39-year-old Radio Shack laptop gets new CPU, keeps original screen

Enlarge / A 1983-era TRS-80 Model 100 as an action hero, dramatically exploding onto the scene. (credit: Radio Shack / Benj Edwards) Faced with a broken Radio Shack laptop from 1983, IEEE Spectrum editor Stephen Cass didn’t throw it away. Instead, he pulled out the logic board and replaced it with a modern microcontroller so […]

Disney’s Pinocchio Review: Re-Watch The Original Instead Of This Wooden Remake

“Pinocchio” is the latest Disney animated film to get an updated “live-action” remake in our contemporary times. The 1940 original is rightfully a classic — a film that pushed the boundary of what animation can bring to the screen and a story about a boy’s earnest search to find out who he is. Robert Zemeckis’ […]

Netflix: Bridgerton Is Fifth-Largest Season Premiere for an Original Series

RELATED STORIES Lady Whistledown has her headline for tomorrow. If televisions and iPads existed during the Regency, that is. Netflix tweeted on Monday evening that Bridgerton — its adaptation of Julia Quinn’s best-selling novels, which was created for TV by Chris Van Dusen and executive-produced by Shonda Rhimes’ Shondaland — is projected to be sampled […]

Charmed’s Holly Marie Combs Calls to End ‘Division’ Between Fans of the Original Series and The CW Reboot

RELATED STORIES It’s been a dramatic week in the Charmed-verse, as several stars from both the original series and The CW’s reboot have spoken out publicly against one another. Now, Holly Marie Combs is taking a page from Piper Halliwell’s book and calling for peace. “My Charmed friends … I would like everyone to stop,” […]

The View in Review: The Soap It ‘Replaced,’ Its No. 1 Guest, the Original Title and Other Fun Facts

Ahead of The View‘s Season 24 premiere this Tuesday, Sept. 8, ABC’s daytime talker sent out a list of “Hot Topics” (read: fun facts). Because while it has been great sport over the years to focus on the show’s sometimes noisy goings and comings, on a much lighter note it is also interesting to recall…. […]

DC Universe Original TV Series Will Be Moving to HBO Max, Says DC CCO

RELATED STORIES Dick Grayson may be getting a new place to hang his domino mask. To the surprise of perhaps no one, it appears that all DC Universe original series are relocating to HBO Max, DC Chief Content Officer Jim Lee shared in an interview published on Friday. “The original content that is on DCU […]

Smash’s Original Pilot Script ‘Had a Lot of Nudity,’ Plus Other Fun Facts From the NBC Cast’s 7-Year Reunion

RELATED STORIES Fans of Marilyn Monroe, Broadway musicals and thinly veiled sexual baseball metaphors were given a temporary reprieve from all that is 2020 on Wednesday with a special presentation from the cast of NBC’s Smash. People, in partnership with The Actors Fund, aired a live stream of the short-lived series’ one-night-only concert recorded in […]

Prodigal Son Bosses Break Down the Finale’s Killer Twist, Reveal Original Plan for Scrapped Season 1 Episodes

RELATED STORIES The following post contains major spoilers for Prodigal Son‘s Season 1 finale. Proceed with caution! Of all the Whitly family members we would have expected to see covered in blood after brutally stabbing someone to death, Ainsley Whitly was on the bottom of that list. And yet, in the final moments of Monday’s Prodigal […]

Empire Series Finale: EP Reveals What Was Supposed to (and Still Might?) Happen in the Original Ending

RELATED STORIES Empire wrapped its six-season run on Tuesday with a final episode that carried with it a giant asterisk. Although billed as a series finale, the episode was actually an amalgam of the Fox drama’s antepenultimate and penultimate hours. The admirably assembled makeshift closer replaces the original swan song, production of which was, as you know, […]

NCIS: New Orleans Original Cast Member Exits in Season 6: ‘The Show Has Been So Good to Me…’

RELATED STORIES NCIS: New Orleans bid adieu to one of its original cast members this Tuesday night, six episodes into the CBS drama’s sixth season. In the episode “Matthew 5:9,” Special Agent Christopher Lasalle (played by Lucas Black) aimed to avenge his brother Cade’s murder by tracking down the drug ring in Alabama he believes […]