Archive for: August, 2017

The Dark Tower Wins This Weekend’s Box Office

Sony Pictures and MRC’s film adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower saga has topped the first weekend of the August box-office, albeit with a whimper. Overcoming heinous reviews, the Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey-led fantasy feature is set to come in at a modest $19.5 million for the three days, topping the box-office. Dunkirk is a […]

Check Out the New Trailer for HBO’s The Deuce

HBO has released another trailer for its upcoming late 1970s New York drama The Deuce which explores the pioneering moments of what would become the billion-dollar American sex industry. The Wire creator David Simon and The Pacific producer George Pelecanos are behind the project which sees James Franco in a dual role as twins alongside Maggie Gyllenhaal, Emily […]

Daniel Dae Kim Speaks About Hawaii Five-0 Exit at The TCAs

Appearing on the press tour for The Good Doctor as part of ABC’s Television Critics Association panel, actor Daniel Dae Kim made his first public remarks about his exit from CBS’ Hawaii Five-0 following the controversial dismissal of him and co-star Grace Park earlier this year. The pair, who had been series regulars for seven seasons, were […]

Johnny Galecki May Join ABC’s Roseanne Revival

Johnny Galecki is in talks to reprise his role as David Healy on the upcoming revival of Roseanne at ABC. Galecki’s involvement had been the big question with the revival due to his commitments to CBS’ The Big Bang Theory, but it looks like a deal is underway – though signed yet per Variety. Original stars […]

ASRock’s X399 Taichi Is an ATX Powerhouse for Threadripper

ASRock’s new Ryzen Threadripper-compatible X399 Taichi ATX motherboard is now available for pre-order. In addition to its gargantuan 4,094-pin TR4 LGA socket, the ASRock X399 Taichi also boasts eight DIMM slots with quad-channel memory support, 64 PCI-E lanes, triple M.2 slots, steel-reinforced PCI-E slots that support four-way SLI or CrossFire graphics card configurations, and 7.1 […]

Dota 2 Tournament Has a Record $23 Million Prize Pool

Valve’s annual Dota 2 championship, The International, will kick off later today. Teams from around the world will compete from August 7-12 for the record-breaking $23 million prize pool–and, you know, bragging rights for being the best at the multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) title. The tournament’s prize pool is raised via sales of The […]

Apple Release News Dev Betas for iOS 11, watchOS, tvOS 11, macOS High Sierra 10.13, and Xcode 9

Apple today seeded the fifth beta of iOS 11 to application developers. This beta is not yet available to public beta testers, though Apple typically releases new public betas shortly after it updates the developer code. Apple continues to refine iOS 11 and add features based on developer feedback. The company did not call out any […]

Google Releases August Security Patches for Android

Google today made its monthly security patches available to select Android devices. This month’s patches plug a significant number of security holes that threaten most Android devices. Google found dozens of vulnerabilities, including a number of which classified as critical, or able to remotely execute code. Some of problems are related to specific hardware and […]

YouTube Music Now Supports Custom Offline Playlists

Google has updated its YouTube Music application recently and made it possible for users to create their own playlists for offline listening. Before the update, YouTube Music would create mixtape for subscribers using its own algorithms — subscribers could not pick and choose individual songs or albums for offline playback. Now, users can select songs or videos […]

Amazon Resumes Selling Blu Smartphones

Blu Products said over the weekend that its phones are once again available from Amazon.com. Amazon ceased selling the phones after it discovered the phones may be collecting consumer data and sending the data to remote servers. Blu maintained that any data collected by its phones was “standard for OTA functionality” and “[did] not affect any […]

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