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Trailers of the week: Minecraft, Elio, and Alien: Earth

This week, I went to a theater to watch a showing of the black-and-white version of Johnny Mnemonic, starring Keanu Reeves. Old-heads like me may recall it as a bad mid-90s cyberpunk film (written by William Gibson!) about a data courier whose brain is the storage medium, but who had to have his childhood memories erased to make space for …

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Liverpool’s winning aura under Arne Slot on display: Can they keep it up vs. Real Madrid and Man City?

Getty Images The feeling of inevitability that no matter what, they’d leave with three points in a Premier League game used to be reserved for Manchester City. But with City now on a five-match losing streak in all competitions, it has shifted to Anfield where Liverpool have gone eight points clear atop the Premier League under new manager Arne Slot …

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Tech CEOs want to replicate Tim Cook’s Donald Trump playbook

Instead of sending government relations executives or lobbyists, Cook would appeal to Trump directly through phone calls and meals, said people familiar with the interactions. Cook then developed a meeting strategy with Trump where he would bring one data point to home in on a single issue in a meeting, the people said. That approach helped keep the meetings from …

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