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The next iPhone SE, set for a 2025 market arrival, is shaping up to be one of the most interesting smartphones Apple has offered in years. But it seems there’s also a Plus-sized blockbuster planned for next year. Japanese website Macotakara has shared images of what it claims to be the “3D printed mockup” of the upcoming iPhone SE. Once again, we are greeted by a familiar design that is nigh identical to the iPhone 14, something that has also been reported by Bloomberg. It would appear that the fourth-generation iPhone SE will also share its dimensions with the iPhone…
With the introduction of the new iPad Mini, Apple made it clear that a software experience brimming with AI is the way forward. And if that meant making the same kind of internal upgrades to a tablet that costs nearly half as much as its flagship phone, the company would still march forward. However, its ambitions with Apple Intelligence lack competitive vigor, and even by Apple’s own standards, the experience hasn’t managed to wow users. On top of that, the staggered rollout of the most ambitious AI features — many of which are still in the future — has left…
Unity has had a rough year. The company was caught up in a firestorm of criticism in September of last year when it announced a runtime fee that would charge developers a fee every time a Unity game was installed. Even well before the fee showed up, Unity had dug itself so deep in the community of game developers that it’s spent over a year trying to get back to the positive reputation it once maintained — and the work still isn’t done, even after a new CEO and the full-out cancellation of its runtime fee. But this week, Unity…
The 1980s were a very good time to be a horror fan. The genre wasn’t invented during the ’80s, but it was refined by some of the masters of horror including John Carpenter, Wes Craven, David Cronenberg, Clive Barker, and more. This was also the age of the slashers like Friday the 13th‘s Jason Voorhees, A Nightmare on Elm Street‘s Freddy Krueger, and Halloween’s Michael Myers. These cinematic villains were box office gold in that decade, and they also helped transform horror flicks into mainstream blockbusters. But when it came time to determine the best ’80s horror movies, only one…
If you’ve bought an iPhone 16, you’ll know that there are hundreds of cases for the iPhone 16 series. Whether it’s the regular iPhone 16, the iPhone 16 Pro, or even previous iPhones, an entire ecosystem is dedicated to building the best accessories for the iPhone 16. Sure, you can buy something from Apple, and for many years, the company offered many cases in its stores. And it still has a range of items in a range of materials, except for one: leather. Thankfully, there’s an alternative. Many companies offer leather cases — including Mujjo, which has great sustainability chops…
When it comes to cutting the cord on cable, you’ve got plenty of options to choose from. Sling TV is as close as you can get to à la carte TV — even though it is also definitely not that. However, it stands out from other live TV streaming services by delivering bundles of channels with plenty of extras. Sling TV offers two base plans: Sling Orange and Sling Blue. Neither one has the massive channel list that you might see from competitors, but they come at a much more affordable price. With their library of “Extras,” you can build…
Warning: This article contains spoilers for Trap and Smile 2. Six decades after Beatlemania, pop stars still rule the world. Their grip over the public imagination has never really slackened, even as the definition of pop has morphed and mutated like TLC forming from T-1000 liquid goop in their most iconic music video. Still, if pop stardom is a constant, it’s loomed especially large over the culture of late. There’s the unfathomably wide devotion to Taylor Swift, a once-in-a-generation phenomenon, a pop star to end all pop stars. There’s also the way social media has turned standom into an inescapably…
It’s been more than 20 years since Ridley Scott’s Gladiator premiered and fought all the way to the Best Picture Oscar. Gladiator II is set to hit theaters next month, and we’re now seeing the first reactions to the movie online. Happy Sad Confused host Josh Horowitz writes that the movie is “pretty f**king great,” while Variety‘s Clayton Davis highlighted a few of the film’s central performers: “I found Paul Mescal’s work as Lucius to be one of the film’s most honest surprises. This is Denzel Washington, having the time of his life in one of his most killer roles yet. A third Oscar…
Ian McKellan sent an entire fandom into excited confusion when he seemed to suggest on the British talk show The Morning that Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum was, in fact, two films. Now, Philippa Boyens, the screenwriter who worked with Peter Jackson on both of his Lord of the Rings trilogy, has clarified that The Hunt for Gollum is just one movie, but added another juicy tidbit. “I can tell you definitively it isn’t two films!” Boyens said in an interview with Empire Magazine. “That was a genuine misunderstanding that happened because we’ve begun to work, conceptually, on two different live-action films. The…
Minisforum AtomMan G7 Ti MSRP $1,159.00 “I can’t stop using the AtomMan G7 Ti mini gaming PC.” Pros Very fast Reasonably priced A third of the size of a PS5 No bloatware Bare-bones options available Cons Needs more USB ports Can get a bit loud under load There’s something mesmerizing about mini PCs, so the moment I laid eyes on the AtomMan G7 Ti, I knew I had to try it. It’s one of the smallest gaming desktops I’ve tested, though it’s still packing hardware as powerful as the 24-core Core i9-14900HX and an RTX 4070. And despite the fact…