Month: April 2021

A big time deal was inked by Netflix and Sony Pictures Entertainment earlier this month, which will give Netflix exclusive streaming rights to Sony titles *after* theatrical and home entertainment releases. This pact begins next year, which kicks off with Sony’s release of the Jared Leto-starring Marvel vampire movie Morbius, currently dated for January 21, 2022. The partnership
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Figma spent years in stealth before launching its web-based collaborative design tool. Since coming into the light, the company has been iterating quickly. Today, Figma launches its biggest product update to date. Meet FigJam, Figma’s new whiteboarding tool. The entire concept of Figma stemmed from the fact that designers were taking up much more space
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HELSINKI — China is to oversee the construction and operation of a national satellite internet megaconstellation through coordinating the country’s major space actors.  Recent comments by senior officials indicate that plans are moving ahead to alter earlier constellation plans by space sector state-owned enterprises and possibly make these part of a larger “Guowang” or “national
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European Union lawmakers have presented their risk-based proposal for regulating high risk applications of artificial intelligence within the bloc’s single market. The plan includes prohibitions on a small number of use-cases that are considered too dangerous to people’s safety or EU citizens’ fundamental rights, such as a China-style social credit scoring system or certain types
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Based on the popular Grishaverse novels by Leigh Bardugo, Netflix’s Shadow and Bone brings the fantasy world filled with powerful Grisha to life with stunning clarity. Created by Arrival and Bird Box writer Eric Heisserer, the eight-episode season follows Bardugo’s first novel in the Shadow and Bone trilogy, but includes characters from the Six of Crows duology as
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Today’s Featured Deals In case you missed yesterday’s most popular deals Previous Daily Deals Pines by Blake Crouch for $1.99 Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs for $2.99 The Dinosaur Artist by Paige Williams for $2.99 The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean for $3.99 If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio for
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Video games can get pretty expensive, but Best Buy is making things a bit easier on players thanks to a four-day sale from the retailer. Right now, Best Buy has a massive number of games on discount, spanning PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch. The sale mostly includes games
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Ukrainian entrepreneur Max Polyakov, with his Silicon Valley-based investment vehicle Noosphere Ventures Partners, is on a mission to build out a vertically integrated space business. A year after Noosphere founded satellite imagery venture Earth Observation Data Analytics (EOSDA) in 2016, Polyakov got into the launch business by snapping up Firefly Aerospace out of bankruptcy. The
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Jim Steinman, who wrote and produced huge hits for Meat Loaf, Air Supply, Celine Dion and Bonnie Tyler, is dead … TMZ has learned. Steinman died Monday in Connecticut, according to the state’s medical examiner. The cause of death is unclear. We do know it appears it was sudden … there was a medical emergency
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Resident Evil is at the absolute height of its popularity. 2021 alone will see the releases of the eighth mainline entry in the video game series, a virtual reality title, an anime series, and a film reboot. The proliferation of Resident Evil is the clearest example yet of a stunning comeback for a property that, until recently, had lost
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