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Happy Tuesday, Future Party. Here’s one of the funniest heists in some time: Thieves in New Jersey stole two trucks emblazoned with Nvidia logos, thinking they were making off with millions of dollars in AI chips. Turns out, the trailers were each filled with 20,000 pounds of sand. Sorry, thieves, you didn’t steal valuable silicon… you got your hands on a bunch of unrefined silica. Ba-dum-tss!

Rage retreats — day-long getaways where people can let out their anger — are booming in popularity around the world.

Why It Hits: Rage rooms have already taken off in recent years, but it seems like plenty of people need a bigger release. Maybe getting angry together is a cathartic new way to build community.

Between The Smashes: For your next trip, smashing things and organized screaming may just be on the itinerary, per Bloomberg.

Final Yell: Raging has been around since the days of ancient Greece, when women would head into the mountains together for communal rituals filled with dancing, shouting, and revelry. There are actually a lot of psychological benefits to releasing anger in a controlled environment (and a lot of not-so-great examples, i.e., The Purge). And while no psychologist sees rage retreats as a catch-all alternative to digging deeper into why you’re so angry, there are probably enough triggers in daily life (see: basically every headline) to warrant people needing to blow off some steam.

Next Release: “Luxury raging” is surely on the horizon. Expect breaking things to get very, very expensive.

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Music-tech startup Unit1 has raised $20 million to recreate iconic concerts using hologram avatars.

The Holographic Picture: Hologram concerts really kicked off a little over a decade ago when Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, and Tupac took the main stage at Coachella. More recently, the ABBA Voyage concert series has become a surprise breakout hit. Those projects are expensive to put on, but Unit1 has allegedly found a way to lower the cost, which could help scale the tech’s use.

Behind The Avatars: Founded by Barney Wragg, the former CEO of musical-theater legend Andrew Lloyd Webber’s entertainment group, Unit1 hopes to pack venues with fans of artists who aren’t really there.

The $20 million in funding is being earmarked for R&D and striking licensing deals with artists and their estates.

Encore: The Guardian reports that Unit1 is already experimenting with its tech with Scottish artist KT Tunstall, recreating a performance she did 20 years ago on the show Later… with Jools Holland. The key to Unit1’s potential success is that it can be done a lot cheaper than the ABBA Voyage show because its avatar concerts can essentially be retrofitted to any stage.

Coming Soon: It’s only a matter of time before real artists are regularly collaborating with avatars on stage. Wild.

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51.5% of you voted Yep, but it’s been a while in yesterday’s poll: Have you ever actually seen a movie at a drive-in theater?

“Shankweiler’s Drive-In Theater (1934), the world’s oldest, is in my neck of the woods. It was great when the kids were small!”

“I remember my parents sneaking my brother and me into the drive-in, covered under a blanket in the back of the family station wagon, so we could see Raiders of the Lost Ark.”

“I grew up on them in Connecticut. It would be a family tradition to go once a summer and see a double feature. Then, during COVID, they were the only way to see a movie on the big screen, so I went to one, and it was just as fun. Big fan, and I hope they continue!”

“My mom and dad used to take me when I was very young, and as my whole family grew, we kept going. Then, when my friends and I were old enough to get our own driver’s licenses, we went until it went out of fashion and closed down. Lots of great memories.”

“Nothing can compare to a date night at the drive-in. Sneak in some snacks and enjoy country living.”

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🍿 The No. 1 movie at the box office this past weekend was… a re-release of Avengers: Endgame.

🎢 The first-ever Minecraft rollercoaster is coming to a new game-themed amusement park in London.

🎮 Sony filed a patent for a game controller that also acts as a digital wallet.

🚀 SpaceX successfully put Starship into Earth orbit for the first time.

🤖 Nvidia released a new platform that can allegedly stop rogue AI agents in seconds.

🫠 Speaking of rogue agents, OpenAI revealed a lot more instances of hacking. No wonder Florida’s AG is trying to halt the company’s development.

👟 Nike and Tom Sachs are releasing an updated version of their iconic collaboration.

🎧 Even Bose is getting into the wired headphones game.

🏀 A Cooper Flagg rookie card sold for a whopping $8 million. Whoa.