This post contains moderate spoilers for the first episode and slight spoilers for episode two of ‘Star Trek: Prodigy.’ How do you make a series that can draw in newcomers while still appealing to long-time fans? In the case of Star Trek: Prodigy, you set it in a place where the United Federation of Planets … Read more
The third quarter of 2021 was a record breaker for Samsung, which posted a revenue of 73.98 trillion Korean won or US$63.1 billion. That’s 10 percent higher from the same period last year. It also reported an operating profit of 15.82 trillion Korean won or U$13.5 billion, which is 26 percent higher than the previous … Read more
Photographs from a historic moment in tech news history, the day a Gizmodo reporter published hands-on pics of the then-not-yet-announced iPhone 4, are now missing. And they’re not alone — vast quantities of pictures from G/O Media sites like The Onion, Jalopnik, and Deadspin (as well as Gizmodo) have been removed, reportedly intentionally, according to … Read more
In 2020, Samsung weathered the pandemic by posting a record high for revenue in the third quarter of 66.96 trillion won. The company just revealed that it set another record for the same period in 2021, reaching 73.98 trillion won, or about $63 billion. While its revenue was up about 10 percent, Samsung says its … Read more
Ahead of the UN’s climate change conference, which starts on Sunday, Microsoft has revealed more details about its plans to make its data centers greener. Among those is a goal of reducing the amount of water its data centers use by 95 percent by 2024 — around 5.7 billion liters each year. Data centers often … Read more
It happens to almost every modern movie monster worth his salt. Freddy Krueger or Jason Voorhees or Michael Myers will start out a figure of terrifying evil, lurking in the shadows, often pursuing a plucky heroine. Then, by the third or fourth installment, the audience has become familiar with the ghoul in question, and maybe, … Read more
81 percent. That’s the current battery level on the pair of Urbanista’s Los Angeles headphones sitting on my desk. When I took them out of the box about a week ago, the battery level was 75 percent. Number of charges? Zero. Hours of use? Around 10. In short, with some fairly typical listening and precisely … Read more
A new game is coming to the Star Ocean franchise called Star Ocean: The Divine Force. The trailer shown at Wednesday’s Sony State of Play event depicted a spaceship struggling with some sort of crisis. The crew is unable to solve the crisis, and the whole thing explodes. It’s a dramatic start to the trailer, … Read more
isn’t the only service PlayStation 5 owners can stream music from while they’re playing Deathloop, Returnal or other games. Starting today, you can fire up tracks from as well. The PS5 is the first console . Subscribers can access the service’s library of more than 90 million songs, playlists, Apple Music Radio and 4K music videos … Read more
Five Nights at Freddy’s: Security Breach showed off more of its world and characters at Sony’s State of Play on Wednesday and announced a release date. Security Breach will arrive on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 on Dec. 16. The new trailer sets up a dim scenario: We hear the high-pitched shouts of a young … Read more