The 40th anniversary 4K-cut of Stop Making Sense continues to make a lot of cents. In the wake of the Talking Heads A24 re-release racking up the biggest grossing Imax live event ever with close to $641K, we’re hearing that showtimes for this weekend’s Imax run are already selling out. Move over, Barbie (which is getting her first release in Imax this Friday for one week), because you’re going to have to contend with the Talking Heads in the house, not Ken. Originally the re-release of the 1984 Jonathan Demme concert film was bound to run in around 150 Imax…
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WASHINGTON — Maxar Technologies, a space technology firm that operates imaging satellites and manufactures spacecraft, has reorganized and eliminated executive positions, the company confirmed Sept. 20 The restructuring comes less than five months after Maxar, previously a publicly traded company, was acquired by the private equity firm Advent International in a $6.4 billion deal. Maxar is being restructured as two separate businesses: Maxar Space Infrastructure and Maxar Intelligence, a spokesperson told SpaceNews. Chris Johnson, who runs Maxar’s satellite manufacturing operations, was named CEO of Maxar Space Infrastructure. Daniel Jablonsky, who had been president and CEO of Maxar Technologies since 2019,…
iPhone 15 series went official last week with significant upgrades in design as well as specifications. The lightning port that Apple has kept in its iPhone models since the iPhone 5 was replaced by a USB Type-C port this year. Besides this, the Cupertino-based company is reportedly using new battery settings for the latest lineup. With this feature, iPhone 15, iPhone 15 Plus, iPhone 15 Pro, and iPhone 15 Pro Max users will be able to limit the battery charge percentage to maximise battery lifespan. This setting could maximise battery health by lowering the maximum battery charge level to 80 percent…
Rudolph Giuliani speaks to reporters at the White House in Washington, D.C., July 1, 2020.Kevin Lemarque | ReutersFormer White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson in a new book says ex-President Donald Trump’s then-lawyer Rudy Giuliani groped her on Jan. 6, 2021, The Guardian reported Wednesday.Hutchinson writes that Giuliani — who is 52 years older than her — put his hand “under my blazer, then my skirt” on that day, according to the report.The alleged incident occurred behind a rally stage near the White House shortly before Trump encouraged a crowd of supporters to march to the U.S. Capitol to protest the…
NewsPeso Pluma’s Tijuana Concert Canceled Following Cartel Threat“Our goal is to protect the fans and the team,” the artist’s labels said in a statement, who noted the decision was made “for the safety of everyone involved”By Evan MinskerSeptember 20, 2023FacebookXPeso Pluma (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)FacebookXPeso Pluma’s planned October 14 concert at Estadio Caliente in Tijuana has been canceled after the singer faced death threats from alleged members of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel. “Our goal is to protect the fans and the team,” a statement from Peso Pluma’s labels Double P Records and Prajin Music Group posted to Instagram reads. “For…
Members of the Writers Guild of America (WGA) and the Screen Actors Guild walk the picket line outside of Fox Studios in Los Angeles, California, on August 9, 2023. Film and TV production ground to a halt 100 days ago when writers downed their pens, only to be joined on the picket lines in mid-July by actors. Chris Delmas | Afp | Getty ImagesWriters and producers are near an agreement to end the Writers Guild of America strike after meeting face to face on Wednesday, people close to the negotiations told CNBC.The two sides met and hope to finalize a deal…
Taylor Swift and Sophie Turner’s surprise night out may have had the internet talking, but privately, the two women have actually been friends for some time, a source told Entertainment Tonight. “[They] have always liked and respected each other,” the source said. “They are fans of each other and have been friends for a while. Sophie doesn’t care that Taylor dated Joe [Jonas, Turner’s soon-to-be ex-husband]. It was so long ago and in the past. Taylor has a good time when she’s with Sophie, and they enjoyed some fun girl time together last night.”Swift out in New York City on…
Masterchef has crowned its new winner! The focus of Masterchef Season 13 has revolved around different regions of the USA competing against each other in hopes of determining which one would come out on top. And with Grant Gillon’s crowning achievement, wowing the judges and winning our hearts, it’s safe to say that Midwest is, in fact, the best! To recount things, Grant, Kennedy, and Jennifer made the top three, and they were tasked with creating a full three-course meal comprised of an appetizer, entree, and dessert that embodies who they are and where they come from. The top three…
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Since Roe v Wade was repealed in the summer of 2022, those of us who believe in bodily autonomy have been reeling from the cascade of increasingly bad news about reproductive justice in America, as the rights of people who bear children are picked off state by state. We are fighting—and we need help, not just from lawmakers but from history and literature and art. We need community. I find solidarity in, and draw inspiration from, the stories of fighters who have gone before me and those who are in the thick of the fight today. This is one of the reasons…
