I’ll teach it to let friends in by looking at their faces when they ring the doorbell. “Then I’ll start teaching it to understand my voice to control everything in our home – music, lights, temperature and so on. Existing home-automation tools from companies such as Google’s Nest, Phillips and Samsung all allow a fairly high level of control of a “smart home”, and can be paired with voice control software, including that from Apple, Amazon and Massachusetts-based specialists Nuance. Zuckerberg will start the project by “exploring what technology is already out there”. Previous aims have included spending a year eating only meat from animals he killed himself in 2011, to read two books a month in 2015, and to learn Mandarin in a year in 2010.Īnd when he declares one of the challenges, he goes hard on it: in October last year, he showed off his language abilities, delivering a 20-minute speech to students at Beijing’s Tsinghua University entirely in Mandarin. Iron Man 3 releases in theatres on Friday.It’s the latest of Zuckerberg’s annual personal goals, mini-challenges that the CEO sets himself every year. Kingsley, displaying an entire repertoire of acting skills and accents, has probably never enjoyed himself so much on screen, clearly the best thing about the film. Pearce, who unfortunately does few films, is a powerful adversary, bringing a physical force into his character that matches up to Iron Man. The action sequences are edge-of-the-cushion stuff-including the helicopter attack that brings down the house, the hand-held delivery drop of 13 people who have fallen off Air Force One, and the climax when Stark’s experimentation with remote-operating bodysuits comes to fruition.īut it’s the villains, as happens often, who hold your attention. But nobody does cool as well as he does, whether it’s the fashionably-styled hair or the fascinating array of coloured glasses. His portrayal of Stark is beginning to merge with that of Sherlock Holmes, another role he has repeated. He gets together an interesting ensemble of actors, pulls off a brilliant twist in the middle of the film, and creates edgy characters.ĭowney is predictably glib, though he has far fewer smart lines than he did in The Avengers. This time round, the franchise gets a new director in Shane Black (Favreau helmed the first two instalments) and Black improves greatly upon Iron Man 2 (2010). His only help comes from a tech-savvy child, Harley ( Ty Simpkins), and his trusted robot Jarvis ( Paul Bettany’s voice). Stark now has to manage on his own, out of his den, without his toys or his suit, against zombie-like enemies he cannot understand. It’s also the time when typically callous neglect from the past comes back to haunt Stark in the form of a mad scientist-turned-suave entrepreneur, Aldrich Killian ( Guy Pearce).
The consequences are not pleasant, as Stark’s world comes crashing down, along with his Malibu mansion, and puts Pepper’s life in danger. When Stark’s head of security Happy ( Jon Favreau) becomes a victim of one of Mandarin’s attacks, the billionaire challenges the terrorist. The Mandarin cannot be found he can be seen only in the video messages that he sends across. He is not too concerned even when a terrorist who calls himself the Mandarin ( Ben Kingsley) starts attacking different parts of the US. Stark ( Robert Downey Jr), who has not slept for 72 hours, is spending too much time in the basement with his gadgets, which is upsetting Pepper ( Gwyneth Paltrow).
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