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Among the star-studded actors involved in James Cameron’s Avatar sequels, many believed over the past few years that Vin Diesel would be one of those actors. The Fast and Furious star previously hinted that it was “safe to say” him and the visionary filmmaker would be working together after sharing a video of himself and Cameron on the set of an Avatar film back in 2019. But as it turns out, Diesel is not set to play a character in upcoming Avatar movies, per one of the movies’ producers. When Jon Landau, who produced…

Photo: Drew Angerer (Getty Images)The Federal Election Commission has decided to throw out a baseless GOP complaint accusing Google of unfairly sending Republican campaign emails to users’ Gmail spam more often than Democratic emails for alleged political gain. It turns out—as anyone with an email can attest—Republican campaignemails actually generally just read like annoying spam!In its complaint filed to the FEC, the Republican National Committee, National Republican Senatorial Committee, and National Republican…

The foldable smartphone market is growing steadily, and market research firm TrendForce estimates that OEMs will ship a combined 18.5 million foldable phones this year, up from 12.8 million in 2022. Samsung has an 82% market share and will maintain the lead in 2023. The company will also continue to dictate the tone of foldable hinge designs in 2023 and may continue to develop U-shaped hinges for several reasons. The foldable phone hinge market has become huge, and market watchers estimate that the value of this segment…

Never rely on external resources to do your fundraising for you Occasionally, in my role as a consultant, I am approached by companies that have a plan in place for their fundraising that doesn’t involve the CEO or a member of the founding team running point on the fundraising process. From one perspective, I can understand that: VC fundraising does, from the outside, look a lot like sales, and if you have a good salesperson, why not let them do what they do best? The issue is that…

Photo: Carlo Allegri (Getty Images)He’s created the music of Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Harry Potter, Jurassic Park, and so much more. And yet, despite his previous thoughts to the contrary, the 90-years-young composer John Wiliams thinks he might have a few more songs in him.While Williams may have initially thought he would be retiring after creating the score to Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, he seems to have changed his mind, in no small part to his frequent collaborator Steven Spielberg. “I’ll stick around for…

The future looked bright to all parties when Alphabet Inc.’s Google joined with Facebook Inc. and a Hong Kong partner in 2016 to build an 8,000-mile-long undersea fiber-optic-cable line connecting Los Angeles to Hong Kong on an information highway between superpowers.But the project didn’t go as planned. The Trump administration nixed the application for U.S. approval, citing security concerns. Then the tech giants went their own way, routing their pieces of the…

Filmmaker James Gunn, who earlier removed Henry Cavill as Superman, has taken the air out of fanboy reports that `Euphoria` actor Jacob Elordi is rumoured to play Superman in the filmmaker`s early-days iteration of the `Man of Steel`. Gunn, who is the co-boss at DC, broke the news on Twitter, reports `Deadline`. He tweeted, "My thoughts are that no one has been cast as Superman yet." "Casting, as is almost always the case with me, will happen after the script is finished or close to finished, and it isn`t. We`ll…

Singapore's Minister for Health Ong Ye Kung told Parliament Monday that the government is not imposing new restrictions on travelers from China because limited flight capacity, combined with its current border policies, have resulted in few imported cases — and even fewer severe cases — coming from China.Ong said the government is "acutely aware" that some Singaporeans are worried that an influx of visitors from China could lead to a rise in infections.But he said travel volumes between Singapore and China are "very low"…

Bill Gates has said that he doesn’t think the metaverse has been “revolutionary” in the way he claims AI will be, and revealed that his code hasn’t been shipped with a Microsoft product since 1985. The Microsoft founder’s comments were made during a Reddit Q&A yesterday (January 11), where he fielded questions ranging from his favourite band (U2) to climate change. Responding to one question, which asked if there was any “mammoth technology shift” akin to the Internet on the horizon, Gates answered that AI fits…

Photo: Marijan Murat/picture-alliance/dpa (AP)The U.S. government is not considering banning gas stoves, a consumer safety agency said, days after one of its commissioners suggested to the press that a ban could be on the table.In a statement issued on Twitter Tuesday, the chair of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, Alexander Hoehn-Saric, said that while the Commission is researching the impact of gas stoves and working to make the appliances safer, it has no plans to ban them outright.“Research indicates that…