Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has donated $50 million to St. Judge’s Children’s Research Hospital.
Musk announced shortly after SpaceX made a successful launch. On Twitter, the CEO said “Count me in for $50M”. With his donation, St. Judge was able to raise over $200 million.
Other donations came from tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman, who donated $100 million, and $60 million raise from other donations from the public.
HBO Max is not longer going to be available on Amazon Prime after WarnerMedia cut off Amazon users from the service.
After cutting off Amazon users, HBO Max has slashed its price to $7.49, almost half of its normal $14.99 a month price. WarnerMedia is competing with Amazon Prime since Amazon charges $8.99.
HBO Max is expected to lose 5 million subscribers from the Amazon Prime cutoff. WarnerMedia is owned by AT&T.
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Tim Cook is about to get $750 million richer… at least on paper.
The Apple CEO is set to get the final installment of his agreement he signed with Apple 10 years ago. The payout is in stocks: 5 million shares of Apple shares that is.
With this installment, Cook will see his network exceed $1.5 billion. The New York Post is reporting that part of the installment is a reward for Apple’s stock performing so well.
According to the Post as well, Cook’s tenure as CEO has seen Apple’s revenue more than double.
Olivia Rodrigo, the star of Disney Plus’s High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, released a popular song that is eerily familiar to Paramore’s “Misery Business.”
Rodrigo has now given writing credit to Paramore’s singer Hayley Williams and Joshua Farro, co-writers of “Misery Business.” “Good 4 U” debuted at number 1 and stayed in the top 5 since May.
The similarities between the two songs were so apparent that it became a trend on TikTok to dance to a mashup of the two songs.
It is not uncommon for songs to give credit to writers after a song is released.
Emma Stone has renegotiated her Disney deal for a Cruella sequel.
Deadline is reporting that the Disney star has been granted a significant raise for the sequel. According to the report, Stone was paid $8 million for the first Cruella film and will receive “8 figures range.”
Stone had been rumored to sue Disney over her contract and follow the steps that Scarlett Johansson. Johansson is suing Disney for “breach of contract” as they did not give Black Widow an exclusive theatrical release or give her a percentage of the streaming revenue.
The deal with Disney is reported to be a “win/win” for both sides.
In an attempt to fight child porn and child trafficking, Apple announced a new program that will scan iCloud photos for “flagged” for child porn and missing children.
According to the New York Post, Apple plans to use the database at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to help find photos of missing children. Google, Microsoft, and other tech companies currently scan photos uploaded to their server, but Apple has not until now.
With this announcement, many commentators came out to wonder how long it will take for the government to force Apple to use this tool to peer into users phones for more incriminating content. Apple has refuted these claims on their website.
“We have faced demands to build and deploy government-mandated changes that degrade the privacy of users before, and have steadfastly refused those demands,” Apple wrote. “We will continue to refuse them in the future.”
The first round of this program will only scan content uploaded to iCloud but Apple does plan to expand that to “on device content as well.
During this process, Apple would scan iCloud photos and attempt to match them to photos in the database. Should a match be found, local authorities will be notified.
Those who oppose this new service say that Apple should create a tool to be able to report abusive content to Apple as opposed to scanning users devices. No word on if users would be able to opt out of this new service.
COMMENTARY: Here is the only problem I have: Where will this stop. I am 100% for Apple creating tools to help stop child porn from being distributed and to fight human trafficking, but will it stop at just this?
What is stopping Apple from going a few steps further and scanning users text messages for select words like “vaccine” or “Mask”? Will Apple be able to scan photos on their iClouds for users gun collections?
And let us take a second to think about the possibility of an Apple employee being able to hack the system to scan for users private, intimate, and maybe even consenting sexual content on their iCloud and saving them to their personal devices. We had a case not that long ago of Twitter employees hacking into users DMs and saving said content to their devices. While Twitter denied these allegations, it isn’t improbable to assume this could happen.
All in all, I would like to hope that Apple would not abuse this tool in the future.
WarnerMedia’s Suicide Squad has a less than stellar opening weekend at the box office.
The DC Comics film stars Idris Alba, Margo Robbie, and John Cena raked in $26.5 million in box office sales. The projected number from the studio was $30 million. While the revenue is not a total flop, it definitely is not what they were looking for.
For the record, WarnerMedia has committed all theatrical releases to their HBO MAX streaming service as well and those numbers are not reported.
Ryan Reynolds could be gearing up to make HUNDREDS of MILLIONS of dollars should Mint Mobile pull the trigger on a potential sale.
The Deadpool actor acquired somewhere between 20-25% of Mint Mobile in 2019 when he became a spokesperson for the brand. Now, the company is looking at a sale rumored to be worth $800 million.
The New York Post reports that Mint Mobile has grown its social media followers to 38 million on Instagram and 18 million on Twitter. This is credited to Reynolds.
Mint’s possible new owner? Altice USA, which owns cable outlets, phone, internet and wireless services as well. Altice USA’s CEO said on an earnings call that they are “looking at being more aggressive on the mobile side.”
Mint Mobile was started in 2016 in California. The company uses the T-Mobile network for their services. According to the New York Post, Mint Mobile has seen revenue grow 50,000% between 2017 and 2020.