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Do you miss the tiles of the Windows Phone or the curves of HTC’s mobile range? The Department of Justice claims you have Apple to thank for their disappearance. Just this week, the DOJ announced it would be suing Apple for operating with an illegal monopoly. In the court documents, when trying to substantiate the damage done by Apple’s market practices, it claims “many prominent, well-financed companies have tried and failed to successfully enter the relevant markets because of these entry barriers.” When looking at the…

I didn’t expect Steve Martin to be funny. Sure, it was his skewwhiff sensibility that made The Jerk, The Man With Two Brains, LA Story and Bowfinger so deliriously inspired. And he was comedy’s first double-platinum-record-selling, stadium-touring megastar; he began wearing a white suit on stage only so that he could be seen by fans in the cheap seats several postcodes away. He crafted riotous slapstick crescendos in All of Me and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and displayed a literary flair even at his silliest. No one who has…

Warner Bros. Games remains undeterred by the sub-par critical and commercial performance of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League and plans to further lean into the live service model for its games going forward. J.B. Perrette, CEO and President, Global Streaming and Games at Warner Bros. Discovery, laid out the company's games strategy at a recent Morgan Stanley speaking event, reiterating the studio's intentions to invest more in 'games as a service' model, free-to-play games and mobile titles, and expressing doubts…

When you look at Dave Bautista, the last thing you think of is failure. Even if he wasn’t a former wrestling superstar turned mega movie star, if you saw this tall, muscular, tattoo-covered man walking down the street, you’d instantly think he’s got it figured out. But in Dune: Part Two, Bautista’s character doesn’t have anything figured out. And the actor loves him for it.Working With Recasted CharactersOnce again, Bautista is Glossu Rabban Harkonnen, nephew of Baron Harkonnen and the new lord of Arrakis... having…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Cuts to fire protection funding initially have a larger effect on home prices than crime, school quality, or environmental quality, but the short-term decreases don't persist, the University of Cincinnati economists found. David Brasington, Ph.D., and Olivier Parent, Ph.D., professors of economics at UC's Carl H.…

Food-delivery giant Zomato is venturing into the direct-to-consumer (D2C) space with its quick commerce platform Blinkit. Details on this and more in today’s ETtech Morning Dispatch. Also in the letter:■ Snap India MD Pulkit Trivedi interview■ Aroa Venture launches Rs 400 crore fund■ NPCI MD on fintech’s next, big thingZomato plans for Blinkit to deliver more via ecommerce Gurugram-based Zomato is exploring a significant play in the direct-to-consumer (D2C) space through its quick-commerce firm Blinkit and could find…

Byju's investors have raised red flags over the management's failure to recover about Rs 1,400 crore from a Dubai-based reseller, More Ideas General Trading LLC, while paying out Rs 300 crore in sales commissions at a time when the debt-laden edtech firm is battling a severe fund crunch. Byju’s has, however, disputed the investors’ claim.In an Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) notice, a copy of which ET has reviewed, the investors said the company's value has eroded due to the management's neglect in enforcing its legal…

If someone is already suffering from heart failure, they certainly shouldn't have to deal with a serious infection on top of that. A new type of electrical wire, designed for powering implanted heart pumps, could help keep that from happening.When a heart failure patient is on the waiting list for a donor heart, it's not uncommon for them to receive an implanted electric pump that keeps their existing heart beating normally until it can be replaced. That pump is powered by a connected battery, which is worn on the outside…

Actress and standup comedian Kate Berlant is always sure to remind people she didn’t get where she is by taking classes. “I was rejected from acting school,” she tells Rolling Stone. “I have no formal training.” But her one-woman show, Kate, which came to Los Angeles last month (well, technically Pasadena) after previous runs in New York and London, is deeply concerned with questions of artistic lies and emotional truth. It’s also brutally funny. “It’s my favorite place the show has been,” Berlant says of the…

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