All told, 2019 was kind of a weird year for movies. Disney, whose world we increasingly live in, made $10 billion at the box office before releasing Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker—thanks to cash cows like Avengers: Endgame (on our list) and a live-action remake of the The Lion King (very much not). Meanwhile,…
DetailsAs a baby nerd, I was obsessed with Hackers. The 1995 cult movie followed Dade Murphy, who banded together with his fellow computer-savvy outcasts to expose a nefarious embezzlement scheme perpetrated by a rogue hacker at the supercorp Ellingson Mineral. It was the first time that I’d ever seen the message that it was cool…
DetailsI’ve always had trouble sleeping. Between crippling anxiety and general insomnia, I take all the help I can get. And I’m not alone. Most of us are probably not getting enough sleep, and that can have a serious impact on our overall health.So, I traveled far and wide (on the web) and tested dozens of…
DetailsThe US is about to lose another car-share service. On Wednesday, the Daimler- and BMW-owned entity that operates the service Share Now said the company’s cars would disappear from North American streets by the end of February 2020. For customers in New York, Montreal, Seattle, Washington, DC, and Vancouver, that’s a bummer. It’s a bummer…
DetailsWe really enjoyed the Samsung Galaxy Buds, with our sister website Soundguys going so far as to call it “an excellent choice for Android users.” We’ve previously heard about Galaxy Buds Plus earbuds being in the works, and we may have received our first look at them.XDA-Developers dug through the Samsung SmartThings app and found…
DetailsThe Revival are Top Guys who are known for being all about no flips, just fists. Now they’re going to be all about the punchlines too. The Wrestling Observer Newsletter reports that the current plan is to turn The Revival into “comedy characters.” It is said that there are “mixed feelings” about this idea. It…
DetailsFive Favorite Films The visionary behind Metal Gear Solid on the dream fulfillment of 2001: A Space Odyssey and how George Miller guided him through his darkest hour. (Photo by Rotten Tomatoes) One of Hideo Kojima’s most resonant achievements in his 30-year career as a video game designer and director came early. Kojima had saved…
DetailsIn late January, the wife of a cryptocurrency exchange founder testified that her husband inadvertently took at least $137 million of customer assets to the grave when he died without giving anyone the password to his encrypted laptop. Now outraged investors want to exhume the founder’s body to make sure he’s really dead.ARS TECHNICAThis story…
DetailsTravelers are travelin’ and worriers are worryin’, but first: a cartoon about GDPR Sunday School.Here’s the news you need to know, in two minutes or less.Want to receive this two-minute roundup as an email every weekday? Sign up here!Today’s NewsTraveling for the holidays? Here’s how not to get sick.We all know that planes, trains, buses,…
DetailsNearly every day, in war zones around the world, American military forces request fire support. By radioing coordinates to a howitzer miles away, infantrymen can deliver the awful ruin of a 155-mm artillery shell on opposing forces. If defense officials in Washington have their way, artificial intelligence is about to make that process a whole…
Details
