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Apple’s F1 movie crosses $500 million at global box office

The F1 movie continues its hot streak at cinemas, with the film still widely resonating with audience a month after its theatrical premiere. The Apple Original Film has now crossed the $500 million mark at the global box office, with the running total now standing around $509 million. F1: The Movie will eventually land on Apple TV+, likely in October. But Apple and distributor Warner Bros. have little incentive to hurry along the secondary release windows if the cinema takings remain as strong

‘Wizard of Oz’ blown up by AI for giant Sphere screen

In Brief The massive Las Vegas venue known as Sphere will be screening its first classic movie, “The Wizard of Oz,” starting on August 28. And as detailed in a segment on CBS Sunday Morning, this isn’t just a matter of taking the existing movie and projecting it on Sphere’s 160,000 square foot, wraparound LED screen. Instead, Sphere Entertainment CEO James Dolan said a 2,000-person team is creating a new experience. That includes using AI to both increase the resolution of the existing film an

Open Channel: What’d You Think ‘Fantastic Four: First Steps’?

Nearly five full years after Marvel Studios first planted its flag and announced it was coming, the Fantastic Four finally made their MCU debut this weekend. Given the last tries at bringing these heroes to the big screen, and how Marvel treated those characters back when it didn’t own them, it seemed there wasn’t really anywhere for the Four to go but up. But things have changed in the past five years, and now there’s more pressure than ever for them to stick the landing, particularly since thi

Millet mystery: A staple crop failed to take root in ancient Japanese kitchens

This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Yayoi pottery confirm that both crops were present in early farming settlements in Northern Kyushu. Credit: Fukuoka City Education Board New research into ancient Japanese rice farming suggests that significant technological development does not always mean the abandonment of cultural practices, particularly culinar

EE says latest outage fixed after 'technical fault'

EE says latest outage fixed after 'technical fault' EE says it carried out further work overnight to fix a technical problem which left some customers unable to make or receive calls. In the last 24 hours, hundreds of people who use the mobile provider have told the BBC they have experienced service issues. It comes after thousands were left unable to make or receive calls earlier this week due to a technical issue which impacted both mobile and landline phones. On Saturday, a spokesperson f

Post SMTP plugin flaw exposes 200K WordPress sites to hijacking attacks

More than 200,000 WordPress websites are using a vulnerable version of the Post SMTP plugin that allows hackers to take control of the administrator account. Post SMTP is a popular email delivery plugin for WordPress that counts more than 400,000 active installations. It’s marketed as a replacement of the default ‘wp_mail()’ function that is more reliable and feature-rich. On May 23, a security researcher reported the vulnerability to WordPress security firm PatchStack. The flaw is now identif

Arvo Pärt at 90

In many ways Arvo Pärt and John Williams’s music couldn’t be further apart. One celebrates simplicity, purity, and draws much of its inspiration from sacred texts; the other captures strong emotions in sweeping orchestral scores. And yet the two men are today’s most performed contemporary composers. Bachtrack’s annual survey of classical music performed across the world placed Pärt second (John Williams is in the top spot) in 2023 and 2024. In 2022, Pärt was first, Williams second. This year, Pä

The Sail instruction-set semantics specification language

Implicit parameters are always integers, and they must appear first before any other parameters in the function type signature. The first argument can then just be omitted when calling the function, like so: Functions may also have implicit parameters, e.g. we can implement a zero extension function that implicitly picks up its result length from the calling context as follows: Sail will also ensure that the output of our function has precisely the length bits('n * 'm) for all possible inputs

What went wrong for Yahoo

Reddit calls itself the front page of the Internet. But for a good decade or even a decade and a half, Yahoo had as legitimate of a claim as any to the title of front page of the Internet. On July 25, 2016, Yahoo met an inglorious end as an independent company, selling out to Verizon for $4.8 billion. That makes today as good of a day as any to look at what happened to Yahoo, the first front page of the Internet. How far Yahoo fell At the time, Forbes called it the saddest $5 billion deal in t

Best 3D Printing Filament and Which to Buy in 2025

CNET staff -- not advertisers, partners or business interests -- determine how we review products and services. If you buy through our links, we may earn a commission. There are plenty of great reasons to pick up a 3D printer, but it's important to find a filament that works for you. Choosing the wrong filament will lead to clogs, a stringy printing process and ultimately having to start all over again. Filament is the material used for FDM 3D printing, and there's certainly no shortage of opti

The 21 Best Movies on Amazon Prime Right Now (August 2025)

In Recent years, Netflix and Apple TV+ have been duking it out to have the most prestigious film offerings, but some of the best movies are on Amazon Prime Video. The streamer was one of the first to go around picking up film festival darlings and other lovable favorites, and those movies are all still there in the library, so if they flew under your radar the first time, now is the perfect time to catch up. Our picks for the best movies on Amazon Prime are below. All the films in our guide are

Best Breast Pumps (2025): Wearable, Portable, Easy to Clean

Honorable Mentions Elvie Pump for $550: The Elvie worked just fine, but it didn’t do anything cool enough to warrant such a high price tag. I saw the same results as I had with cheaper pumps, and it didn’t have as many cool features as the similarly priced Willow 3.0. The timer feature is nice, though, as are the fridge- and freezer-ready bottles attached to the wearable pump. Medela Pump In Style for $209: This famed pump has great strength and is easy to use, but it’s not portable. We are ex

