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• OpenAI teased its text-to-video generator Sora in February.
• Sam Altman's company has yet to announce a release date, but it is expected later this year.
• Early testers spoke to Business Insider about Sora's potential — and limitations.

OpenAI set tongues wagging when it teased its text-to-video generator Sora back in February.

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Disney has announced another price hike across all of its streaming services.

The company buried the announcement at the end of an unrelated blog post on Tuesday, with price increases across the board from Oct. 17.

The new monthly pricing for

• We asked top venture capitalists to name the most promising US startups so far in 2024.
• VCs named portfolio companies as well as startups that they have no financial ties to.
• This year, AI companies dominated the list of 85 startups.

There's an adage in venture capital that great

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Let's talk about sex — more specifically, about the fact that some of us are opting not to have it. Celibacy is a hot topic in pop culture, evidenced by the return of the Netflix series Too Hot To Handle, where contestants attempt to abstain from sex for prize money. Beyond Netflix, people — women in particular — are opening up about their decision to be celibate online and coining terms about it

No matter how fun and exciting travel can be, being away from home always causes some discomfort. Whether it's digging in your suitcase for that shirt you definitely packed, or finding a place to store the mountain of coins you've gathered in change, travelling has a way of surfacing issues you'd never considered until you stepped onto a plane.

Fortunately, having the right items in your luggage ca

Tilman Singer's Cuckoo is a fun midnight genre romp that works despite its goofiest elements. A mountainous horror film reminiscent of The Shining — albeit with far more overt body horror — it follows the travails of a family of four as they take up residence near a fancy lodge in an isolated corner of the German Alps.

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• I flew from London to Dallas with my two daughters to visit my sister and her family.
• They were surprised by how everything in Dallas was big, houses, malls, even soda cups.
• My sister took us to an all-you-can-eat buffet, and my kids could not believe it.

School was out, and we were in holiday mode. Buzzing with excitement, we headed to Heathrow Airport, our destination

• China's July exports grew 7%, slower than expected, while import growth outperformed expectations.
• China is facing other economic woes, including weaker consumer spending and a real-estate slump.
• Businesses eyeing a Trump presidency could explain a surge in US

• Whitney Elkins-Hutten transitioned from live-in flips to long-term rentals for better cash flow.
• She built a 36-property portfolio that generated enough cash flow for her to quit her job.
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• We moved with my husband, and our two kids moved from South Carolina to Spain two years ago.
• Kids here stay up until almost midnight in the summer, and now my boys do as well.
• They can walk to the supermarket by their own and I often give them my credit card to buy stuff.

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Moving to a new area or working at a new job where you don't know anybody can be seriously depressing, especially if you're already introverted as it is. What are you supposed to do? Go sit at the bar by yourself? And talk to strangers? No thanks.

Then comes the lightbulb idea: You can make