Wednesday 6/7/23
Celebrate:
Global Running Day
National Chocolate Ice Cream Day
National Tailors' Day
Trial Technology Day
VCR Day
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Apple's Vision Pro, its new virtual reality goggles that let users control the operating system with hand gestures and eye movements.
he company's first major product launch in nearly a decade, the headset will have a dozen cameras, a half-dozen microphones, multiple sensors — and a steep retail price of $3,500. It will be released early next year.
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Last year's release of the highly anticipated Hocus Pocus sequel was so well received that another installment is in the works.
Nearly 30 years after the release of the original film, Disney found continued interest in the story and has begun developing a third film in the franchise. Hocus Pocus 2 broke the Disney+ streaming record last fall after garnering more than 2.7 billion streaming minutes in its first week.
Other Disney projects in the works are Moana, Hercules, Lilo and Stitch and Mufasa: The Lion King.
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The Super Mario Bros Movie just crossed the $1.3 billion mark to become one of the biggest animated films ever made, and it's still going.
In the U.S., Mario, Luigi and the gang raked over $560 million at the domestic box office while Japan, Mexico, the UK and France accounted for the other largest viewing regions around the world, according to Box Office Mojo. Despite a number of blockbuster releases in 2023, Super Mario remains the highest-grossing movie to be released in the U.S. this year and one of the most successful video game adaptations ever.
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Tickets go on sale Friday as Hip Hop is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year with a concert where it all started in the Bronx, New York. It's called Hip Hop 50 Live and it goes down the DAY it started, on August 11th at Yankee Stadium.
The lineup includes: Run-D.M.C. . . . Snoop Dogg . . . Ice Cube . . . Lil Wayne . . . Common . . . The Sugarhill Gang . . . Hip Hop creator DJ Kool Herc, and his sister Cindy Campbell . . . and more to be announced.
There will also be a Queens of Hip Hop set with Eve, Lil Kim, Remy Ma, and Trina.
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - It would take a vampire about six minutes and 24 seconds to drain 15% of your blood by biting your neck . . . enough for them to feed without affecting your circulation or heart rate.
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