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Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos are among the powerful tech leaders lined up to attend Donald Trump’s inauguration on Monday, but Nvidia’s CEO won’t be joining them. Reuters reports that when asked about his attendance, Jensen Huang said he would instead be celebrating the Lunar New Year “on the road” with employees and their families.

While Huang won’t be present at the President-elect’s ceremony, he said he will “look forward to congratulating the Trump administration when they take office.” Huang also told reporters outside Nvidia’s New Year party in Taipei that he discussed increasing the production of Nvidia’s advanced Blackwell artificial intelligence chips with Chung Ching Wei, the chairman of Nvidia’s main supplier, TSMC.

Nvidia is estimated to control 90 percent of the market share of AI chips. The company criticized a new AI framework announced by the Biden administration last week that would limit how many AI chips companies can send to different countries. In its blog post, Nvidia praised the more lax regulatory environment put in place by the first Trump administration and said it looks forward to “a return to policies that strengthen American leadership.”

Nvidia is notably not among the list of companies to have donated to Trump’s inauguration, with OpenAI, Meta, Google, and Microsoft having each pledged $1 million to fund the ceremony. Huang also hasn’t appeared at Mar-a-Lago to schmooze Trump directly, unlike top execs from other companies like Apple’s Tim Cook, Google’s Sundar Pichai, and Microsoft’s Satya Nadella.

Samsung is sweetening the benefits for some subscribers of its extended warranty plans with a new deal: unlimited same-day glass repairs at no extra cost. Previously, a busted screen would cost subscribers $29 — and those on Samsung’s less-expensive Care Plus plan will continue to pay that price. But if you’re prone to breaking screens and you’re on the Care Plus Theft and Loss plan, you won’t pay anything extra.

The new policy includes cracked glass on your phone’s outer screen, back panel, and even the inner screens on folding phones, according to Samsung spokesperson Dale Hogan.

That’s a big deal, considering that repairing a cracked inner screen can cost hundreds of dollars without an extended warranty. Just one inner screen repair would probably make the Care Plus plan worth it, though the value is a little fuzzier for slab-style phones.

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Samsung groups its phones into tiers and sets pricing for repairs based on those groups. You can also pay monthly for a three-year term or once upfront, but your policy will only cover two years. The monthly cost for a Tier 4 device, which includes the likes of the Galaxy S24 Ultra or any of Samsung’s folding phones, is $18. The Galaxy S24 Plus costs a little less, at $15 per month, and the regular S24 is $10.

That’s not exactly cheap, and you’d have to crack your screen a lot to justify the price difference between Care Plus and Care Plus Theft and Loss. A two-year Care Plus plan for the Galaxy S24 Ultra costs $259 if you pay upfront; that’s $90 less than the Care Plus Theft and Loss plan. You’d have to get three screen repairs to break even between the two plans.

Theft and Loss includes a lot of other benefits, of course, like replacing your device for a flat fee if it goes missing. And if you’re worried about your folding phone’s inner screen, the pricier Care plan could certainly give you some more peace of mind. In any case, benefits like these getting better are the kind of inflation we like to see.

• Jeff Bezos' space company Blue Origin scored a major win Thursday with its first New Glenn launch.
• The heavy-lift vehicle is poised to open up an entirely new business for Bezos' company.
• Meanwhile, SpaceX forges a path of full reusability with its revolutionary Starship rocket.

Jeff Bezos's spaceflight company, Blue Origin, made a huge leap forward on Thursday when it successfully launched its uncrewed New Glenn rocket into space on the first try.

It's a pivotal moment for Blue Origin. New Glenn — named after the first American to reach orbit, John Glenn — is the company's first and only orbital rocket.

It's poised to open up a new business for Blue Origin and accelerate the company's effort to catch up to SpaceX as a dominating force in spaceflight.

There is a lot of catching up to do, even though SpaceX had a setback the same day as New Glenn's launch when its Starship exploded during its seventh spaceflight.