Chinese electric vehicle maker Nio launches a smartphone at an event in Shanghai on Sept. 21, 2023.Evelyn Cheng | CNBCSHANGHAI — Chinese electric car brand Nio on Thursday released an Android smartphone, which the company expects at least half its users to buy, CEO William Li told CNBC in an exclusive interview ahead of the launch.The phone, priced from around $900 to $1,000, is an Android device that’s about $150 cheaper versus a comparable Huawei phone, Li said in Mandarin.He told CNBC that among Nio users from which the company makes a profit, more than half are iPhone users, while…
Covid-19 home test kits are pictured in a store window during the Covid-19 pandemic in the Manhattan borough of New York City, Jan. 19, 2022.Carlo Allegri | ReutersThe Biden administration on Wednesday said it will resume offering free at-home Covid tests to American households Monday as the virus gains a stronger foothold nationwide. Americans will soon be able to use COVIDtests.gov to request four free tests, the administration said in a release. The government had offered free test kits through that website since January 2022, but the site stopped taking orders June 1 to conserve supplies of the tests. The government is relaunching…
Mirror image: artistic illustration of an Alice ring, which researchers have just observed for the first time in nature. (Courtesy: Heikka Valja/Aalto University) In Lewis Carroll’s novel, Through the Looking-Glass, Alice encounters a mirror-like portal to a world where rules of reality are reversed. In the 1980s, the story inspired the name for a ring-like vortex, which is predicted to emerge as monopoles decay. This “Alice ring†then flips the charges of any other monopoles that pass through it. Now, for the first time, these Alice rings have been observed in the lab by researchers in the US and Finland.…
On another sleepy autumn weekend at the box office when actors can’t promote their movies due to the strikes, Millennium Media and Lionsgate are rolling out the latest in their long-in-the-tooth Sylvester Stallone-Jason Statham franchise, Expendables 4, to a weekend take between $15 million-$17 million. That range is right around where 2014’s Expendables 3 opened –$15.8M– and not far from where Stallone’s last Rambo film resided pre-pandemic, 2019’s Rambo: Last Blood, which bowed to $18.8M. Expendables 3 ended its stateside run at $39.3M while Rambo: Last Blood finaled at $44.8M. Guys over 25 are the grab with the fourth movie…
KIHEI, Hawaii — The Federal Communications Commission is requiring more operators of satellite constellations to work with astronomers to minimize the effects their satellites will have on ground-based astronomy. The FCC issued authorizations Aug. 31 to Iceye and Planet, updating their licenses to add new satellites. Iceye, which operates a constellation of synthetic aperture radar imaging satellites, added eight satellites to its license, while Planet added seven of its upcoming Pelican high-resolution imaging satellites to its constellation. Both licenses now include provisions requiring the companies to coordinate with the National Science Foundation (NSF) “to achieve a mutually acceptable agreement to…
OnePlus Open — the first foldable smartphone from OnePlus might go official soon. OnePlus, during an event on Wednesday (September 20), announced that its first-ever foldable smartphone will be launched soon without confirming the moniker. The date is also yet to be officially confirmed by the brand, but a fresh leak suggests that the OnePlus Open will go official on October 19. The OnePlus Open is expected to run on an octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC, paired with 16GB of RAM and 256GB of inbuilt storage.OnePlus, during the TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 event in San Francisco, California, confirmed that its first-ever foldable…
U.S. President Joe Biden lholds a bilateral meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the sidelines of the 78th U.N. General Assembly in New York City, U.S., September 20, 2023. Kevin Lamarque | ReutersPresident Joe Biden met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the sidelines of the United Nations summit Wednesday and agreed to work toward establishing diplomatic relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel.The meeting marked the first time the two leaders have met since Netanyahu returned to power nine months ago. Israel and Saudi Arabia currently do not have official diplomatic relations. The president’s aim entering the meeting…
Ariana Grande and Dalton Gomez are well on their way to finalizing their divorce, with only a few more details to hammer out, and we’ve got their full filings to check out. TMZ broke the story, Ariana filed for divorce from Gomez Monday, and he filed his response almost immediately. Our sources said Ariana and Dalton have been super cordial through their divorce proceedings, working with care and respect behind the scenes to make sure most things were sorted out before actually filing the documents. Ariana notes the two have a prenup in her filing, writing, “There are additional separate…