The Brad Pitt-starring racing drama opened to more than $55 million in the US this weekend, and $144 million worldwide. That’s still a ways short of the movie’s $200-300 million production budget, but it’s easily on track to beat the $221 million-earning Napoleon as Apple’s biggest film yet.
Sadly we may never know how many of those ticket sales came from the unexpectedly pushy ads in Apple Wallet notifications.
The Magic V5 will launch in China on July 2nd, and we know almost nothing about it except that Honor says it will be the slimmest around, allowing the company to reclaim the super-thin title it held with last year’s Magic V3.
That means it must be thinner than the Oppo Find N5’s 8.93mm when shut, but will it beat Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 7, also launching in July and tipped to be slim?
The ex-Apple designer, now working on AI hardware for OpenAI, just joined the British Museum’s board of trustees. The London museum is going through a huge redevelopment, ominously dubbed “The Masterplan,” and it sounds like Ive will give guidance on how tech could be a part of that. No word yet on who he thinks should have the Parthenon sculptures.
[britishmuseum.org]
Yesterday Google announced updates to its Gemini models, including a new 2.5 Flash-Lite, but didn’t mention a bigger change: the Gemini app apparently now lets you upload videos for analysis, asking Gemini to describe clips or answer questions about video content.
I say “apparently” because the option hasn’t appeared on our devices yet, though 9to5Google says availability “varies,” so you might be lucky. It’s only for iOS and Android, with no web support yet.
[9to5google.com]
Sydney-based Vow is the first lab-grown meat manufacturer approved to launch Down Under. Vow, which has sold its meat under the Forged brand in Singapore since last year, offers quail foie gras and pâté, plus a quail-based candle you can dip food into as it melts.
They say they “craft entirely new, never before seen (or eaten) meats,” which is certainly one way to get around how hard it is to make a lab-grown steak.
That’s according to CNET, which interviewed Hon Pak, Samsung’s head of digital health, about new features coming to One UI 8 Watch, including an AI running coach and a non-invasive antioxidant level check that might be impressive if it actually does what it claims.
Apparently Pak said Samsung is “exploring” a premium subscription, perhaps bringing new features for free to the latest Samsung smartwatches, like the upcoming Galaxy Watch 8, but charging for older hardware.
They’re where a spokesperson says the new Trump Mobile T1 Phone will be manufactured, according to The Wall Street Journal:
“Manufacturing for the new phone will be in Alabama, California and Florida.”
We still think that pledge to make a $499 phone in the US in a couple of months sounds impossible, and note the “will be” up above: Eric Trump has admitted that “eventually” the phones can be built in the USA, which raises some obvious questions about what’s happening right now.
