‘It’ Pennywise Featurette Focuses on Bill Skarsgard’s Unpredictable Performance

For one generation, Tim Curry’s performance as Pennywise the Dancing Clown in the made-for-TV adaptation of Stephen King’s It will always be the first thing that comes to mind when they think about the character. But I’d venture to say with the popularity of director Andy Muschietti’s new film version of the classic horror novel, actor Bill […]

Intel focuses its WiGig efforts on wireless VR

Don’t count on finding multi-gigabit WiFi in your laptop in the near future. Intel has announced that it’s discontinuing virtually all of its current WiGig hardware by the end of 2017, including antennas and controllers. Instead, the focus is on using the technology for wireless VR — don’t worry, Intel knows you hate tripping over […]

‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ Featurette Focuses on Spidey’s Mentor, Iron Man

Tom Holland’s spunky, excitable Spider-Man swings back into theaters next month in a brand new cinematic adventure, but anyone who’s even remotely been paying attention knows that Robert Downey Jr.’s Iron Man is going to play a big part in Sony and Marvel’s Spider-Man: Homecoming. Today, Downey took to Twitter to share a new featurette for the film […]

Boston Study Focuses on How People Use Self-Driving Cars in Ride-Hailing Service

– After years of single-minded focus on developing the technology for automated vehicles, the companies pushing to make self-driving cars a reality are now devoting more attention to the human beings who will ride in them. Over the past six months, both Volvo and Waymo have launched projects designed to examine how ordinary motorists use […]

Far Cry 5 focuses a terrifyingly realistic armed cult

Ubisoft revealed today that Far Cry 5 will be about one of the most disturbing realities about American extremism: an armed religious cult that believes the collapse of society is near. The French video game publisher has a way of making fictional games feel realistic, like the San Francisco setting of the recent Watch Dogs […]

With 1,000 frames per second and a global shutter, Phantom Flex focuses on science

Vision Research has unveiled an updated version of its high-speed Phantom Flex4K camera, popular for shooting cinematic slow-motion sequences at up to 1,000 frames per second. The new version is called the Flex4K-GS, with “GS” standing for global shutter. While a global shutter is desirable in all aspects of video production, the Flex4K-GS is specifically […]

As Windows 10 Creators Update nears completion, new build focuses on fixes

Cortana’s latest animation. Two new Windows 10 builds went out today to fast ring members of the Insider Program: 15042 for desktop PCs and 15043 for phones. They bring a barrage of bug fixes, but little in the way of new features. The Windows SDK has been feature complete for a couple of weeks now; […]

Jolla’s latest mobile OS upgrade focuses on the basics

Jolla is going some distance to putting its Sailfish OS on more phones you can buy, but it’s clear the startup still has a ways to go before you’re ditching your existing device. It just released an early access version of Sailfish OS 2.1 (nicknamed Iijoki) that adds features you probably take for granted on […]