Amazon’s Echos make fantastic music devices, thanks to designs that often focus on 360-degree sound and placement that’s ideal for filling rooms with tunes, whether you like rocking out while cleaning house, holding a party, or creating ambiance at a business. If that sounds good to you, we’re helping out with the best ways to get music stations with the Alexa voice assistant and what station skills you should try....
Finding new stand-up comedy specials on Amazon Prime can be challenging without a proper hub page. Searching for stand-up comedy will land you a random assortment of specials from years ago. But the main reason it’s hard to find new specials is that there aren’t very many created for Prime Video itself. Even the latest addition,Craig Ferguson: I’m So Happy, was independently released last year. Zakir Khan: Delulu Expresswas released more recently, and it’s an amusing diversion as well....
There’s an interesting change that Google might be making on next year’s Pixel 9a. The change will bring something over from thePixel 9 Pro Fold, according to a new report fromAndroid Headlines. Per the report, the Pixel 9a will feature a 48-megapixel sensor instead of the 64MP primary sensor found on the Pixel 7a and Pixel 8a. It’s likely the one found on Google’s second-generation foldable Pixel. The report explains that although the Pixel 9a will have a lower resolution sensor, the larger megapixels used should provide better-looking photos....
Summary The cultural impact of comic strips such asPeanutsandGarfieldmay be easy to recognize, while others left marks on pop culture that are more subtle, though no less worthy of recognition. This is best illustrated bythe connection between an all-but-forgotten 1930s comic strip, UFO lore, and one of the most successful rock bands in the world, the Foo Fighters. Few modern readers might know the nameSmokey Stover, but many will be familiar with its influence....
The packaging for Nvidia’s RTX 5080 was just leaked mere hours ahead of the official announcement of theRTX 50-seriesduringCES 2025. The packaging confirms a couple of previous leaks, which is great — but it’s the early retail listing, spotted byVideoCardz, that’s making me worry. The pricing implies that, unsurprisingly, one of Nvidia’sbest graphics cardsmight indeed be really expensive. The initial leak comes fromwxnodon X (Twitter). It shows us several boxes of the RTX 5080 stacked on top of each other....
Summary An ending for an unrealizedAquamantrilogy in theDCEUhas been rendered in a concept trailer featuring Timothée Chalamet as the mystery villain.Aquaman’s DCEU tenurecomprised just two solo movies, withAquaman and the Lost Kingdombeing the DCEU’s swansongmovie in December 2023. Now that the DCEU is well and truly dead in the water, Jason Momoa will not return as Arthur Curry - though there is still hope for the beloved actor to return to the DCU in another role....
A Russian Soyuz capsule docked at the International Space Station (ISS) started leaking a large amount of liquid into space on Wednesday, prompting ground officials in Moscow to call off a planned spacewalk by two of its cosmonauts. None of the station’s seven crew members are in any danger, NASA said. A video (below) of the spacecraft clearly shows the liquid — thought to be coolant — leaking from the spacecraft as it orbits some 250 miles above Earth....
Robots can’t catch the coronavirus, so a baseball team in Japan has used a bunch of them to bring some life to its empty stadiums during mid-game entertainment slots for fans watching at home. Seeing as the team is the SoftBank Hawks from Fukuoka, it’s no surprise that the robot dance troupe comprises SoftBank’s Pepper robots, and Spot quadrupeds (complete with baseball caps) from Boston Dynamics, the robot-focused company acquired by SoftBank in 2017....
A recent update to WeTransfer’s terms of service caused consternation after some of its customers feared that it meant content from files uploaded to the popular file-sharing service would automatically be used to train AI models. But the Netherlands-based company insisted on Tuesday that this is not the case, saying ina statementthat it “does not sell user content to third parties,” and nor does it “use AI in connection with customer content....
When it comes to building enormous, complex space telescopes, agencies like NASA have to plan far in advance. Even though the James Webb Space Telescope only launched recently, astronomers are already busy thinking about what will come after Webb — and they’ve got ambitious plans. The big plan for the next decades of astronomy research is to find habitable planets, and maybe even to search for signs of life beyond Earth....
What do the San-Ti look like in 3 Body Problem? Netflix’s 3 Body Problem follows humanity as it faces off against an ominous new threat, the San-Ti. But what does this mysterious alien race look like? Chinese author Liu Cixin’s sci-fi trilogy is getting its debut on Netflix, withGame of Thronesshowrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss taking the wheel. The first season of3 Body Problemcovers the events of the first novel and sees humanity learn about a new threat headed their way....
Sony promises a host of new PlayStation 4 announcements and updates in the final State of Play for 2019, which is set to air on December 10. The upcoming State of Play will be the fourth episode of the show, which released its first episode in March of this year. How to watch PlayStation 4 gamers, set your alarms to 6 a.m. PT/9 a.m. ET on December 10. The State of Play will last for 20 minutes and will follow the formula of the first three episodes, which means it will be jampacked with content....
TheHarry Pottercreative team is starting to assemble. The upcoming Harry Potter TV series has named Francesca Gardiner as showrunner and writer. Additionally, Mark Mylod has been tapped to direct multiple episodes. Gardiner and Mylod, who will executive produce the Harry Potter series, worked together onSuccession, HBO’s award-winning drama that ran for four seasons from 2018 to 2023. Gardiner’s writing and producing credits includeKilling Eve,His Dark Materials, andThe Man in the High Castle....
