The Sunday Papers | Rock Paper Shotgun

The Sunday Papers | Rock Paper Shotgun

Sundays are for hopping over stepping stones across a river. There’s a stone missing in the middle. Immediately, a quest decision prompt flashes up before my eyes, offering three choices: turn back in humiliation; attempt the leap and risk perishing in the writhing waters, leaving this week’s Sunday Papers unfinished; or pile up smaller stones…

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Renewed With Charlie as New Lead

Renewed With Charlie as New Lead

Get ready to return to Barry’s Bay: “Every Year After” has been renewed for a second season at Amazon‘s Prime Video less than a month after its debut. Based on Carley Fortune’s bestselling novel “Every Summer After,” the first season of the drama tells the friends-to-lovers-to-second-chance-romance story of Percy Fraser (Sadie Soverall) and Sam Florek…

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SpaceX to join the Nasdaq-100

SpaceX to join the Nasdaq-100

The stock of SpaceX continues its consolidation phase on the New York Stock Exchange one week after its Nasdaq listing. Samuel Boivin | Nurphoto | Getty Images SpaceX became one of the quickest additions ever to the Nasdaq-100 index, setting up a fresh wave of buying from passive investors less than a month after the…

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Streaming services’ obnoxiously loud ads become illegal on July 1 in California

Streaming services’ obnoxiously loud ads become illegal on July 1 in California

The Motion Picture Association, which includes Netflix, Disney, Amazon Prime Video, and Paramount, and the Streaming Innovation Alliance, which includes Netflix, Disney, Peacock, and Pluto TV, opposed the bill. The groups argued that “many” streaming services were already trying to manage the “loudness of advertisements that come from server-side ad insertion that may be inconsistent…

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Indian payments chief thinks AI will be heavily involved in next era of digital payment growth

Indian payments chief thinks AI will be heavily involved in next era of digital payment growth

India’s digital payment share has increased over the years, with the Unified Payment Interface (UPI) growing to over 750 million daily transactions. With an aim to reach over a billion daily transactions, Dilip Asbe, MD and CEO of the National Payments Corporation of India, which oversees UPI, thinks AI would be heavily involved in the…

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