Amid Apple’s offshore bank accounts and Facebook helping itself to half a billion dollars of your tax money, it’s nice to see a tech company not treating the government as a piggy bank. Like Tesla, for example, the electric car company that has just paid off a $465 million loan nearly a decade before it had to. Read the rest of this entry »
RiffTrax recently put together a Kickstarter to try and get the rights to riff on a major theatrical motion picture, specifically Twilight. Well, they didn’t get the rights. Instead they got the rights to something arguably about a thousand times better. Yes, we will see a RiffTrax of Starship Troopers. Read the rest of this entry »
LoJack, in case you didn’t know, is the popular brand of anti-theft device for cars. But it also has been extending that brand to laptops, and now, phones. Although the selling point here is less “tracking your phone” and more “sending a large, scary man to get your phone back.” Read the rest of this entry »
It’s fairly safe to say that Microsoft was really, really not expecting what’s been going down over the last twenty-four hours or so. Mocking supercuts, angry fans, and a litany of bad press is not generally something a video game console maker wants to see dominating the news cycle. So, what went wrong, why, and can it be fixed? Read the rest of this entry »
…Yup, this is a Neil Jordan movie all right.
Pretty much everybody who isn’t a fifteen-year-old girl hates Twilight, and even the middle-school contingent has moved on to better books like The Hunger Games. But studios are still out to exploit vampires, and at least they got a guy who knows his way around fangs to make it. Read the rest of this entry »
Airbnb is a service largely popular among tourists, as well as the occasional prostitute, looking for a place to crash in New York City (and many other places as well) who don’t want to pay exorbitant rates to stay at a hotel. Unfortunately, New York courts have decided it’s better for you to stay in a motel on Long Island than in a stranger’s home. Read the rest of this entry »
Cover for ‘Half-Past Danger’ #1, from IDW
It’s a fairly busy week for fans of the smaller publishers. We’ve got the full retail list, as well as reviews of books from Dark Horse and IDW. Read the rest of this entry »
You might have noticed something a bit… off about the introduction of the Xbox One yesterday. One of the points that is pounded into your head in public relations is that you need to constantly repeat your key terms. It doesn’t matter if you’re writing a post about the Xbox One or making a video about the Xbox One. You need to repeat the term Xbox One a lot, but in an organic way so people don’t notice. Unless they’re making supercuts. Read the rest of this entry »
Soon after Defense Distributed was forced to take down its 3D plans for a goofy, useless plastic gun some other guy — this time the anonymously named “Joe” — put up a video of his much better, but still awful, plastic gun made on a much cheaper 3D printer. And he called it the “Lulz Liberator.” There’s a name that inspires confidence. A lot of people are freaking out about these things. But they really shouldn’t be. Read the rest of this entry »
