Category: celebrities
The Morning After: Will Facebook change its name?
So, will Facebook pull the trigger and change its name? Maybe it's an attempt to dominate the conversation around the, ugh, metaverse, which has been around for years, perhaps to follow Google’s own reorganization around Alphabet or to simply create some distance from all the negative publicity, sentiment and impressions…
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The Morning After: Apple Watch Series 7, reviewed
Apple still dominates the world of wearables. Over the last year, research company Canalys noted that smartwatch sales have actually overtaken basic bands and now account for 62 percent of all wearable shipments. And Apple’s versions lays claim to just under a third of all smartwatches sold. Engadget That’s interesting…
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In ‘No Time to Die,’ Bond’s gadgets matter less
At one point in No Time to Die, Daniel Craig's final entry as James Bond, you can see a sleek supercar in the background. It's the Aston Martin Valhalla, a 937hp beast of a plug-in hybrid, and it's just sitting there, with nowhere to go. If you've seen a Bond…
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The Morning After: Facebook’s empire goes offline
I locked myself out of my apartment yesterday. It’s a rare occurrence, but when it does happen, I usually text my building’s WhatsApp group, begging someone to buzz me in. So it was not a great time for Facebook’s entire network, including WhatsApp, Instagram (oh and Oculus), to collapse for…
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‘Star Wars: Visions’ breaks from canon while Marvel’s ‘What If…?’ refuses to
The following contains spoilers for episode three of 'Star Wars: Visions' and episode seven of 'What If…?' Back in the days when DVD was king, I remember there was a trend of making animated tie-ins for live-action franchises. There were direct-to-video features for Chronicles of Riddick, Van Helsing and, the…
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Netflix and Apple TV+ clean up at the Emmys with ‘The Crown’ and ‘Ted Lasso’
Netflix has nabbed the most Emmys ever for a single platform with 44 including 11 for The Crown, more than double its nearest rival, HBO/HBO Max. The 2021 edition of the awards was also a watershed year for Apple TV+, which took home 10 Emmys including seven for its comedy…
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