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Phone Arena
15-05-2025
- Business
- Phone Arena
Price is Right contestants send Apple a thinly-veiled message about Vision Pro pricing
The four contestants knew that the device was made by Apple and that they were looking to price a high-end consumer tech product, which made them bid high but not close to the actual value of the device. The highest bid and the winning one was $1,250, about one-third of the aforementioned starting price of $3,499 for Vision Pro . What does this mean? Well, one could come to the conclusion that Apple is selling the Vision Pro for too high a price. In other words, Apple didn't need to pay a high-priced consultant to be told that it needs to produce a less complex version of its mixed reality headset with a less expensive price tag. If four consumers looking at the Vision Pro for the first time think that the device is valued at $1,250 or less, it means that either the bidders have no real idea about everything that the product does, or Apple seriously needs to build a version of the headset that costs $2,000 or less. All four Price is Right contestants bid way too low for the Vision Pro, sending Apple a thinly veiled message. | Image credit-Threads The tech giant is reportedly working on a new version of the Vision Pro , although it isn't clear whether it will be a full-priced second generation model or a lower-priced sequel. I would like to think that had any of the four bidders been PhoneArena readers, that person would have had the closest bid without going over. This doesn't mean that the Vision Pro was a flop. It just means that Apple will need to make adjustments to the product. Besides, the ultimate goal for Apple isn't to produce a mixed reality headset but to create a lightweight pair of Augmented Reality (AR) smart glasses that will use computer generated graphics displayed over a live real time video feed to deliver the same capabilities of the iPhone on a device that costs about the same price as a compatible iPhone Pro Max model.
Fox News
12-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Fox News
‘The Price is Right' player nearly experiences wardrobe malfunction on game show
An overly excited contestant on "The Price is Right" had a fashion slip-up during the beloved game show earlier this week. Arkansas native Christianne jumped up and down with excitement when she was called down to meet "The Price is Right" host Drew Carey, 66. After she ran down the stage to meet Carey, she held up the top of her red and white checkered dress multiple times. "Hi, right over here. How are you doing?" Carey asked the woman. "I can't see your name. What's your name?" After the contestant repeated her name, Carey greeted her and said, "Nice to see you, Christianne. Welcome to the show." She continued to pull up her dress to narrowly avoid her wardrobe malfunction as Carey announced the prizes she could win. Christianne wore a black jacket over her dress, a hat that said "America" in bold red letters and brown cowboy boots. She proceeded to play the game "Do the Math," during which she had to guess if the price was lower or higher than the electronics presented on the stage. Once Christianne won the game, she jumped up and down again with excitement but held onto her dress tightly so it wouldn't fall. The "Price is Right" player isn't the first contestant to experience a game show fail. WATCH: 'WHEEL OF FORTUNE' CONTESTANT EXPLAINS HIS RISQUÉ ANSWER Last year, during an episode of "Wheel of Fortune," a contestant gave a risqué viral answer as he attempted to solve a puzzle. Contestant Tavaris Williams went viral last May on the game show when he answered the first toss-up puzzle with a NSFW response. "I tried to just beat my contestants by buzzing in first and letting my brain catch up," Williams told Fox News Digital at the time. "And when my brain was ready to speak, I saw the R, I saw the B, I saw the T. I went for 'Right in the butt.' … And once [host Pat Sajak] said 'no,' oh, it was the worst feeling," he added with a laugh. Host Vanna White was at the puzzle board as the letters for the phrase were revealed — "_ _ _ _ /I _ /T _ E /B _ _ T!" Williams quickly buzzed in and confidently said, "Right in the butt." His answer was met with brief silence, then audience laughter, followed by a "What?" from fellow contestant Tyra and a definitive "no" from Sajak as a look of utter surprise crossed Williams' face. The correct answer was "T H I S / I S / T H E / B E S T !" "None of those common sense [thoughts like], 'Well, there wasn't enough letters for the word "right"' [or] 'This is a family show.' None of that is going through your head when you have 50 monitors above you, the lights are extra bright, there are 100 stagehands, there's producers, there's sound guys," he said. "And I was standing next to Pat, so I had to say something. I wasn't going to get buzzed without saying something. And the rest is history."
