Olandria Carthen may have gained fame from 'Love Island,' but she's clearly here to stay for a long time. Let's talk about it!

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Global VC investment hit a record $297B in Q1 2026, up 150% YoY, with AI startups capturing 81%; OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and Waymo raised 64% of the total  —  The first quarter of 2026 was unlike any other for venture investment, driven by unprecedented spending on AI compute and frontier labs.

I have yet to see Project Hail Mary, the buzzy space blockbuster starring Ryan Gosling. But who needs science fiction when you have…science reality?  At 6:24 pm Eastern, NASA is scheduled to launch four astronauts on a 10-day journey around the moon. The launch is part of the Artemis program, which hopes to return humans […]

Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda's Monstress is being developed as an animated series. It could be great, but the challenges are significant.

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Austin-based Coder, which helps developers build and run code from local devices to the cloud, raised a $90M Series C led by KKR, after raising $35M in 2024  —  Coder, a startup making software for developers to build and run code from local devices to the cloud, raised $90 million …