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“The camera never lies,” goes the old adage. But how true is that? Credit: Gorodenkoff/Shutterstock As a victim or suspect of a crime, or witness to an offense, you may find your actions, behavior and character scrutinized by the police or a barrister using CCTV footage. You may assume all the relevant footage has been gathered and viewed. You may sit on a jury and be expected to evaluate CCTV footage to help determine whether…

Of all of the streaming service price hikes that happened last year, Disney+’s seemed to be the most severe. The ad-free tier jumped 38% from $7.99/month to $10.99/month. Well, according to Bloomberg, Disney+ might be raising its prices again.Disney hiked up the price of its streaming service when it introduced its ad-supported tier. People were not pleased, but those in the business world would have seen it coming from a mile away. For as popular as the platform is, it’s still not profitable.Disney+ is not done raising…

While the Galaxy Z Flip 5 is getting a massive makeover, the Galaxy Z Fold 5 isn’t changing much compared to its predecessor, at least according to a new report. Samsung’s next-generation flagship foldable phone will come with updated internals and hardware, but it could continue using a design similar to the Galaxy Z Fold 4. According to tipster Ice Universe (@UniverseIce), the Galaxy Z Fold 5 has the same 6.2-inch cover display as the Galaxy Z Fold 4, including its aspect ratio. If this information is correct, Samsung…

Silicon Valley Bank is a good reminder that startups, often entrenched in the world of risk and scrappiness, sometimes forget to think about the obvious: single points of failure. But just like it makes sense to rely on a community-friendly bank, so does entrusting a single person to lead your business to success. Now that we’ve seen the former not really work out, perhaps it’s time to rethink the latter. TechCrunch+ polled a number of early-stage founders who are building companies that have raised a Series A or less, to…

Image: LucasfilmJon Kasdan, one of the writers and executive producers for the Willow television show, has penned a massive letter in the wake of Willow’s reported cancelation, explaining the details of the decision and adding a lot of nuance that seems to have been lost in the wake of “punchy headlines.” The truth is, naturally, much different and requires a lot more explanation. The whole thing can be read on Kasdan’s twitter.Kasdan states that last week Lucasfilm and Willow’s production team“made a decision to release…

Photo via Warner Bros. There’s a lot riding on Shazam! Fury of the Gods when it comes to both the title hero and franchise’s place in James Gunn and Peter Safran’s new and improved DCU, but the early numbers aren’t exactly indicating that David F. Sandberg’s sequel is going to be so successful the co-CEOs are left with no other choice but to keep the Shazamily around. While the second outing for Zachary Levi’s title hero isn’t on course to land the shared universe’s worst opening weekend of all-time, there’s…

But without all the smoke and people who’ve lost all hope For somebody who plays as many mobile games as I do, I was perhaps a bit too gullible about what Street Fighter Duel would be in the weeks leading up to its launch. I mean, I probably could have scoured the web for deets on it from its soft launch (or just read the story Chris Moyse wrote on it two years ago), but this fool decided he wanted to go into it blind so as not to ruin the hope that, based on one screenshot of the gameplay, the game would be something…

Too Long; Didn't ReadThere are good reasons to believe that the metaverse is the future, and Web3 communication platforms will be a valuable asset in the ecosystem. Despite the limited success of Status, there is renewed interest among VCs and prominent players in the space, and the reasons to be excited about the revolutionary metaverse are justified. Too Long; Didn't ReadThere are good reasons to believe that the metaverse is the future, and Web3 communication platforms will be a valuable asset in the ecosystem.…

An extremely wet winter has lifted much of California out of drought, and more rain is on the way. The deluge of rain and snowfall this season has “wiped out exceptional and extreme drought in California” for the first time since 2020, according to a spring outlook published today by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).The agency forecasts more improvement throughout spring, with even more regions potentially seeing their drought conditions end. Even so, California’s recovery will be patchy, and…

Microsoft’s proposed Activision Blizzard acquisition is at the messy stage. After recruiting Nvidia, Nintendo, and two other cloud gaming companies to help convince regulators to approve its $68.7 billion deal, Microsoft is now criticizing the UK’s Competition and Market Authority’s (CMA) math calculations.The CMA published a financial model that calculated Microsoft could turn a profit by withholding Call of Duty from PlayStation to draw former Sony fans to Xbox, basing its calculations on profits and losses from Xbox…