Monthly Archives: August 2022

Immortality review – an ingenious Hollywood mystery made less profound by the invitation to solve it

There’s a theory going that Christopher Nolan is haunted by Stanley Kubrick – haunted but, crucially, not possessed. Nolan’s hardly shunned the comparisons (and fair enough – few directors would). He naturally talked about 2001: A Space Odyssey during the promotional rounds for Interstellar, his sci-fi epic about humanity’s place in the universe. And about…

Logitech forces leaked images of its upcoming Nintendo Switch-style gaming handheld offline

The first images of Logitech’s upcoming Nintendo Switch-like gaming handheld leaked last night – before getting forced offline. As reported by The Verge, tech writer Evan Blass tweeted a trio of images showing off the device ahead of a planned reveal from Logitech. The images were subsequently pulled offline following intervention from Logitech – but…

AMD announces Ryzen 7000 series processors, available September 25

AMD today announced its Ryzen 7000 series of consumer desktop processors. Based on the new AM5 platform and the new Zen 4 architecture, these new CPUs introduce significant improvement in performance over previous generation Ryzen 5000 series as well as introducing cutting edge features like DDR5 and PCIe Gen 5. The four CPUs being announced…

New MacBook Pros With M2 Pro and M2 Max Chips Now ‘Well Into Development’

Apple’s next-generation 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models with M2 Pro and M2 Max chips are “well into development and testing,” and there is still a chance the notebooks will be released later this year, according to Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman. In his “Power On” newsletter today, Gurman said Apple plans to release the new MacBook…