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Andy Muschietti directed last year’s adaptation of Stephen King’s It, but Muschietti is no clown. He’s been able to parlay that movie’s record-breaking success into multiple new directing gigs, and now he’s lined up a brand new one: he’ll direct a new adaptation of H.G. Wells‘ classic time travel novella The Time Machine, and Leonardo […]
Netflix purchased comic book writer Mark Millar‘s Millarworld company last year, and they’ve already teamed up to release the streaming service’s first comic book, The Magic Order. But Netflix didn’t buy Millar’s company solely to make comic books: they’re in it for that sweet, sweet intellectual property. The first batch of Millarworld movies and TV shows […]
Thomson Reuters Oil and Gold performed well in quarter 1, and could still be good buying opportunities. Large cap American stocks may have gotten hit with trade news recently, but look past the short-term noise. Small caps outperformed mid and large caps. After being mostly absent in 2017, volatility has made a comeback. The S&P […]
Turns out it’s not so easy to improve the way we produce the stuff beneath our feet. https://media.wired.com/photos/5a6654ab8b124e6665b4ae39/master/pass/PavementCalifornia-481496284.jpg
You can start getting pumped about the next generation of graphics cards, as Samsung has announced that it’s building the first-ever 16-gigabit GDDR6 chips using its 10-nanometer class technology. The news isn’t a complete surprise, as Samsung previously said that GDDR6 was coming when it unveiled 8-gigabit DDR4 RAM chips last month and won a […]
Enlarge / 30 Doradus, also known as the Tarantula Nebula, is forming an unusually high number of massive stars. (credit: NASA) For fans of drama, the Universe can be a bit of a disappointment. Most of the stars it currently produces are red M-dwarfs. With masses less than half that of the Sun, these will […]
When Kendrick Lamar debuted his video for “LOVE.” just before Christmas, a few sharp-eyed viewers noted something interesting in the midst of its beach landscapes and intimate bedrooms – a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it shot of a film clapper, emblazoned with the words “B. PANTHER / SOUNDTRACK / COMING SOON.” Well, now it’s official. Per Pitchfork, Lamar and […]
Enlarge / You wouldn’t really want to use Nvidia’s $ 3,000 Titan V with a 32-bit operating system anyway. (credit: Nvidia) While most people have probably made the switch by now, yet another reason to drop 32-bit operating systems and move to 64-bits is coming. Version 390 of Nvidia’s graphics drivers, likely to arrive in […]
Writer/producer Simon Kinberg is about to make his directorial debut with X-Men: Dark Phoenix, but he could be heading to a very different galaxy in the not-too-distant future. A new rumor reignites an old story: that Kinberg is on board to produce Lucasfilm’s Boba Fett movie, a Star Wars spin-off film that’s been in development behind the scenes for […]
The Googology wiki that celebrates numbers has entries for 42, 151, SpongeBob’s Number, and Three Hundred Billion Gazillion. The wiki has no entry for the number 19, which means it doesn’t commemorate Steely Dan’s “Hey Nineteen,” Paul Hardcastle’s song “19,” or the official production run of the Bentley Grand Convertible. That’s right, the abundant and […]
