AT&T technically launched 5G service in New York City today, but as with its other 5G markets, only business customers and developers will be able to access it. The carrier is selling Samsung’s Galaxy S10 5G for those who want to utilize its millimeter wave-based 5G data speeds. AT&T is calling the launch a “limited introduction” and a “first step” for now, but it boasts that this is the 21st city where the company has launched its network.
Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Toni Morrison has died. NPR’s Rachel Martin speaks to Morning Edition contributor Kwame Alexander about how she will be remembered.
PITTSBURGH—In an effort to respect the wishes of the deceased’s friends and family, funeral home director Don Chaffe confirmed Tuesday that Gary Meyer’s remembrance service would feature a closed casket except for those mourners who want a peek at something really crazy. “At such times of loss as this, it’s important…
The Matrixhit theaters 20 years ago and promptly blew a ton of minds. It landed with the weight of a prophecy, its green-tinged digital universe like a warning to the real world, which was just waking up to the possibilities of the internet.
Remarkably, it’s hard to find anything dated about the movie today, including the eternally youthful Keanu Reeves, and that’s why fans will be stoked to have the chance to see it on the big screen once again, but this time with elevated audio and picture quality.
The Matrix premiered in March 1999, and has since influenced countless franchises and action films in its wake, almost certainly including the John Wick series, which also stars Keanu Reeves.
Its return to theaters is at least partly intended to demonstrate the power of Dolby’s Vision and Atmos technologies, both of which have already been utilized to improve the currently-available iterations of The Matrix.
However, this is the first time the upgraded film has graced the silver screen, allowing fans an immersive view of The Matrix‘s once-cutting-edge special effects and dynamic gunfights.
The movie will run in AMC’s Dolby Cinemas for a week. Will the subsequent movies—the equally well-received Matrix Reloaded and popular but critically-panned Revolutions—also be re-upped?
No idea, though it sounds like something that might sell plenty of tickets, regardless of the sequels’ varying quality.
What’s also intriguing is this anniversary re-release comes when there are also ongoing rumors of a new, fourth Matrix film, albeit one that may not directly involve the Wachowski sisters, creators of the originals. Seems like re-upping fresh versions of the originals would be a great preamble to announcing number four.
The Matrix makes its return in select theaters beginning August 30.
A new report by Vice reveals yet another marketing tactic by Grubhub that attempts to maximize the commission fees it can charge to restaurants when customers order through the service. Yelp, a Grubhub partner, quietly hides a Grubhub-affiliated phone number when you choose to call a business from the Yelp app. (Disclaimer: my parents own a restaurant and are listed on Grubhub and Yelp.)
According to Vice, a Yelp listing for a restaurant shows the correct phone number for the business. If users click to “order delivery or takeout,” they are presented with the option to order through a deep-linked Grubhub app. However, if they click the actual phone number listed to call the business directly, the phone number that appears on the dialer…
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Researchers have figured out how to reliably create questions that challenge computers and reflect the complexity of human language through a human-computer collaboration, developing a dataset of more than 1,200 questions that, while easy for people to answer, stump the best computer answering systems today. The system that learns to master these questions will have a better understanding of language than any system currently in existence.
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