When your service is more fondly remembered as a Seinfeld plot than as something people use, it’s probably time to drop the mic. After a quarter-century, Moviefone’s movie-times hotline is winding down, as users abandon the phone in favor of sites…
Seth Rogen had previously teamed with Sony for "The Green Hornet."
(Credit: Sony Pictures)
Long before Sony and Microsoft became the chief combatants in the video game console wars, Sega and Nintendo were kings of the gaming roost. Blake Harris chronicles their rivalry in the upcoming business thriller “Console Wars,” which traces scrappy Sega’s rebel bombardment against the Nintendo juggernaut during the 1990s. The book is scheduled for release in May.
According to Variety, the book will be adapted into a film co-directed by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg for Sony Pictures. Rogen and Goldberg have also been tapped to write the script.
The book has all the makings of a Hollywood movie, with the likable underdog Sega going up against industry Goliath Nintendo. This was the era of classic video games like Nintendo’s The Legend of Zelda: A … [Read more]
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Let this be your cautionary tale against building a pretty waterfront park on a landfill. At Cesar Chavez Park on the Berkeley Marina, squirrels and gophers are burrowing through old trash, turning the ground into toxin-leaching swiss cheese. Poison from the estimated 1.9 million tons of residential, commercial, and industrial waste is now leaching into the San Francisco Bay.
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Samsung has never been a leader when it comes to smartphone cameras but with the Galaxy S5, it’s taken a step forward. It has nothing to do with megapixels—instead it’s all about that weird-sounding feature called "phase-detect" autofocus, which allows the camera to focus in just .3 seconds. Samsung claims that’s the fastest in the world, and it could seriously change how you use the camera.
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Samsung’s new Galaxy S5 doesn’t skimp on battery power, with an expected 10 hours of web browsing and 12 hours of video playback on a single charge. When you’re on hour 11 of watching cat videos with no charger in site, the handsets new “ultra…
This asteroid put a new dent in the moon.
(Credit: University of Huelva)
The prevalence of loud action movies shows just how much humans enjoy a good explosion. You won’t find many bigger than what happened on the moon in September last year. Footage of an 880-pound asteroid smashing onto the lunar surface was just released, showing a bright flash at the impact site.
The evidence was captured by telescopes as part of a moon-impact monitoring project run by astronomers at the University of Huelva in Spain. A paper about the event was published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
The impact makes NASA’s video of a boulder-sized meteroid crashing into the moon early last year look like a hiccup in comparison. That impact rocked the lunar surface to the equivalent of about 5 tons of TNT. The more recent crash landing hit with the force of around 15 tons of TNT. Kaboom.
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A short while back Samsung finally unveiled its much rumored 2014 flagship at the Mobile World Congress 2014 in Barcelona. The Galaxy S5 has been unveiled in all its glory, and while the company itself has already confirmed that major U.S. carriers are going to offer the device, Magenta has sent out a press release on its own. The T-Mobile Galaxy S5 is slated to hit the market in April this year.
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Samsung has just announced that the Galaxy S5 will be available starting April 11th in 150 countries. Over here in the US, it’ll be available on Sprint, AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless, MetroPCS and U.S. Cellular. Ma Bell is going one step further,…
Samsung just unloaded its mobile product pipeline in Barcelona. All at once, the company revealed the Galaxy S5, Gear 2, Gear Nano and Gear Fit. These are legitimately exciting products. The Galaxy S5 packs new sensors and is finally waterproof like Sony’s smartphones. It’s pushing into phablet territory with a 5.1-inch, 1920×1080 display, and it comes with a fingerprint reader on the… Read More
We’ve gone hands on with Samsung’s new product range at MWC 2014, giving the Galaxy S5, Gear 2, Gear Fit and such a once over. Samsung has dropped some details … Continue reading
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