"Comparing them directly with SpaceX at the moment is premature, as they have years to go to catch up," Abhi Tripathi, a former SpaceX mission director who now leads mission operations at the UC Berkeley Space Sciences Lab, told Business Insider in an email.

"Getting to orbit on the first attempt of a new rocket is commendable," he added. "Now the real work can begin: demonstrating the reliability and repeatability of your rocket."

New Glenn can't match Starship, and it isn't meant to

New Glenn is a big step for Blue Origin, but it's nowhere near as revolutionary to the launch industry as Starship, SpaceX's most ambitious project.

Leroy Chiao, a retired NASA astronaut who consulted for SpaceX on its Safety Advisory Panel for 12 years, called Starship "the most exciting thing" since the Apollo era.

"It is going to be really disruptive" because of its size, power, and full reusability, he told Business Insider in December.

While New Glenn is designed to reuse its booster — much like SpaceX's Falcon rockets — Starship is set to be fully and rapidly reusable. Both its upper and lower stages are meant to return to Earth, get refurbished quickly, and fly again repeatedly. That could cut the cost of spaceflight tenfold.

The latest explosion could ground Starship for some time if the Federal Aviation Administration launches an investigation. Still, SpaceX has already proven Starship can land itself upright from suborbital flights and landed the rocket's booster in one piece twice.

New Glenn isn't meant to be a Starship competitor anyway, Tripathi said.

New Glenn has a payload capacity in between that of SpaceX's Falcon 9 and SpaceX's Falcon Heavy, which is "a nice place to be," Chiao told BI in an email.

It fills a slightly different niche in launch services, with a more spacious fairing than the Falcon Heavy. That could allow customers more flexibility in how they pack their satellites or spacecraft in for launch.

In that range of rockets, it's "good to have some competition," Chiao added.

SpaceX and Blue Origin did not respond to requests for comment.

Blue Origin is an orbital newcomer. SpaceX is a giant.

SpaceX and Blue Origin are in different business positions, too.

As the company's first orbital rocket, New Glenn opens up new revenue streams for Blue Origin. It already has dozens of missions on the books worth hundreds of millions of dollars, according to Reuters. That includes launches to build up Amazon's Kuiper satellite internet network, a competitor to SpaceX's Starlink with far fewer satellites in operation.

SpaceX has been making money on orbital launches with Falcon 9 for more than a decade. It's been using the rocket to fly both astronauts and tourists to orbit regularly since 2020.

The Falcon rockets drove an increase in global launches last year, accounting for 134 of a record 259 orbital launch attempts worldwide, according to a SpaceNews analysis. SpaceX launched more orbital rockets than the rest of the world combined.

Blue Origin, by comparison, had not launched a single rocket to orbit until now. Instead, the company's launch business has been roughly 10-minute, edge-of-space tourist trips like the one that Bezos brought William Shatner on in 2021.

Meanwhile, SpaceX has flown three private missions to orbit led by tech billionaire Jared Isaacman who is now President-elect Trump's nominee for NASA Administrator.

Weeks before New Glenn's debut launch, during the New York Times 2024 DealBook Summit, Bezos said that Blue Origin "is not a very good business, yet."

Still, he added, "It's going to be the best business that I've ever been involved in."

Even so, it's going to take more than New Glenn to reach SpaceX levels of launch prowess.

• Gig work is expanding to new professional areas such as nursing.
• One nurse said she uses gig work to make extra money and pay down debt.
• But the app points to a broader issue in her field, she said.

Sarah has a full-time nursing job during the day. A few evenings each week, however, she picks up shifts at other hospitals through an app called CareRev to make extra money.

Usually, the shifts are at night and within a little over an hour of her home in Wisconsin. Her husband stays home as their infant son sleeps, she told Business Insider.

"It's a way to supplement my income and pay down my debt so that when he is older, I can be present more," Sarah said of her son.

