Origins: What Influences James Cameron

Each film he directs is more epic than the last. Terminator, Aliens, The Abyss, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Titanic…and, of course, Avatar. That last film, a 3-D extravaganza that quickly became the highest-grossing movie of all time, was re-released August 27 with nine additional minutes of footage. Cameron spoke to TIME’s Rebecca Keegan — author [...]

Avatar’s Nine New Minutes: The Best 3D of 2010?

Avatar is now officially back in movie theaters – only in 3D, with nine additional minutes of footage to woo all of those loyal fans who were still enamored with the glowing forests of Pandora when the movie was prematurely yanked from the nation’s theaters to make way for Alice in Wonderland in March.

Will New Comic Day Change Next Year?

New comics may still hit shelves on Wednesdays next year, but they may do so sooner than you’ve become used to. Bleeding Cool once again raises the rumor that Diamond Distributors are considering moving comic deliveries to stores from Wednesdays to Tuesdays, adding a date that it’s supposed to take place: January 2011. Apparently, the [...]

Dual-Core Netbooks Slowly Starting to Trickle Out

Intel’s dual-core Atom N550 processor has made its way into netbooks and some of those netbooks are available for purchase now.

There’s an Android App That Replies To Texts While You Drive

Texting while driving is frowned upon or illegal in most states. And ‘don’t text while you’re driving’ apps have come before, but State Farm’s recently updated Pocket Agent app for Android is a little different then those who’ve come before it. The On the Move widget within the app automagically replies to texts while you’re [...]

Microsoft Co-founder Paul Allen Sues Eleven Tech Companies

Paul Allen’s company, Interval, is alleging that four of its patents have been infringed by AOL, Apple, eBay, Facebook, Google, Netflix, Office Depot, OfficeMax, Staples, Yahoo, and YouTube.

App Club Contest: Win First-Person Shooter Archetype for iOS

Some video game genres fit pretty easily onto Apple’s iDevices. Platformers do extremely well, as do strategy games and turn-based RPGs. First-person shooters have been a mixed bag so far, though, and getting decent multiplayer FPS action on an iDevice has been an exercise in frustration.

Why Marvel’s Runaways Won’t Be Another Airbender

Concerns that the multicultural characters of Marvel Comics’ Runaways would become slightly more white in their upcoming movie incarnations have been lessened after Marvel Studios released a statement assuring worried fans, and updated casting notices to ensure that their intentions were good. How did this happen?

Paycheck Friday: Purchasing Suggestions For Your Perusal

It’s Friday! Maybe you just got paid. You could use that money for boring stuff like bills, rent, and food, or you could act like a wonderfully impulsive consumer and spend it on any number of products. Here are some ideas to get you started based on your taxable income bracket.

Emanata: Fantastic Infinite Loop

It appears that the Invisible Woman is on Death Row again. Marvel’s been making a fairly big deal out of Jonathan Hickman and Steve Epting’s forthcoming Fantastic Four story arc “Three,” in which one of the long-running superhero team will die for realsies, and they’ve been understandably hush-hush about which one. This week’s Fantastic Four [...]

Nerd Alert: Spreadsheet Lists Every Android Device in the History of Mankind

It’s undoubtedly missing a few grey-market ones here and there, but this publicly available Google spreadsheet from Australian site hdmp4.com contains an exhaustive compilation of Android-based phones, netbooks, e-book readers, portable media players and more.