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The web player for YouTube Music is getting a redesign to make it look exactly as it does on Android. This is the sort of design parity that’s come to be expected of Google. Even if not right away, at some point Google usually brings things together so the designs match as much as they can. For YouTube Music, the redesign should be rolling out to the web player to match the looks of what you see on Android. The most notable change users will see is the larger play button that sits smack dab in the middle of the user…

Benjamin Franklin once said that “nothing is certain except death and taxes.” Had he been alive today, he almost certainly would have said, “oh, and the other certainty is people will keep modding Doom until the end of time.” Quite the forward thinker. Anyway, here’s id Software’s iconic FPS running on a toothbrush. Just a few days ago, Twitter user atc1441 (thanks, Rock Paper Shotgun) uploaded a brief clip showing Doom running on a smart toothbrush. On the tiny screen of the Planck Mini, you can just about make the game…

British-Pakistani writer Huma Qureshi’s Playing Games presents two thirty-something sisters, the story of a failing marriage, and the life of a woman who is struggling to write a play. As alternating chapters show each of the sisters’ perspectives, the reader follows the women as they attempt to understand life and its heartbreaks in London. Mira, the younger of the two, works at a café when she’s not fighting with herself to write a play about a woman lying on the pavement. She wants to apply for a playwriting prize…

In 2015, Philadelphia’s Sheer Mag released their second EP in collaboration with a tiny Brooklyn punk label. Its lead track, Fan the Flames, was one of those songs that just stops you in your tracks. It seemed to be rooted in music that had far less to do with punk than the mainstream hard rock that predominated when punk first reared its head: there was Thin Lizzy and quite possibly some Lynyrd Skynyrd in its unhurried sound, while lead guitarist Kyle Seely was audibly engaged in the kind of playing that would once have…

One of the actors hired to play Willy Wonka at an “immersive experience” fan event that became a viral sensation for all the wrong reasons is speaking out about what actually went down behind the scenes. The U.K. fan attraction Willy’s Chocolate Experience — which was inspired by Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory but not officially tied to the book or movies — promised to transport ticket buyers into a fantastical world. The organized used spectacular artificial intelligence-generated…

When you look at Dave Bautista, the last thing you think of is failure. Even if he wasn’t a former wrestling superstar turned mega movie star, if you saw this tall, muscular, tattoo-covered man walking down the street, you’d instantly think he’s got it figured out. But in Dune: Part Two, Bautista’s character doesn’t have anything figured out. And the actor loves him for it.Working With Recasted CharactersOnce again, Bautista is Glossu Rabban Harkonnen, nephew of Baron Harkonnen and the new lord of Arrakis... having…

TECNO has arrived in Barcelona, Spain, for Mobile World Congress with an interesting new product. It’s an industry-first Windows AR Gaming set. TECNO is calling it “Pocket Go.” It combines AR glasses and a Windows handheld, making it a lightweight and portable set that promises to bring users a brand-new immersive AR gaming experience. TECNO says that this is the world’s most compact AR Windows handheld. The headset offers a 0.71-inch Micro-OLED screen, which can emulate the experience of a 215-inch television from six…

Chris Pratt has proven himself to be a man of many talents. He’s more than skilled when it comes to comedy, and he’s also become something of an action star. Additionally, he’s also done a considerable amount of work in the world of voice acting. He’s lent his vocals to a number of notable characters in some high-profile franchises at this point. Having so many major roles – both live-action and animated – under his belt, would give a star some room to do some light gloating. Well, Pratt appeared to do just that by…

Last updated: February 22nd, 2024 at 12:06 UTC+01:00 Samsung continues to be a global Olympic and Paralympic partner, and last month, the company revealed its slogan for the 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris. Now, in anticipation of the Olympics, Samsung has announced a new partnership with the Dutch Basketball Association. Basketball is the fastest growing sport in the Netherlands. Now, the Dutch Basketball Association has entered a 3-year partnership with the Korean tech giant Samsung. The company will support…

Playing a role where your body is artificially enlarged, you’re constantly attached to tubes, and you spend large portions in a mystery liquid is obviously not easy. But that’s exactly what Stellan Skarsgård had to do not once, but twice, to play the evil Baron Harkonnen in Denis Villeneuve’s Dune films. And while the actor admitted the process was “hell,” it seems as if it was worth it.Andor Episodes 1-3 Review“I went through hell, yeah,” the Andor actor told io9. “But it was a very friendly hell. It took eight hours of…