Month: July 2023
Foundation’s showrunner explains why big book adaptations start so dang slow
Adaptations of big, complex books tend to start slow — and that’s usually because there’s just so much to explain. It was true of Game of Thrones and The Rings of Power, and it was especially true of Foundation on Apple TV Plus, which took Isaac Asimov’s novels and turned…
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The best Amazon Prime Day deals you can still get
We’ve now endured two whole days of Amazon Prime Day, which had us poring over thousands of deals and covering hundreds of the best the tech world had to offer — and yet, we’re not quite done here. As usual, there are still a bunch of lingering discounts to sift…
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The Morning After: Researchers find evidence of organic matter on Mars
The Perseverance Rover has found evidence of organic compounds in the Jezero Crater on Mars. Don’t get too excited: These compounds could have also developed in nonbiological ways. But even if it’s not proof of organic life on Mars, the results hint at complex organic conditions for the “key building…
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Lots of IT infrastructure still isn’t stored in the cloud
A new Paessler study of more than 1,050 IT admins from 100 countries has claimed the public sector has been the slowest to migrate its IT infrastructure to the cloud, with the vast majority (92%) of government-related data still being stored in on-prem environments. This comes as companies begin to…
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The Last of Us finally works on Steam Deck — with worse-than-PS3 level graphics
The Last of Us Part I arrived on PC this March as an embarrassing, broken PC port of a game, even on high-end machines. When I tried it on my Steam Deck handheld, the game was utterly unplayable — despite co-creator Neil Druckmann’s assurances that the game would “grace” the…
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Second-hand smartphone sales set to reach new high
The market for used and refurbished smartphones experienced immense growth in the first quarter of 2023 as consumers cut down on expenses and look to be more environmentally friendly, new figures have claimed. The latest report from market analysts CSS Insight claims this industry generated $13.3 billion in revenue in…
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