This Thursday (01/02), Apple presented the financial report for the first fiscal quarter of 2024 (Q1 FY 2024), a period that corresponded to the fourth calendar quarter of 2023, covering the months of October to December. Apparently, the civilized people of Europe and Japan rushed to exchange their old iPhones with Lightning for the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Pro because of USB-C. Lightning has its advantages, but Europe prefers USB-C (credit: Apple DE) Let's look at the global numbers: APPLE FINANCIAL REPORT Period → Q1 FY 2023(October to December) Q1 FY 2024(October to December) Difference Revenue US$ 117.154 billion…
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After Lisbon, pastéis de nata and Carminho's fado, Portuguese sardines also became part of the universe of “Pobres Criaturas”, the new film by filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos, which features Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo and Willem Dafoe in the cast. main event and which is already showing in Portuguese cinemas. At issue is a collaboration between Searchlight Pictures, owned by 20th Century Studios, a division of Walt Disney Studios, with the store of “O Mundo Fantástico da Sardinha Portuguesa”, a concept developed by O Valor do Tempo, a business group that owns the historic Comur cannery, founded in 1942 in Murtosa. To…
A Apple will have to allow the sideloading of apps, games and alternative stores on iPhone and iPad in European Union (HUH), in compliance with the Digital Markets Law (DMA), recently approved. What no one expected was that Apple would find a way to continue taking its share, even from external facilities, in the form of new fees. Needless to say, everyone, including big and small developers, and some heavyweights (and rivals) like Meta, Microsoft, Epic Games, Spotify and others cursed a lot on Twitter X, but the truth is that Apple can and will charge, because the DMA says…
“An Adventure on the Cattle Hill Express” is a captivating animation that chronicles the agricultural crisis on Albert the Inventor Pig's farm! Cattle Hill Farm is in crisis! No crops are growing and the gardens are all drying up, but Albert the Pig, celebrated inventor, has a revolutionary nano-technology seed that could solve the problem.Albert presents his innovative seed in his high-tech laboratory train in However, during the journey, his valuable seed is stolen. The thief is among them!Clara and Gavin will join forces with world famous detective, Agatha Chichester, to unmask the thief and secure the future of Cattle…
With “Oppenheimer” leading the Oscar race with 13 nominations, Christopher Nolan is the big favorite to win the golden statuette for Best Director. The film cost 100 million dollars, a “modest” amount when compared to the 205 for “Tenet “, the previous film, but still a very large investment for a film partially shot in black and white about the creator of the atomic bomb. Making big “blockbusters” with access to the great resources of Hollywood that don't have superheroes is a power within the reach of very few. Therefore, it is not foreseeable a return to independent cinema for…
Action film “Beekeeper” reached the top of the North American box office on a slow winter weekend, with estimated grosses of $7.4 million, industry watcher Exhibitor Relations revealed.”'Beekeeper' is “Beekeeper” is the stuff of a saga,” praised analyst David A. Gross of Franchise Entertainment Research. According to his predictions, the film, which was made with a budget of 40 million and in just the third week of release, could gross 150 million worldwide.The tough Jason Statham plays the beekeeper (“Beekeeper”) in question, a former commando seeking revenge against a criminal group whose cruel scams led to the suicide of their…
In a statement, the Municipal Council of Maia, in the district of Porto, announced that the call for admissions of works in “various categories, including fiction, documentary and animation feature films is open”. The festival, which will take place at Cinema Venepor , is open to filmmakers from all over the world, and submissions must be made by March 24th, through the festival's official website www.maiaiff.com.
It's January 6, 2025, and the President of the United States watches, horrified, as his rival, defeated by a small margin, calls on the Armed Forces to help him reverse the result of a “fraudulent” election. The scene is from “War Game”, a new documentary released on Tuesday (23) at the Sundance Film Festival. The work features real former employees of the American government, as well as the Army, in a kind of RPG without an argument that recreates another eventual assault on the United States Capitol. For its filmmakers, the scenario is far from absurd, as it evokes the…
Norman Jewison, director of the romantic comedy “The Moon Spell” and the racial drama “In the Heat of the Night”, among others, has died at the age of 97, his press officer said on Monday (22). peacefully on Saturday, January 20, 2024, at his home”, declared Jeff Sanderson in a note sent to AFP. “His legacy will endure through his timeless films and the countless people and organizations he has inspired and will continue to inspire generations”, reacted the Canadian Cinematographic Center, which he founded in 1986. His films, including “Fiddler on the Roof” (1971) and “The Russians Are Coming,…
A recent statement from China left the Apple in trouble, again: Beijing government authorities have been using an advanced encryption-breaking tool, aimed at removing the anonymity of users of the AirDrop, the proprietary protocol for sharing content via Wi-Fi, present on iPhones, iPads, Macs, and other Apple devices. The method, aimed at identifying those who share subversive content (read criticism of the government and Prime Minister and General Secretary Xi Jinping), uses a flaw known to security professionals since 2019, which Apple was alerted to, but never corrected. Chinese authorities use AirDrop flaw to identify those who share subversive content…