Honor made the Magic8 and Magic8 Pro official today, and during the same event the brand also teased an upcoming device which it's calling the Robot Phone. This will be fully unveiled at MWC in Barcelona in early March next year. Until then, we get the teaser video below, and if you've been wondering what makes this a "robot phone",...
The first time that I encountered a version of ‘Frankenstein’ it was in the form of a stage play too advanced for my susceptible, seven-year-old imagination. Later that night, and then again over the nights that followed, I hallucinated a bald, green-tinged man climbing in through the window of the bedroom that I shared with my younger brother. “Victor… Victor… ” he muttered in a sinister whisper...
In Scott Derrickson’s 1978-set The Black Phone, ‘the Grabber’ (Ethan Hawke) was just a run-of-the-mill masked killer. His boy victims, however, were unrestful spirits, contacting latest abductee Finney (Mason Thames) through a disconnected old phone in the Grabber’s basement dungeon with tips on surviving. Ultimately, the ghost-guided Finney killed the Grabber. Box-office success made a sequel inevitable, but also posed a problem: how do you...
OpenAI is printing money right now. The company is pulling in roughly $13 billion in annual revenue, with 70% coming from everyday people paying $20 a month to chat with an AI, according to the Financial Times. That’s pretty wild when you consider ChatGPT has 800 million regular users, but only 5% are actually paying subscribers. Raking in billions though...
Goldman Sachs has agreed to acquire Industry Ventures, a 25-year-old, San Francisco-based investment firm with $7 billion in assets under management, CNBC was first to report on Monday. The deal underscores the growing importance of secondary markets and buyouts as traditional venture exits remain sluggish. The investment bank is paying $665 million in cash and equity, with up to $300...
Strava, the 16-year-old fitness tracking app, is gearing up to go public, the Financial Times reports. CEO Michael Martin told the FT that the San Francisco company plans to list “at some point,” eyeing capital for more acquisitions. The company, backed by Sequoia Capital, TCV, and Jackson Square Ventures, was last valued at $2.2 billion in May. Strava has the...
Global consumption of plastics is on the rise, but only a small percentage of plastic waste is recycled. Credit: Justin Sullivan/GettyCrucial negotiations on what would have been the first ever global agreement to limit plastic pollution collapsed last month amid acrimony and distrust. This week, hopes for an agreement suffered another blow when Ecuador’s ambassador Luis Vayas Valdivieso resigned as...
At least 27 people have been killed in fierce clashes between Hamas security forces and armed members of the Dughmush family in Gaza City, in one of the most violent internal confrontations since the end of major Israeli operations in the enclave.Masked Hamas gunmen exchanged fire with clan fighters near the city's Jordanian hospital, witnesses said.A senior official in the...
RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) -- Virginia raised filmmaker, James Mottern, is set to screen his new documentary at Richmond's Byrd Theatre this coming Monday. The documentary, "A Beast Touch the Mountain," follows a group of Appalachian women in Bent Mountain, Va. as they fight to protect their land and way of life away from "a greedy and corrupt" fossil fuel pipeline....
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