For creative professionals, the elusive state of flow involves a special alchemy. It requires concentration and dedication, of course — creatives often spend hours deep in the throughs of the artistic process, tweaking and tuning until the final product is perfect. But flow is about more than just a mental state. It involves having the…
Monthly Archives: August 2022
Why has it taken this long for Alison Janney to be the lead in an action movie? Watching the Netflix trailer above for Anna Foerster’s Lou, which sees her helping a mother (Jurnee Smollett) find her kidnapped daughter, it just seems to work so damn well. Janney plays a grouchy loner who clearly has an…
Twitter has confirmed it’s testing a new profile badge for users who have verified their phone numbers. App researcher Jane Manchun Wong pointed out the feature last week, discovering the Twitter label that would appear on accounts with a verified phone number. Twitter then confirmed the feature to TechCrunch on Tuesday, telling the publisher it…
File sharing has come a long way since LimeWire — but users of torrenting sites may still have security and privacy fears. This is where a VPN can help. What is a VPN? VPNs encrypt data leaving your computer and make it impossible for others to see what you’re downloading. To the uninitiated, these virtual…
Redfall has made an appearance at QuakeCon 2022 and Arkane Austin has used the event to give us our best insight into the game and what the studio is hoping to achieve with it yet. Core members of the Redfall development team got together for a twenty-minute deep dive, during which creative director, Ricardo Bare,…
The Sony Xperia 5 IV is one of this year’s smartphone mysteries, as while we had expected such a phone to exist, it didn’t launch alongside the Sony Xperia 1 IV, and leaks about it have been slim. But the best evidence yet for this phone has now emerged – and suggests that it might…
While the iPhone 14 might be the biggest new phone coming out very soon, it might not be the best; we’ve just heard that the Huawei Mate 50 is set to debut literally the day before Apple’s newest. This comes from Huawei itself, which has confirmed the news via Chinese social media platform Weibo –…
Game of Thrones is dead, long live Game of Thrones. It appears that reports of Game of Thrones‘ death have been greatly exaggerated. Why? Because House of the Dragon, the first spin-off show from HBO’s live-action adaptation of George R.R Martin’s beloved fantasy novels, has just become the most-watched series premiere in HBO history. In…
Are you thinking of buying a new action camera from DJI or GoPro? Unless you need one for an imminent trip, we’d hold fire for now, as fresh rumors suggest DJI could be joining GoPro in launching a new model soon. Regular DJI leaker @DealsDrone has claimed that a new DJI Action 3 “will be released…
The Moscow Exchange is the largest bourse in Russia. Sefa Karacan/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images The Moscow Exchange is set to stop accepting US dollars as collateral from August 29. Russia is diversifying from Western currencies amid sweeping sanctions over its invasion of Ukraine. Bank of Russia has proposed state firms convert “toxic” currencies into those of…