Sony’s Xperia XZ2 Compact, the company’s small flagship phone introduced in early 2018, is just $250 right now at B&H Photo. This device, which comes in silver, usually sells for around $500. If you’re looking for an unlocked phone with capable specs and support for Verizon, AT&T, or T-Mobile, this is a great deal.
The XZ2 Compact has a five-inch, 2160 x 1080 display, making it a good fit if you prefer smaller phones. It ships with Android 8 Oreo and comes equipped with a Snapdragon 845 processor with 4GB of RAM, so it’s roughly on par with the Google Pixel 3 in terms of specs. This device is rated IP68, and it features a microSD card for expandable storage.
The black color option is sold out, so that’s a good clue that this deal might…
THX’s long-running “bwonnnnnnnnnnnnnng” Deep Tone sound that plays before movies just got a lavish new update.
It’s still recognizable to cinephiles, but the version heard in the trailer above is much crisper than the original tone that played before Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi in 1983. There have been more than 20 remixed versions of the tone since then, including special versions made for The Simpsons and Shrek. Everyone knows it! It’s a meme! People remix the tone into their songs because it’s universally understood.
As the company got older and the industry changed from digital to film — from VHS to DVD and beyond — the Deep Tone has managed to stay relevant. The newest iteration is here to celebrate the 4K era. We’re…
An international research team has set a new tomography world record using a rotary sample table. With 208 three-dimensional tomographic X-ray images per second, they were able to document the dynamic processes involved in the foaming of liquid aluminum.
While I paged through Ninja’s first book — with its few words sandwiched between high-gloss promotional photos and charts — I got the distinct feeling that I was consuming something from the future. The book, Get Good: My Ultimate Guide to Gaming, is itself gamified; it has a progress bar, for example, near the page numbers that’s akin to the one under most videos online. The text is big and pops, as they say, and the pages are broken up with the kind of interesting graphic design that you used to find inside of books at Urban Outfitters. Scattered throughout are shoutouts to Red Bull, his main sponsor.
As Ninja, the first celebrity gamer, Tyler Blevins has played Fortnite with Drake, made millions of dollars off streaming his gameplay…
When it was recently announced that The Matrixwould return to theaters to celebrate the movie’s 20th anniversary, it seemed like the kind of thing a studio might do as a prelude to a new installment in the iconic series.
Turns out it totally was. Variety reports there will indeed be a fourth Matrix movie featuring the same people who made the wildly popular trilogy: The Matrix 4 will be written and directed by Lana Wachowski, and will star Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss as Neo and Trinity.
More details from Variety:
Warner Bros. Pictures and Village Roadshow Pictures will produce and globally distribute the film. Warner Bros. Picture Group chairman Toby Emmerich made the announcement on Tuesday.
“We could not be more excited to be re-entering ‘The Matrix’ with Lana,” said Emmerich. “Lana is a true visionary — a singular and original creative filmmaker — and we are thrilled that she is writing, directing and producing this new chapter in ‘The Matrix’ universe.”
There are plenty of unknowns here: No mention was made of Laurence Fishburne returning as Morpheus, even though of the three leads he was the only character who appeared to survive in the third movie, Revolutions.
We also don’t have a timeline on delivery, though the nature of the special effects involved in any Matrix movie is that they just take a while to do correctly.
As to the “why?” that seems obvious. Beyond the facts that it’s a proven money-making franchise and Keanu Reeves is a proven box office draw, Lana Wachowski said in the same announcement that “many” ideas she and sister Lilly “explored 20 years ago about our reality are even more relevant now.”
So, that’s something to look forward to.
The first Matrix will return to the big screen at select AMC theaters beginning Aug. 30.
Famous actors and musicians, the head of the US Department of Energy, and regular Instagram users have been spreading a hoax memo that claims the company will soon have permission to make deleted photos and messages public and use those posts against them in court.
The claims are fake and the assertions don’t make a lot of sense, but that hasn’t stopped it from being spread by some major names concerned about the implications. Celebrities including Usher, Judd Apatow, and Julia Roberts posted the note to their feeds, as did Rick Perry, the current United States secretary of energy and former Texas governor. The note and similar ones have been going around since 2012, and this is just their most recent resurgence.
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