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via Netflix You can set your watch to a reliably mediocre Netflix original arriving every few days to make a major impact on the viewership charts, and seeing as it’s been almost an entire week since Luckiest Girl Alive came along to fulfill the obligation, we were about due something like Someone Borrowed. The Brazilian rom-com hasn’t been resoundingly panned, we should point out, but the overwhelming majority of reviews note that it’s essentially a sugar rush of formula and cliche that’s fleetingly fun while…

Microsoft’s big fall Surface event has come, and the Surface Pro 9 is the headline new product. From the outside, it doesn’t look all that different from last year’s Surface Pro 8. The detachable keyboard comes in some new color options, Sapphire and Forest, which Microsoft says contain at least “12% renewable content” from sugarcane waste. There’s also a new engraved design made in partnership with fashion brand Liberty London — but it’s otherwise an identical chassis. The big change is under the hood. Gone is the…

Think about this for a moment: almost 40% of the world’s population, over 2.96 billion people, consider themselves gamers. Since the dawn of Atari in the 1970s, the industry has boomed—it’s now larger than the movie and music industries combined—and is expected to be worth $321 billion by 2026. As video game technology has grown more sophisticated, so has the average gamer. Once primarily marketed to kids, especially males, the demographic is shifting, and up to 45% of gamers are female, with…

Videos on Twitter will now look a lot more like TikTok. The company that it’s switching to a full-screen “immersive” video player for watching clips. It’s also borrowing the now-familiar “swipe up” gesture that will allow people to endlessly scroll through more videos on the platform. The update will make watching videos on Twitter feel a lot more like browsing TikTok or Instagram’s Reels, at least in terms of the user interface. The changes are limited to Twitter’s iOS app for now, but the company said a similar update…

When most people think of the Google Play Store, the first thing that comes to mind is smartphones. However, the spread of the Android ecosystem is far broader than that, and Google is taking steps to increase awareness of this and make it easier for folks to find apps on the Play Store for their smart TVs, watches, and even cars. In a blog post today, the Google Play team announced three significant changes that should make it easier for Android fans to discover apps for all their devices, right from their phone.…

Harry Styles basically had his fans doing a spit-take when he addressed the clip of him allegedly spitting on his “Don’t Worry Darling” co-star Chris Pine at the Venice International Film Festival. The “As It Was” and “Watermelon Sugar” crooner owned the viral moment Wednesday night by playing along with reports that he dissed Pine on Monday at their movie premiere. The 28-year-old told the massive crowd gathered for his Love on Tour run at Madison Square Garden — and the rest of the world via social media footage — that…

WASHINGTON—As a $52 billion bill to bolster semiconductor manufacturing in the U.S. approached a critical juncture, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo reached out to some unusual figures to cultivate support in Congress: former Trump administration national security officials.A member of her security detail told her that H.R. McMaster, national security adviser to former President Donald Trump, praised her on Joe Rogan’s…

Many of Pro-Ject Audio's turntables are textbook examples of minimalist design, but the latest addition to its Debut line takes things even further thanks to a distinct lack of visible switches or labels and everything in view treated to a matte black finish.Pro-Ject celebrated its 30th anniversary last year with the launch of the Debut Pro turntable, and the new Pro S model rocks a plinth that's the same thickness as its sibling but much wider at 465 mm (18.3 in) to match the footprint of the company's X8 True Balanced…

Over the last seven years, Splatoon has quietly evolved into one of Nintendo’s top-tier franchises. Starting with a surprise hit on the Wii U, the series quickly found devoted fans on both the casual and competitive sides. Splatoon 2 pushed that momentum, but it was seen as more of a “Splatoon 1.5” at the time — a slightly updated version of the first game for the Switch’s much larger install base. Despite the series’ success, it’s still been waiting for that true breakout moment. Splatoon 3 just might be it. At a…

Dir: William Brent Bell. Starring: Isabelle Fuhrman, Julia Stiles, Rossif Sutherland, Matthew Finlan. 15, 99 minutes.A prequel to Orphan is such an odd proposition. Jaume Collet-Serra’s nasty but ultimately conventional 2009 horror film has only stuck around in the collective consciousness due to its listicle-friendly twist: the reveal that Esther, the homicidal young girl adopted by Kate (Vera Farmiga) and John (Peter Sarsgaard) Coleman, is in fact a 33-year-old Estonian woman named Leena Klammer, who was born with a…