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Punching above its generational weight class The Super FX chip was a handsome feather in Nintendo’s cap, even if they very rarely wore it out on the town. A graphics support unit, the Super FX chip was a co-processor that pushed the SNES’ graphic capabilities pretty far. Games like Star Fox and Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island benefitted from the tech and were able to punch above their generational weight class. Regardless, only Yoshi’s Island doesn’t look entirely antiquated by today’s standards. While 3D graphics…

ChatGPT might be everywhere right now and it's definitely got the technology community all lathered up. But there's one founding member of that community that really isn't all that impressed.Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple, says that while ChatGPT can definitely be of use and is "pretty impressive," he's still worried that it can "make horrible mistakes."Wozniak was speaking with CNBC's (opens in new tab) Squark Box and was asked about the increasing popularity of the AI robot.Pretty impressiveWhile Wozniak, who…

Image via Disney The Little Mermaid is the next live-action adaptation of the popular Disney Princess. And so far, a trailer has not yet been released. Sadly, there is a reason why a trailer hasn’t dropped even as the film is just a few months away from its theatrical release. In an interview with Collider, the film’s director Rob Marshall explained why the trailer isn’t out yet for fans to see. It turns out, it’s still not yet ready. The film director said that the film took more than four years to make, due…

WASHINGTON—The U.S. could become unable to pay all of its bills on time sometime between July and September, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimated, giving lawmakers several months to reach an agreement on lifting the debt limit and avoiding a default.The Treasury Department ran up against the roughly $31.4 trillion debt limit in January. It is now deploying a series of special accounting maneuvers to keep paying the government’s obligations to bondholders, Social Security recipients and others. In its…

Image via Warner Bros. It’s hard to believe now but this trailblazing DC icon was once universally despised. Also, is James Gunn just wasting the Green Lantern corps on an Earthbound storyline? And finally, some good news about that other project James Gunn used to work on. You either die a character actor, or you live long enough to see yourself become a comic book movie icon via Warner Bros. Every DC fan is practically on the edge of their seats right now eagerly awaiting the return of the granddaddy of all…

During its Galaxy Unpacked February 2023 event, Samsung revealed the next generation of Galaxy phones that make up the S23 lineup: the Galaxy S23, S23 Plus, and Galaxy S23 Ultra. These phones are packed with the latest Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 for Galaxy chip from Qualcomm and have up to 12GB RAM and 1TB storage, a massive 200MP main camera on the Ultra, and plenty of other powerful features. However, an article from Ars Technica raises questions about the storage on the Galaxy S23 lineup. The standard S23 starts at 128GB…

You've probably noticed a steep increase in the ridesharing fares you pay, but your drivers haven't necessarily received the benefits. UCLA Labor Center researchers have published a study indicating that median Uber and Lyft fares increased by 50 percent between February 2019 and April 2022, but media driver pay only climbed 31 percent. The companies' profits reportedly jumped from nine percent to 20.7 percent over the three-year span. The authors recommended that authorities cap the amount companies can take from…

Quantum entanglement is a complex phenomenon in physics that is usually poorly described as an invisible link between distant quantum objects that allows one to instantly affect the other. Albert Einstein famously dismissed this idea of entanglement as “spooky action at a distance.” In reality, entanglement is better understood as information, but that’s admittedly bland. So nowadays, every news article, explainer, opinion piece and artistic interpretation of quantum entanglement equates the phenomenon with Einstein’s…

This year is truly shaping up to be the year of Fraser. The Mummy star had been absent from cinema for nearly a decade before making his big screen come back in Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale, garnering many nominations and wins this award season. While Brendan Fraser seems like a front-runner for the Academy Award for Best Actor (especially after his big win at the Critics Choice Awards), the actor says he’s still not comfortable with the praise and gigs he’s been receiving amid what fans have dubbed the Brenaissance. …

via Warner Bros. Having used the double whammy of the Rocky and Rambo franchises as a springboard to becoming one of the biggest stars on the planet, Sylvester Stallone wasn’t used to being told no by the mid-1980s. And yet, being constantly turned down is pretty much the entire reason why we were given the gift of preposterous cult favorite action extravaganza Cobra. Sly was in line to play Axel Foley in Beverly Hills Cop, but he ended up suggesting an extensive rewrite of the script that would have turned…