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😨/🤑 Fear & Greed: 26 — Fear

📱 The newcomer they're already afraid of

Foldables are still a niche market — Samsung leads, Huawei trails, everyone else picks up crumbs. Apple hasn't entered yet. Counterpoint Research went ahead and modeled what happens when it does.

Their 2026 forecast: one in four foldable smartphones shipped globally will be an iPhone Ultra. Straight to second place, ahead of Huawei, behind only Samsung.

🔸 Samsung: drops from 40% to 32%
🔸 Apple: debuts at 25%
🔸 Huawei: slides from 30% to 24%
🔸 Motorola: 8%, HONOR: 3%

The overall market is projected to grow 21% year-over-year — largely on the strength of Apple's entry alone.

A fun wrinkle: Samsung just unveiled the Galaxy Z Fold8 in a shorter, wider form factor — exactly the shape rumored for the iPhone Ultra. Samsung's mobile chief told Joanna Stern the resemblance is purely coincidental. Sure it is.

9to5Mac

🎬 The Blade Runner universe is back — and the power balance has flipped

Quick context: Blade Runner is Ridley Scott's 1982 sci-fi classic about humans and engineered humanoids called replicants. The 2017 sequel went quiet after that.

The first live-action series in franchise history lands November 25 on Prime Video. Eight episodes, Michelle Yeoh and Hunter Schafer leading, Scott as executive producer.

The trailer is dense neon cyberpunk — and looks expensive. Set 50 years after 2049, replicants now run society, humans are the minority. Schafer plays blade runner Cora; Yeoh plays the replicant she reluctantly teams up with. Billed as a limited series — one contained story, full stop.

For a franchise that's struggled with sequels, that might be exactly right.

Engadget

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Dr8I_RyRCg

⚽ Same bridge, twice, two hours apart

Cristian Volpato — 22-year-old Socceroos midfielder who played at this year's World Cup — had quite the Thursday night in Sydney.

First stop on Anzac Bridge: 86–94 km/h in a 60 zone, breath test clean. Two hours later, same road, now 109 km/h — and a positive roadside test for cocaine.

His licence is suspended for six months; police have taken a secondary sample and inquiries continue. Football Australia and his club Sassuolo haven't commented, per BBC Sport.

Twice. Same bridge. Two hours apart.

📌 Daily Recap · Jul 26

📱 Apple enters foldables and owns a quarter of the market
🎬 Blade Runner finally gets its first-ever live-action series
⚽ Socceroos star caught speeding twice on the same bridge

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😨/🤑 Fear & Greed: 30 — Fear

🚗 Samurai in sheet metal

To mark 25 years in Japan, Lamborghini built exactly 25 Revuelto Impavidos through its Ad Personam program. The name alone spans three cultures — Spanish, Italian, Bushido — and the design follows through: katana creases on the doors, gold odoshi lacing, a front fascia shaped after the samurai helmet crest maedate.

Four colorways, each symbolic. One pulls from the Sanada clan's battlefield red.

The drivetrain is standard Revuelto: naturally aspirated V12, three electric motors, 1,001 hp, 217 mph+. No price listed. With 25 cars, it sells itself to whoever gets the call.

Uncrate

🎮 Faye steps forward — with a war of her own

The God of War saga started as a Greek warrior's revenge on Olympus, evolved into a Norse epic, and now takes its boldest turn yet. Faye — Kratos' wife, who died in *Ragnarok* — is the protagonist this time.

God of War Laufey arrives on PS5 on February 16 next year. Players follow Laufey through the afterlife of gods, picking up right where *Ragnarok* left her. A gameplay teaser dropped about a month ago already showed she's nobody's background character — she's cutting enemies apart mid-air and wielding magic against creatures the franchise has never shown before.

At San Diego Comic-Con, Santa Monica Studio confirmed the release date and added one more thing: a new Kratos-led God of War is also coming after this one.

Faye isn't a detour. She's a whole new door.

Engadget

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLMX2w3cwuE

🔥 Ryan Gosling Is Ghost Rider — And Yes, This Is Real

Marvel spent years dropping hints, fans spent years asking nicely — and at Comic-Con's Hall H, Kevin Feige finally made it official: Ryan Gosling is joining the MCU as Ghost Rider.

The film is directed by Shawn Levy, who paired with Gosling on *Star Wars: Starfighter* and helmed the record-breaking *Deadpool & Wolverine*. Release: 2028.

Gosling spent years publicly campaigning for the role — openly talking about his love for the character. It's genuinely rare for an actor to lobby a studio this hard and actually win. The fact that Levy is attached suggests Marvel isn't treating this as a side quest.

A flaming skull. Played by Ken. The timeline has fully stopped explaining itself.

Collider

🚗 The door that won't open

Tesla's flush electronic door handles — recessed into the body for aerodynamics — go dead in a crash along with everything else. More than a dozen people survived the impact, then couldn't escape the burning car.

NHTSA rejected a defect investigation petition from a Silicon Valley engineer who had to climb out through a rear window after a head-on collision. Instead, per The Verge, the regulator is pursuing something broader: new standards that would require all automakers to include a clear emergency exit mechanism. Earliest likely outcome: 2030.

China banned electronic handles outright this year. Tesla has promised a redesign, on no particular timeline — the goal, says design chief Franz von Holzhausen, is handles that are more intuitive in a panic situation.

Which is one way to put it.

💸 Real-world assets just took over a crypto exchange

Hyperliquid is a decentralized perpetual futures exchange — and last week it crossed a line it had never crossed before.

From July 13–19, tokenized real-world assets (stocks, bonds, funds on-chain) drove $25.1B in volume, or 52% of Hyperliquid's $48.2B weekly total. First time ever one category outweighed everything else combined — and per ARK Invest's research director, Hyperliquid's RWA market alone beat the combined crypto-perp volume of every other DEX.

Over the same month, RWA holders grew 32% to 1.25 million users, still a sector most people call a niche experiment. Circle's co-founder called it a "major structural shift." NYSE parent ICE is already asking regulators to clear the way for 24/7 on-chain futures. Per Blockworks.

The kind of milestone people tend to reference later as the moment it became obvious.

Cointelegraph

📌 Daily Recap · Jul 27

🗡️ Lamborghini built 25 samurai-inspired Revueltos for Japan
⚔️ Faye takes the wheel in new God of War
🔥 Ryan Gosling officially becomes Ghost Rider in MCU
🚗 Tesla's fancy door handles trap people after crashes
📈 Real-world assets now majority of Hyperliquid's volume

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