It’s hard to imagine, but it looks like Android phones with hardware keyboards might start making a comeback this year. While nostalgia might hit some people hard, most folks will most likely stick with touchscreen keyboards to type because they’re just that good. Gboard is the keyboard of choice for many, with the brand adding…
Though the Doctor Who TV show is currently on an indefinite hiatus, Billie Piper has lined up a different kind of return to the franchise later this summer. At the end of the Doctor Who season 15 finale, Ncuti Gatwa’s Fifteenth Doctor regenerated into a form resembling Piper’s Rose Tyler, who was a companion to…
Let’s get one thing clear: all appearances to the contrary, A Face Only a Mother Could Love was not shot by Charlie Kaufman or Michel Gondry or Wes Anderson. It was not shot by any known filmmaker. In fact it was not shot at all. The eight-minute short — in which a Parisian man with a…
You might already be immersed in it yourself, but if you’re not aware, physical media is in the middle of a resurgence. It’s not too surprising, perhaps, since streaming services keep hiking prices, and titles are perpetually vulnerable to being removed — sometimes even if they were made by the platform hosting them. There’s a…
The World Cup is about money. Sure, it’s about national pride and ridiculous dances and sometimes even soccer. But really it’s about money. Money and monied brands and money people who are trying to monetize things. FIFA projects it will generate $9 billion from this World Cup year, while one study estimates the tournament overall for the three host countries will…
The model kits and action figures for the Mobile Suit Gundam franchise tend to be the most mainstream and recognizable mecha, with a few notable exceptions. One such exception is based on a somewhat obscure side story, and the design itself is anything but conventional. The NRX-044(R) Prototype Asshimar TR-3 [Kehaar] Space Specification joins the…
Amazon is blaming the threat of malware for its decision to stop releasing new Fire Sticks that support sideloading apps from outside Amazon’s Appstore. Amazon has released two Fire Stick models that use its proprietary, Linux-based operating system, Vega OS. Previous Fire Sticks ran Fire OS, which is an Android fork based on the Android…
The next Metroid game may be coming out sooner than nearly anyone expected. As spotted by a member of the Famiboards forum, Brazil’s Ministry of Justice and Public Security (which handles the country’s ratings) appears to have leaked the next entry in the series, Metroid Ravenous. Assuming the rating details are accurate, there are two…
After successfully replacing the firmware with a replacement image that did nothing more than display the word “patched” on the speaker’s LED display, the researcher got to wondering what else a hacker might do. So he turned his attention to FreeRTOS, the open source operating system that ran the Katana V2X. It contained a set…
