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Let's breakdown all the major characters in the mysterious new Dune 3 trailer

The teaser trailer for Dune 3 introduces new characters and plots from Frank Herbert's Dune Messiah and beyond

Candex, which helps large companies pay small, one-time, or irregular vendors, raised a $40M Series C, bringing its total funding to more than $120M (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)

Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News:
Candex, which helps large companies pay small, one-time, or irregular vendors, raised a $40M Series C, bringing its total funding to more than $120M  —  For companies operating around the world, hiring vendors for one-off purchases in other countries can be a complicated process, eating up time and resources.

Logan Paul gets ripped apart by Pokémon fans for being a poser

What began as an exploration of why men seem to love Gengar so much has turned into a bloodbath of unamused Pokémon fans for YouTuber Logan Paul

NetBlocks and Kentik: Iran further restricted what little internet connectivity remained to curb VPNs, possibly to forestall protests during Festival of Fire (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
NetBlocks and Kentik: Iran further restricted what little internet connectivity remained to curb VPNs, possibly to forestall protests during Festival of Fire  —  Iran's internet, which has been heavily throttled by the regime since the outbreak of war, has gone even darker over the past 48 hours …

Nvidia’s DLSS 5 is like motion smoothing for video games, but worse

Yesterday Nvidia revealed its latest upscaling tech, called DLSS 5, which it described as "the company's most significant breakthrough in computer graphics since the debut of real-time ray tracing in 2018." Sounds good, until you actually see it. According to Nvidia, the tech "infuses pixels with photoreal lighting and materials," but all anyone seemed to […]