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I like to think I have a pretty nice dual-monitor PC setup, but it turns out all this time I’ve been working and gaming like a pleb. Or at least, that’s how Cooler Master’s new Orb X gaming chair/enclosure/throne has made me feel. It’s completely ridiculous, but I still can’t promise that I don’t want one to replace my desktop setup. Part mechanized chair, part PC battlestation, the Orb X boasts support for one 34-inch display or up to three of the best 27-inch monitors, and also comes with built-in 2.1 surround…

Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNETIt's officially the time of year when your family and friends start asking you for your holiday wish list. As amazing and generous as the holiday gift-giving traditions are, we all know how frustrating it can be to nag other people and be nagged about what gifts to exchange.For that reason, I developed the perfect solution that will make both your life and your family's easier: a Wishlist PowerPoint. Buying people gifts and spending money on gifts is already a challenge, but buying gifts that…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeNick Nolte has reflected on the “absurd” on-set feud he had with Julia Roberts while making the 1994 romcom I Love Trouble.Nolte and Roberts starred in the film as two rival newspaper reporters forced to work together on a story about a train derailment.In an interview with The New York Times that she did during the film’s production in 1993, Roberts said: “From the moment I met him we…

‘Tech vs Media’ podcast: Kevin Mayer says the next internet iteration doesn’t exist yet, but soon will Amid the rise of immersive environments and VR from a number of platforms and companies, Candle Media co-founder and CEO Kevin Mayer called the idea of Mark Zuckerberg owning the Metaverse “absurd.” “You see each of these universes, if you will, and the metaverse wins all interoperability and you can take things across each of them — I think that’s what I would call the Metaverse,”…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeDir: Eric Appel. Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Evan Rachel Wood, Rainn Wilson, Toby Huss, Julianne Nicholson, Quinta Brunson. 108 minutes.I’ve often heard it said that 2007’s Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story ruined the music biopic for good. Jake Kasdan’s parodic riff on the genre’s conventions – the troubled childhood, the meteoric rise to fame, the parade of famous faces, the inevitable…

Set in 1919 during the Spanish flu pandemic, this period Hungarian horror directed by Péter Bergendy is imbued with shades of black and grey, a monochromatic colour scheme designed to feel reminiscent of classic silent horror films.Returning from the first world war where he has endured a near-death experience, Tomás (Viktor Klem) swaps his guns for a camera as he takes a job as a post-mortem photographer, a carnivalesque gig where he poses and takes pictures of the dead for their loved ones. A chance encounter with the…

Tom Cruise’s Mission Impossible 8 Production Halted(Pic Credit: Movie Still) Tom Cruise’s Mission Impossible 8 has halted its production for the most bizarre reason. After starring in one of the best films in his entire career, Top Gun Maverick, the actor is back to work with the next instalments of the MI franchise. Cruise has previously said how much he likes to work and that promoting his movies is his vacation time for him. The actor seems to never rest as most of the time he is busy hanging out of…

Fans of Harry Potter who have finished reading The Cursed Child and A Journey through the History of Magic in the last two years now have a fresh chapter in the wizarding boy’s journey to keep them entertained—one provided to us by AI-generated text prediction rather than J.K. Rowling. Artificial intelligence (AI) is the emulation of human intelligence in devices that have been designed to behave and think like humans. The phrase can also be used to refer to any computer that demonstrates characteristics of the…

From the moment they first graced a club stage in 1973, envisioning themselves as the star children of Alice Cooper, the Beatles and the New York Dolls, Kiss have introduced themselves as “The Hottest Band In The Woooooorrrrld!”, even when no one had ever heard their name. Never has anyone better worn the adage: dress for the job you want, not the one you have.“You wanted the best, you got the best!” booms a voice over the PA, and over the heads of 20,000 fans gathered at the stadium hosting the Sydney leg of the band’s…

Lies of P is easily the most absurd pitch for a game I’ve ever heard. Imagine if you took Bloodborne, in all its gothic glory, but used its Soulslike structure to retell the story of Pinocchio in a steampunk setting … oh, and imagine if Pinocchio looked like Timothée Chalamet. I promise that I’m not making this up or suffering from a Gamescom-induced hallucination; it’s an entirely real game that I played with my own two hands. It’s easy to write Lies of P off as either a joke or, even worse, a cheap knockoff. After…