DC Has a Chance to Save Superman. Here’s What It Needs to Do
Henry Cavill is getting back into the cape, and James Gunn and Peter Safran now control the studio. Here’s how they can bring the Man of Steel back to life.
Read MoreHenry Cavill is getting back into the cape, and James Gunn and Peter Safran now control the studio. Here’s how they can bring the Man of Steel back to life.
Read MoreMore startups are inviting workers to trade their unused PTO, a perk that can also benefit employers. It may also worsen US workers’ vacation deficit.
Read MoreOver the decades, a lot of attempts have been made to try and make pens and pencils “smart”. Whether it’s to enable a pen to also digitally record what we’re writing down on paper, to create fully digital drawings with the haptics of inks and paints, or to jot down some notes on a touch
Read MoreThis week AMD will finally unveil its chiplet-based RDNA3 GPUs. The big question is whether AMD will follow Nvidia’s lead with power-guzzling, fire-breathing GPUs, and at what price? The gaming community has been split on the RTX 4090. Some appreciate its record-breaking performance, while others have lambasted its size, power requirements, and its ability to
Read MoreJames Ball / New Statesman: Elon Musk’s plan to monetize Twitter verification would generate marginal revenue, even at $20/month, and create myriad problems, including enabling spammers — Elon Musk’s latest brainwave risks alienating the users Twitter depends on and would expose it to lawsuits.
Read MoreJackie Davalos / Bloomberg: Uber reports Q3 revenue rose 72% YoY to $8.34B, beating $8.1B estimates, as gross bookings rose 26% YoY to $29.1B, including $13.7B from Uber Eats — Uber Technologies Inc. reported revenue that beat analysts’ expectations, fueled by a recovery in driver supply that supported increased ridership …
Read MoreAndy Robinson / Video Games Chronicle: Sony reports PlayStation Plus subscribers declined to 45.4M in Q2, down from 47.3M in Q1, and PlayStation Network MAUs dropped to 102M in Q2 from 103M in Q1 — PlayStation Plus subscribers have dropped by nearly 2 million users since the revamped service launched in June.
Read MoreWasm may just be the most important emerging technology that you’ve never heard of. Ok, maybe you’ve heard of it. It’s important! Shorthand for WebAssembly language, Wasm was developed for the web. However, Wasm technology has expanded beyond the web browser. Now organizations are starting to run Wasm on the server side. For example, my
Read MoreOn the trail of AlphaBay’s mastermind, a tip leads detectives to a suspect in Bangkok—and to the daunting task of tracing his millions in cryptocurrency.
Read MoreAccording to Pluralsight’s recent State of Cloud report, 75% of IT organizations are building net-new applications and innovations in the cloud. That means 25% of their applications undergo lift-and-shift migration. There’s a debate about the disconnect when it’s time to execute cloud migrations. Lifting and shifting application workloads is known to limit the benefits of being on
Read MoreFinancial Times: Sources: Morgan Stanley and six banks plan to hold $12.7B in debt from Elon Musk’s Twitter buyout until early 2023, pending a clearer business plan from Musk — Lenders concede they will struggle to drum up demand until Elon Musk unveils detailed strategy — Banks that lent $12.7bn …
Read MoreMaria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: Gartner forecasts public cloud spending will grow 20.7% to $591.8B in 2023, including SaaS spending up 16.8% to $195.2B and PaaS spending up 23.2% to $136.4B — Worldwide spending on public cloud services will grow 20.7% in 2023, to $591.8 billion, according to a new Gartner Inc. forecast released today.
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The number of people subscribing to Sony’s PlayStation Plus fell from 47.3 million to 45.4 million this quarter, the company announced in its latest earnings release. It’s the subscription service’s third quarterly decline in a row, and comes despite Sony launching a revamped subscription lineup between May and
Read MorePantone Color Books now require a paid subscription for Adobe products, with even old PSD files now displaying black in place of used Pantone colors. | Image: Adobe Last week, Adobe removed support for free Pantone colors across its Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator Creative Cloud applications. PSD files that contained Pantone spot colors now display
Read MoreSteve Dent / Engadget: Sony reports Q2 gaming revenue rose 12% YoY to $4.92B and ships 3.3M PS5 units, flat YoY, bringing total sales to 25M; software sales fell to 62.5M units — In its latest earnings drop, Sony said it sold 3.3 million PlayStation 5s this quarter, matching exactly what it did last year
Read MoreThreaded inserts are great for melting into FDM prints with a soldering iron. The process isn’t so simple for resin prints, since they don’t generally soften with heat. Off course, you can also print the threads directly, screw a bolt into an un-threaded hole, or tap a hole. Following his usual rigorous testing process, [Stefan]
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Apple’s Craig Federighi made some interesting comments recently regarding the company’s refusal to bring iMessage to Android. The executive curiously claimed that an Android version of iMessage would’ve held back innovation, adding that it “seemed like a throwaway.” Of course, a 2013 email by Federighi suggested that the real
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority YouTuber JerryRigEverything performed his famous torture test on the Pixel 7 Pro. He noted that the phone “barely’” survived. The camera bump of the phone is highly prone to scratches, and the phone suffered a slight break during the bend test. It’s uncommon these days to find folks using
Read MoreCredit: 91mobiles Oppo A58 images and specs have leaked online ahead of its release. The images show a rather ugly rear camera housing. Otherwise, this is definitely a budget-tier smartphone. We’ve seen our share of smartphones with ugly camera housings in 2022, but the OnePlus Nord 2T probably had the worst design so far. However,
Read MoreCredit: Rich Miner/Twitter The Co-founder of Android has shared renders of what could have been the very first Android phone. It was apparently designed before the first iPhone was announced. The device has a black and neon design with more hardware buttons than the HTC Dream and a jog wheel. The HTC Dream, also known
Read MoreSometimes, we see a project where it’s clear – its creator seriously wants to make a project idea accessible to newcomers; and today’s project is one of these cases. The BYOPM – Bring Your Own Password Manager, a project by [novamostra] – is a Pi Zero-powered device to carry your passwords around in. This project
Read MoreKate Kaye / Protocol: A look at Eric Schmidt’s push to profit from an AI cold war between the US and China; CB Insights: he has taken part in investing $2B+ in AI-focused companies — Eric Schmidt has prodded the Pentagon for years to hurry along its software-buying process. — Today the AI tech investor
Read MoreMatt Levine / Bloomberg: Elon Musk absolutely did not fire top Twitter executives, including Parag Agrawal, for “cause”, as you can easily tell by reading their employment agreements — Oh Elon — I don’t know if you noticed, but I have spent much of the last six months writing about how Elon Musk …
Read MoreVikas SN / Moneycontrol: Google says it has paused enforcement of its in-app billing policy on Google Play in India, following a recent ruling of the Competition Commission of India — Google said on November 1 it has paused enforcement of its in-app billing system in India following a recent ruling of the Competition Commission
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