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International experts say Gaza is still at risk of famine after more than a year of war

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Yahoo Finance Netflix earnings preview: Investors eye potential price hikes as stock trades near all-time highs Netflix is set to report its fiscal third quarter earnings on Thursday after market close. The streamer will once again have a high bar to overcome as the stock trades near all-time highs and analysts look ahead to another price hike announcement as a potential catalyst.

The FTC makes it easier to cancel subscriptions like streaming services, memberships and Prime First put forth for comment last year, the rule applies to any automatically renewing subscription, ranging from streaming services to gym memberships and payments for plans like Amazon Prime. Under the rule, businesses — including those offering free trials that charge if you don't cancel in time — can't force customers to end a subscription using a method different from how they signed up. The FTC says that it receives thousands of complaints about duplicitous subscription plans each year — and that these numbers have been steadily increasing over the past five years.

Boston Dynamics teams with TRI to bring AI smarts to Atlas humanoid robot Boston Dynamics and Toyota Research Institute (TRI) Wednesday revealed plans to bring AI-based robotic intelligence to the electric Atlas humanoid robot. Last September, TechCrunch paid a visit to TRI's Bay Area campus for a closer look at the institute's work on robot learning. In research revealed at last year's Disrupt conference, institute head Gill Pratt explained how the lab has been able to get robots to 90% accuracy when performing household tasks like flipping pancakes through overnight training.

Kenya's Octavia gets $3.9M seed to remove carbon from air In Africa, Octavia Carbon, a Direct Air Capture (DAC) startup, is leading the efforts. Octavia, founded in Kenya two years ago, builds DAC machines that it uses to capture carbon, a greenhouse gas that is the biggest contributor of global warming, from the air for storage underground. Octavia, which began capturing carbon in February after a period of developing the tech, now plans to build more machines to add to its existing two devices with a carbon capture capacity of 50 tonnes per year.

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