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Media Molecules ended support for Dreams in September 2023, essentially ending the PS4 game while the studio began focusing on its next project. Dreams never saw a native PS5 release--although it is playable via backwards compatibility--and the game was never ported to PC, platforms where its audience could have potentially grown.Several months later, reports began circulating that PS5 and PC ports were in development and that these versions of Dreams were nearing completion, but these plans were…

If you’re not a cat person, you might be hesitant to get one. They’ve been known to scratch, bite, knock vases off shelves, leave clumps of their hair all over the house and run around like their tails are on fire around 3am. But they’re also amazing personal heaters that will lay on your lap looking angelic, great listeners to talk to, provide endless entertainment, and their cuteness greatly outweighs all of the hassles of having these little creatures around.So if you need to be convinced why you should have a kitty,…

Illustration: Rhett AllainYou can see that we have a right triangle with the hypotenuse equal to the distance from the observer's eyes to the center of the Earth (R + h), with the other two sides being just R and the distance to the horizon (s). Using the Pythagorean theorem, we can solve for s:Illustration: Rhett AllainNow we just need to plug in our values for R and h to get a distance of 4,657 meters, or about 2.89 miles. Of course, if you increase your distance from the surface (h), then you can also see farther. But…

Like everyone else in the tech space, I was excited to hear Apple announce a new product category at WWDC this past summer. Despite this, I don’t think Apple has done nearly enough to convince me to buy the Apple Vision Pro.As preorders for the headset launched on January 19 in the U.S. before the headset ships on February 2, time will tell if its $3,499 price tag will appeal to many throughout the year.Sure, I’ll go test it out as soon as I can get an appointment at my local Apple Store, but it’ll take more than a test…

It's a new dawn, it's a new day, and it's a new year. We're officially in 2024 and many of us are welcoming the new year with resolutions that we hope to stick with beyond the first few weeks of January. Likewise, as a company on a mission to redefine the future of the smartphone industry, Samsung has a 2024 New Year's resolution too. Samsung has made no secret of the fact that it views foldable smartphones as the future of the industry. Such is the company's belief in this future that it axed the very popular Galaxy…

Back in 2021, when Apple revealed that the M1 chip, then only found in its latest Mac models, was coming to the iPad Pro, I swooned.iPads had never been lacking for power under the hood, but it felt like a statement of intent — one that Apple took what felt like an eternity to follow up on with Logic Pro and Final Cut launching in 2023.A couple of years on, though, are we anywhere closer to the iPad replacing the Mac? That depends on your use case, but we’ve never been closer - and I’m considering it.iPad on the brain …

The 2022 The Fabelmans served as a way for Steven Spielberg to tell a semi-autobiographical account (one that was critically well received) of how his love for movies came to be and how his early years of directing went, albeit with the primary characters’ names changed. By the end of this heartfelt and messy masterpiece though, audiences were treated to an almost beat-for-beat recreation of something the filmmaker experienced in real life, with Gabrielle LaBelle’s Sammy Fabelman meeting director John Ford. It turns out…

Belgian physicist and musician Prof Bob Coecke, 55, wants to teach quantum physics to a mass audience. The paradox-filled theory that describes the microscopic realm has become a staple of science fiction, from Marvel’s Ant-Man to the multiple Oscar-winning Everything Everywhere All at Once. It’s famously bizarre and, in the UK, the subject is mostly reserved for undergraduates specialising in physics because it requires grappling with complicated maths. But Coecke, a former Oxford professor, has devised a maths-free…

On the eve of Google’s Pixel Fold launching, Engadget got the chance to sit down with a few Google Designers to talk about the new foldable. Which is a first for Google. While Apple is typically late to market with new products and technology, Google is pretty late here too. After all, the first foldables started to land on store shelves back in 2019. Google is aiming to help and explain why their foldable isn’t just another foldable. Starting off with the shape of the Pixel Fold. It’s one of the wider foldables on the…

Image via Pixar Hello Disney lovers, friends, and even enemies; it’s time for another Disney news roundup in which we’ll catch you up to speed with the latest happenings in the House of Mouse. While news is relatively quiet on the DeSantis front today, Disney’s trading card game Lorcana is facing some legal controversy of its own before the game has even been released. In the latest entertainment news, Variety’s Actors on Actors invited two Star Wars prequel stars for a chat about their respective journeys…