Feroz Khan

Good morning #Dubai. Rise and shine

Accumulated small changes over the years shows the horror of consistently making bad decisions. However you slice it, may be they're targetting a different market now and their priorities have changed; the ethos of the company was eroded in small indiscernible steps.

Photography on film. Somewhere in Texas

When I was a kid we were bored… ALL. THE. TIME. So you did stuff to fight the boredom. You went to the movies. You rode your bike to the gas station. You got dropped off at the mall. People just aren’t bored anymore.

@BinduRai I wonder how that's going to play out considering Gabbard has recently put out a statement saying Pakistan is a nuclear threat to the USA

Very interesting turn of affairs if true.

@RockyEatsX Kung Pao chicken? Looks super spicy 🔥

Tao-Fu Pune ! The set meal is excellent, great value for money and leaves you absolutely satiated. Enjoyed the food … the Lobster, the Dim sums and the Chicken below were outstanding. Thank you Pune !! Loved it 1/3

@gtvone @ProGradeDigital Wait what reader are you using to achieve these speeds 🤯

In better WAY more fun news, I'm SO stoked every time I transfer from one @ProGradeDigital to another... so sooooo fast. Remember the old days! 2005, I want my HOURS back!

@JohnCleese I firmly believe that John Cleese is being paid by a third party to post at least some Tweets that he's either not composed himself or where he's been strongly guided as to the content. Reason being, he has a lot of followers and he's seen as an influencer of UK public opinion.

decided to stop using modern Office and installed Office 2010 instead seeing these views make me so sad everything is so clean, compact, efficient

Can you believe it’s only been 81 days into 2026

The false flag attack on the Jewish ambulances in Golders Green, London has backfired massively. Because now people are asking why Jews in London have separate ambulances. And once they start digging they’ll find out they have special police vehicles too Dear oh dear.

Now there is a heavy cold in Al-Badair in Sharjah 😍

Emirates EK329 Shenzhen → Dubai today... cabin packed, lots of passengers heading to Dubai and transiting onward. It’s impressive... even with regional tensions, people still trust Emirates and DXB as a safe transit point, and the competitive fares probably help. Shows the airline’s strength and Dubai’s pull as a hub.

From my personal collection. A Radio license from 1971. Did you know? Owning a radio in India required a license. Issued by the Indian Postal Department, it had to be renewed annually. The fee was Rs 15 for domestic radios and Rs 25 for commercial use.

Two killed and over a dozen injured in the collision between Jazz Airlines Flight 646, a Canadair Regional Jet CRJ-900, and a firetruck at LaGuardia Airport in New York City.

BREAKING: Several injuries after Air Canada plane and firetruck collide on runaway at New York's LaGuardia Airport

George Lucas traded $350,000 in directing salary for something Fox executives thought was worthless: the right to sell Star Wars toys. It was 1976. Over 40 studios had already passed on his script, including Disney. Fox only greenlit the project because they wanted Lucas for other films. Nobody at the studio expected to make money on a space opera with no stars, so when Lucas offered to cut his directing fee from $500,000 to $150,000 in exchange for merchandising and sequel rights, Fox said yes on the spot. Movie merchandise was a dead business. Fox had lost money on Doctor Dolittle lunchboxes a decade earlier. They thought they were getting the better deal. Lucas couldn’t even find a toy company that wanted in. Kenner, a division of cereal company General Foods, finally bought the licensing for a flat $100,000. Then Star Wars opened. Between 1977 and 1978, Kenner sold $100 million worth of toys off that $100,000 investment. They couldn’t make enough for Christmas ’77, so they sold empty boxes with IOUs inside, promising to mail the action figures later. Parents paid real money for cardboard and a promise. Nobody around the production saw any of this coming. Alec Guinness, who played Obi-Wan, privately called the script “fairy-tale rubbish.” But he was shrewd enough to negotiate 2.25% of royalties instead of a flat fee. About 20 minutes of total screen time earned his estate somewhere between $50 million and $100 million. Lucas himself was so convinced the film would flop that he offered Spielberg a bet while visiting the Close Encounters set: swap 2.5% of each other’s profits. Spielberg took it. That handshake has paid him around $40 million. And then the money started compounding. Lucas poured his Star Wars profits into ILM, the effects house he’d built for the film. When its computer graphics division got too expensive to maintain, he sold it to Steve Jobs in 1986 for $10 million. Jobs renamed it Pixar. Disney bought Pixar twenty years later for $7.4 billion. Then in 2012, Disney came back for the rest, buying Lucasfilm itself for $4.05 billion. Total franchise revenue today sits around $46.7 billion, over $20 billion from merchandise alone. The filmmaker 40 studios passed on is now worth $5.3 billion according to Forbes. Fifty years ago today, cameras rolled on a desert in Tunisia. The $350,000 pay cut that made it all possible might be the best trade in business history.

No, they don't. Apple now has arguably the most popular top to bottom mobile lineup while "failing" at AI. I wonder why. Because whatever is pro (clueless) analyst is typically anti-consumer. Copilot didn't make Windows better Galaxy AI didn't make Samsung better Gemini hasn't made Google products better Meta AI enshitified Facebook & WhatsApp experiences The list goes on. Spare us with the "bold new AI products" trope.

BYD just unveiled an electric car that can charge from 10 to 70 percent in five minutes, and all the way in nine More proof that EVs are going to dominate the future, just a question of how long it takes — and who will build them Via @WIRED wired.com/story/how-byds…

Imagine how bad the work has been done by BJP in last 12 years of governance They needed a movie to showcase their achievements. Not a single big achievement on ground to prove What a Pity

🔴Sri Lanka is in talks with @emirates and @qatarairways about using Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport (HRI) as an alternative hub amid the ongoing conflict in the Middle East. The airport, often called the country's "ghost airport," opened in 2013 and has barely seen any commercial traffic since. The geography is actually not bad at all for connecting Europe and Africa to Asia and the South Pacific. The real challenge is the logistics of spinning up full A380 scale hub operations from scratch, ground equipment, catering, crew accommodation, and all. #Aviation #Emirates #Qatar