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Dun dunDun dunDun dun dun dun dun dun dun dunIf you're looking for some movies to really get your teeth into this summer, Peacock has a feast of fearsome finny fun for you: to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the original movie, all four Jaws movies are now streaming on the service in the US.That's a big deal for fans of the franchise who previously had to subscribe to multiple best streaming services to watch all four films. Indeed, for those in the UK and Australia, you'll need a subscription to Prime Video, Paramount+ and more to be able to do the same, which I've listed out below.The first movie is the most famous and the best of the bunch, of course, but all four are well worth watching – albeit for very different reasons. The first movie effectively invented the summer blockbuster and is widely regarded as a milestone in modern cinema; Jaws 3-D, not so much. But whether you're looking for a marine-based masterpiece or one of the later films where you're on Team Shark, there's lots to enjoy here.JawsWhere to watch: Peacock (US), Prime Video (UK), Paramount+ / Binge (AU)The original 1975 movie is a masterpiece, thanks in no small part to an up-and-coming filmmaker called Steven Spielberg. Based on the novel of the same name by Peter Benchley, Jaws is a gripping tale of a sunny tourist resort menaced by an implacable predator that taps into our primal fear of things with sharp teeth hunting us for their dinner. The effects may look a big shonky compared to today's CGI-fests but Jaws still sinks its teeth into you: Empire Magazine suggests it could be Spielberg's finest moment, which is high praise indeed.Jaws 2Where to watch: Peacock (US), Prime Video (UK), Binge (AU)You'll never guess what's in the water... that's right! A shark! Roy Scheider returns as Chief Brody in a second and reasonably successful instalment of toothy terror, and while director Jeannot Schwarc is no Spielberg – his mid-80s Supergirl has just 8% on Rotten Tomatoes, one of the lowest film ratings I've ever seen – if you approach Jaws 2 as a big silly scare it's still plenty of fun. As Newsweek put it, "It's better than most sequels. It's formula-ridden but slick, and the special effects work as intended."Jaws 3-DWhere to watch: Peacock (US), Prime Video (UK)If you'd told me that Jaws 3D would outlive not one but two 3D crazes I'd have laughed, but it's true. Jaws 3D, renamed Jaws III for the 2D version that's streaming now, is pretty terrible and quite a lot of fun as a result. I've laughed a lot at the gratuitous use of 3D effects just for the sake of using 3D effects: what was funny then is even funnier in 2D now.Can a film about a shark jump the shark? Film-Authority.com thinks so: it "makes a laughing stock of what was scary just once upon a time." And I love ScreenRush's take: "No movie with Dennis Quaid holding a basset hound's ears to keep them out of his water bowl while pouring himself some coffee can be all bad. Jaws 3-D comes pretty close."Jaws: The RevengeWhere to watch: Peacock (US), ITVX (UK), Paramount+ (AU)Despite the title this isn't about a tourist town police chief swimming after a shark and trying to bite it. The setup here is that Chief Brody's widow is convinced that an angry shark is targeting her family. "This time," the posters said, "It's personal."Remember a few moments ago I said Supergirl's 8% Rotten Tomatoes rating was the worst I'd ever seen? I was fibbing. Jaws: The Revenge has 2%. "Jaws is looking a bit long in the tooth these days," the Chicago Tribune chuckled. And Gene Siskel, also in the Tribune, was very clear about who he wanted to see churned into chum. "Let's put it this way: When you see and hear the nasal Lorraine Gary on screen you want the shark to eat her.""A lot of the time, the people in this picture just stand around looking very sad, as if remembering happier days," the Orlando Sentinel wrote. "Watching this sorry film, you know how they must feel."You may also likeJaws is finally getting the Lego treatment with a brick-built boat and sharkNetflix shark movie Under Paris hailed as 'Jaws set in France' by impressed viewersThe best Shark vacuum cleaners. Your writer is easily amused by stupid jokes

Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow has been given a much cleaner and shorter titleDC Studios co-chief James Gunn has confirmed the name changeThe superhero movie will be released in theaters worldwide in June 2026Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow is no longer the official name of the forthcoming DC comic book movie, James Gunn has revealed.Speaking to Rolling Stone, the DC Studios co-chief confirmed the Milly Alcock-starring film will now go by a much shorter title: Supergirl.The surprise announcement came right at the start of Rolling Stone's profile piece on Gunn, which was conducted as part of the promotional campaign for the writer/director's upcoming Superman film. Asked by the interviewer if he could clarify what Woman of Tomorrow is being referred to as these days, Gunn paused before saying: "I think it’s just called Supergirl."Elaborating on the title change, Gunn used Superman's next big-screen outing, which was originally called Superman: Legacy, to explain why Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow's name had been shortened."I’m always cutting [down project titles]," Gunn replied. "Legacy was really – we [DC Studios] do something called a premortem. A premortem is you get together with your group that’s doing the project. It’s usually about a couple months before shooting... [and] one of the things I brought up was, it [Gunn's Superman movie] was [originally] called Superman: Legacy."Even though I was the one that gave it that title, I just wasn’t sure," Gunn continued. "First of all, I’m sick of the superhero title, colon, other-name thing. Also, it seemed to be looking back when we’re looking forward, even though it does have to do with legacy in the movie itself. And everybody was like, 'Oh, yeah, no, change it.'"Woman of Tomorrow, but a title for todayMilly Alcock will play Kara Zor-El/Supergirl in the DCU (Image credit: James Gunn/Twitter)It might pain some DC comic book fans to learn about Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow's new, truncated titled. After all, the upcoming DC Universe (DCU) movie is basically adapting its eight-issue graphic novel namesake, which was created by comic book writer Tom King and drawn by Bilquis Eveley.Nevertheless, in my view, renaming the DCU Chapter One film is the right decision. Supergirl has a much cleaner feel to it. Additionally, for non-DC comic devotees who don't already know it'll retell one of Kara Zor-El's best stories in a live-action format, its new title maintains an air of mystery about what its plot will actually entail.Then there's the fact that, unlike more iconic DC heroes including Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman, there's only been one other Supergirl movie: 1984's Supergirl, which starred Helen Slater and is available to stream on Max. So the prospect of confusing viewers with an identically titled flick over 40 years on from the Maiden of Might's silver screen debut shouldn't be of major concern.All in all, I'm pretty happy that Supergirl has dropped its subtitle. It certainly rolls off the tongue better than its previous moniker, but its title change does mean I'll need to give my Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow guide a major overhaul. Lucky me, eh?Supergirl will take flight in theaters worldwide on June 26, 2026.You might also likeFirst image for new Supergirl movie shows Milly Alcock's Kara Zor-El in a place that'll be very familiar to DC comic book fans4 crucial Superman movie details you might have missed in the DC movie's final trailerJames Gunn confirms new Wonder Woman movie is on the way, and DC fans say a Star Wars actor is the clear choice to play her

The Switch 2 is officially out in the wild, but the launch lineup is a bit thin. Mario Kart World is great, of course, but I'm missing a legitimate 3D platformer. That's where Donkey Kong Bananza comes in. Nintendo has announced a Direct livestream for its next first-party game, scheduled for June 18 at 9AM ET.

It'll stream live via Nintendo's official YouTube account. We've put an embed below, so feel free to keep this page bookmarked for Wednesday morning. We'll be watching and will pull out all of the juicy banana-shaped nuggets.

Nintendo promises "roughly 15 minutes of information about the upcoming Nintendo Switch 2 game." That matches the length of the recent Direct that was dedicated to Mario Kart World.

We still don't know too much about this game, other than the basics. It stars Donkey Kong and he wants to collect gigantic gold bananas because of course he does. The game worlds are destructible, so the goofball gorilla can get his Minecraft on and dig through just about anything.

It has been suggested that any ape-related destruction remains as a permanent part of the map, thanks to the increased power of the Switch 2. The initial trailer also shows some sidescrolling sections inspired by Donkey Kong Country.

This seems like the perfect video game to tide us over until Mario gets his lazy butt away from the racing tracks and back into saving kingdoms. Donkey Kong Bananza will be available on July 17 for Switch 2.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/gaming/nintendo/theres-a-nintendo-direct-for-donkey-kong-bananza-on-june-18-153503678.html?src=rss

