shortcomings

Samsung's newest flagship phones come with many quality-of-life improvements, including brighter screens, tougher bodies, faster performance, improved cameras, and longer battery life. However, there are a few minor issues with the camera on the Galaxy S24 series, and those issues will likely be resolved with software updates. Future updates to improve Galaxy S24 camera quality and optimization When a Galaxy S24 user complained about the camera quality on Samsung's official forum, the forum moderator responsible for…

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The new US border wall is an app Keisy Plaza, 39, left her home in Colombia seven months ago. She walked a 62-mile stretch of dense mountainous rainforest and swampland with her two daughters and grandson to reach Ciudad Juárez in Mexico, on the border with Texas. Plaza has been trying every day for weeks to secure an appointment with Customs and Border Protection…

Image via 20th Century Studios Avatar: The Way of Water will soon make its way to streaming after its award season and theatrical run. While it didn’t win Best Picture at the 95th Academy Awards, it did manage to earn over $2.3 billion at the box office, and placed itself as the third highest-grossed film in the box office, coming in just under Avengers: Endgame by only $4 million. But just because this film received so much acclaim from both audiences and critics alike, as well as the fact it was able to break…

Image via Marvel Studios The harsh criticisms regarding Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania are known far and wide by now. No matter how much loyal fans try to look at the positives — and they do exist, Jonathan Majors’ stellar performance being one of them — the reviews don’t lie. The Ant-Man threequel is now among the worst-reviewed films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, making for a lackluster start to Phase Five. One of the most talked about shortcomings of Quantumania is the film’s take on M.O.D.O.K., which…

Singapore. Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Far-reaching interventions are needed to overcome shortcomings in Singapore's approach to climate adaptation projects. This was the main conclusion of a new paper from the Singapore Green Finance Center, an initiative of Imperial College Business School and Singapore Management…

Image via Searchlight Horror and drama often intertwine, almost to the point of being the same genre at times, especially in an era of elevated horror where the spooks are more cerebral and character based. Combining those those is great, but what happens when you then throw in creature feature tropes as well? Antlers is what happens. Director Scott Cooper’s first attempt at horror following years in gritty dramas is an interesting oddity of the pandemic era. Creature features typically aren’t focused on…

Image via Pixar There were a number of things about Disney’s Toy Story spinoff, Lightyear, that contributed to its commercial failure – but in the eyes of Pixar’s Chief Creative Officer, Pete Docter, it mostly boiled down to the film’s confusing premise.  He’s not particularly wrong, either – when we think Buzz Lightyear, we don’t necessarily think about his life and times as an astronaut (though admittedly, the Buzz Lightyear of Star Command cartoon from the early 2000’s was kinda fun). Rather, we think of…

Samsung, in a few short years, became the foldable phone company. For now. Rivals have either been their own smartphone origami or simply against the Z Fold (the horizontal folding one) or the Z Flip (vertical folding ‘flip-phone’.) Oppo has been taking notes, however. It revealed last year that its would compete with the same form factors as Samsung. Now, while the west won’t be getting the bigger Find N2 Fold, in the UK and Europe, we will get the Oppo Find N2 Flip. I prefer the flip-phone iteration of foldables, so…

Cartoonist Adrian Tomine isn’t just an award-winning, much admired cartoonist; he’s a regular IP factory. In 2021 the French Film Les Olympiades debuted. And this weekend, Shortcomings, an indie film based on the book of the same name and directed by actor Randall Park, debuts at the Sundance Film Festival – with a screenplay by Tomine.  So many comics are optioned for films – when this was announced back in 2021, I was hoping it wasn’t just another item in the trades. But all praise to Park (Agent Jimmy Woo in the MCU)…

French data protection watchdog CNIL said that its investigation only concerned the website tiktok.com and not the service's much more heavily used smartphone applications. The CNIL found that for tiktok.com's users, it was not as easy to refuse online trackers as to accept them. The authority also found that internet users were not sufficiently informed about TikTok's use of the cookies. Under European Union rules, websites must clearly ask for the prior consent of internet users for any use of cookies - small pieces…