Month: August 2020
Here’s your best look yet at ZTE’s first smartphone with an under-display camera
ZTE has already announced that it plans to launch the first mass-produced 5G-enabled smartphone with an under-display camera in China next month, and now the company has shared new images that give us a better understanding of what that phone’s screen might actually look like (via Dutch website Tweakers). In…
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Thundercats is coming to Hulu tomorrow and I am on a major nostalgia trip
Thundercats ho! Hulu has locked down the rights to stream Thundercats on its service starting tomorrow. This includes both the iconic original series from the 1980s, plus the 2011 reboot. The kid within me is screaming with pure joy. I was born in 1995, so, unfortunately, I did not have…
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With titles like Battletoads and Grounded, Xbox Game Pass is inching closer to becoming like Netflix
You probably know the feeling: you set out to find something new on Netflix, but end up spending more time browsing than actually watching. There’s just so much there that it can be hard to make a choice. Recently I’ve been having the same issue every time I turn on…
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Los Angeles settles Weather Channel lawsuit, lets it keep selling location data to advertisers
Los Angeles has settled its lawsuit against the operator of The Weather Channel app. The city filed litigation against the company in 2019, alleging that the app misled millions of people into granting access to their personal location data and sold that data to third parties. While IBM is celebrating…
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Facebook is making Oculus’s worst feature unavoidable
Yesterday, Facebook infuriated the VR world, announcing plans to require a Facebook login for future VR headsets. The decision broke an early promise from Oculus founder Palmer Luckey and was almost universally reviled online, with critics raising concerns about intrusive data collection, targeted advertising, and being forced to use a…
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You can buy a 100-inch 4K laser TV from Hisense – but it will cost you $4,000 hisense tv
While movie theaters across the country are only just returning to normal, Hisense has a new proposition for folks nervous about returning to the local cinema: a 100-inch laser 4K TV. The new Hisense L5F Laser TV is the latest in Hisense’s series of ultra-short-throw projectors that emulate a TV’s…
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