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Shenzhen may be Asia’s Silicon Valley, but when it comes to protecting company secrets it’s Singapore that is taking a page from the U.S. technology hub’s playbook. Domestic and international companies are increasingly requiring visitors to sign nondisclosure agreements — an entrenched practice in the U.S. — before they step past the reception desk in […]
As this generation’s filmmakers attempt to create their own superhero origin stories without going through Marvel or DC, Jason Stone’s First Light succeeds by blending Chronicle with YA romance. Hard sci-fi elements that limit themselves to rural country suburbs before breaking out like a conspiracy containment gone wrong. As illuminations flicker and cosmic mysteries unravel, […]
(Welcome to The Movies That Made Star Wars, a series where we explore the films that inspired George Lucas’ iconic universe. In this edition: Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon.) 1950’s Rashomon was the first international breakout hit for legendary Japanese director Akira Kurosawa. He’d made wonderful films prior to that, from the tense post-war poverty of Drunken […]
Call of Duty: WWII may return to the “boots on the ground” origin of Activision’s military shooter franchise, but the latest entry in the series has also borrowed a handful of elements from the publisher’s other major shooters: Destiny and Overwatch. I finished the WWII campaign over the weekend, and it was nothing special. It […]
Piracy websites can’t really depend on ads, so how do they make money? By using your PC’s processor cycles, apparently — whether you want to or not. Visitors to The Pirate Bay have discovered JavaScript code in the website that ‘borrows’ your processor for the sake of mining Monero digital coins. It doesn’t always happen […]
Let me just admit this upfront: I haven’t played a lot of Quake in my life. During that time of the late 1990s, I focused on Nintendo 64 shooters like GoldenEye 007 and Perfect Dark. Please don’t flame me. So id Software‘s return to Quake Champions doesn’t mean the same thing to me that it […]
When a startup is in the ascendancy, there’s a near-endless line of investors ready to back it in the hope of future returns. When that road to success gets riskier, the investors dry up and the business has to run to the bank because it’s the only place to get more cash. Apropos of nothing, […]
The Open Source VR (OSVR) platform has a number of new features that bring it more in line with some of the other consumer-grade headsets out there. Specifically, it has added Chaperone-like “Protector” bounds, which help prevent you from walking into walls and furniture, as well as a new home screen for easily booting up […]
