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'The Marvels' bombs with worst MCU opening yet
Boing Boing,
The age of superhero movies is over. 'The Marvels,' already perceived as the MCU's Hail Mary, failed to crack $48m on its opening weekend. With a $274.8m official budget (and much more spent on marketing), it is all but doomed to be the fall movie season's biggest bomb. — Read the rest
Secret Service protecting Biden's granddaughter open fire outside her home
Secret Service agents protecting President Biden's 29-year-old granddaughter, Naomi Biden, shot at 2–3 suspects trying to break into a Secret Service SUV. Nobody had been inside the SUV — which was parked outside of her Georgetown home — when the Secret Service opened fire, and the suspects fled the scene. — Read the rest
British premier fires interior minister who stoked far-right violence on Remembrance Day
Suella Braverman, Britain's interior minister, is out of a job after disobeying Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and publicly encouraging far-right rioters who attacked police on Remembrance Day. Braverman published an "incendiary" op-ed accusing police of political bias and demanding that they ban a planned march in London in support of Palestinians; police, however, have no such power and the article was perceived as a call to arms for counter-protestors. — Read the rest
More from the US v Google trial: Vertical search, pre-installs and the case of Firefox/Yahoo
TechCrunch,
We’re nearly two months into the Justice Department’s landmark antitrust case against Google — one of the biggest fights in tech antitrust since the U.S. took Microsoft to trial in the 1990s — and the revelations just keep getting juicier. In our last roundup, we learned how Google spent $26.3 billion in 2021 making itself […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Dating app Hatched brings its hidden profile concept to the East Coast, launches new paid features
Sometimes, online dating isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Hatched wants to scramble it up with its unique gamified user experience. Instead of using profile pictures, the dating app shows potential matches depicted as eggs, and the only way to see what they look like is by answering personality-driven questions, slowly opening the shell. […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Interplay secures $45M for third fund focused on B2B marketplaces, vertical software
Mark Peter Davis, Interplay founder and managing partner, says the firm stands out with its outsized value proposition relative to its check size. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Attorney Sarah Gad is officially launching a primary campaign against Ilhan Omar
Politico,
All The Marvels Easter eggs and references explained
AV Club,
For better or worse, a certain level of fluency in the ever-expanding tapestry of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is required by The Marvels. While the film—which brings together Captain Marvel’s Carol Danvers (Brie Larson), WandaVision’s Monica Rambeau (Teyonah Parris), and Ms. Marvel’s Kamala Khan (Iman Vellani)—fills… Read more...