August 17, 2015 11:00 AM EDT It was on Aug. 17 of 1982, at a factory outside the city of Hanover in Germany, that the band ABBA received a very particular honor: According to Philips, the company that ran the factory, a CD of the band’s album The Visitors was pressed that day. And it wasn’t just any CD—it was the first CD ever manufactured. The new technology would go on sale in Japan later that year, and in other markets around the world the following March.

Meta’s new text-based conversation platform Threads launched with a bang earlier this month, surpassing 100 million sign-ups less than a week after it became available to the public on July 5.  But soon after the app—seen as a direct threat to Twitter, which recently became X— was released, users on Twitter began posting screenshots of Threads’ privacy policy published on Apple’s App store. Some pointed out the app’s terms of service give Meta permission to collect a trove of data, including information on user’s health, financial information, location, search history.

Zaia Ventures, the venture capital firm that former Prime Video executive, Ukonwo Ojo started in 2022 has acquired a stake in Taeps Animation Studios, a fast-rising Lagos-base animation studio, whose short animated film, Ewa was nominated for Best Animation Short Film at the African Film Festival (AFRIFF) in 2023. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7scHLrJxnppdksq%2FAxKurmqGeorKvwI6mpq%2Bhlah8u63ImmSvnZ6pwrOx0madqK2embKzedSkpqevn2K8q7uMmpqqrZmnsrR50q2YpJ1dnrtuwMCep6xlkaO2rq3ToqanZaOpwqW1zqxmp26kqLS3rw%3D%3D

Following in the wake of acclaimed television forebears like Lost and Game of Thrones, Yellowjackets has become the latest show to incite a massive amount of fan theories about the mysteries at the heart of its plot. The hit Showtime series, which splits its time between the aftermath of a 1996 plane crash that leaves a high school girls’ soccer team stranded in the Canadian wilderness for 19 months and the lives of the survivors 25 years later, became a near-instant pop culture phenomenon when its first season debuted in November 2021.

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