Friendship opened in 6 locations to a stellar debut weekend of $451k and per theater average of $75.43k. That’s the highest this year so far and the kind of performance the indie market’s been waiting for in a limited release even as the broader box office picks up. The R-rated comedy stars Tim Robinson as…
U.S. said it made ‘progress’ toward a deal with China Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said yesterday that the U.S. had made “substantial progress” in talks with China after a weekend of meetings in Geneva, and that more details would be announced today. Jamieson Greer, the U.S. trade representative who joined Bessent for the talks, suggested…
The Pyrotechnic Chemistry of the Vatican’s Pope Smoke Signals Explained Pyrotechnic chemistry drives the Vatican’s recipes for the black and white smoke used to announce papal election outcomes By Meghan Bartels edited by Clara Moskowitz Black smoke billows from the chimney on the roof of the Sistine Chapel indicating that the College of Cardinals have…
This morning, while summarizing an Apple “product blitz” he expects for 2027, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman writes in his Power On newsletter that Apple is planning a “mostly glass, curved iPhone” with no display cutouts for that year, which happens to be the iPhone’s 20th anniversary. That follows a report last weekend from The Information, which…
Junior Alvarado, who rode Sovereignty to victory at last weekend’s Kentucky Derby, has been fined and banned for overuse of his whip during the race. The jockey was found to have used the whip “more than the permitted amount” the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority (HISA) said on Saturday. Under HISA regulations, jockeys are allowed…
Back in March, you could feel the Duchess of Sussex’s biggest “critics” zeroing in on certain parts of her Netflix show, With Love, Meghan. Those “critics” were looking for anything they could attach themselves to, any hook to make an argument that WLM was dangerous/bad/monarchy-destroying. One of the criticisms they settled on was a section…
Amid a steady stream of new trade policies in President Trump’s first three months in office, there is one that Andy Musliner, who owns a small toy business in Maryland, can get behind. That’s the ending of a duty-free loophole for cheap goods from China. Mr. Trump this month scrapped a provision that had allowed…
A U.S.-funded charter plane carrying dozens of white South Africans who claim to have been victims of discrimination in their home country left Johannesburg on Sunday, heading for the United States, where the Trump administration is welcoming them as refugees. The departure of the white South Africans, who say they have been denied jobs and…
“Countless studies have shown that most of us are pretty abysmal at lie detection” Chloeimages/Alamy Distinguishing fact from fiction is one of the great tests of human communication. Little wonder that some people agonise over their capacity to sniff out a fishy story. “My friends say I’m a real mug,” one reader tells me. “What…
As AI systems master tasks once uniquely human, we find ourselves on an accelerated journey to discover what truly lies beyond automation.Read More
