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Original title: ‘Call of Duty’ Coming to Theaters as Paramount, Activision Strike Major Film Deal In a move that Paramount CEO David Ellison calls a “dream come true,” the Call of Duty video game franchise will become a big screen movie franchise, thanks to a major deal between the entertainment studio and Activision. Activision and Paramount have inked a deal that will see the studio develop, produce and distribute a live-action film based on the game franchise, “designed to thrill its massive global fan base by delivering on the hallmarks of what fans love about the iconic series, while boldly expanding the franchise to entirely new audiences,” the companies said Tuesday morning. The deal is a big one, with Call of Duty among the most popular video game franchises in the world. 500 million copies of its various games have been sold over the years, with the series being the top-selling game franchise in the U.S. for the past 16 years. The series is a first-person shooter, spanning various eras from World War II and Vietnam to the current day and decades in the future. Video game I ...

Original title: ‘Father Ted’ Co-Creator Graham Linehan Arrested Over Trans X Posts Father Ted co-creator Graham Linehan was arrested at Heathrow Airport on Monday after arriving on a flight from Arizona and faces an investigation over recent social media posts on X. “On Monday, 1 September at 13:00 hours officers arrested a man at Heathrow Airport after he arrived on an inbound American Airlines flight. The man in his 50s was arrested on suspicion of inciting violence. This is in relation to posts on X,” the Metropolitan Police told The Hollywood Reporter in a statement on Tuesday. Linehan was not named directly in the statement, but multiple outlets, including the BBC, reported that Linehan was the person arrested. And Linehan himself wrote about the arrest on Substack. “After being taken to police custody, officers became concerned for his health and he was taken to hospital. His condition is neither life-threatening nor life-changing,” the Metropolitan Police statement continued. Linehan was released on bail “pending further investigation” into three X posts in Ap ...

Original title: Stocks Get Hit as Global Bond Selloff Lifts Dollar: Markets Wrap Wall Street kicked off September trading on a sour note, with stocks joining a slide in global bonds as budget concerns in developed-world countries resurfaced. The dollar rose. Gold hit a record high. A traditionally weak season for equities started at a time when anxiety had already been brewing about lofty valuations, particularly in the group of big techs. The S&P 500 lost 1.1%. All megacaps fell, with Nvidia Corp. seeing its longest slide since March. ...

Original title: US Manufacturing Activity Contracted in August for a Sixth Month US factory activity shrank in August for a sixth straight month, driven by a pullback in production that shows manufacturing remains bogged down by higher import duties. The Institute for Supply Management’s manufacturing index came in at 48.7 last month, according to data released Tuesday. While a slight improvement from 48 in July, details of the report were mixed and the gauge remained below the level of 50 that separates expansion and contraction. ...

Original title: The Dan Wang Worldview Wins Out Hello and welcome to the newsletter, a grab bag of daily content from the Odd Lots universe. Sometimes it’s us, Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway, bringing you our thoughts on the most recent developments in markets, finance and the economy. And sometimes it’s contributions from our network of expert guests and sources. Whatever it is, we promise it will always be interesting. If you like chatting with us, check out the Odd Lots Discord, where you can hang out and talk with us and with other listeners 24/7. ...

Original title: Gold Hits Record High on US Rate-Cut Bets, Growing Debt Concerns Gold jumped to a record high as the prospect of US interest-rate cuts and growing concerns over the Federal Reserve’s future lent fresh impetus to the multi-year rally in precious metals. Bullion for immediate delivery rose as much as 1.1% on Tuesday to approach $3,516 an ounce — surpassing the previous peak reached in April — as a risk-off mood set in across financial markets. Equities slumped and bond yields surged as budget concerns in developed-world countries resurfaced. ...

Original title: Samsung’s trifold might be launching pretty soon We know officially that Samsung is planning to launch its first trifold phone this year, and recent rumors suggest that might mean either this month or next. Just don’t expect it to appear at this week’s Unpacked event, which promises products ranging from “premium AI tablets to the newest member of the Galaxy S25 family.” Korea’s ET News reports today that the new foldable could be unveiled as early as this month, with the phone actually on sale in November. That launch sounds pretty limited though: apparently only 50,000 units, a far cry from the millions of preorders Huawei claims to have received for its first foldable, last year’s Mate XT. It’s ready to launch its second generation, the Mate XTs, this Thursday. Other sources have claimed we might see the launch a little earlier. Another Korean site, Newsworks, expects an Unpacked on September 29th to reveal Samsung’s upcoming Project Moohan XR headset, and leaker Ice Universe claims we’ll see the trifold there too, along with a pa ...

Original title: My favorite cooking gadget is getting a big upgrade is a senior reviewer focused on smart home and connected tech, with over twenty years of experience. She has written previously for Wirecutter, Wired, Dwell, BBC, and US News. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. I’ve owned a Thermomix TM6 for about five years, and I use it multiple times a day for everything from making smoothies in the morning to steaming veggies for dinner, whipping up a sauce, or cooking some rice. It’s the most versatile smart gadget in my kitchen. Now its successor, the Thermomix TM7, has arrived in the US, launching today for $1,699. Yes, it’s expensive — but this all-in-one machine is designed to replace a countertop’s worth of gadgets, with functions like weighing, chopping, whisking, steaming, sautéing, slow cooking, and even fermenting. The standout upgrade is a larger 10-inch touchscreen powered by a faster multicore processor. However, I‘m wary of the missing physical dial, as the screen features all the d ...

Original title: Amazon ends shared Prime free shipping outside your home is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Amazon is axing the program that lets Prime members share their free shipping perk with people outside their household. In an update to its support page, Amazon says it will cut off Prime benefit sharing on October 1st, 2025, prompting invitees who don’t live with the account holder to sign up for their own subscription at a discounted $14.99 rate for an entire year (and then $14.99 per month after that). Instead, Amazon is replacing this program with Amazon Family, which lets account holders share Prime benefits — but only with people they live with. Amazon says everyone in a “Family” must live at the same primary residential address, defined as “the address you consider to be your home and where you spend the majority of your time.” As we’ve seen with several streaming services that have cracked down on password sharing, Amazon is likely ...

Original title: Apple to Curb iPhone 12 Radiation With EU-Wide Software Update Apple on Monday said it will issue a software update for iPhone 12 users throughout the European Union to reduce radiation levels, bringing them in line with the bloc’s health standards. The update is equivalent to a September 2023 change Apple made in France to bring the iPhone 12 into compliance with a testing protocol used by the country’s regulators. France ordered Apple to halt ‌iPhone‌ 12 sales due to the model exceeding the limit for electromagnetic absorption by the body, and Apple was ordered to “fix” existing devices to bring them into electromagnetic radiation compliance with European standards. The latest EU-wide update follows a decision published by the European Commission on Monday that endorsed France’s original regulatory response as “justified.” The software update will be issued across all 27 EU member states “in the coming weeks,” according to Apple. When Apple rolled out the update in France, it did so despite disputing the regulators’ testing method. Apple said th ...