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The best Black Friday deals landed early this year, giving shoppers a head-start on their holiday gift-buying. Early bargains have naturally included some hot Black Friday laptop deals, as these portable computers always feature heavily among the holiday shopping season, and PC brands like HP are getting in on the action with sales of their…

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Jack Selby, a former PayPal exec and the longtime managing director of Thiel Capital who attracted some attention years back for his low-key largesse, has a new, $110 million venture fund that he intends to invest mostly in his adopted state of Arizona, where Selby has lived since 2002. The debut vehicle of the firm,…

“1899 is an engaging, visually stunning sci-fi mystery series that falls short of greatness by drawing out many of its mysteries for too long.” Pros Emily Beecham’s standout lead performance Stunning sci-fi imagery and sets Incredible sound design and score Cons Uneven pacing Several forgettable subplots Too many drawn-out mysteries It’s strange to review a…

General Motors says supply chain constraints won’t hinder the automaker’s goal of reaching electric vehicle profitability by 2025. GM expects its EV portfolio to have “the same margin profile” as its internal combustion engine portfolio over the next three years once factoring in U.S. tax credits for cars and trucks, CEO Mary Barra said Thursday…

Jordan Peele is becoming one of the most powerful directors in Hollywood. Known as a master of horror, Peele is stepping into rare territory where he can make almost any movie he wants, even if the story is not based on existing IP or doesn’t belong to a franchise. Only a handful of directors, like…

Today at ProWellTech’s crypto-focused event in Miami, OpenSea CEO Devin Finzer discussed his business, and the future market for non-fungible tokens. The digital assets, better known by the acronym ‘NFT,’ saw their stock rise during the 2021-era crypto boom. NFTs became synonymous with neo-wealth bubbling up from the blockchain economy, as a number of image…

When Stable Diffusion, the text-to-image AI developed by startup Stability AI, was open sourced earlier this year, it didn’t take long for the internet to wield it for porn-creating purposes. Communities across Reddit and 4chan tapped the AI system to generate realistic and anime-style images of nude characters, mostly women, as well as non-consensual fake…

What surprised me most on returning to Boston* for the first time since the onset of the pandemic was just how clustered things are. I’m not a great scheduler and I don’t know the city’s geography particularly well, but after two days spent meeting with more than a dozen startups, it slowly dawned on me…