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Disney passed on Star Wars in the 1970s, then paid $4 billion for it decades later

Before Star Wars became a galaxy-spanning empire, George Lucas couldn’t get anyone to fund it, and Disney was reportedly ...
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Your smart speaker may be recording you almost once an hour without the wake word

Researchers tested 11 smart speakers from eight different manufacturers and found hundreds of accidental activations ...

Mr. Lif’s Emergency Rations EP is post-9/11 hip hop at its most daring

There was a period in the early aughts when Definitive Jux (nee: Def Jux) seemed like it was going to be the future of hip ...
The New York Times

Threads, Meta’s ‘Twitter Killer,’ Finds Its People

The social platform that Meta once positioned as a rival to Elon Musk’s X now has 500 million users. It increasingly resembles Reddit. Meta’s office in San Francisco. Threads aims to reach one billion ...