Enlarge / Writer-director Joshua Newton and actor Roy Scheider. (credit: Tana Lee Alves / Contributor | WireImage) This September, British filmmaker Joshua Newton prepared to rerelease his 2009 film Beautiful Blue Eyes. The 2022 premiere was important to Newton, as he’d waited more than a decade to finally share with the world a version of…
Monthly Archives: September 2022
Enlarge / Flooding in Pakistan’s Sindh province. (credit: Ali Hyder Junejo) In August, Pakistan set destructive records as it averaged more than triple its normal August monsoon rainfall. In the southern provinces of Sindh and Balochistan, the number was seven to eight times the average. The resulting flooding killed around 1,500 people and displaced more…
The Apple Watch Series 7 (left) and Series 8 (right), side by side. Mike Epstein The Apple Watch is still far and away the most popular line of wearable devices in the world. According to analyst Counterpoint Research, it accounted for more than 30 percent of all smartwatches sold in 2021. The wider range of…
An Uber employee just fell for social engineering 101. Soumil Kumar/Pexels Uber announced yesterday that it had taken many of its internal communications channels and engineering systems offline after an anonymous individual gained access to scores of secure data that purportedly includes emails, cloud storage, and coding repositories. The still unknown person claiming responsibility has…
In his latest TC+ post, growth expert Jonathan Martinez looks at the grim realities of user acquisition. The plain fact is, few of the people who are motivated enough to make it all the way through a registration flow ever create any value. “Approximately 95.87% of iOS users drop off after day 30,” writes Martinez….
Prior to announcing its intent to buy Figma for $20 billion on Thursday, Adobe’s largest deal was its $4.75 billion Marketo acquisition in 2018. Why go so far outside of its pricing comfort zone and pay twice as much as Figma’s most recent private valuation? The easy answer is that it’s about taking a potential…
SAVE $100: The LG 32-inch UltraGear QHD Monitor with FreeSync is on sale for just $249 at Walmart as of Sept. 16 — that’s 28% in savings. Whether you’re finally ready to invest in a second screen for your WFH setup, are taking a dive into beginner PC gaming, or need to replace your existing display…
I’ll put onion in any dish. I’ll double any amount of onion in a recipe. My family pokes fun at me for it. Raw red onion on a sandwich? Delightful, in my opinion. Hell, I’ll snack on a raw slice as I chop it up. But even I cannot understand the need to air fry…
Intel is simplifying the branding for its lower-end CPUs for laptops, with the Pentium and Celeron brands to be retired as of the start of next year. So what will replace these veteran brands, which have been around since the nineties (1993 in the case of Pentium)? The new family of Intel’s baseline CPUs will…
THE BEST RTX 4080 LEAKS – We’re expecting two variants of the RTX 4080: one with 12GB of video memory, and one with 16GB – ‘Full-fat’ 16GB model will feature 9728 CUDA cores, 23Gbps memory speed – Base TGP is 285W/240W, lower than previous predictions – Max power draw is expected to be 516W –…