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With Thanksgiving now here, countless audiences across the country will be looking to Netflix for something exciting to watch over the holiday. The service remains at the top of the streaming hierarchy, largely thanks to Netflix’s deep catalog of content spanning genres like sci-fi, action, drama, and everything in between. Netflix’s constantly growing library ensures every fan will find something to suit their mood, including those wanting some sci-fi thrills. It’s one of the most imaginative and versatile genres in film, considering the various subgenres it delves into. This Thanksgiving holiday, audiences can find sci-fi movies on Netflix ranging from…
It’s been a tough year for air taxi startups. The UK’s Vertical Aerospace is running short of cash, while Germany’s Lillium faces bankruptcy. Targets for commercialization keep getting extended. Investors are hesitant to commit. The reason for all the struggles is pretty simple. Building, certifying, and commercializing brand-new aircraft designs like electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft (eVTOLs) is complex, notoriously expensive, and depends on lengthy regulatory processes. That’s partly why German startup Vaeridion is pursuing a simpler, potentially cheaper, route to electric flight using an aircraft it calls the “microliner.”. “The microliner looks like a regular plane, and it…
The Dutch labor market is experiencing a persistent talent shortage, according to a new salary survey report. The research also flags that when it comes to hiring in 2025, artificial intelligence, automation, and machine learning are expected to be among the hottest functional areas companies are most likely to recruit talent for next year. In line with this, a recent study by Indeed found that over the past year, job postings mentioning generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) or related phrases have increased dramatically across the US and Europe. In Germany, for example, there has been a 3.9x increase; France has…
Vertical Aerospace has been thrown a crucial lifeline, staving off potential bankruptcy at the cash-strapped air taxi startup. The UK-based company—which makes electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft—secured the fresh funds from its largest creditor, American debt investor Mudrick Capital. The agreement, announced Monday, includes a $50mn cash injection and a substantial debt-to-equity swap. Mudrick will invest $25mn upfront and guarantee another $25mn in future funding, offset by contributions from third-party investors. Mudrick will also convert half of its $130 million in outstanding loans into equity at $2.75 per share, taking its ownership stake in Vertical to just over…
Photonics—a field that underpins light-based systems for manipulating data—has a bright future, as the rise of AI demands better computing performance, but it has yet to be fully applied to a new generation of chips. German startup Akhetonics hopes to change that. It’s raised a €6 million seed funding round (approximately $6.33 million) to deliver on this promise, The Tech Spot can exclusively reveal. While several companies are working with photons on tangential issues or point solutions that mix electronics and photonics, Akhetonics—whose name is a portmanteau of Akhet, an Egyptian hieroglyph for “horizon,” and photonics—is outright aiming to build…
When the Paris Court of Appeal recently blocked four porn sites in France for not having a proper age verification system, the two online child protection nonprofits that had pushed for the blocks probably thought they’d scored a big victory. But in one case, it turned out to be a bit of a self-own. As l’Informé reports, the nonprofits went after Iciporno, Mrsexe, Tukif, and xHamster. Their complaints listed the web addresses of the sites, but for xHamster they put “fr.xhamster.com,” pointing to the site’s French subdomain. As a result, the court ordered the blocking of “fr.xhamster.com,” including the “fr.”…
If you’ve used ChatGPT Search or Perplexity, you know that being able to search the web and see citations inline greatly improves these AI chatbots. Results are better when they involve timely information, and web search may reduce so-called hallucinations (i.e., when a generative AI outputs incorrect information). That’s why French startup Linkup is building an API that lets developers access web content from premium, trusted sources and hand the results to a large language model (LLM) to enrich its answers. Many AI developers call this workflow Retrieval-Augmented Generation (or RAG). More importantly, the future of scraping bots is uncertain.…
Many startups and large tech companies are building AI agents or programs that can handle multi-step tasks without user supervision. Once available, these agents will need to collaborate with each other to complete complex jobs, such as booking and paying for flights, hotels, and excursions. /dev/agents, a new company started by former Google executives who helped develop Android during the early days of the smartphone era, believes a new operating system is needed to fully realize the potential of AI agents. “Before Android existed, we could all see the promise of mobile, but as a developer, it was just too…
In a step likely to be tracked around the world, Australia has approved legislation that will ban the use of social media for children under 16. The bill was only introduced about a week ago but had backing from the main conservative opposition party as well as the center-left government over concerns the tech services negatively impact kids’ well-being. The ban is expected to take effect in November 2025, per Reuters. At that point, social media platforms in the market will need to be able to demonstrate they’re taking “reasonable steps” to ensure age verification is in place to stop…
