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Amsterdam came alive with music, colour and celebration on Saturday, as thousands of people flocked to the canals to watch the city’s annual Pride boat parade. The Dutch capital is hosting this years’ WorldPride event, drawing visitors from across the world. Costumed participants danced and waved from a colourful flotilla of 80 decorated vessels as
This week a power line went down outside Washington, DC. Normally, the grid would only need a few seconds to recover from such an event. But this took more than 10 minutes because more than 3 gigawatts of data centers stopped consuming power almost simultaneously. The event caused voltage on PJM’s grid to spike from
New-Gen Universe, Inc. is launching its first consumer products initiative at San Diego Comic-Con, introducing an exclusive collector’s trading card set made with Cryptozoic Entertainment to celebrate its Marvel-distributed comic book series. Only 300 convention-exclusive boxes exist worldwide for the July 23-26 event, making it one of the rarest “next-gen” collectibles released to date. Designed
Sudo, make me a sandwich. The future has arrived! DoorDash just introduced a limited beta version of the DoorDash CLI, a command-line tool for developers that lets you request DoorDash directly from your AI agent. The tool can be used to search stores, find deals and pay, the company says. Today we are opening the
As investors fear Netflix’s viewer engagement metrics are declining, the streaming giant reported second-quarter 2026 revenue that was in line with Wall Street forecasts. Netflix reported revenue of $12.56 billion, up 13.4% year over year, and net income of $3.4 billion (which translates to 80 cents per share). On average, Wall Street analysts were expecting