Sarah is among the nurses who have turned to the gig economy over the last few years. Instead of delivering food or driving people to dates, though, the app that she uses allows her to work at nearby medical facilities. She asked that BI not publish her full name for fear of retaliation from CareRev. BI has verified her work for the app.

Sarah previously worked as a travel nurse, so the idea of working at a hospital temporarily wasn't new to her. Many travel nurses are treated like regular employees for tax purposes and can make more — double, in some cases — what those with traditional positions make. Their contracts at one facility can last from a few weeks to several months. Meanwhile, nurses who use apps like CareRe usually pick up one shift at a time based on a hospital's needs. The apps function similarly to rideshare apps like Uber or delivery gig applikeas DoorDash.

Sarah has been taking shifts through CareRev for about two years, she told BI. She learned about the app while on a travel contract. It seemed like a good opportunity, she said. "I was always used to having two and three jobs to make ends meet."

Sarah earns between $70 and $80 an hour for shifts on CareRev. Those rates can surge to over $100 an hour if a nurse calls in sick at the last minute and the hospital needs to fill the shift with just a few hours of notice, she said.

She estimates that her earnings through CareRev are about twice as much as they would be if she worked those shifts through a similar full-time nursing job, she said.

She said she also appreciates not having to work extra hours or attend meetings that typically come with a full-time nursing job. Many full-time nurses that she knows pick up additional shifts without additional pay, Sarah said. "You're being told in order to keep your job, you have to work 48 hours a week when you only wanted to work 36," she said.

Since COVID, many hospitals have struggled to retain nurses. A 2021 survey, taken one year after the pandemic began in the US, showed that many nurses were struggling with working extra hours and mental health, among other issues. Many were even considering leaving the profession.

That turnover has created an opportunity for apps like CareRev, Sarah told BI. "There's just never enough staff in the hospital," she said. "It got worse after COVID."

Sarah also sees some potential shortcomings of apps like CareRev.

CareRev requires nurses with a specialty to have at least one year of experience in that area to take shifts, according to its website. That means that recent graduates with relatively little experience could use the apps, Sarah said.

"I don't think I would've went into travel nursing with one year of experience and been successful," Sarah said.

While the pay rates tend to be better on the apps than at a staff job, nurses also have to pay more of their costs out-of-pocket, including state licensing fees and certifications for areas of specialty such as pediatric care or working in an emergency room.

As independent contractors, nurses working on the apps also pay taxes out of their own pockets each year.

"I'm responsible for paying all of my licenses and all of my education," Sarah said. "When you're a staff nurse, those are things that are taken care of for you."

"I don't know that people take all of that into consideration when getting into this," she said of working nursing shifts through the gig apps.

CareRev did not respond to a request for comment from BI.

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• Jamie Foxx is one of Hollywood's biggest draws, starring in over 40 films through his career across many genres.
• He received critical acclaim as the lead in movies like "Django Unchained" and "Ray," which won him an Oscar.
• Here are all of Foxx's movie performances, ranked by critics.

For over three decades, Jamie Foxx has been a Hollywood staple, especially on the big screen, where he's played everything from a disgruntled quarterback in "Any Given Sunday" to a rugged cowboy in Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained."

His latest movie, Netflix's "Back in Action," marks Cameron Diaz's first starring role in ten years. But it's also a comeback for Foxx, who suffered a stroke while the movie was in production. After months of recovery, he returned to finish the action comedy, which stars him and Diaz as CIA agents who walk away to start a family.  

Below, we look back at Foxx's career by ranking all his movies according their critics scores on Rotten Tomatoes.

Note: This list does not include documentaries Foxx starred in.

Zac Ntim and Keyaira Boone contributed to previous versions of this post.

Foxx's lowest-ranked movie is 2024's "Not Another Church Movie."

This spoof on the religious movie genre makes fun of everyone from Oprah to Tyler Perry. And yes, Foxx plays God.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 13% 

Critics weren't impressed by 2005's "Stealth."

