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Sadly, there’s a wide range of scams people have to watch out for. From fake love interests to once-in-a-lifetime business opportunities, these con artists get really creative to swindle money out of people. In fact, it was reported that $8.8 billion was lost to scams in 2022.Redditor Titahn contributed to this figure when a stranger approached him asking for 10€ for gas to visit his dying mother. Despite sensing dishonesty, he decided to lend the cash and pawned it for his phone number. Not long after, the stranger…

Who knew that, in 2024, one of the stories with the most twists and turns would be about George Carlin? Okay, it’s not really about George Carlin — it’s about AI, and that makes all of this back and forth make a lot more sense… until we find out that AI wasn’t involved at all.Last week, the creators of the “George Carlin: I’m Glad I’m Dead” AI special were sued by the Carlin estate. The special, which claimed to use AI to write the jokes and perform them in Carlin’s voice, was called “a piece of…

Now that 2023 is in our rearview mirror, the startup winter is behind us, but we’re not quite out of the woods yet. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Now that 2023 is in our rearview mirror, the startup winter is behind us, but we’re not quite out of the woods yet. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each…

Tesla Model S Source: Tesla Norway won’t be issuing a recall of Tesla Model S and X vehicles in the country after a government investigation into suspension safety issues – the same one Reuters wrote about in its investigation, targeting Tesla for blaming customers for faulty parts, which Tesla then fired back at on X. Norway’s traffic safety regulator found no basis for ordering a recall over the issue, which was flagged by more than a dozen customer complaints to the agency in 2022…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeParamount’s president of global marketing has admitted the studio chose not to explicitly market its new Mean Girls remake as a musical because they didn’t want to “turn off audiences”. The latest box office triumph sees Reneé Rapp reprise her Broadway role of Regina George alongside The Last Thing He Told Me’s Angourie Rice as Cady Heron. Following its debut in cinemas on Friday (12…

Luke Larsen / Digital Trends The Vision Pro is coming. Really soon. Its release date announcement, while not technically made at CES, may as well have been. And yet, most people haven’t used the headset, and don’t know what it really does. And that’s OK. But surely the technologists at CES 2024 would be a bit more equipped for what’s about to hit us in the near future, right? Surely, there would be companies at CES who came to the show prepared to challenge Apple — or at least complement its technology. So, I…

Another lawmaker is pushing the Securities and Exchange Commission for more information about its security practices following the hack of its verified account on X. In a new letter to the agency’s Inspector general, Senator Ron Wyden, called for an investigation into “the SEC’s apparent failure to follow cybersecurity best practices.”The letter, which was first Axios, comes days after the SEC’s official X account was in order to post a tweet claiming that spot bitcoin ETFs had been approved by the regulator. The rogue…

It was “a quiet place” indeed. So quiet it sent the internet into a frenzy.Fortunately, the truth about Emily Blunt and John Krasinski’s apparent red carpet exchange at the 2024 Golden Globes has finally been unveiled, debunking rumors of marital trouble on social media.A conversation between the married couple of actors at the 81st prestigious ceremony sparked speculations earlier this week, with people suggesting they spoke about divorce, while others believed they were discussing the weather or hors d’oeuvres.The…

Sam Wilson's absence from "What If...?" and the larger Marvel Cinematic Universe hasn't gone unnoticed by fans. He became Captain America at the end of "The Falcon and the Winter Soldier" in April 2021 but hasn't appeared in anything else. In a whole multiverse of stories, Sam Wilson is missing in action. So where is he? Fans have taken to X, formerly known as Twitter, to voice their frustration. In fact, @RandyS0725 responded to the "What If...?" team's answer on "Phase Zero" by saying, "So, what's their…

Bernice King took to social media after Jonathan Majors mentioned her mother’s name, Coretta Scott King, while addressing his girlfriend’s support during his recent domestic violence trial. While she didn’t mention Majors’ name in her post, she wanted to remind people that her mother, a civil rights icon, “wasn’t a prop.” “She was a peace advocate before she met my father and was instrumental in him speaking out against the Vietnam War,” Bernice King wrote on X, formerly Twitter. “Please…