The Guardian
11-04-2025
- Business
- The Guardian
What's the true cost of Donald Trump? All the crises around the world that we've no time to fix
We're all having to master a vocabulary that was once the preserve of specialists. Now everyone needs to know their tariffs from their treasuries, their levies from their yields. But there's one more term from the realm of economics that urgently needs to enter our lexicon. Given what Donald Trump is doing to the world economy – and the world – we need to talk about opportunity cost. Put simply, opportunity cost is the value of opportunity lost. It's the benefit you could have had if you had chosen a different path. For an economist, the opportunity cost of the Mars bar you bought is the Twix you didn't. But the principle extends beyond money. It applies to time, too. The hour you spent scrolling on your phone cost you the hour you could have had walking in the park. It can apply to anything, including our energy and attention. Enter Trump. For weeks, the resources of governments and businesses around the world have been focused squarely on the White House and its whipsawing, on-again-off-again series of tariffs imposed on enemies and friends alike. Last week, it was Trump as gameshow host in the White House Rose Garden, proudly unveiling his Price is Right table of import duties, listing each country alongside the percentage by which it was about to get whacked. He called it 'liberation day'. This week, it was the 90-day 'pause' – climbdown would be another word – for everywhere except China, which got hit with extra levies. Throughout, people in every ministry and trading floor on the planet held their breath, along with the boardroom of every company that buys or sells overseas, as they watched to see what Trump would do next to the global economy currently held hostage in the Oval Office. With a gun to the temple of the world trading system, Trump's every twitch has commanded humanity's attention. And, my, how he loves it. You could see his pleasure as he told a Republican dinner on Tuesday that the world's nations were 'kissing my ass' to negotiate a deal that would spare them tariff pain. For him, the uncertainty is all part of the fun. As the Economist rightly observed, he relishes 'being the focus of a planetary guessing game'. Trump used to get his dopamine hit from a mention in the gossip columns of the New York tabloids; now he's tasted the thrill of commanding an audience in the billions and he's hooked. But consider the price we are all paying. I don't (only) mean those trillions of dollars wiped out at a stroke through tumbling stocks, or even the investments put on hold as businesses decide that, amid all this uncertainty, now is not the right time to open that new factory or launch that new product, thereby delaying, perhaps for ever, the jobs or wages that would have found their way to people who need them. I mean instead the opportunity cost: the action the world could be taking if it were not forced to monitor, adjust to and accommodate the whims of one man, whose ideas on economics were formed five decades ago and were wrong even then. Right now, all the capacity governments have is devoted either to saving or replacing a global trading system that was, however imperfectly, functioning. Huge intellectual and political energy is, and will be, dedicated to ensuring that national economies can survive now that that system has been upended and a previously indispensable trading partner has gone off the rails. There are already some strong ideas. Gordon Brown has called for an 'economic coalition of the willing' that would mobilise the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund to protect the poorest nations and coordinate action on both interest rates and credit for companies in trouble. That approach fits with the suggestion that the likes of Japan, Canada, South Korea and Australia join forces with Britain and the EU to form a free trade alliance minus the US. I would embrace both those developments. But just think where all that collective energy could be going if it were not having to confront a crisis started so needlessly by Trump. Those same powers would be free to act together to tackle the climate emergency, to name the most obvious example. Europe has just experienced its warmest ever March, 1.6C hotter than pre-industrial levels, while figures released this week show that Arctic sea ice reached its