Set in the near future, the US Navy has developed a new AI-powered fighter jet. But when the computer develops a mind of its own, it falls to Foxx and his partners played by Josh Lucas and Jessica Biel to stop the computer before it sparks a new world war.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 13%

Foxx led a star-studded remake of "Robin Hood" in 2018.

Foxx and Taron Egerton lead this modern reimagining of the classic tale of a heroic outlaw and his Merry Men who mount an audacious revolt against the corrupt English crown. 

Rotten Tomatoes score: 14% 

Foxx made one of his first substantial screen performances in the 1999 comedy "Held Up."

Michael Dawson (Foxx) is a successful businessman, but his life starts to fall apart while on a road trip with his wife (Nia Long) when she discovers that he splashed their entire savings to buy the car. She ditches him hitch-hiking back home while he gets stuck in the middle of an unwelcoming rural town.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 17%

Foxx rounds out a star-studded cast that includes Bradley Cooper and Jessica Biel in 2019's "Valentine's Day."

Through a series of intertwining vignettes, audiences watch a group of Los Angeles natives navigate their way through the highs and lows of dating on Valentine's Day. As the days quickly unfold, they experience first dates, make-ups, break-ups, and youthful crushes.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 18%

Jamie Foxx stars alongside Cameron Diaz in the 2025 Netflix comedy "Back in Action."

Foxx and Diaz play CIA agents who go into hiding to start a family. 15 years later, their cover is blown, and after their kids are kidnapped, they must get back into the espionage game to get them back.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 21%

Foxx plays a mysterious character named The Ferryman in the forgettable 2023 movie "God Is a Bullet."

Foxx plays a "social renegade" who teams with a detective (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) to track down the detective's daughter, who has been kidnapped by a satanic cult.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 24%

Foxx is a cop with a grudge in 2017's "Sleepless."

Foxx stars as an undercover Las Vegas police officer who is thrown into the high-stakes world of murderous gangsters and corrupt cops after a failed heist results in the kidnapping of his teenage son.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 25%

Foxx shines in Antoine Fuqua's 2000 cult classic "Bait."

After landing in jail for petty theft, Alvin Sanders (Foxx) ends up sharing a cell with the notorious criminal John Jaster who is serving a long sentence for stealing $40,000,000 worth of gold from the Federal Reserve. Realizing that he is sick and could die at any moment, Jaster uses Sanders to send covert messages to his wife about the location of the hidden gold. 

Rotten Tomatoes score: 26% 

Foxx plays another unscrupulous cop in the violent thriller "Law Abiding Citizen."

Clyde Shelton (Gerard Butler) is a normal, law abiding citizen until his family is murdered during a botched home invasion and the killer is set free thanks to a plea bargain offered by the prosecutor Nick Rice (Foxx).  In response, Shelton takes justice into his own hands.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 26% 

Foxx stars as Will Stacks, the character based on daddy Warbucks, in the 2014 reimagining of the classic musical "Annie."

Foxx leads this new, progressive take on the classic tale of "Annie," about a young orphan who longs for her parents to return and save her from the clutches of her mean foster mother.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 28%

1997's "Booty Call" is one of Foxx's early comedy gems.

Rushon (Tommy Davidson) is ready to take thing things to the next level with his girlfriend Nikki (Tamala Jones). But when he sets up a romantic date, she decides to make it a double-date and brings along her close friend Lysterine (Vivica A. Fox) who Rushon sets up with his extravagant friend Bunz (Foxx). 

Rotten Tomatoes score: 31%

Foxx and Gabrielle Union star in the 2004 screwball comedy "Breakin' All the Rules."

After being unceremoniously dumped by his fiancée, Quincy Watson (Foxx) writes a book on the correct way to end a relationship. And after the book is published, it becomes a surprising bestseller.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 31%

Ice Cube enlisted Foxx for his 1998 directorial debut "The Players Club."

To stay on top of her bills, Diana Armstrong (LisaRaye) starts stripping and joins the infamous Player's Club where she meets the smooth-talking DJ played by Foxx.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 35%

Foxx reprises his role as Dean "MF" Jones in 2014's "Horrible Bosses 2."

