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WattEV has opened a 26-port charging depot directly at the Port of Long Beach to charge electric trucks at the United States’ busiest container port. It’s the nation’s largest heavy-duty public access charging station to date. The Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles are situated directly next to each other and are the busiest container ports in the Western Hemisphere. The ports see thousands of trucks loaded, unloaded, and dispatched daily and are responsible for 40% of the nation’s…

It seems that Europe’s colonial mindset just refuses to die. After dictating how various aspects of tech should be used for ages, it now wants to set the tone and guidelines for how other countries, especially in Asia regulate AI…

It’s become a running joke that it takes an eternity for new seasons of Netflix original shows to arrive, and the same approach can technically be applied to its feature-length franchises too, after Bird Box Barcelona finally premiered almost five years after the Sandra Bullock-led original. The apocalyptic horror thriller was a massive cultural and social media sensation that captured imaginations all over the world, with the literary adaptation winding up as one of the streaming service’s most-watched in-house movies…

The long-running agreement between Netflix and Adam Sandler’s Happy Madison Productions has been hugely beneficial to both parties in terms of viewership figures and financial remuneration, and the only losers are subscribers who prefer their original movies to be halfway decent, with The Out-Laws the latest widely-panned offering from the streaming service’s most bulletproof hit factory. At the time of writing, director Tyler Spindel’s action comedy has only gathered a Rotten Tomatoes approval rating of 20 percent from…

Image via Netflix The last time Netflix released a documentary series focusing on Ancient Egypt – which wasn’t all that long ago at all – it sparked an international incident, let to furious outcries, and was review-bombed into oblivion as the streamer’s worst-rated original series on Rotten Tomatoes. Thankfully, Unknown: Lost Pyramid has so far avoided a similar fate. It’s an entirely different beast to the contentious Queen Cleopatra, though, with the first installment in the four-part event focusing on a…

Cr: Netflix © 2023 You really couldn’t make up the circumstances and coincidences that have fallen into place to allow Nimona to debut as one of the biggest hits on Netflix since premiering this past Friday. Originally developed as a Blue Sky Studios production, the plug was pulled when Disney acquired 20th Century Fox and began gutting its former competition, casting the animated adaptation onto the scrapheap. Fortunately, Netflix stepped into the breach and acquired the project, which has already proven to be…

The UK shifted from third place in 2020 and 2021 to fourth place and was displaced by Singapore, which saw significant growth over the past few years. In 2020, Singapore was ranked in tenth place, moved up to sixth in 2021, and then in 2023 moved up three more places, scoring a 50 out of 100.  The overall rankings reflect the countries' performance on the AI scale, but it is also worth noting countries that are leading in AI intensity. Singapore, Israel, and Switzerland led in terms of intensity meaning that these…

Cr. MICHAEL OATS/NETFLIX © 2022 The majority of Netflix projects that get a self-congratulatory pat on the back for performing so well among viewers generally tend to be the ones that cost the most to produce, which is fairly self-explanatory when the streaming service isn’t immune from a high-profile flop or two. However, Through My Window: Across the Sea is looking to emulate the success of its predecessor, which ended up as one of the platform’s most-watched movies ever. The opening installment dropped in…

Image via Netflix The documentaries that tend to seize the zeitgeist are typically the more sensationalized stories of murder and mayhem, but Netflix’s Take Care of Maya has risen to the top of the viewership charts by way of sheer emotional devastation, with the crushing true story at the center of the feature-length exploration detailing a shocking series of events. Per FlixPatrol, the heartbreaking story of the Kowalski family has entered the Top 10 in 43 countries since being added to the content library…

Cr. Larry Horricks/Netflix © 2023 Netflix makes a lot of action movies, but the majority of them – at least the ones hailing from the United States and backed by the might of Hollywood, anyway – aren’t anything to write home about. In fact, the majority of them end up getting resoundingly trashed by critics, which makes Extraction 2 a breath of fresh air in more ways than one. The pressure was piled high on the broad and bulky shoulders of Chris Hemsworth and director Sam Hargrave from the beginning, after the…