Chiaki Kuriyama plays one of the students forced to fight to the death in Battle Royale. | Image: The Criterion Channel Twenty years later, you can still see the bloody fingerprints of one violent Japanese film on pop culture today. Continue reading…
Read MoreGovee makes some of the best affordable smart lights, but its enormous range can be overwhelming and confusing. Here’s how to choose the right fit for your home.
Read MoreWriter Tony Gilroy grabbed a microphone on the streets of New York last weekend to talk about the future of Hollywood. “We are the content,” he said. “We’re tired of being strip-mined.”
Read MoreA nonprofit watchdog group has found that the right-wing group PragerU has pushed out more than 100 political ads on Facebook and Instagram, flouting Meta’s policies.
Read MorePhoto by Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images Representative Debbie Dingell (D-MI) is among the prominent voices in Congress advocating for a smooth transition to electric vehicles. Dingell, who was first elected in 2015, represents suburban Detroit, home to a large swath of the American car industry and the labor force that builds those vehicles. I
Read MoreSteve Dent / Engadget: Sony unveils Xperia 5 V, with a 120Hz, 6.1″ display, Snapdragon 8 Gen2 chip, a 52MP sensor, and a heat diffusion shield, available in late September for €999 — It also has a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 processor and heat diffusion shield for gamers. — Sony has unveiled the Xperia 5
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Zoom is trying to expand its video chat platform into a full-service office suite, and its latest addition hits on the need to create and share documents. The company is adding a feature called Notes that allows users to create, share, and simultaneously edit a text document. Notes
Read MoreThe Philips 16B1P3302 is a fine portable monitor perfect for any business user, but beware low brightness!
Read MoreHadlee Simons / Android Authority: Honor says Magic V2, its foldable phone launched in China in July 2023, will come to Europe, UK and other markets, except the US, in Q1 2024 for around €1,500 — The Magic V2 will come to global markets roughly six months after the Chinese launch. Ouch. — • —
Read MoreMonica Chin / The Verge: Lenovo unveils $4,400 Legion 9i, a gaming laptop with liquid-cooling, 16″ Mini LED display, 13th Gen Intel Core i9, Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090, available in Oct. — Lenovo has announced a new Legion 9i, and it might just be the wildest thing I’ve ever seen from the Legion line.
Read MoreSimon’s Cat has been a big success on Apple Arcade as well as YouTube – we ask Tactile Games where the cat could go next.
Read MoreThese mixed-reality glasses make mobile gaming bigger and better, but I’m not convinced they are the future.
Read MoreSupposedly eco-friendly cups are still coated with a thin layer of plastic, which scientists have discovered can leach chemicals that harm living creatures.
Read MoreFor people who have lost the ability to speak, the future may include brain implants that bring that ability back. But could these brain implants also allow them to sing? Researchers believe that, all in all, it’s just another brick in the wall. In a new study published in PLOS Biology, twenty-nine people who were
Read MoreVishal Chawla / The Block: Herodotus and StarkWare unveil a developer tool to verify data at any point in Ethereum’s history, overcoming a current verification limit of 256 blockhashes — – London-based startup Herodotus, in collaboration with StarkWare, announced a tool that gives users the ability to verify data from any point in Ethereum’s history.
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Samsung will reportedly offer AMD GPUs in its mid-tier Exynos processors next year. That means devices like the Galaxy A55 and A35 could potentially get AMD power. You might want to temper your expectations when it comes to performance, though. Samsung offered the Exynos 2200 chipset in some Galaxy
Read MoreMonica Chin / The Verge: Hands on with Windows-powered $699 Lenovo Legion Go, with an 8.8″ QHD+ screen, AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme processor, and detachable controllers, available in October — Every company and its mother seems to be putting out handheld gaming PCs these days, and Lenovo is next to the plate.
Read MoreContinuous glucose monitoring still isn’t a proven thing for nondiabetics, but you can learn a little about yourself, provided you can pay. Continue reading…
Read MoreThis debut Wi-Fi 7 router from TP-Link is a top performer, but most folks should wait for prices to fall.
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority The Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra could come with a new 200MP Samsung ISOCELL HP2SX sensor. This sensor is said to be a refined version of the 200MP ISOCELL HP2 sensor found in the Galaxy S23 Ultra. Thanks to their easy availability, Samsung’s flagships are preferred by many over the
Read More[Ivan Miranda] isn’t afraid to dream big, and hopes to soon build a 3D printed giant robot he can ride around on. As the first step towards that goal, he’s built a giant printed hand big enough to hold a basketball. The hand has fingers with several jointed segments, inspired by those wooden hand models
Read MoreJava software provider Azul has added a capability to slash warmup times for Java applications using the company’s Azul Platform Prime runtime. The capability, called ReadyNow Orchestrator (RNO), “delivers the highest possible optimized code speed at warmup,” the company said, enabling improvements to operational efficiencies and optimization of cloud costs. RNO is included as part
Read MoreCloud finops, a practice that combines financial management and cloud operations, is instrumental in optimizing cloud costs and ensuring efficient resource utilization. It is one of the most important emerging trends in cloud computing, and I’ve covered it a great deal on this blog. Its benefits extend beyond cost control. Let’s explore how cloud finops
Read MoreIt may seem odd to software developers working today, but the Python programming language was once considered a gap-filler, a way to write scripts that “automate the boring stuff” (as one popular book on learning Python put it) or to rapidly prototype applications that would then be implemented in other languages. Python has since emerged
Read MoreCredit: Kris Carlon / Android Authority HONOR has unveiled a new concept foldable phone called the V Purse. It comes with interchangeable straps that attach to the hinge and handbag pattern-style wallpapers. Otherwise, the phone closely resembles devices from the HUAWEI Mate Xs range. The HONOR V Purse is a new foldable phone concept from
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