Brigitte Nielsen, Hollywood’s original Red Sonja, had a literal presence on the new film. Actress Wallis Day, who plays Dark Annisia in the upcoming reboot, shares with Entertainment Weekly out of San Diego Comic-Con that Nielsen came to their set. “I got to meet her,” Day says. When asked what that was like, she replies, […]
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If Timothy Olyphant‘s wife is secretly rooting against his new show Alien: Earth getting picked up for a second season, you can blame his eyebrows. Olyphant’s character on the sci-fi series, a robot (or “synthetic”) named Kirsh, has a unique appearance that involves silver hair and silver eyebrows. The actor developed the look in a
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Los Angeles-based Nevoya came out of stealth last year with the ambitious goal of breaking the EV truck adoption logjam. Nevoya made enough progress on its goal to attract investors — and a $9.3 million seed round — to help it move even faster. The young company, which buys electric trucks and offers them to
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Silicon Valley is doubling down on defense as geopolitical tensions rise and appetite for modernizing warfare grows. And while many of the startups garnering large valuations are focused on hardware and weaponry — think Anduril, Shield AI, and Skydio — Rune Technologies wants to tackle AI-enabled software for military logistics. “The U.S. military runs on
This is the closest Stranger Things fans will get to joining Eddie Munson’s Hellfire Club. Wizards of the Coast, the home of Dungeons & Dragons, is planning to release a new version of the table-top role-playing game called Stranger Things: Welcome to the Hellfire Club, Entertainment Weekly can exclusively reveal. According to Justice Arman, Managing
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Rivian will resume prep work on its planned Georgia factory in August and is still looking to break ground early next year, according to emails TechCrunch obtained through a public records request. The restarted effort comes months after the Biden administration’s Department of Energy approved a $6.6 billion loan meant to fund construction. Rivian has
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The Venn diagram of engineers that know a little bit about AI, self driving, and mining has a small intersection. Pronto.ai CEO Anthony Levandowski wants as many of those people as possible. And an acquisition is helping him achieve that goal. The San Francisco-based startup, which has developed a self-driving system designed for haulage trucks
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Tesla has applied to test and operate autonomous vehicles in Arizona in a bid to bring its fledgling robotaxi service to the Metro Phoenix area, the state’s Department of Transportation confirmed to TechCrunch. Tesla contacted the Motor Vehicle Division under the Arizona Department of Transportation on June 26 to begin the certification process, a spokesperson
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“Can I vroom vroom?” Pamela Anderson sits atop a motorcycle at Highline Stages in New York’s Chelsea neighborhood, where, minutes earlier, she effortlessly mounted the Bonneville T120 in her voluminous purple dress. Evoking classic Hollywood bombshells — think Marilyn Monroe or Jayne Mansfield over her Baywatch persona — she seems to be slipping into a
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Slate Auto, which came out of stealth mode earlier this year with a surprising – and surprisingly affordable – customizable electric truck, has raised $700 million to date. But long before the EV startup broke cover, it quietly raised a Series A round of more than $100 million in 2023. And while Jeff Bezos was
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