Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter: Pixar’s tentpole earned a massive $62 million on Friday, well ahead of expectations and putting the movie on course to open in the $140 million to $150 million range domestically over Father’s Day weekend, one of the top three starts ever for an animated film and the second-best for Pixar....

Kyodo News: Japan’s parliament enacted Wednesday a law to promote competition in smartphone app stores by restricting tech giants Apple Inc. and Google LLC from limiting third-party companies from selling and operating apps on their platforms. The law will prohibit the providers of Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android smartphone operating...

Ken Kocienda, who was Humane’s head of product engineering, has left the company. his Twitter bio and LinkedIn profile both state “working on something new”: Working on something new. Past: Humane, 15 years at , inventor of iPhone autocorrect, author of “Creative Selection” Kocienda’s book Creative Selection is one of the best insider...

This listing for a vintage Samsung VR400G VHS VCR doesn’t state what year it came out, but it’s a pretty safe bet it was after May 6, 1998.  ★ 

Recorded in front of a live (and lively) audience at The California Theatre in San Jose Tuesday evening, special guests John Giannandrea, Craig Federighi, and Greg Joswiak join me to discuss Apple’s announcements at WWDC 2024. 3D video with spatial audio: Exclusively in Sandwich Vision’s Theater app on Vision Pro, available on the App Store....

Wayne Ma, reporting for The Information: Neither Apple nor OpenAI are paying each other to integrate ChatGPT into the iPhone, according to a person with knowledge of the deal. Instead, OpenAI hopes greater exposure on iPhones will help it sell a paid version of ChatGPT, which costs around $20 a month for individuals. Apple would take...