Tesla vet says that ‘reviewing real products’ — not mockups — is the key to staying innovative

GM’s EVs have been on a roll lately. After selling just the Chevy Bolt for years, a wave of new models — now up to 17 fully electrified vehicles — has pushed the automaker into second place in the U.S. behind Tesla. How did it get there? With a little help from a Tesla veteran. GM board member Jon McNeil was president of Tesla during the development and introduction of the Model 3, a crucial period of the company’s growth. One of the things he credits for Tesla’s success is how Elon Musk ran p

I Can't Stop Recommending This Window AC to Anyone Struggling to Survive Summer Heat Waves

CNET's key takeaways The Windmill AC normally costs $349 for 6,000 BTUs, but you can often find it on sale on Windmill's website Amazon Home Depot Not only is the Windmill AC the easiest unit I've ever installed, it's the only AC unit I've tried that effectively kept my older and not well-insulated home cool during a heat wave. Bonus: It's actually stylish. Although, I still would have paid for an ugly one that works. Its normal price is higher than some other window AC units, but I've paid

Meta announces its Superintelligence Labs Chief Scientist: former OpenAI GPT-4 co-creator Shengjia Zhao

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Meta has appointed Shengjia Zhao, a former OpenAI researcher and co‑creator of GPT‑4, as the Chief Scientist of its newly created Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL). The announcement was made Friday by Mark Zuckerberg on Threads, noting Zhao will lead the lab’s scientific agenda alongside him and Alexandr Wang, the former CEO of Scale AI wh

‘Predator: Killer of Killers’ Gets an Extended Ending Tonight

Predator: Killer of Killers ended with a tease of where the franchise could go next, and as it turns out, that’s not the full ending. After Torres and Kenji escape from the Grendel King, we see Yautja cart a cryogenically frozen Ursa away into a collection of prisoners. One of them is is Naru, the protagonist of 2022’s Prey played by Amber Midthunder. During the Predator: Badlands panel for San Diego Comic-Con, the Killers ending was shown, further revealing that Dutch (Arnold Schwarzenegger) a

‘Predator: Badlands’ Just Feasted on Its Comic-Con Audience

After the new Predator: Badlands trailer Fox released earlier this week, a Hall H panel at San Diego Comic-Con seemed unnecessary. That trailer had incredible action, massive creatures, super high-tech weapons, and Elle Fanning as an android being worn as a backpack. We are fully seated. What more could a fan of the franchise want? Well, apparently, a lot more, as Badlands director Dan Trachtenberg was joined by Fanning and others to show fans even more from their November 7 film. Fifteen minut

Vince Gilligan’s New Apple TV+ Sci-Fi Show Is Coming Real Soon

Amid all the hubbub of San Diego Comic-Con weekend, Apple TV finally unveiled its new sci-fi drama series, Pluribus, created by Breaking Bad creator and Better Call Saul co-creator Vince Gilligan. Although Pluribus is Gilligan’s first venture into sci-fi, it will feature a familiar face: Rhea Seehorn from Better Call Saul. Apple TV’s press release for Pluribus, like its teaser poster, doesn’t reveal much about the show in terms of what viewers can expect from its story, aside from Gilligan’s na

Starlink kept me connected to the Internet without fail—until Thursday

A rare global interruption in the Starlink satellite Internet network knocked subscribers offline for more than two hours on Thursday, the longest widespread outage since SpaceX opened the service to consumers nearly five years ago. The outage affected civilian and military users, creating an inconvenience for many but cutting off a critical lifeline for those who rely on Starlink for military operations, health care, and other applications. Michael Nicolls, SpaceX's vice president of Starlink

India bans streaming apps you’ve never heard of — but millions watch

India has ordered the blocking of 25 streaming services — many with millions of viewers and even paying subscribers — for allegedly promoting “obscene” content, in one of the South Asian nation’s biggest digital crackdowns yet. The order affects lesser-known, but wildly popular services like Ullu and ALTT that cater to the country’s mass-market appetite for adult and edgy entertainment. This week, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting issued directives to block access to websites and app

Cricket Wireless Debuts Prepaid Plans Starting at $35

Cricket Wireless has revamped its prepaid plans to trim prices and offer more perks, including hotspot data and bundled extras like streaming services. Cricket, owned by AT&T, competes with prepaid providers from other carriers like Verizon's Visible, T-Mobile's Mint Mobile and Dish's Boost Mobile. Cricket has trimmed its offerings down to four plans (from five) and dropped prices on all of them. Cricket's cheapest plan, called Sensible 10GB, is still $30 per month if set up with autopay (or $

A Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern combination would redraw the railroad map

Combining Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern into the first transcontinental railroad in the U.S. would create a 52,215-mile colossus that could offer seamless service from coast to coast, bypassing longtime interchange choke points in Chicago and at gateways along the Mississippi River. The two railroads confirmed today that they are in advanced merger discussions. The talks, they said, may not result in a deal. Plus, there’s the potential for a bidding war if BNSF Railway, UP’s Western rival,

Samsung's Galaxy Z Flip 7 and Fold 7 Are Available Now. Here's How to Buy

Our expert, award-winning staff selects the products we cover and rigorously researches and tests our top picks. If you buy through our links, we may get a commission. How we test phones Samsung's Galaxy Z Flip 7 and Fold 7 Are Available Now. Here's How to Buy You can still score trade-in offers to knock down the price.