For years, users of the best iPads have been contending that their tablets aren’t as capable as they could be, and a big part of that argument centers on window management. After all, the discussion goes, how can you manage multiple apps and workflows if you struggle to keep them all under control?Well, at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) earlier this month, Apple attempted to answer those critics emphatically, bringing a huge update to iPadOS 26 that included improved productivity features and multiple overlapping windows, plus several Mac-like additions, including a menu bar and the multi-colored “traffic light” buttons for minimizing and maximizing app windows. It was a massive, long-awaited change.This got me thinking: while I don’t believe that Apple has any intention of merging iPadOS and macOS for the time being (Craig Federighi even said as much in a recent interview), something is looming on the horizon that’s going to test that resolve to the limit. It might not be long before Apple is forced to reckon with the possibility of cannibalizing its own operating systems in order to make something better.The foldable future(Image credit: Future)Despite unveiling a bunch of new features at WWDC that brought its iPad and Mac software releases closer together, Apple’s actual hardware remains solidly distinct. You’re unlikely to confuse an iPad tablet for one of the best MacBooks (unless you’ve attached it to a Magic Keyboard mount, of course).Yet if the rumors are to be believed, this could all change in the next couple of years. That’s because according to Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman’s latest Power On newsletter, Apple is set to release a 19-inch foldable device by 2028 that sits somewhere between Apple’s tablet and its laptop.The idea is you can fold it out flat and use it like a giant tablet, or crease it along its hinge and use it as a laptop. Apple has never made something like this, but companies like Huawei have already launched their own attempts. We even reviewed the original Asus Zenbook Fold a couple of years back, when this tech was still in relative infancy. Don’t be surprised to see more in the coming years.A product like this raises some serious questions regarding software. Right now, Apple says that merging iPadOS and macOS wouldn’t work because macOS isn’t designed for touch and iPadOS should retain its simplicity. In other words, a sturdy boundary should divide the two platforms. But what do you do to your software when your hardware has already obliterated those boundaries?That might become the reality by late this decade. Depending on what Apple does to its software at that time, Federighi might have to eat his words.Testing Apple’s resolve(Image credit: Apple)Over the years, Apple has given a few different reasons why it’s not planning to merge iPadOS and macOS, but they’ve all come back to the idea that the two systems are better off apart. By forcing tablets and computers to use the same platform, Apple says, you end up making too many compromises to get the operating system working well for everyone. The result is a bland mixture that loses everything that makes iPadOS and macOS unique and powerful.But there might be another thought that’s holding Apple back: the fear of cannibalizing its own products. This makes a certain degree of sense – while neither the Mac nor the iPad bring in as much raw cash as the iPhone, they’re still massive moneymakers for Apple. Why jeopardize that?Interestingly, this might not be a way of thinking that Apple founder Steve Jobs would have embraced. Under his watch, the company occasionally launched devices that overshadowed its other products (or made them outright obsolete). Take the iPhone, for example: for all of Apple’s rivals’ talk of releasing the next “iPod killer,” it was the iPhone itself that leapfrogged the iPod and led to its premature demise.(Image credit: Future / Lance Ulanoff)That wasn’t some accident – it was a very deliberate decision on Apple’s part. I’m currently reading the Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson, and coincidentally came across the following Jobs quote right around the time Apple was bringing Mac-like features to iPadOS 26: “If you don’t cannibalize yourself, someone else will.” Destroying your own bestsellers every now and then was a way to keep your lineup fresh, embrace exciting advances, and avoid getting stuck in a technological rut.When the foldable iPad-Mac hybrid arrives a few years down the road, will Apple be able to call upon that mindset when it comes to the software that runs on this device? Will it cannibalize iPadOS and macOS with something newer, stronger, and better suited to its foldable?Or will it pick an existing operating system and maintain its insistence that iPadOS and macOS must be kept forever discrete, even on the clearest example yet of the company overlapping its hardware?None of us can know for sure what will happen, but I’ve no doubt that Apple is frantically trying to work out the best approach inside its top-secret labs. This foldable will be the sternest test yet of Apple’s ability to craft a software experience that works for the hardware at hand – and could help us finally learn whether it will ever merge iPadOS and macOS.You might also like‘With macOS, you’d lose what makes iPad iPad’: Apple explains why it’ll never let its tablets become full MacsDon't call it a Mac – I went hands-on with iPadOS 26, here's what you need to knowApple's giant foldable iPad could be crease-free and run macOS apps, new report claims

Donald Trump is launching a cellular brand called Trump Mobile. The newly formed company, which was announced today by Donald Trump Jr., will sell a single wireless plan called “The 47 Plan,” which offers unlimited talk and texting, as well as unlimited data that throttles speeds after the first 20GB each month. The Trump Mobile plan is a white-label plan built on an existing mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) called Liberty Mobile. The company also plans to sell “The T1 Phone,” a gold-accented smartphone that it says will be manufactured in the United States.

During the announcement event for Trump Mobile held at Trump Tower in New York City, Donald Trump Jr. said they were building something for “people who have been underserved,” and to “make sure that real Americans could get true value from their mobile carriers.” Trump Mobile’s only plan will cost $47.45 per month, which is roughly double that of equivalent offerings at other low-cost carriers like Mint Mobile and Boost Mobile. Liberty Mobile, the MVNO behind Trump Mobile, offers plans starting at $20 per month. Customers will be able to use their own devices with a Trump Mobile SIM card.

The plan will supposedly include a telemedicine service powered by Doctegrity, which will allow subscribers to access medical and behavioral health services through the third-party provider. The plan is also said to include roadside assistance provided by Drive America and mobile device protection by Omega Mobile Care.

Details on The T1 Phone are sparse, though some specs are listed on the website. The phone is said to sport a 6.8” AMOLED screen with a 120 Hz refresh rate, a rear three-camera setup with a 50MP main camera, and 2MP “depth sensor” and macro cameras, a fingerprint sensor and “AI Face Unlock,” and a “5000mAh long life camera,” which we presume was intended to describe the battery. The phone is said to run on Android 15. Oh, and it costs $499, which is both more than what it's likely worth, and casts doubt on its manufacturing claims. Recall that estimates for American-made iPhone were in the ballpark of $1,500. Who knows if it will ever see the light of day, but if it does, maybe this piece of Trump-branded merch will be free of obvious spelling errors.

Donald Trump’s various licensing ventures have proved lucrative for the sitting president. In his latest financial disclosure, Trump disclosed over $50 million in income from token sales related to his crypto venture with World Liberty Financial. The disclosure also listed incomes of $2.8 million from Trump Watches, $2.5 million from Trump Sneakers and Fragrances, $1.3 million from the Greenwood Bible and $1.16 million from his NFTs.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/mobile/god-help-us-donald-trump-plans-to-sell-a-phone-155830965.html?src=rss