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Only 64 movies have ever hit $1 billion at the box office — here they all are
Worldwide gross: $2,343,477,301 Two weeks after its premiere in movie theaters, Cameron’s first “Avatar” sequel had already grossed more than $1 billion at the box office, a rare feat during the COVID-19 pandemic. It then became the second-fastest movie to cross $2 billion in just 39 days. While…
Ripple cofounder says California should allow Chinese EVs for low-income buyers: ‘We’re never going to make that stuff’
Chris Larsen thinks California’s low-income drivers should have access to a car they can’t legally buy today. During an interview on the podcast “On with Kara Swisher,” Larsen, the cofounder and executive chairman of Ripple, said that California should open its market to some Chinese-made electric…
The US Army is testing whether reserve drill sergeants could help train a larger force for a major war
The US Army is testing whether it could use reserve drill sergeants and other personnel to quickly expand basic training in the event that a major conflict suddenly needed training pipelines to produce far more soldiers. An experiment called Operation Wildcat Rising put dozens of Army Reserve drill…
We regret redshirting our son. Skipping a grade fixed the problem.
Redshirting my son was based on a technicality. He was born in Maryland, a state where children must be 5 before September 1st to enter kindergarten. With his late October birthday, he was ineligible on the cusp of his 5th birthday. Instead, he entered pre-K through the Montgomery County Public…
16 actors who transformed into real-life tech company CEOs and founders
Seyfried played Holmes all the way from her time at Stanford in 2003 (where she did the titular dropping out) through to the catastrophic collapse of her company Theranos in 2015, spurred by an exposé published in The Wall Street Journal, in the 2022 Hulu limited series “The Dropout.” Theranos…
This AI assistant bought me whey protein and booked a cabin for my birthday
Here’s everything that Instinct — an invitation-only AI assistant going viral among Silicon Valley tech types — has done for me over the past few days: • Booked a cabin for my birthday and made a dinner reservation. • Ordered whey protein from Costco. • Faxed (faxed!) an obscure document to my bank…
The new trailer for the OpenAI movie imagines what Sam Altman’s stash of guns and gold looks like
You no longer have to use ChatGPT to imagine what OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s so-called doomsday bunker might look like. On Tuesday, NEON, the independent studio that brought “Parasite” to North America, released the first look at Luca Guadagnino’s “Artificial,” a star-studded movie expected to explore…
This Ina Garten recipe helped me turn one easy lunch into 2 different meals I actually crave — and kept me fed all week
The soup looked pretty easy to whip up for a weekday lunch, especially for someone who works from home, like me. However, I knew just by eyeballing the ingredients — olive oil, eggplant, a yellow onion, a fennel bulb, garlic, chicken stock, crushed tomatoes, fennel seeds, dried oregano, thyme…
The first teaser for the Elon Musk documentary that Musk is mad about is here
The teaser for the new Elon Musk documentary is here — and it ends on an explosive note. Alex Gibney’s documentary about Musk premiered this week at the Venice International Film Festival. Around the same time, a 48-second teaser trailer for the upcoming film appeared on YouTube. The teaser layers…
I tested straight-leg jeans from Old Navy, Banana Republic, and Gap. One pair really blew me away.
The recipe for most fall outfits starts with a good pair of jeans. High-quality denim lasts for years and can be styled again and again with whatever the next season calls for. And although trends come and go, no fit is more versatile or reliable than a standard straight-leg jean. I was overdue for…