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TechCrunch: Original Content podcast: ‘El Camino’ provides a quiet coda to ‘Breaking Bad’ When a TV show gets turned into a movie, it often represents a big change of pace, with a standalone plot, a bigger budget, all made for a bigger (or at least more casual) audience. “El Camino: A Breaking Bad Story” — which premiered a week ago on Netflix —doesn’t take that approach at all. […] 26 mins ago
Gizmodo: The Next Into the Dark Holiday Extravaganza Is a Disastrous Thanksgiving LARP Maybe just don’t dress up as a pilgrim. It’s not ever going to go well. Read more... 45 mins ago
CNET: Coppola calls Marvel movies 'despicable' in defense of Scorsese's criticism - CNET Godfather director's comments come after Martin Scorsese called MCU movies "not cinema." 1 hour ago
Gizmodo: Taika Waititi Still Plans On Directing Akira, Eventually Western anime adaptations are always fraught and complex, but few have been as troubled in their development as Akira. Recently, it was delayed due to director Taika Waititi’s major commitments elsewhere. And while some viewed that as another death knell on another failed adaptation of Akira, Waititi isn’t so sure. Read more... 2 hours ago
TechCrunch: The Los Angeles Fire Department wants more drones As it looks to modernize its operations, the Los Angeles Fire Department is turning to a number of new technologies including expanding its fleet of drones for a slew of new deployments. One of the largest fire departments in the U.S. next to New York and Chicago, the LAFD has a budget of roughly $691 […] 2 hours ago
CNET: The 15 top moments from Battlestar Galactica, best sci-fi TV series ever - CNET Commentary: As the show celebrates its 15th anniversary, let's remember what made it so great. 3 hours ago
Gizmodo: Twitch "Watch Parties" Let Me Stream Movies to the Viewers I Don't Have Ever since Amazon bought Twitch for a cool $970 million back in 2014, it seemed inevitable that eventually its catalog of movies and shows would make their way onto the streaming platform for live viewing get-togethers. It may have taken a hot minute, but Twitch finally began testing a “Watch Parties” feature this…Read more... 3 hours ago
CNET: Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker trailer hits Monday, along with ticket sales - CNET The trailer will debut during Monday Night Football halftime, on Carrie Fisher's birthday. 3 hours ago
CNET: HBO's Watchmen better give me realism -- and maybe a giant squid - CNET Commentary: I love the comic but barely tolerated Zack Snyder's movie. Please don't let me down, HBO. 3 hours ago
Gizmodo: The Batman Has a Composer, and All It Took Was an On-Stage Proposal Most movies get their composers in normal, behind-the-scenes deals. Some calls, some emails, probably some demos. You know, business stuff. The Batman is a bit different. Read more... 4 hours ago
CNET: iPhone 11 vs. iPhone XR: Which phone is the better buy for the price? - CNET Apple’s latest iPhone 11 has new features and costs $100 more than last year’s iPhone XR. But it might not be worth buying. 4 hours ago
TechCrunch: Max-Q: This week in space Space is becoming a major area of startup and commercial investment, and so I’ve decided to start providing a weekly round-up of the biggest news in aerospace, space science and space-related technologies. Let me know if you appreciate this or have suggestions, and I’ll make sure it evolves as needed to be useful resource. This […] 4 hours ago
TechCrunch: Week in Review: The web’s free speech conundrum Hey everyone. Thank you for welcoming me into you inbox yet again. Last week, I talked about the eternal dumbness of the smart home and how Google had a big chance to lay out their vision this past week. Guess what? They did not, instead we got a new more expensive Google Wifi that falls […] 5 hours ago
CNET: Hands-on with Pixel 4 and 4 XL: Google's new phones only have minor differences - CNET It's Google's turn to take the phone spotlight, and the Pixel 4 has improved cameras and a new design. 6 hours ago
CNET: iPhone SE2 is coming, and it could be huge (but also kinda small) - CNET Rumors about a new iPhone SE have reached fever pitch. Let's break down why this iPhone may be a big deal. 7 hours ago
Gizmodo: Sunday's Best Deals: REI Outlet, Weighted Blankets, Omega Juicer, and More An REI Outlet sale, a discounted Omega juicer, and a marked-down Ring Alarm Home Security System lead off Sunday’s best deals from around the web.Read more... 7 hours ago
TechCrunch: China Roundup: Tencent’s NBA test, TikTok parent deepens education push Welcome to TechCrunch’s China roundup, a digest of events that happened at major Chinese tech companies and what they mean to tech founders and executives around the world. The talk about U.S.-China relationships over the past two weeks has centered heavily on the NBA controversy, which has put the interest of some of China’s largest […] 8 hours ago
