Rebel Moon – Part 2: The Scargiver, the second instalment in Zack Snyder’s Star Wars-scale epic, is getting some decidedly mixed reviews. The Guardian says that while it’s fun, it’s also bombastic and derivative, Variety says the story’s worse than the first one but the battles are better, and Empire Magazine pretty much cuts it … Read more
Rebel Moon: Part 2 – The Scargiver is an empty feast. It’s a relentless onslaught of explosions, sci-fi tropes and meaningless exposition that amounts to nothing. And yet somehow it’s still better than the first film in Zack Snyder’s wannabe sci-fi epic franchise for Netflix, Rebel Moon: Part 1 – A Child of Fire. (What … Read more
Microsoft could be reworking a major part of the Start menu in Windows 11, or at least there are changes hidden in testing right now which suggest this. As flagged up by a regular contributor of Windows leaks, PhantomOfEarth on X (formerly Twitter), the Start menu could end up with a very different layout for … Read more
Hulu and Disney Plus have officially tied the knot. After almost four months of beta testing, the streaming bundle is here at last, giving people a way to watch content from both services on a single smart TV app. Disney Plus even made some stylistic changes to its platform as a way to celebrate the … Read more
Michael Stonebraker has developed several influential database management systems over the years, including Ingres, PostgreSQL, and VoltDB. Matei Zaharia is the creator of Apache Spark and co-founder and CTO of Databricks. Working with a team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University, the pair have created a revolutionary prototype operating system called DBOS … Read more
With generative AI transforming the way businesses around the world work, plan and evolve, the need to ensure the data such platforms use and generate is paramount. Although primarily still seen as a cloud and storage leader, Amazon Web Services is looking to play a key role in ensuring businesses of all sizes remain safe … Read more
The best sleep hygiene tips tend to encourage giving things up: don’t use your phone in bed, don’t drink coffee in the afternoon, don’t eat at night… While good advice, it can make the bedtime routine feel like a chore. But it’s time to flip that thinking. By saving your favorite activities for the evening, … Read more
Fighting off rising seas without reducing humanity’s carbon emissions is like trying to drain a bathtub without turning off the tap. But increasingly, scientists are sounding the alarm on yet another problem compounding the crisis for coastal cities: Their land is also sinking, a phenomenon known as subsidence. The metaphorical tap is still on—as rapid … Read more
Artificial intelligence, or AI, is swiftly changing the way we live and work. It’s not just something for the future; it’s here now, and it’s having a big impact. If you’re in the tech world, you’ve probably already seen AI in action. In fact, nearly half of all IT professionals are using AI, and many … Read more
The release date for Dune: Part Two has been set for March 1st, 2024. This upcoming epic science fiction film is a much-awaited sequel to the 2021 film Dune, which garnered six Academy Awards. Notably, Dune: Part Two is the second of a two-part adaptation of the 1965 novel Dune by Frank Herbert. The film’s … Read more