Three friends decide to quit their jobs and go into business for themselves. And after creating the prototype for a promising new invention, the guys attract the attention of a businessman who steals their idea. In response, the trio concocts a kidnapping scheme with a small-time criminal called Dean "Motherfucker" Jones (Foxx).

Rotten Tomatoes score: 36%

Foxx has a supporting role in Todd Phillips' 2010 comedy "Due Date."

Peter Highman (Robert Downey Jr.), a successful architect, is flying home from Atlanta to Los Angeles to be with his wife who is about to give birth. On the way to the airport, he has a chance encounter with Ethan Tremblay (Zach Galifianakis), but after Ethan uses the words "terrorist" and "bomb" while talking to Peter, they are both escorted off the plane and placed on a no-fly list.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 39%

Foxx plays a scheming boxer in the 1996 sports spoof "The Great White Hype."

Boxing promoter the Rev. Fred Sultan (Samuel L. Jackson) realizes that the only way to gain publicity for his top Black clients is to pit them against white boxers. But when there no white boxers available, he gets creative. 

Rotten Tomatoes score: 42%

Foxx teams up with Colin Farrell in 2006's "Miami Vice."

Based on the 1980s TV show of the same name, Michael Mann's action-packed thriller follows Miami-Dade Police detectives James "Sonny" Crockett (Farrell) and Ricardo "Rico" Tubbs (Foxx) whose personal and professional lives become dangerously intertwined during a high-profile drug case.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 47%

Foxx lent his voice to the 2014 sequel "Rio 2."

The 3D computer-animated musical follows a family of Blue macaws birds who decide to relocate from the city to the Amazon jungle to become more in touch with their fellow birds.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 50%

Foxx plays the supervillain Electro in 2014's "The Amazing Spider-Man 2."

Just as Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield) embraces his new role as the city's new hero, Electro (Foxx), a much more powerful villain, arrives on the scene and poses the biggest threat Parker has ever faced.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 50%

Foxx is the lead in 2007's ambitious thriller "The Kingdom."

After being set the most important assignment of his career, federal agent Ron Fleury (Foxx) is given one week to assemble a killer team and infiltrate a terrorist cell based in Saudi Arabia.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 51%

Legendary director Oliver Stone cast Foxx as his star for the 1999 sports drama, "Any Given Sunday."

Partly based on a 1984 novel of the same name, "Any Given Sunday" follows Al Pacino as the head coach of a once-revered football team with star players who are now struggling to win a single game. Foxx plays a bench warmer turned star quarterback who lets the game go to his head.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 52%

Foxx is the US president in 2013's "White House Down."

Police officer John Cale (Channing Tatum) has just failed to land his dream job of protecting President James Sawyer (Foxx) as a member of the Secret Service. And in an attempt to cheer up his young daughter, Cale takes her on a tour of the White House. But during the tour, an armed militia group attacks and takes control.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 52%

Foxx voices a foul-mouthed dog in the 2023 comedy "Strays."

Will Ferrell voices a terrier named Reggie who has become a stray after his owner (Will Forte) pulls a trick on him. Now, Reggie and other strays he's befriended (voiced by Foxx, Isla Fisher, Rob Riggle, Randall Park, and Josh Gad) set out to get revenge on Reggie's owner.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 54%

Foxx plays a vampire hunter in the 2022 Netflix movie "Day Shift."

Foxx plays a pool cleaner in the San Fernando Valley by day whose real job is secretly hunting and killing vampires by night. Come for the action sequences, and stay for Snoop Dogg killing vampires.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 57% 

Foxx teams up with Robert Downey Jr. in the 2009 tearjerker "The Soloist."

Journalist Steve Lopez (Robert Downey Jr.) is wandering through LA's Skid Row district when he spots a homeless man (Foxx) playing a two-stringed violin.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 57% 

Foxx stars in the intimate 2005 war epic "Jarhead."