TechCrunch: Facebook isn’t free speech, it’s algorithmic amplification optimized for outrage This week Mark Zuckerberg gave a speech in which he extolled “giving everyone a voice” and fighting “to uphold a wide a definition of freedom of expression as possible.” That sounds great, of course! Freedom of expression is a cornerstone, if not the cornerstone, of liberal democracy. Who could be opposed to that? The problem […] 8 hours ago
CNET: Mark Ronson isn't shallow: CNET interviews the Grammy-winning musician and producer - CNET I told seven-time Grammy and Academy Award Winner Mark Ronson that Shallow drove me nuts -- and learned that he wished he'd never heard of the word sapiosexual. 8 hours ago
Wired: 6 Best Camera Accessories for Android and iPhone (2019) Assemble a photo studio you can carry in a backpack or messenger bag. 9 hours ago
Wired: How to Pick the Best Roku: A Guide to Each Model (2019) There are 7 Rokus for sale, and the differences between them are confusing. We break down exactly which Roku is best for your TV. 9 hours ago
CNET: Want a Wi-Fi 6 router from Google or Amazon? You're going to have to wait - CNET Wi-Fi 6 is here, but Google and Amazon aren't embracing the speedy new standard just yet. 9 hours ago
CNET: Laptop vs. Chromebook: Which portable computer is best in 2019 - CNET It's time to change the way you think about Chromebooks. Here's why. 10 hours ago
Wired: The Beats Powerbeats Pro Are $50 Off Right Now Our favorite wireless workout buds are down to $250 to $200 right now. 10 hours ago
TechCrunch: IPOs are the beginning, not the end Earlier this month at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco, we sat down with Box’s Aaron Levie and PagerDuty’s Jennifer Tejada to discuss their respective companies’ paths to an IPO, the general IPO landscape and the pros and cons of going public. With a lot of recent IPOs faltering and increased pressure on startup valuations, now is […] 23 hours ago
Gizmodo: Report: Venom 2 Is Diving Deep Into Symbiote Lore and Casting Naomie Harris as Shriek Remember Shriek? You might not; the character, debuting in Marvel Comics in 1993, was created to be a love interest for Cletus Kassidy, aka Carnage. She’s a mutant with sound-manipulation abilities and a deep love for both killing and Carnage. And now we know who might be playing her in the Venom sequel. Read more... 23 hours ago
Gizmodo: Google's Smart Home Doorbell Sounds Terrifying (Or At Least, It Will Soon) It seems like Google’s getting into the Halloween spirit. A recent update for its Google Nest app—where users can control the company’s recently rebranded line of smart home products—hints at upcoming festive themes, the first of which appears to be some frightening new ringtones for the Nest Hello Doorbell.Read more... 1 day ago
TechCrunch: MediaLab acquires messaging app Kik, expanding its app portfolio Popular messaging app Kik is, indeed, “here to stay” following an acquisition by the Los Angeles-based multimedia holding company, MediaLab. It echoes the same message from Kik’s chief executive Tim Livingston last week when he rebuffed earlier reports that the company would shut down amid an ongoing battle with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Livingston […] 1 day ago
Gizmodo: Okay, Here's When the Last The Rise of Skywalker Trailer Drops Don’t pretend you don’t want to know. Read more... 1 day ago
TechCrunch: This Week in Apps: League of Legends goes mobile, Tim Cook talks to China and more Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the Extra Crunch series that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support, and the money that flows through it all. The app industry in 2018 saw 194 billion downloads and more than $100 billion in purchases. Just in the past quarter, consumer spending exceeded $23 billion and installs topped 31 billion. […] 1 day ago
TechCrunch: HuffPost is reportedly on the auction block Late last night the Financial Times reported that HuffPost, arguably one of the crown jewels of Verizon Media Group’s remaining network of media properties (which includes TechCrunch), is up for sale. Verizon has been shedding media properties in a retreat from the strategy that it had begun to execute with the acquisition of AOL for […] 1 day ago
Gizmodo: Facebook's Top Priority is Totally Its Government-Ordered Privacy Program I can’t put an image in a headline, so just visualize the little eyes emoji there at the end. Read more... 1 day ago
Gizmodo: A Set Injury Might Mean Major Delays for Cowboy Bebop John Cho, oh no! The star of the upcoming Netflix live-action version of Cowboy Bebop has had an on-set mishap, and it could mean that the series is a lot later than we thought it would be. Read more... 1 day ago
Wired: Masterbuilt 330G Propane Smoker Review: As Good as Wood Some pit masters may look down on smoking with propane, but this smoker could convert them. 1 day ago
Wired: 14 Great Weekend Deals: Sony, LG, Razer, and More It's time to stock up on scary games, big TVs, and a gaming mouse deal so good you'll scream. 1 day ago