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Presumed Innocent trailer puts the screws to Jake Gyllenhaal

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Jake Gyllenhaal is a lawyer in love in the teaser trailer for thriller series Presumed Innocent — and it looks like he might just be a murderer, too. Apple TV+ dropped the arresting trailer Wednesday.

Gyllenhaal stars in the eight-episode limited series from David E. Kelley and J.J. Abrams, which debuts June 12 on Apple TV+.

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Jake Gyllenhaal looks guilty as hell in gripping <em>Presumed Innocent</em> trailer on Apple TV+

“Love isn’t what people tell you that it is,” Gyllenhaal’s character Rusty Sabich says, ominously, as the trailer opens. “In my experience, it’s just something that grows. Until, one day, you just find yourself just needing someone. That’s how it was with Carolyn. She woke something up inside me.”

But what she woke up inside him might not have been all that loving, judging by the moody, minute-long trailer. It shows Rusty and Carolyn (Renate Reinsve) falling in love until something unspeakable — and unshown — happens. And Sabich, a prosecutor who is married to someone else in the film’s current day, ends up in uncomfortable conversations with cops.

The story, based on a legal-thriller novel by Scott Turow, saw a film version made in 1990 starring Harrison Ford as Sabich.

Here’s how Apple TV+ describes the upcoming show:

Based on The New York Times bestselling novel of the same name by Scott Turow, the gripping series takes viewers on a journey through the horrific murder that upends the Chicago Prosecuting Attorney’s office when chief deputy prosecutor Rusty Sabich (Gyllenhaal) is suspected of the crime. The series explores obsession, sex, politics and the power and limits of love, as the accused fights to hold his family and marriage together.

Stellar cast

Norwegian Renate Reinsve stars in “Presumed Innocent.” The limited series debuts June 12 on Apple TV+.
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In addition to Gyllenhaal and Reinsve, the series stars Ruth Negga, Bill Camp, O-T Fagbenle, Chase Infiniti, Elizabeth Marvel, Nana Mensah, Peter Sarsgaard and Kingston Rumi Southwick.

Gyllenhaal also serves as executive producer, along with multi-Emmy Award winners David E. Kelley (showrunner) and J.J. Abrams, plus Turow, Matthew Tinker, Dustin Thomason, Sharr White and Miki Johnson. And another one is Anne Sewitsky, who directs the first two episodes and episode eight. Emmy Award winner Greg Yaitanes executive produces and directs episodes three through seven, Apple TV+ said.

Watch the Presumed Innocent trailer:

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Presumed Innocent debuts on Apple TV+ with two episodes on Wednesday, June 12, followed by a new episode Wednesdays through July 24. You can watch it and other thrillers on the streaming service.

It is available by subscription for $9.99 with a seven-day free trial. You can also get it via any tier of the Apple One subscription bundle. For a limited time, customers who purchase and activate a new iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Mac or iPod touch can enjoy three months of Apple TV+ for free.

After launching in November 2019, “Apple TV+ became the first all-original streaming service to launch around the world, and has premiered more original hits and received more award recognitions faster than any other streaming service. To date, Apple Original films, documentaries and series have been honored with 471 wins and 2,090 award nominations and counting,” the service said.

In addition to award-winning movies and TV shows (including breakout soccer comedy Ted Lasso), Apple TV+ offers a variety of documentaries, dramas, comedies, kids shows and more.

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Netflix’s official Atlas trailer puts Jennifer Lopez in another generic Terminator clone, but with Titanfall-like mechs

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When we watched the teaser trailer for Jennifer Lopez’s new sci-fi movie Atlas, we said that it looked like a cross between Terminator and The Creator with Neon Genesis Evangelion-like mechs thrown in for good measure. And now that a longer trailer has dropped, we’re thinking much the same. 

The new Netflix movie looks very entertaining, with lots of big robot suits (similar to the powered exoskeletons you see in films like Edge of Tomorrow) and explosions – always a good thing unless you’re watching a period drama. It also has a “can we trust AI?” plot, which is very timely.

