Month: June 2023
The Flash’s meta-ness is its only trick, and its undoing
Even if Warner Bros. Discovery weren’t in the process of trying to pivot its way out of a messy cinematic universe of films based on DC’s comics, it’s not hard to see how some of the basic ideas at work in director Andy Muschietti’s The Flash could have still made…
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The SEC is trying to freeze Binance’s assets
The Securities and Exchange Commission is trying to freeze the assets of Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange. In an emergency motion for a temporary restraining order filed Tuesday (PDF), the SEC says it has made this decision to “ensure the safety of customer assets.” The filing also claims that…
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Apple bought the AR company behind the tech in Nintendo’s ‘Mario Kart’ ride
Apple has reportedly bought AR startup Mira. The Los Angeles-based company makes the AR headsets for Super Nintendo World’s Mario Kart ride and has contracts with the US Air Force and Navy. You may also remember the Mira Prism, the company’s smartphone-based AR headset that Engadget tried in 2017. Of…
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OnePlus stealth-drops the Nord N30 5G, its new budget smartphone
Without any sort of formal announcement or tease, OnePlus recently revealed its next mid-range device for the US: the Nord N30 5G, a direct successor to the Nord N20 5G. Although the new model still runs on a Snapdragon 695 chipset, the Nord N30 5G introduces a variety of hardware…
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Epic won’t say why it just purged Unreal Tournament 3 X from Steam
“Hope you’ve been keeping well, but we still don’t have any new information to share here,” Epic Games technology comms manager Brian Sharon tells The Verge. This was always a highly weird situation because Epic’s listing for the ad-free, DLC-free, cross-platform Unreal Tournament 3 X was never added to Steam…
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The Super Mario Bros. Movie is coming to Blu-ray next week
The Super Mario Bros Movie is coming to Blu-ray on June 13th in the US and Canada. While the movie became available to buy or rent digitally earlier this month, you can now preorder a physical copy from Amazon, Best Buy, Target, or Walmart. There are a couple of options…
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