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This week on Uncanny Valley, we talk about one of the most notorious American corporations. So what does Palantir actually do?

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers from “Dreams Deferred,” the Season 4 finale of “BMF,” now streaming on the Starz app. It’s no longer “womb to the tomb” for Big Meech (Demetrius Flenory Jr.) and Terry Flenory (Da’Vinchi) on the Starz drama “BMF,” at least for now. In an action-packed Season 4 finale, cracks between the Flenory brothers have now seeped into their BMF enterprise. Focused on expanding their notorious drug and money laundering organization outside of Detroit, their strained relationship has left the brothers divided. Courtesy of Starz The fallout from their business trip to Mexico, with Big Meech resenting…

150 Talkio Mobile, a rising player in Uganda’s telecom industry, has officially opened its new flagship service centre at Ntinda Complex, about seven kilometres from Kampala city centre. The launch, held on Friday, August 15, marks an important step in the company’s plan to reshape the country’s communications sector. The new centre sits in Ntinda, one of Kampala’s busiest commercial hubs, and is designed to bring telecom services closer to both individual and corporate customers. It offers a wide range of solutions — including instant SIM card activation, advanced eSIM technology, enterprise communication packages, mobile device support, and integrated mobile…

Jamal Elshayyal, Director of Al Jazeera 360, talks of the double standard in the reaction to Anas al-Sharif’s killing.

Another crypto company is headed for the public markets. This time, it’s Gemini Space Station Inc., the New York-based crypto exchange and custodian bank founded by billionaire twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss. The outfit, which plans to list on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol GEMI, was founded in 2014 and operates as an exchange and custodian that offers a number of products and services, including a U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin and a credit card that offers rewards in crypto. The company’s S-1 document, which was filed Friday after markets closed, provides a look at its finances. The upshot:…

The King and Queen led a two-minute silence at a service in Staffordshire to commemorate 80 years since VJ Day.Among the attendees were veterans, some of whom participated in the ceremony by laying wreaths and giving readings.VJ Day, or Victory over Japan Day, is marked each year on 15 August – the date in 1945 when Japan surrendered to the Allied forces and World War Two ended.

Typhoon Podul crossed southern Taiwan on Wednesday with wind speeds of up to 110mph (177km/h), equivalent to a category 2 hurricane.Podul had developed a week earlier, near the Northern Mariana Islands, and tracked west across the Philippine Sea, achieving typhoon status on Tuesday before making landfall in south-east Taiwan the following day.Podul whipped up high waves along the east coast, where a man died after being swept away while fishing. As the storm travelled overland, it dumped large amounts of rain across the south of the island, with 440mm recorded in parts of Pingtung County, causing widespread flooding and agricultural…

Reducing electricity costs is commendable and should remain a primary objective for state regulators. However, genuine progress will likely come from addressing deeper systemic issues. In this report, analysts Abdulmalik Ishola and David Segun-Peter examine the conundrum in the Nigerian power sector. There is nothing more Nigerian than a good “reform.” In the 2000s alone, Nigeria experienced reforms in policing, pensions, local government administration, and taxation–to mention a few. Occasionally, we even revisited the same sector twice, notably with pensions in 2004 and 2014, and electricity in 2005 and again in 2023. The latest round of electricity reform, introduced by…

Medan, Indonesia – Indonesia is celebrating 80 years of independence from Dutch colonial rule, but not everyone is in a celebratory mood, and an unusual protest movement has rallied around a cartoon pirate flag.The flag, which features a skull and crossbones wearing a straw hat, has been spotted adorning homes, cars, trucks, motorcycles and boats across Indonesia.Popularised by the hit Japanese anime One Piece, the flag has even been flown beneath the Indonesian flag – known as the merah-putih (red and white) – which is widely raised throughout the month of August in the lead-up to Independence Day on Sunday.In…

Chris Waddle: They’ve got a great squad. They bought a lot of players last year and it has taken time for them to get the balance right, but you saw things come together when they won the Club World Cup and I am really expecting them to kick on. They won’t walk it, but they are going to create chances and score a lot of goals.Nedum Onuoha: They’ll be part of the title race for longer this season than the last. Under Enzo Maresca they have a clear way to play and players who are constantly improving. They’ll be a…