sense of the information they discover on the web. The features include tools to see definitions of unfamiliar terms, those … Read more
[ad_1] While it’s often held that the early-stage investing market has generally fared better in this funding slowdown of the last 18 months or so, things haven’t actually been very good for pre-seed startups trying to raise money. Thankfully, it appears the pre-seed market is starting to recover, per new data from Carta, which provides … Read more
[ad_1] Months before Kenya finally banned iris scans by Sam Altman’s crypto startup Worldcoin, the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (ODPC) had ordered its parent company, Tools for Humanity, to stop collecting personal data. The ODPC had in May this year instructed the crypto startup to stop iris scans and the collection of facial … Read more
[ad_1] Electrify America, the EV charging company created by Volkswagen in the aftermath of its diesel emissions scandal, said on Tuesday that a new, 75 megawatt solar farm in Southern California is now up and running. Electrify America isn’t operating this solar farm. Instead, the company struck a 15-year virtual power purchase agreement (VPPA) with … Read more
[ad_1] OpenAI claims that it’s developed a way to use GPT-4, its flagship generative AI model, for content moderation — lightening the burden on human teams. Detailed in a post published to the official OpenAI blog, the technique relies on prompting GPT-4 with a policy that guides the model in making moderation judgements and creating … Read more
[ad_1] X, formerly known as Twitter, is throttling traffic to websites that the social network’s owner Elon Musk publicly dislikes. The platform is slowing down the speed it takes when accessing links to a handful of websites including The New York Times, Instagram, Facebook, Bluesky, Threads, Reuters and Substack. All of these websites have been … Read more
[ad_1] In the first quarter of 2023, we reported that Jumia recorded its lowest losses in four years. Its adjusted EBITDA and operating losses dropped to $27 million and $30.9 million. Those numbers represented a 55% and 57% decrease year-over-year, on track to meet the company’s end-of-year target of $100-120 million in adjusted losses. Surprisingly, … Read more