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Merge 104.8 | 17 August 2026
Spider-Man: Brand New Day has crossed the $2 billion mark in global ticket sales. This now makes it the second-fastest film to reach the $2 billion mark, after 2019’s Avengers: Endgame, which got there after 11 days. Brand New Day will leave the big screen as one of the highest-grossing movies of all time.
A 24-hour coffee shop run entirely by a single robot has opened in Beijing, offering coffee with an average wait time of less than 30 seconds per cup. On its opening day, the shop served 202 cups of coffee in one hour, setting a Guinness World Record for the most cups of coffee served by a robot-operated store in an hour.
James Blunt is back with new music. The new song, called Tastes Like Summer, is described as feeling like a “lovely dip into the pool of romance”. Speaking about the release, James said the song binds the joy of summer to the joy of being attracted to someone. This is the first new music James has released since his Who We Used To Be album in 2023.
