The 50 greatest special effects movies of all time

For about as long as there have been movies, there have been special effects. That’s no exaggeration: The medium was only a few years old when people began finding ways to toy with the reality of what the motion-picture camera was capturing, creating tricks from quirks in photographic science. A century later, the…

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More Snack Foods Likely to be Recalled Due to Possible Salmonella Contamination, FDA Warns

Late last week, certain lots of popular snack foods such as Ritz Cracker Sandwiches and Pepperidge Farm’s Goldfish crackers were recalled over concerns they might contain disease-causing Salmonella bacteria. But the worst may yet be to come. On Thursday, the Food and Drug Administration warned that more recalls of…

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Amazon records another huge quarter thanks to Alexa and the cloud

Amazon’s been under quite a bit of stress recently, as it deals with fallout from its facial recognition tech, ongoing privacy concerns with its Echo hardware and its Prime Day not going as well as intended. But with so many businesses under its umbr…

Virgin Galactic breaks Mach 2 in third powered test flight

Virgin Galactic conducted another test of its VSS Unity, taking it out on a third rocket-powered supersonic flight this morning. After being released from the VMS Eve carrier craft, the VSS Unity flew higher than it has previously, reaching a peak al…

Windows’ biggest troll just got squashed

Ask any Windows user about their biggest Windows complaint and it’ll likely be this: the operating system tends to reboot at the worst possible time. Users have complained about reboots that interfere with work, delay school projects, ruin game night, and more. Microsoft is attempting to address these problematic update reboots using machine learning, enabling the system to better determine … Continue reading

Samsung’s Fortnite exclusive adds credence to Nintendo Galaxy X 2019

It’s apparent there’s a little business going on between the creators of Fortnite and Samsung. Users have been waiting for Fortnite to come to Android since day one – the first day the game was released for iOS. But beyond Android being a slightly less important platform for Fortnite’s developers, it wasn’t immediately clear what the holdup was between then … Continue reading

Google Search puts local event information front and center

For a lot of people, summer means spending time outside at local events, whether those are concerts, festivals, art shows, or theater. Google has been working on improving event discovery within Search for a while now, but today, it announced a pretty significant update that will put information on events front and center. The idea is to surface information on … Continue reading

Galaxy Note 9 may replace your PC with just a USB-C cord

There’s a feature in the Samsung Galaxy S9, most recently, which allows Samsung phones to be their own miniature PC replacements. It’s called DeX, aka Dockless Desktop, and it’s actually pretty neat. It wasn’t perfect the last time we took a closer look at it*, but it was certainly on the right track. Now, with the Samsung Galaxy Note 9, … Continue reading

A Reminder That Addiction Is An Illness, Not A Character Flaw

Demi Lovato is just one example of how the condition is a chronic health issue.