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Apple II launch puts Cupertino on the map

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April 17: Today in Apple history: Apple II debuts at West Coast Computer Faire with color graphics April 17, 1977: The Apple II launch at the West Coast Computer Faire positions Apple at the forefront of the looming personal computer revolution.

The company’s first mass-market computer, the Apple II boasts an attractively machined case designed by Jerry Manock (who will later design the first Macintosh). It also packs a keyboard, BASIC compatibility and, most importantly, color graphics.

Fueled by some marketing savvy from Steve Jobs, the Apple II launch makes quite a splash at the San Francisco Bay Area’s first personal computer convention.

Apple II launch at West Coast Computer Faire

After forming the previous year, Apple had already passed several important milestones by April 1977. The company had seen one of its three co-founders quit, launched its first computer and officially incorporated.

However, the 1977 West Coast Computer Faire served as a massive “coming out” party for Apple, and the Apple II launch took center stage. This event featured all the big players in the burgeoning PC industry. In the days before the internet, it drew thousands of interested customers — many of whom became early tech devotees.

Apple showed off its new corporate logo at the computer fair for one of the first times. The multicolored design by Rob Janoff featured the outline of an apple with a bite taken out of it. The instantly iconic symbol replaced an earlier Apple logo by former Apple co-founder Ron Wayne.

Steve Jobs debuts the Apple II

Right from the start of his career, Jobs realized the importance of a good product introduction. With no special media event, he used the West Coast Computer Faire to launch the Apple II in a big way. (Interestingly, the event took place at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco, which Apple returned to for its fall media event in 2015.)

Apple occupied the four booths directly facing the building’s front entrance. The strategic positioning made Apple the first of 175 companies at the Faire that visitors saw when they arrived. At a time when money was short, Apple splashed out on a backlit plexiglass display featuring the new logo.

The eye-catching setup showcased a dozen Apple II computers. Unbeknownst to customers, these were unfinished prototypes, since the actual computers wouldn’t be ready until June.

A major money spinner

Apple’s second computer became an enormously important product line. The year of the Apple II debut, the machine brought in $770,000 in revenue. That figure increased to $7.9 million the following year and a massive $49 million the year after. Apple continued producing versions of the Apple II until the early 1990s.

This computer brought a number of important players into the world of high tech, including Mitch Kapor (founder of Lotus Development Corporation and co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation) and John Carmack (the legendary coder behind smash-hit games Wolfenstein 3DDoom and Quake).

The Apple II also queued up Cupertino’s first “killer app” — spreadsheet program VisiCalc.

While Apple later moved away from the Apple II product line (much to the annoyance of Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak), this computer put Cupertino on the map. And the Apple II launch at the West Coast Computer Faire gave the world its first glimpse of the innovative machine.



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US COVID-origins hearing puts scientific journals in the hot seat

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rad Wenstrup speaks with Raul Ruiz during a hearing of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis

Brad Wenstrup (right), a Republican from Ohio who chairs the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, speaks with Raul Ruiz (left), a Democrat from California who is ranking member of the subcommittee.Credit: Al Drago/Bloomberg/Getty

During a public hearing in Washington DC today, Republicans in the US House of Representatives alleged that government scientists unduly influenced the editors of scientific journals and that, in turn, those publications stifled discourse about the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. Democrats clapped back, lambasting their Republican colleagues for making such accusations without adequate evidence and for sowing distrust of science.

The session is the latest in a series of hearings held by the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic to explore where the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus came from, despite a lack of any new scientific evidence. Scientists have for some time been arguing over whether the virus spread naturally, from animals to people, or whether it leaked from a laboratory in Wuhan, China. Some have alleged that in the early days of the pandemic, government scientists Anthony Fauci, former director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and Francis Collins, former director of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), steered the scientific community, including journals, to dismiss the lab-leak hypothesis.

During the pandemic, “rather than journals being a wealth of information”, they instead “put a chilling effect on scientific research regarding the origins of COVID-19”, Brad Wenstrup, a Republican representative from Ohio who is chair of the subcommittee, said at the hearing. Raul Ruiz, a Democratic representative from California who is the ranking member of the subcommittee, shot back: “Congress should not be meddling in the peer-review process, and it should not be holding hearings to throw around baseless accusations.”

