The saga of Netflix’s disappearing Marvel TV series continues, although the latest development is more about what’s not happening—i.e., the shows relocating to Marvel’s entertainment hub at Disney+. A list of the content coming to the streaming service in March has been revealed, and it does not include any mentions…
You can now catch up on episodes of Naruto or Tokyo Revengers on your Switch while waiting for the subway. The anime streaming platform Crunchyroll today unveiled an app for Nintendo’s handheld console.
Using your Nintendo Switch to watch movies is still a relatively new concept (and not for those who already suffer from eye strain due to hours of gameplay), but one that’s taking off. There are currently Switch apps for Hulu, YouTube, Twitch Pokémon TV and Funimation. It’s fair to say we’ll likely see more entertainment offerings on the Switch soon, given its popularity. Nearly 103 million units of the Switch have been sold globally, surpassing its predecessor the Wii, Wii U, GameCube and Nintendo 64. Switch sales skyrocketed during the pandemic, leading to a global shortage that has carried over to 2022 and absurd price gouging.
The user base for Switch is considerably larger and more diverse than other game consoles (half of all Switch users are women and users tend to be older). But there are far fewer streaming options on Switch than other consoles, much to the chagrin of current owners.
While Crunchyroll is free, you’ll need to purchase one of its premium plans in order to stream shows on multiple devices or watch shows off-line. Plans start at $7.99 a month.
Louisville mayoral candidate Craig Greenberg said Thursday that he was “traumatized” by news that the suspect had been placed on home incarceration.
Samsung is rolling out its February 2022 security updates, patching various issues ranging from mild to critical across a number of its Galaxy devices.
When Ewan McGregor’s Obi-Wan Kenobi makes its Disney+ debut in May, the character’s theme music will be composed by one of Star Wars’ most important architects: John Williams, whose symphonic scores for the original trilogy (and other adjacent works) have long helped the series feel both epic and emotionally resonant.
Kickstarter’s plan to create a decentralized crowdfunding platform ran into more than a little criticism, and the company is eager to reassure jittery users. The firm has clarified how it will develop the blockchain-based system, with promises it would take input along the way. To start, Kickstarter said it was “not going to force” a decentralized system on the community without testing it. It would ensure a “proof of concept” existed for those creators who wanted to try it, and would only integrate those parts that “offer value” in light of community input.
To that end, Kickstarter promised to form an advisory council that will shape feature development, including the decentralized protocol. The council would include a wide range of users and participants.
The crowdfunding firm also noted that work on the platform would occur through a Public Benefit Corporation, and that it would ensure the necessary blockchain wasn’t harmful to the environment. The team-up was already known to be using the “carbon-negative” Celo chain.
Kickstarter unveiled the plans in December in hopes of bringing crowdfunding to many platforms beyond its own. As Mashablenotes, the company soon faced a backlash over several issues. Critics were not only worried about the high energy consumption that often comes with blockchain-based transactions, but that Kickstarter was tarnishing its reputation by tying itself to the technology behind scam-prone NFTs and cryptocurrencies. Some veteran creators, such as Doctor Popular, vowed to either stop backing projects or host their own projects elsewhere.
The clarification might reassure users worried they would have to move to the blockchain just to buy or fund a hot new product. However, the response also follows two months after the uproar began. That’s a long time to leave users wondering about certain issues, and it’s not guaranteed disaffected users will come back.
Authorities are searching for a missing 32-year-old woman in the Gulf of Mexico. She was a passenger on the Carnival Valor, which was headed to Louisiana.
The Bronco is back, but heritage isn’t enough these days. Here’s how the new Bronco stacks up to the competition and Ford’s promises.
In case you haven’t noticed, kids these days just do not know how to moderate their screen time. So, in a desperate bid to get his children offline, some guy in France apparently blitzed his entire town’s internet connection—by accident, that is. He now faces up to six months in prison for the outage.
Since Amazon acquired Comixology in 2014, its larger relationship with the storefront—which, for those years, has remained the premiere hub for buying and reading digital comics—has been relatively hands off. The ability to sign in with your Amazon account aside, the two storefronts have largely stayed separate. A new…
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