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Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeThe fifth and final instalment in Harrison Ford’s Indiana Jones saga is finally out in cinemas.Warning – spoilers ahead for ‘Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny’Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny stars Ford as the titular archeologist-cum-adventurer, Fleabag star Phoebe Waller-Bridge as his goddaughter Helena Shaw and Mads Mikkelsen as the dastardly ex-Nazi Jürgen Voller.After the…

Hollywood actor Tom Cruise said at the world premiere of his next action thriller, Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One, that he'd always fight for ‘big theatres’ and the experience of collective viewing of movies. (Also Read: Tom Cruise's Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One first reactions: Critics call it another winner for franchise) Tom Cruise poses during the red carpet premiere of Mission Impossible 7 in Rome. (AFP) Tom on moviegoing experience“My goal as a child was to make movies and…

The default TouchChat display of PRC-Saltillo’s communication device, for example, consists of 12 rows of eight buttons displaying a mix of letters, object icons (“apple”), category icons (“food”), and navigation elements (back arrows)—many of them in garish neon colors. Part of what I find infuriating about the interface is how it treats every button similarly—they’re all the same size, 200 by 200 pixels, and there’s no obvious logic to button placement, text size, or capitalization. Some words are oddly abbreviated…

Paul Hiffmeyer/Disneyland In 1987, Disneyland opened the first ever Star Wars theme attraction in the world, but the journey to get there had more twists and turns than the Millennium Falcon in an asteroid field. Here’s the brief story of how Disneyland’s Star Tours came to be. In a surprisingly under-the-radar episode of the 2021 Disney Plus series Behind the Attraction appropriately titled “Star Tours,” the behind the scenes story of the Star Wars attraction is revealed. It was the 1980’s and Disneyland…

In March, The New York Times made a small but important change to its crosswords app: it dropped the “Crosswords” part of the name in favor of “Games.” It’s a small but important shift that acknowledges how the app has grown from a place to play the crossword into a hub for many of the NYT’s growing library of games.In addition to the daily crossword, the app now lets you access mini crosswords (“the Mini”), Wordle, a word-spelling game called Spelling Bee, and, as part of some recent updates, sudoku and a visual puzzle…

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Samsung took its sweet time to release the Odyssey OLED G8, its first OLED gaming monitor. It was announced in August last year and finally released in February 2023. As one of its most impressive monitors, naturally, there were a lot of people waiting for it to arrive. If you’ve had your eye on this monitor and would like to know if it’s worth the $1,500 asking price, keep reading this Samsung Odyssey OLED G8 review to find the answer. Design and build quality The 34-inch Odyssey OLED G8 is certainly one of the…

Last updated: April 4th, 2023 at 13:23 UTC+02:00 News broke out earlier today that Samsung is preparing to make a massive multi-billion dollar investment to bolster OLED manufacturing. Why does the company need to do this? Mostly for Apple. A follow-up exclusive report by Korea JoongAng Daily (via Naver) claims that Samsung Display’s $3.1 billion investment in its OLED manufacturing facility in Asan is meant to strengthen its ties with Apple. Yo Choong-hoon, head of UBI Research’s display division, claims that “the…

There was a time when art of seduction was presumed as the love language, which was also reflected in the world of cinema. And the #MeToo movement has wiped that off, which filmmaker Shekhar Kapur considers is a great change. Shekhar Kapur recently returned to the world of cinema with his Hollywood project, What’s Love Got to Do with It? “There was a time when we thought that the idea of sexuality is that you had to seduce the girl. Now, if I seduce a girl, I will be caught in the #MeToo movement,” Kapur says.…

Microsoft Corp., having brought artificial intelligence to its battle with Google over search, is now turning to the latest AI technology to catch up with rivals in the corporate applications market such as Oracle Corp., Salesforce Inc. and SAP SE. The software giant is introducing an AI assistant—called Dynamics 365 Copilot — for applications that handle tasks such as sales, marketing and customer service. Based on technology from OpenAI, the software can draft contextual chat and email answers to customer-service…