Tag: Arts & Entertainment
Star Trek: Section 31 review: An embarrassment from start to end
Get enough Star Trek fans in a room and the conversation inevitably turns toward which of the series’ cinematic outings is the worst. The consensus view is The Final Frontier, Insurrection and Nemesis are duking it out for the unwanted trophy. Each film has a small legion of fans who…
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Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg want you to know they’re still friends and definitely not mad at each other
On Thursday, The New York Times published a lengthy story about the rise in power of Stephen Miller, a longtime loyalist of Donald Trump known for his hardline views on immigration. Normally, a story like that wouldn’t get much attention in the tech press. But the piece opened with an…
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How to sign up for the Nintendo Switch 2 Experience
The Nintendo Switch 2 is finally official, and while we still don’t know when anyone will be able to own the new console, we do know when some lucky people will get to try one for themselves. Nintendo is holding hands-on events starting on April 4 and running through June…
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Our unofficial, silly and meaningless CES 2025 awards, just for fun
CES (formerly the Consumer Electronics Show) is the biggest tech convention of the year. It helps set the stage for all the wonderful gadgets we’re going to see over the next 12 months. However, among all the quadcopters, questionably benevolent robots and devices with fancy flexible screens, there’s a lot…
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DotLumen’s haptic headset could help blind people navigate
DotLumen founder Cornel Amariei describes his product as a “self driving” system to enable blind and low-vision people a way to get around. It’s essentially the electronic equivalent to a guide dog, helping users avoid obstacles when walking around. The Romanian company turned up to CES 2025 in Las Vegas…
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Sony’s immersive The Last of Us experience at CES 2025 dropped me into a subway filled with zombies
As Engadget’s chief The Last of Us correspondent, I was pretty pumped to find out during Sony’s CES 2025 press conference that season two of the HBO show would come out in April. But Naughty Dog head Neil Druckmann also teased an “location-based experience exhibit” that would transport participants into…
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