The long-awaited HP Slate is finally here. And it’s not that it’s being announced now and will be out in a few months—it’s here, here.
“You are here because the outside world rejects you. THIS is your family. I am your father. I want you all to become full members of the Foot. There is a new enemy: freaks of nature who interfere with our business. You are my eyes and ears; find them. Together we will punish these creatures. [...]
Last year’s Astro Boy movie may have failed to set the box office alight, but that doesn’t mean you’ve seen the last of the character onscreen… And his next incarnation will be based on his best comic appearance to date: Universal Pictures is joining with Tezuka Productions and Despicable Me animators Illumination Entertainment to adapt [...]
I’m bullish on Google TV. Bullish. Well, bullish on the concept of Google TV and how it integrates with the current way most people consume television and the way we’ll all consume television in the future. Whether Google TV as a platform ultimately succeeds or fails doesn’t matter as much as the method with which [...]
This is what happens when Techland goes to the comic book store: we end up discussing what we picked up. This week, Douglas Wolk, Graeme McMillan, Evan Narcisse and Mike Williams discuss Soldier Zero #1 and the Vertigo Resurrected anthology.
A whole new generation of people will learn to be terrified of plants, now that it’s been announced that Sam Raimi will produce and may direct a movie version of John Wyndham’s 1950s science fiction novel The Day Of The Triffids. According to Deadline Hollywood, Mandate Pictures won the auction for the rights to the [...]
Activision’s brought back their signature turntable controllers for another round of cutting and scratching this week and the new DJ Hero‘s better than ever. Two players can see who’s the better beat-matcher in the all-new DJ Battle mode and microphone support lets partiers jump in and belt out the lyrics to their favorite jams whenever [...]
Colin Farrell may be the new Arnold Schwarzenegger. Admittedly, you might not think it to look at him, but the actor is apparently the frontrunner to play the lead in Len Wiseman’s remake of Total Recall, which was itself a (somewhat loose) adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s short story “We Can Remember It For You [...]
A new study from Microsoft Research India and Max Planck Institute for Software Systems shows that companies are taking gender preferences into account when posting their ads on Facebook. Though that is completely logical, they also found out whether or not you reveal your sexual orientation on your profile, companies still somehow have access to [...]
