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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?

For most people, memories of childhood coughs and colds are synonymous with a menthol-smelling ointment in a dark blue jar with a turquoise cap.For more than a century, Vicks VapoRub has been a household name across continents. How it became one has roots in the Spanish flu pandemic in the early 20th century.The story begins with an act of fatherly love.In 1894 in the state of North Carolina in the eastern United States, the nine-year-old son of a pharmacist named Lunsford Richardson was sick with croup, a respiratory infection that causes a bark-like cough.Desperate to find a treatment, Richardson began…

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureToday’s Premier League actionShareShareOvernight headlines: Liverpool’s win was marred by an incident in which a home fan is alleged to have racially abused the Bournemouth forward Antoine Semenyo and Merseyside police have launched an investigation. A man in a wheelchair was seen being escorted from the ground at half-time by three policemen.Elsewhere, Thomas Frank has said he has no concerns over Cristian Romero’s commitment to Tottenham Hotspur. His new skipper, who has replaced Son Heung-min as captain of Spurs following the South Korean’s departure to Los Angeles, has been…

I’m looking out at Alcatraz Island from a Mediterranean restaurant in San Francisco with hundred-dollar fish entrées on the menu. As I make small talk with other reporters, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman jumps through the door on my left. Altman’s looking down at his bare iPhone to show us all something, and an intrusive thought slips out of my mouth: “No phone case is a bold choice.” Of course, I immediately realize that the billionaire CEO of OpenAI, who employs Apple veteran Jony Ive, cares more about preserving the iPhone’s original design than the $1,000 it costs to replace one.…

What do you consider to be the end of Jason Bourne? For connoisseurs, Bourne’s story definitively ended in 2007’s The Bourne Ultimatum, which masterfully wrapped up the story that began five years earlier with The Bourne Identity. For the less discerning viewer, it ended with 2016’s scraggy and inconsequential Jason Bourne. For the three people who watched the USA Network’s 2019 series Treadstone, it ended there. So which is it?Trick question, because Jason Bourne is never actually going to end, ever. This week, NBCUniversal has won a bidding war to acquire all non-publishing rights to Robert Ludlum’s Bourne and Treadstone…

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

In the lead-up to his much-touted Friday summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, United States President Donald Trump expressed confidence in his ability to make concrete progress towards securing a ceasefire in Ukraine at the meeting.Putin received the red carpet treatment as he was met with a lengthy handshake by Trump as he deplaned at the Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson military facility in the Alaskan city of Anchorage.The warm greeting set a congenial tone for what were always going to be tough negotiations. But there was a more subdued atmosphere a few hours later as Trump and Putin departed on their…

South African Army Chief General Rudzani Maphwanya is facing backlash in his home country following the release of alleged comments he made during an official visit to Iran, which analysts say could further complicate the already turbulent relations between South Africa and the United States.The comments, which appeared to suggest that Iran and South Africa have common military goals, come at a time when Pretoria is attempting to mend strained relations with US President Donald Trump to stabilise trade.Last week, a 30 percent trade tariff on South African goods entering the US kicked in, alarming business owners in the country.…

Suzanne BearneTechnology ReporterXYZ FilmsSwedish movie Watch the Skies was dubbed into English using AIFinding international films that might appeal to the US market is an important part of the work XYZ Films.Maxime Cottray is the chief operating officer at the Los Angeles-based independent studio.He says the US market has always been tough for foreign language films.”It’s been limited to coastal New York viewers through art house films,” he says.It’s partly a language problem.”America is not a culture which has grown up with subtitles or dubbing like Europe has,” he points out.But that language hurdle might be easier to clear with…

At least one person has died and dozens have been injured after a train collided with a slurry tanker and derailed in southern Denmark, officials have said. Police said the crash occurred between the towns of Tinglev and Kliplev in southern Jutland, near the German border, leaving a 60-year-old woman dead and 27 others injured.In an update shortly after midnight, police said a crane was being used at the site to lift some of the damaged carriages to ensure there were no more injured passengers.Of the five people seriously injured, two remained in a critical condition in hospital.Local media reported…