lowest extent for March since satellite records began. Naturally, no one expects Donald 'Drill, baby, drill' Trump to care about that, not when he actively wants to see the world burning more, not fewer, fossil fuels. But much of the rest of the world does care about the climate crisis. Of course, it would be naive to imagine that, absent Trump, they would be devoting every waking hour to reducing carbon emissions. But what little capacity the international system has for collective action has been gobbled up by a crisis that was not born of natural disaster or pandemic, but the caprice and vanity of one man. Witness the plight of Sudan. Figures are hard to come by, but a monitoring lab at Yale puts the number of dead in the civil war that has raged there since 2023 as high as 150,000, with the UN accusing both sides of 'harrowing' crimes, including mass rape and torture. International action is essential. Instead, say campaigners, there's been a 'loss of leadership, coordination and money', traceable to the day Trump took office. Part of that is down to Elon Musk's dismantling of the lead US aid agency, but part of it is other governments having their hands full managing the Trump hurricane. As Kate Ferguson of Protection Approaches told me, the gutting of USAid and 'the anxiety triggered by tariffs' mean US funding to on-the-ground emergency response rooms – health clinics and the like – has collapsed, 'and other states are hesitant to fill the gap'. Next week there's a chance to put that right, as foreign ministers gather in London on Tuesday to discuss Sudan. But it's hard to be hopeful. David Lammy won early plaudits for highlighting the bloodshed in Sudan, but in recent weeks, the foreign secretary's focus has necessarily been elsewhere. You can say the same of Gaza or Ukraine, forced down the list of international priorities by a trade war that did not have to happen. This is how it is. Political bandwidth is limited. I've been told often that governments can handle only one crisis at a time, two at most. Now a huge chunk of that capacity has had to be diverted to dealing with something that decision-makers could previously take for granted: relations with the US and the functioning of the global trade system. Currently, both are in a state of permanent crisis. Britons have seen this movie before, when Brexit consumed several years of political and policymaking energy, and the entire apparatus of the UK state was forced to deal with an issue that never needed to arise, energy that could have gone on real problems that desperately needed solving. To repeat, Trump will lose no sleep over any of this. He likes the thought that his foes – and even his allies are foes – will be snarled up, trying to untangle knots he's created: it's a tactic he's used since the 1970s, when he liked to tie up opponents in lawsuits. He loves tariffs especially, because they give him the power to exempt countries or even individual companies he favours – those who 'kiss his ass' – in a system that all but invites bribery and corruption. He loves these games. But they cost everyone else dear – until, that is, the rest of the world decides to stop playing. Jonathan Freedland is a Guardian columnist
Fox News
08-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Fox News
Fox News Entertainment Newsletter: Lauren Daigle's Super Bowl 'vindication,' Elton John's 'nightmare' tantrum
Welcome to the Fox News Entertainment Newsletter. TOP 3: - Christian singer says Super Bowl performance is 'vindication' after being canceled by New Orleans mayor - Elton John throws 'nightmare' tantrum, breaks down in tears while recording new album - Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni lawsuit: messages expose alleged lies, threats and intimate secrets 'SHOT IN THE DARK' - AC/DC fans just learning the origin of the band's name after decades in the spotlight 'SHE'S CANCELED' - Blake Lively skewered on social media for promoting new movie amid Justin Baldoni legal drama 'I CAN'T WALK' - Ozzy Osbourne says, 'I can't walk … but I'm still alive,' ahead of final Black Sabbath performance RISKY BUSINESS - Johnny Depp's attorney warns Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni face 'real danger' in upcoming trial 'DAMAGED' - 'Price is Right' host Drew Carey reveals former fiancée's murder 'destroyed' him, says he still doesn't date TAKING A 'BRUISING' - Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni legal battle tarnishes Ryan Reynolds' Hollywood image: expert 'RETALIATION' - Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni war escalates with new defamation lawsuit LIKE WHAT YOU'RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS FOLLOW FOX NEWS ON SOCIAL MEDIA
