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‘Company’ Stars Nick Nolte, Adelaide Clemens on the Film’s Power of Stillness
Casey Affleck’s directorial feature “Company,” starring Nick Nolte, Adelaide Clemens, Ben Mendelsohn, Scoot McNairy and others, has premiered in competition at the Venice Film Festival. The film explores storytelling, grief, regret and forgiveness through interconnected narratives spanning three time periods, with cast members praising Affleck’s intimate, deliberately composed direction, which relies heavily on two-shots and…
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Apple expected to unveil folding iPhone as new CEO takes center stage
Apple has unveiled the iPhone Duo, its first foldable phone and the most significant redesign of the device since the iPhone launched in 2007. The launch, at a Cupertino event titled “Surprise and Shine”, marked the public debut of John Ternus as chief executive, who took over from Tim Cook on 1 September and framed…
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Google DeepMind alumni are building tools to accelerate fusion power for the grid
Federico Felici and Jonas Buchli, both formerly of Google DeepMind, have founded Fusionality, a Lausanne-based startup building standardised control systems and simulation tools for fusion power companies. The venture responds to a gap in the emerging fusion supply chain: while some firms make reactor components and others manufacture precision parts, few specialise in the hardware…
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Apple’s foldable ‘iPhone Duo’ will reportedly start at $2,000
Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman has revealed the name of Apple’s long-rumoured foldable handset, the “iPhone Duo,” with pricing and colour details emerging just hours before Apple’s first iPhone launch event under new CEO John Ternus. The device, previously expected to be dubbed the iPhone Ultra, is reportedly set to start at $2,000, positioning it as Apple’s…
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Louis Messina, Taylor Swift’s Tour Promoter, Urges Judge to Reject Live Nation/Ticketmaster Antitrust Settlement: ‘I Could Go Out of Business Like Other Promoters Who Have Fallen Victim to Live Nation’
Louis Messina, the promoter behind Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour and other major stadium acts, has submitted a letter to the federal judge overseeing the Live Nation/Ticketmaster antitrust case, urging her to reject a proposed consent decree that would leave the company intact. Messina argues the settlement would be “a step backward” that fails to fix…
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Ex-Dem lobbyist for company that promoted addictive opioid clears key gubernatorial hurdle
Cinde Warmington won the uncontested Democratic nomination for New Hampshire governor on Tuesday evening, setting up a rematch bid against Republican incumbent Kelly Ayotte in the November general election. The nomination has renewed scrutiny of Warmington’s past legal work for Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, with the Republican Governors Association branding her connection to…
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Apple’s new CEO unveils foldable iPhone Ultra in September
Apple is set to hold its “Surprise and shine” launch event on 9 September, led for the first time by new chief executive John Ternus, with the iPhone Ultra – rumoured to be the company’s first foldable phone – expected to be the headline reveal. The event marks a notable moment for Apple, coming just…
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Caroline Bienstock, Former President/CEO of Carlin Music, Dies at 68
Caroline Bienstock, the former president and CEO of independent music publisher Carlin Music, has died in New York on 1 September after a long illness, aged 68. She led the company for decades, including through its roughly $250 million sale to Round Hill Music in 2017, and was a prominent figure in the American music…
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SteelSeries Aeon Pro Review So Far
IGN’s ongoing review of the SteelSeries Aeon Pro highlights it as one of the most advanced game controllers on the market, headlined by an “infinite battery” system borrowed from SteelSeries’s Arctis Nova Pro headsets. Rather than charging via cable, the controller uses two swappable batteries, allowing users to pop out a depleted one and replace…
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OpenAI admits it cannot exclude rivals’ research from Navier-Stokes proof
OpenAI has claimed a solution to the Navier-Stokes problem, one of the seven unsolved Millennium Prize Problems, but has been unable to fully dispel concerns that its work drew on unpublished research from a rival team. The dispute centres on New York University mathematician Tristan Buckmaster and Anthropic researcher Levent Alpöge, who published their own…