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Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Donald Glover to star in Amazon’s Mr. and Mrs. Smith series

Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Donald Glover will star in a new Amazon Prime Video series based on the 2005 film Mr. and Mrs. Smith. The movie starred Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt as a pair of married killers-for-hire who are assigned to assassinate each other. I am trying to envision what Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag character would make… Read more

Minneapolis prohibits use of facial recognition software by its police department

The Minneapolis City Council voted unanimously on Friday to approve an ordinance banning the use of facial recognition software by its police department and other city agencies, the Star Tribune reported. The ban adds Minneapolis to the list of US cities moving to limit or end the use of such technology by its law enforcement… Read more

If Whoopi Goldberg tells you to wear a mask on the subway, you wear it

You might not have to ride public transit to work right now, but if you’re one of the many workers who still commutes in New York City (or if you’re someone like me who fantasizes about their old commute), you’ll now have some new celebrity voice talent to keep you company on your bus or… Read more

Disney Plus reaches 95m subscribers ahead of schedule

Home News (Image credit: Disney) Disney Plus is growing quicker than expected. The streaming service has 94.9 million subscribers already, Disney announced during its Q1 2021 earnings call. When it launched in November 2019, the service aimed to reach 90 million subscribers within four years, but has already passed that goal after just over a… Read more

Disney Plus hits 94.9 million subscribers, beating its four-year goal in 14 months

Disney Plus reached a new high of 94.9 million subscribers around the world, the company announced in its Q1 2021 earnings report. Hulu now has 39.4 million subscribers, while ESPN Plus has 12.1 million subscribers. The strong numbers for Disney Plus show a noticeable jump from the 86 million subscribers Disney announced it had reached… Read more

Jack Black will play the snarky robot Claptrap in the Borderlands movie

Jack Black is set to play snarky robot Claptrap in the upcoming Borderlands movie, according to The Hollywood Reporter, Deadline, Variety, and other publications. He joins what’s turning out to be an all-star cast, which also includes Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Hart, and Cate Blanchett. The movie will be directed by Eli Roth, who most… Read more

Post Malone will hold a virtual concert to celebrate Pokémon’s 25th anniversary

Post Malone is joining Pokémon’s 25th anniversary celebration with a virtual concert. The rapper will perform on February 27th in a digital event kicking off at 7PM ET. On YouTube, the company released a teaser video alongside the news, which includes a look at a very Pixar-ish, animated version of the artist ahead of the… Read more

How you can help astronomers hunt for undiscovered worlds

Astronomers discovered the stars closest to our Solar System more than 100 years ago. There’s the three-star Alpha Centauri system about four light-years away and Barnard’s star about six light-years out. But our celestial neck of the woods might be more crowded than we ever thought possible. In the past 25 years, astronomers have been… Read more

The Mandalorian star Pedro Pascal will play Joel in HBO’s The Last of Us TV show

Pedro Pascal, who you might recognize as The Mandalorian himself, has been cast as Joel in HBO’s TV adaptation of The Last of Us, as first reported by Deadline. The casting was confirmed shortly after by The Last of Us creative director (and an executive producer and writer for the show) Neil Druckmann. Pascal’s confirmed… Read more

Star Wars severs ties with The Mandalorian star Gina Carano

Disney has severed ties with Gina Carano, who played Cara Dune on The Mandalorian, the company announced on Wednesday evening. “Gina Carano is not currently employed by Lucasfilm and there are no plans for her to be in the future,” a Lucasfilm spokesperson told The Verge. Carano has recently come under scrutiny for several posts… Read more

Burmester announces “several” new core hi-fi and Reference Line products for 2021

Home News (Image credit: Burmester) To commemorate Burmester’s late founder, Dieter Burmester, who would have turned 75 yesterday, Burmester Audiosysteme GmbH is announcing several new products to be released in 2021. What’s new on the menu? Plenty, actually. Burmester is promising a slew of “new products such as music centres, power amplifiers, and a new… Read more

How to add a turntable to your existing music system

Home Advice Has the resurgence of vinyl got you excited? Perhaps you’re a lapsed lover of the big, groovy discs, with a collection in the loft just begging to have the cobwebs blown away – or maybe a newcomer looking to inject a little analogue into your current, exclusively digital musical diet. But what if… Read more

The original Barcode Scanner app, seemingly mistaken for malware, is getting review-bombed

One of the first Android apps — ZXing Team’s Barcode Scanner, an app that predates the first official release of Android itself — is currently getting review-bombed on the Google Play Store. Hundreds of users are leaving 1-star reviews claiming a recent update spews unwanted ads, while nearly 200 more have come to the app’s… Read more

iFi reworks Zen DAC and Zen Can headphone amps for enhanced Signature versions

Home News (Image credit: iFi) The iFi Zen series of affordable hi-fi components has proven a huge success, with the trio we’ve tested all garnering positive reviews. Now, two of the models in the range – the five-star Zen DAC/headphone amp and the Zen Can analogue-only headphone amp – have been treated to enhanced circuitry… Read more

New trailers: The Nevers, Pacific Rim: The Black, Moxie, and more

So I watched the latest episode of Servant and can’t decide whether it’s the slow pacing or the suspension of disbelief (how long can Julian and Sean keep up the plot’s central ruse before they do real damage to Dorothy?) keeping it from being genuinely frightening. I won’t spoil the latest episode, but it feels… Read more