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It might seem that the autonomous driving trend is moving at full speed and on its own accord, especially if you live in California.Wayve, a UK startup that has received over $1 billion in funding, is now joining the crowded party by launching on-road testing of its AI learning system on the streets of San Francisco and the Bay Area.The announcement comes just weeks after Tesla unveiled its Robotaxi at the Warner Bros Studios in Burbank, California. It was also in San Francisco that an accident last year forced General Motors’ robotaxi service Cruise to stop its operations. And it’s…
With Amazon Prime Video’s new monthly content, even anime fans have plenty of shows and movies to pick from. Fans have even more options since the streamer added Crunchyroll as an optional premium channel. This addition expands Prime’s catalog exponentially, giving users access to both platforms’ anime content in one package. The cost is ultimately the same as subscribing to both individually, but it undoubtedly makes Prime’s anime library more accessible to new and longtime fans. Convenient as it is, this library can overwhelm uninitiated audiences. That’s where this guide comes in, as the list is updated monthly and focuses…
WandaVision was the first Marvel TV series to be produced by the studio itself, and in some ways, every other Marvel show has lived in its shadow. Notably, WandaVision is also the Marvel TV series that has produced the most spinoffs. Agatha All Along has been a success so far for the studio, and Marvel is also planning a spinoff series focused on Paul Bettany’s Vision, who is brought back to life in WandaVision and escapes at the end of the series. While promoting his work in the upcoming film Here, Bettany spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about the new series, which he said…
Apple’s Mac machines and gaming don’t quite fit in the same equation, even though the recent trajectory of its Metal architecture has pulled off a few surprises. But it looks like the upcoming M4-tier machines won’t pull any punches, including the Mac mini. In the latest edition of his Power On newsletter, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman writes that for the first time, Apple’s entry-level desktop computer will offer ray tracing support. For the unaware, it’s a lighting system that adds a whole new level of visual realism to games. On the flip side, ray tracing is also quite taxing on the…
It’s fair to say that Gladiator II was a big step up for its star, Paul Mescal. The actor leads an all-star cast, and during a recent appearance on The Graham Norton Show, he explained just how intimidating he found that experience to be. In fact, he was so intimidated that he chickened out of his first opportunity to meet the two-time Oscar winner. “The first day that I was actually working with Denzel, he was up in the box, and I was rolling around fighting some monkeys or something,” Mescal explained. “At the end of the day, I was like, ‘I…
Since its release in March 2019, Satisfactory has gotten a lot of love from fans of base builders. It’s easy to see why: the sci-fi setting of an unsettled planet, rich in resources with just a hint of an authoritarian-fueled economy tickles the part inside all of us that desires to be left alone to work in peace. The game finally left early access in September after five years of development, and there has been a stream of hotfixes since the 1.0 update to address any bugs that were introduced. Coffee Stain, the developer behind Satisfactory, warns fans that this pace…
Apple’s foray into the smart display segment is eagerly anticipated, and if Bloomberg’s numerous reports are anything go by, we could see the first entry hit the shelves as early as 2025. Now, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, in the latest edition of his PowerOn newsletter, reports that the upcoming machine could borrow some inspiration from the legendary iMac G4. “The screen is positioned at an angle on a small base, making it reminiscent of the circular bottom of the iMac G3 from a couple of decades ago,” Gurman writes. I believe there’s a typo, since it was the iMac G4 that…
Ten years ago this month, John Wick hit theaters and gave Keanu Reeves a comeback for the ages. But it’s easy to forget that the film wasn’t a huge hit out of the gate. An $86 million worldwide take at the box office is hardly memorable, even when considering the film’s modest $20 million to $30 million budget. It took time for action fans to latch on to John Wick when it had its post-theatrical release on home media. But once they did, John Wick became the start of a franchise that is still going a decade later. To celebrate…
November is a prime month for moviegoing. The Thanksgiving holiday offers a great opportunity for studios to release their fall tentpole pictures and for audiences to watch as many films as possible. This year is no different as blockbusters-to-be like Gladiator 2 and Wicked are waiting in the wings to dazzle eyeballs and gobble some dollars. It’s not all big movies in November, though. Oscar hopefuls and under-the-radar movies populate the release schedule, and the following three films have the potential to be not only entertaining, but also some of the year’s best in cinema. Juror No. 2 (November 1) It’s…
For more than two decades we’ve heard about the death of Moore’s Law. It was a principle of the late Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, positing that the number of transistors in a chip would double about every two years. In 2006, Moore himself said it would end in the 2020s. MIT Professor Charles Leiserson said it was over in 2016. Nvidia’s CEO declared it dead in 2022. Intel’s CEO claimed the opposite a few days later. There’s no doubt that the concept of Moore’s Law — or rather observation, lest we treat this like some law of physics — has…