Jake Gyllenhaal and Foxx join forces for acclaimed British director Sam Mendes's first-person account of life at war.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 60%

Foxx led his first Netflix movie, "Project Power," in 2020.

In near-future New Orleans, Frank (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) teams up with a rogue ex-soldier (Foxx) to track down the origins of a dangerous new drug that provides its users with temporary superpowers.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 61%

The stakes are high in Foxx's 2003 crime thriller "Shade."

Tiffany (Foxx) and his crew of con artists are looking to expand their criminal portfolio and decide to scam Dean "The Dean" Stevens (Dina Merrill), a well-known poker player during a rigged game.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 67%

Jamie Foxx plays Drew Bundini Brown, Muhammad Ali's assistant trainer in the acclaimed 2001 biopic "Ali."

The Michael Mann-directed biopic focuses on ten years in the life of legendary boxer Muhammad Ali, played by Will Smith, starting with his championship debut against Sonny Liston to his conversion to Islam, banishment from boxing, and finally, his triumphant return in 1974.

Rotten Tomatoes: 69%

Foxx is the comedic heavyweight in 2011's "Horrible Bosses."

One night at a bar, three friends decide to murder their overbearing and abusive bosses, and they turn to a random and seemingly inexperienced criminal (Foxx) for advice.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 69%

The first "Rio" film, out in 2011, won acclaim for its innovative animation and original songs.

A set of exotic Brazilian birds are smuggled to the United States where they live a domesticated life but when Blu, a rare bird, realizes he might be the last of his species on earth, he decides to travel back home. 

Rotten Tomatoes score: 72%

Foxx is a standout in 2006's "Dreamgirls."

Three talented singers form a music trio called the Dreamettes, and they quickly find success after they are spotted by talent scout manager Curtis Taylor Jr. (Foxx). But the group starts to unravel as Taylor's management becomes increasingly cruel and overbearing.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 79%

Foxx won an Oscar for his acclaimed performance as Ray Charles in 2004's "Ray."

Foxx, in perhaps his most memorable performance, transforms into the legendary Blues musician Ray Charles who lost his sight at age 9 but would go on to define a generation of American music.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 79%

Foxx teamed up with Brie Larson and Michael B. Jordan for the 2019 fact-based drama "Just Mercy."

After graduating from Harvard Law school, Bryan Stevenson (Michael B. Jordan) leaves for Alabama to open a law clinic dedicated to defending death row inmates. One of his first cases is Walter McMillian (Foxx), who was sentenced to die in 1987 for the murder of an 18-year-old girl despite overwhelming evidence proving his innocence.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 85%

One of Foxx's first on-screen roles was in the 1996 his "The Truth About Cats & Dogs."

A popular radio show host (Janeane Garofalo) is asked out on a date by one of her listeners, but when she backs out due to nerves she sends her friend Noelle (Uma Thurman) in her place.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 85%

Michael Mann teamed Foxx with Tom Cruise in the acclaimed 2004 thriller "Collateral."

Foxx plays an LA cab driver who realizes that the friendly passenger he's been driving around is actually a deadly hitman who has been executing murders all evening. And the final person on the kill list is one of his friends.

Foxx earned a best supporting actor Oscar nomination for this role in the same year he won the best actor Oscar for "Ray."

Rotten Tomatoes score: 86%

Foxx takes the lead in Quentin Tarantino's 2012 neo-Western "Django Unchained."

In 1858, three years before the civil war, Django (Foxx), a freed slave from the South, sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner with the help of an enigmatic German bounty hunter (Christoph Waltz).

Rotten Tomatoes score: 87%

Foxx starred in Edgar Wright's acclaimed 2017 heist thriller "Baby Driver."

Baby (Ansel Elgort) is a talented getaway driver for Atlanta's most dangerous criminals. But after he meets the woman of his dreams (Lily James), he decides to leave the business — until he is forced into one more big gig by an enigmatic crime boss (Kevin Spacey). Foxx plays one of the thugs Baby drives around.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 92%

Foxx plays a flashy lawyer in the 2023 legal drama "The Burial."