Holden Thorp, editor-in-chief of the Science family of journals in Washington DC, appeared before the committee to deny the suggestion that he had been coerced or censored by government scientists.

The subcommittee also invited Magdalena Skipper, Nature’s editor-in-chief, and Richard Horton, editor-in-chief of the medical journal The Lancet, to appear, but neither was present. Skipper was absent owing to scheduling conflicts, but a spokesperson for Springer Nature says the company is “committed to remaining engaged with the Subcommittee and to assisting in its inquiry”. (Nature’s news team is editorially independent of its journals team and of its publisher, Springer Nature.) The Lancet did not respond to requests for comment.

Academic influence?

This is not the first time that Republicans have accused members of the scientific community of colluding with Fauci and Collins. Evolutionary biologist Kristian Andersen and virologist Robert Garry appeared before the same subcommittee on 11 July last year to deny allegations that the officials prompted them to publish a commentary in Nature Medicine1 in March 2020 concluding that SARS-CoV-2 showed no signs of genetic engineering. They wrote in the journal that they did not “believe that any type of laboratory-based scenario is plausible” for the virus’s origins.

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Holden Thorp became editor-in-chief of the Science family of journals in 2019.Credit: Steve Exum

Some lab-leak proponents have suggested, without evidence, that the pandemic began because the NIH funded risky coronavirus research at a lab in Wuhan, offering a motive for Collins and Fauci to promote a natural origin for COVID-19.

During the latest hearing, Republicans went a step further to suggest that not only did Collins and Fauci influence prominent biologists, but that they also encouraged journals to publish research supporting the natural-origin hypothesis. This accusation is based on e-mails that Wenstrup says the subcommittee obtained showing communication between top journal editors and government scientists. Thorp forcefully denied this line of questioning. “No government officials prompted or participated in the review or editing” of two key papers2,3 on COVID-19’s origins published in Science, he testified. “Any papers supporting the lab-origin theory would go through the very same processes” of peer review as any other paper, he said.

Thorp otherwise spent much of the 80-minute hearing answering questions about how a scientific manuscript is prepared for publication, what a preprint is and how peer review works. In a tense moment, Wenstrup questioned a social-media post on Thorp’s personal X (formerly Twitter) page, in which he downplayed the lab-leak hypothesis. Thorp called the post “flippant” and apologised.

Communication queries

Correspondence between journal editors and government scientists is to be expected, Deborah Ross, a Democratic representative from North Carolina, said at the hearing. “Government actors querying academia on issues that are academic in nature isn’t malpractice or unlawful — it’s just doing their jobs.”

Anita Desikan, a senior analyst at the Union of Concerned Scientists who is based in Washington DC and focuses on scientific integrity, tells Nature’s news team that it is customary for government agencies to reach out to stakeholders to inform policy decisions. Even if a government scientist suggests an idea for a journal paper, “that doesn’t mean it will be published or receive praise from the scientific community”.

Roger Pielke Jr, a science-policy researcher at the University of Colorado Boulder, who was originally slated to testify before the subcommittee until his invitation was rescinded owing to logistical reasons, disagrees. He thinks that Fauci and Collins still shaped the Nature Medicine COVID-19 origins paper by recommending that specific scientists investigate and by offering advice along the way. Nevertheless, the hearing was a “dud”, Pielke Jr says, because Thorp was the wrong witness. Instead, a more relevant witness would have been a government scientific-integrity officer who is more knowledgeable about what constitutes an ethical breach, he adds.

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Microsoft’s repair-friendly Surface puts other laptop makers on notice – and it’s about time

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Microsoft recently unveiled its upcoming Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6, and while they’ll be initially targeted towards schools and businesses rather than regular consumers like you and me, the Redmond-based company has a new design ethos that will – hopefully – benefit everyone.

Both new Surface devices have been designed from the ground up with repairability in mind, comprising more replaceable components than ever before and a new focus on improving ease of repair. Internal parts will be marked with QR codes to help easy identification, along with “clear visual icons and built-in repair instructions”, according to Surface general manager Nancie Gaskill.

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