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Sixty years ago the animated series The Jetsons finished its first and only season before being cancelled. Just 24 episodes were broadcast between September 1962 and March 1963. Despite this, the cartoon has achieved huge influence in popular culture, with countless reruns, a reboot in the mid-1980s (51 episodes over two seasons) and a feature-length movie in 1990. The Jetsons was created by the Hanna-Barbara animation studio in Los Angeles as a futuristic version of the studioâs hit series The Flintstones,
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The Miss Universe first runner-up, Chidimma Adetshina, earned Nigeria's highest-ever placement. She shared her tumultuous pageant journey with BI. Read more âș
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SpaceX's new satellites allowed some people in areas effected by hurricanes to send text messages earlier this year, now it will begin expanding the service commercially. Read more âș
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The French startup has developed AI speech models to detect and identify speakers for clearer audio transcriptions. Read more âș
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It's "nice for both of them to have fun," Maye Musk said about the bromance between the world's richest person and the incoming US president. Read more âș
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Donald Trump's team said the prospect of a Republican president returning to office in the US helped get the deal over the line. Read more âș
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The Verge Elon Muskâs xAI could soon make its next move to compete with OpenAI: launching a standalone app for its Grok chatbot. Musk created xAI as an alternative to OpenAI, the company he helped found but later distanced himself from over ideological differences. Now, The Wall Street Journal reports, xAI is planning to launch an app as soon as December that could go head-to-head with OpenAIâs ChatGPT as it... Read more âș
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Elon Musk's "fully autonomous" cars will, like other robotaxi vehicles, rely on remote human pilots. Read more âș
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Zurich-based startup Poncho has officially launched its weather insurance platform â and bagged some fresh funding to boot.  Founded in 2023, the company aims to transform how the travel and hospitality industries handle unpredictable weather. Ponchoâs tech integrates with booking systems, allowing customers to opt for weather protection at checkout. If bad weather, such as heavy rain or wind, occurs during their scheduled event or trip, a refund is processed... Read more âș
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Vertical Aerospace has been thrown a crucial lifeline, staving off potential bankruptcy at the cash-strapped air taxi startup. The UK-based company â which makes electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft â 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... Read more âș
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Amsterdam-based startup Skytree is set to deploy its carbon-sucking machines on a newly announced carbon capture and storage project in Texas, US. Dubbed âProject Concho,â the $100mn Direct Air Capture (DAC) plant aims to initially vacuum up 30,000 tonnes of carbon from the atmosphere annually, eventually scaling to 500,000 tonnes. This carbon will be permanently stored underground, on site. The facility is set to enter operation in 2028, a Skytree... Read more âș
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Candela is flying high â and across the Atlantic. The Swedish startup has secured $14mn, marking the close of its Series C round at a cosy $40mn. This puts its total funding at just shy of $90mn. Candela has also sold its first P-12 ferry in the US, amid burgeoning demand for what is the worldâs fastest and longest-range electric passenger vessel. FlyTahoe, the company that will operate the service,... Read more âș
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London-based startup Lighthouse just raised a hefty $370mn from American investment giant KKR at a valuation of over $1bn, making it Europeâs latest unicorn tech company. The funding will supercharge the companyâs ambitions to shake up the $15bn travel tech market. Whatâs on the to-do list? Refining its AI tools, expanding globally, and snapping up competitors through mergers and acquisitions (it has already made four). Lighthouseâs platform crunches over 400... Read more âș
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