Yahoo
30-01-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Odds on The Rock, Bad Bunny or Nikki Bella entering the WWE Royal Rumble
(WTAJ) — While WrestleMania is the grandest show of the year for WWE, the Road to WrestleMania will start Feb. 1 at the annual Royal Rumble in Indianapolis. One of the best things about the Royal Rumble is that you never know who might show up and enter. The Royal Rumble itself is a match where 30 wrestlers compete to get the main event spot at WrestleMania. With a men's match and a women's match, there are 60 spots and anyone could come out. Previous celebrity surprises include Drew Carey, the current host of Price is Right, Johnny Knoxville and the uber-popular music sensation Bad Bunny. Speaking of Bad Bunny, he's on the top list of possible celebrity surprise entrants in the Royal Rumble match. He sits near the top of the list with Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, IShowSpeed, Kai Cenat and Nikki Bella. WWE ready to begin Netflix era with 'Monday Night Raw' moving to the streaming platform According to they top the list. The site also shows odds favoring John Cena to win the men's Royal Rumble while Charlotte Flair is tipped to win the women's Royal Rumble. Men's Royal Rumble match Wrestler Odds Probability IShowSpeed -300 75% Kai Cenat -300 75% The Rock -137.5 57.9% Rhea Ripley(Current Women's World Champion) +150 40% Joe Hendry +162.5 38.1 Randy Orton +187.5 34.8% Bad Bunny +200 33.3% Goldberg +200 33.3% Trick Williams (NXT) +300 25% AJ Styles +400 20% Women's Royal Rumble match Wrestler Odds Probability Becky Lynch -125 55.6% Nikki Bella +100 50% Jade Cargill +137.5 42.1% Jordynne Grace +162.5 38.1% Michelle McCool +200 33.3% Roxanne Perez +400 20% AJ Lee +600 14.3% Alexa Bliss +800 11.1% Asuka +1000 9.1% Probable men's Royal Rumble winners Wrestler Odds Probability John Cena +150 40% CM Punk +175 36.4% Roman Reigns +500 16.7% Seth Rollins +600 14.3% Logan Paul +2000 4.8% The Rock +2000 4.8% Randy Orton +2000 4.8% Jey Uso +2500 3.8% Drew McIntyre +2500 3.8% Probable women's Royal Rumble winners Wrestler Odds Probability Charlotte Flair -137.5 57.9% Iyo Sky +333.3 23.1% Becky Lynch +500 16.7% Bianca Belair +700 12.5% Jade Cargill +1000 9.1% Jordynne Grace +1200 7.7% Liv Morgan +2000 4.8% Naomi +2500 3.8% Asuka +2800 3.45% Alexa Bliss +2800 3.45% John Cena announces he's retiring from WWE Charlotte Flair is a favorite to win the women's Royal Rumble match as she makes her months-long return after a serious injury. It's anticipated that if she wins, she will face newcomer and current WWE Women's Champion Tiffany Stratton, who has skyrocketed to the top of the proverbial food chain this past year. While Cena is favored to win the men's Royal Rumble, it should be noted that while on his 'farewell' retirement tour, he's heavily advertised for the Elimination Chamber event. Historically, the winner of the chamber will get a title match against the other champion who isn't facing the Royal Rumble winner. 'Hacksaw' Jim Duggan was the first ever Royal Rumble winner in 1988, years before it became a yearly tradition and before they announced the winner would get a title shot in the main event of WrestleMania. Notably, only four men have ever won the Royal Rumble two years in a row — Hulk Hogan, Shawn Michaels, Stone Cold Steve Austin and current WWE Champion Cody Rhodes. Austin is the only man in WWE history to win the Royal Rumble three times (1998,1999, 2001). If you've watched the Premium Live Event (PLE) before, you may be familiar with the rules. The match will start with two superstars. Every 90 seconds another superstar will enter (entry numbers are drawn randomly). If you get thrown over the top rope and both feet hit the floor, you're eliminated. The last superstar standing in the ring important to note two big rules — superstars have to be thrown over the top rope, not thrown between the ropes, and both feet have to hit the floor. In past years, WWE's Kofi Kingston has gone viral for being tossed over the top rope but never letting his feet touch the floor and making his way back into the ring. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
