Tech Rookies Staff

New Netflix movies: the biggest films to stream in May 2024

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New Netflix movies: May 3, 2024 update Tom Power, senior entertainment reporter This week’s update sees Netflix movie original Unfrosted and everyone’s favorite green ogre’s first film outing – that being 2001’s Shrek – join their April 2024 brethren in this guide. We’ve removed the last entries for March as we don’t consider them to … Read more

ButcherBox acquires ‘Shark Tank’-featured startup Truffle Shuffle

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Butcherbox is known for grinding its way forward, bootstrapping to more than $600,000 worth of revenue. The company hasn’t traditionally been on the M&A path, but it today announced it is acquiring Truffle Shuffle – who you may remember from a Shark Tank episode back in 2021 (or, perhaps, The Goonies). The acquisition helps Butcher … Read more

Nvidia’s next-gen rumors bring good and bad news for gamers: RTX 5080 may not make 2024, but RTX 5090 and Blackwell laptop GPUs look promising

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Nvidia’s RTX 5080 GPU may not turn up this year as was previously rumored by a prominent leaker, but there’s a few pieces of better news regarding next-gen Blackwell graphics cards. Moore’s Law is Dead (MLID) just posted a new video on YouTube discussing Blackwell (among other topics), and cites a source at Nvidia as … Read more

Midi is building a digital platform for an oft-overlooked area of women’s health

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When Joanna Strober was around 47, she stopped sleeping. While losing sleep is a common symptom of perimenopause, she first had to go to multiple providers, including driving 45 minutes out of San Francisco to pay $750 out of pocket, to get that diagnosis and proper treatment. “That feeling of wow, I’ve really been suffering … Read more

Amazon Q is now open to any workers looking to build an AI chatbot for work

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Amazon Web Services has unveiled the next part of its plan to redefine software development with the launch of Amazon Q, a new generative AI assistant. Amazon Q is designed to support developers and businesses with streamlining processes, enhancing productivity and unlocking new opportunities to innovate. Like other AI tools already available from the likes … Read more

Devastated by his image being posted to a porn site, this founder hit on an AI startup idea

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Realising that a former partner had, unbeknownst to him, put previously private, intimate videos of them onto a porn site, tech founder Dan Purcell felt devastated. He resolved to come up with a solution to help prevent such violations happening again. His Ceartas startup has now raised $4.5 million in a Seed round from European … Read more