Monthly Archives: October 2022

Netflix’s whimsical The School for Good and Evil is worth the price of admission

Sofia Wylie as Agatha, Michelle Yeoh as Professor Anemone, and Kerry Washington as Professor Dovey. | Image: Gilles Mingasson / Netflix So long as there are literate young people trudging their way to school every morning, there’s always going to be an appetite for stories asking “what if the educational system, but magical?” That’s exactly…

Pinterest is bringing popular music to Idea Pins, its TikTok-like feature

Pinterest’s TikTok-esque Idea Pins will now feature popular music. | Image: Pinterest Pinterest is doubling down on its TikTok-style video feature by adding more music options through deals with record labels. The company announced deals today that will allow Pinterest users to add popular music to their video posts, called Idea Pins. The record labels…

Pixel Watch teardown shows off “ugly” insides, gives strong first-gen vibes

The inside is a far cry from the color-coded Apple products iFixit usually looks at. [credit: iFixit ] What secrets does the inside of the Pixel Watch hold? iFixit—Google’s new repair partner—tore down Google’s first self-branded smartwatch to see exactly how this thing was put together. Like us, iFixit came away with strong “first generation”…

Baby chicks are wary of prey with eyespots because of “Mona Lisa effect”

Enlarge / A peacock butterfly (Aglais io) has eyespots on the upper surface of each forewing and hindwing that appear to look you in the eyes—a perceptual phenomenon known as the “Mona Lisa effect.” (credit: Hannah Rowland/CC BY-SA) Visitors to the Louvre have long reported that the woman in Leonardo da Vinci’s most famous painting,…

The toll to scroll: Netflix introduces new fees for ‘extra users’

Time to tighten up the list of people with your password. Deposit Photos Netflix announced its solidified plans to curb all your sneaky, sneaky password sharing during yesterday’s quarterly earnings call—an “extra user” up-charge is coming for US subscribers in early 2023. Rumors of the fee first began circulating earlier this year, when word got…