Based on true events, Foxx plays Willie E. Gary, an unconventional lawyer who helps a funeral home owner with financial troubles (Tommy Lee Jones) save his family business from a corporate behemoth.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 92%

Foxx returned as Electro/Max Dillon in the 2021 box office smash "Spider-Man: No Way Home."

Seven years after showing up in the Marvel universe in "The Amazing Spider-Man 2," Foxx got another shot at the MCU appearing as one of the villains three Peter Parkers (Tom Holland, Andrew Garfield, and Tobey Maguire) must face off with.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 93%

 

Foxx plays a jazz musician trying to get out of a coma in the 2020 Pixar movie "Soul."

In this acclaimed Pixar movie, Foxx plays Joe Gardner, a middle school teacher and aspiring jazz pianist who falls into a coma after an accident and must unite his soul and body in time for his big break as a jazz musician.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 95%

Foxx stars opposite Teyonah Parris and John Boyega in the 2023 Netflix sci-fi comedy "They Cloned Tyrone."

Foxx, Teyonah Parris, and John Boyega give outstanding performances as a trio who set out to uncover a government cloning conspiracy.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 95%

The Supreme Court upheld the TikTok ban under the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act. President-elect Donald Trump could reverse the ban when he takes office.

• The Supreme Court upheld a law on Friday that could cause TikTok to go dark in the US.
• In a concurring opinion, Justice Neil Gorsuch questioned whether the law would be effective.
• "Whether this law will succeed in achieving its ends, I do not know," Gorsuch wrote.

The US Supreme Court on Friday upheld a law that could soon ban TikTok.

While its decision — that the divest-or-ban law does not violate the First Amendment rights of TikTok or its users — was unanimous, Justice Neil Gorsuch offered his own view in a concurring opinion, raising doubts about whether the law would be effective.

"Whether this law will succeed in achieving its ends, I do not know. A determined foreign adversary may just seek to replace one lost surveillance application with another," Gorsuch wrote. "As time passes and threats evolve, less dramatic and more effective solutions may emerge. Even what might happen next to TikTok remains unclear."

"But the question we face today is not the law's wisdom, only its constitutionality," the justice wrote.

Gorsuch said that since the court was given just a handful of days to issue an opinion in the high-stakes matter, "I cannot profess the kind of certainty I would like to have about the arguments and record before us."

"All I can say is that, at this time and under these constraints, the problem appears real and the response to it not unconstitutional," he wrote.

In his opinion, Gorsuch said the court was right to refrain from "endorsing the government's asserted interest in preventing 'the covert manipulation of content' as a justification for the law before us."

"One man's 'covert content manipulation' is another's 'editorial discretion,'" he wrote.

"Journalists, publishers, and speakers of all kinds routinely make less-than-transparent judgments about what stories to tell and how to tell them," he added. "Without question, the First Amendment has much to say about the right to make those choices. It makes no difference that Americans (like TikTok Inc. and many of its users) may wish to make decisions about what they say in concert with a foreign adversary."

TikTok has fought to overturn the law, which was framed around national security concerns and signed last year by President Joe Biden. It gave TikTok's Beijing-based parent company, ByteDance, until January 19 to sell its US operations of the popular social media platform to a non-Chinese company or be booted from app stores.

In oral arguments before the Supreme Court last week, a lawyer for TikTok said the platform would likely "go dark" in the United States if the Supreme Court failed to extend the divestment deadline.

Google says it has begun requiring users to turn on JavaScript, the widely-used programming language to make web pages interactive, in order to use Google Search. In an email to TechCrunch, a company spokesperson claimed that the change is intended to “better protect” Google Search against malicious activity, such as bots and spam, and to […]

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U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren and Michael Bennet have formally asked Apple CEO Tim Cook and other “Big Tech” leaders to respond to questions regarding their million dollar donations to the Trump inauguration fund. Getting straight to the point: