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Between Severance, Pluribus, For All Mankind, Foundation, Silo, Dark Matter, and more, Apple TV+ has absolutely marked itself as the premiere streaming service for science fiction TV. They’re now taking on their biggest challenge yet: a TV adaptation of Neuromancer, William Gibson’s 1984 novel about a hacker who gets caught up in a globe-trotting conspiracy. Neuromancer is a hugely influential book, but despite numerous attempts has never been adapted for the screen. If anyone can do it, it’s the sci-fi nerds at Apple TV. What is Neuromancer about? The seminal cyberpunk story Credit: Ace Neuromancer is about Case, a hacker who…
While the era of online shopping reigns supreme in most cases, I won’t purchase a new TV without seeing how it looks in person first. I want to absorb the picture quality, see the major differences in color and image, and see if I think it would be the one I want. But, even at most big-box stores, displays suffer from one of the worst advancements in modern technology — motion smoothing. In some situations, motion smoothing can be an okay thing to have on. Sports, for example, look a little smoother. But anything else? It looks like a soap…
Paradise starts out predictably enough. Sterling K. Brown plays Xavier Collins, the lead special agent on the Secret Service security detail for the president of the United States (James Marsden). One morning he comes into work to find the president dead. Will suspicion fall on him, who really did it, and why? That’s a solid enough setup for a thriller show, something Hulu has plenty of. But by the end of its first episode, Paradise reveals itself to be something more: Xavier, President Cal Bradford, and many other people are all living in a massive underground bunker built to house…
Computer scientist Stephen Thaler was well ahead of the curve when it came to generative AI. He created his own generative AI system, DABUS (Device for the Autonomous Bootstrapping of Unified Sentience), many years before the current boom, and used to create the piece of artwork you see above, entitled A Recent Entrance To Paradise. I don’t feel scared that Thaler might sue us for using his art in this post because I know he doesn’t have a copyright in it, and I know that because courts have been telling him he can’t get a copyright in it since 2012.…
I’m always tweaking my smart TV setup to squeeze a little more out of it. These adjustments often make the whole experience smoother. For instance, I recently made a few changes that noticeably sped up my smart TV. That naturally pushed me to start exploring my Fire TV as well. While digging through the settings, I stumbled upon some lesser-known tricks that most users probably never come across. Now, looking out for useful features has become a habit for me, and it always pays off. This time was no different, either. I found a handful of Fire TV tricks that…
I had an Ethernet cable plugged into my Hisense Canvas TV for months, convinced a wired connection was the smarter setup. Then I actually ran a speed test. The TV was hitting 89Mbps — while my phone, sitting in the same room on Wi-Fi, was pulling nearly 600Mbps. Unplugging that Cat6 Ethernet cable was the fix. If your smart TV has an Ethernet port, there’s a real chance it’s quietly throttling your speeds right now, and the solution takes about three seconds. Most smart TV Ethernet ports have a speed limit you probably don’t know about Why wired doesn’t always…
If you’re into science fiction, March is a big month. There’s a lot of great stuff coming up on TV, including the fifth season of For All Mankind, Apple’s absorbing show about an alternate history of the space race. On the big screen, there’s one huge event everyone is looking forward to: Project Hail Mary, which critics are already calling the first great blockbuster of 2026. Ultimately it’ll be up to the movie-going public to decide if that’s true, but the signs are looking very good. What is Project Hail Mary about? Race to save the sun Project Hail Mary,…
It might seem counterintuitive to buy a smart TV and then not use it for that purpose. You probably did a lot of research on what smart TV to buy. Figuring out which one would look the best in the room based on size, how the visual experience would take over your room, thanks to the build of the TV, and the best ways to boost the sound were all likely considerations you had while buying the TV. Some people look at the smart features of the TV to see what they offer. But surprisingly, that can be the least…
LLMs are advancing at an alarming speed, and depending on your stance, that’s either apocalyptic or fantastic. AI agents are all the hype nowadays, but any agent is ultimately limited by the model powering it. So no matter what setup you’re running, it obviously matters which model you end up using. I’ve heard a lot about Claude, as you probably have too. It always seems like Claude is the go-to LLM for people who actually want to get things done — beyond turning photos into cartoons or venting to a chatbot. But I subscribed to ChatGPT when it launched and…
Between Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, HBO Max, Paramount+, Peacock, and more, streaming your favorite shows and movies can get complicated and expensive. But there’s a whole world of free streaming options out there that don’t require so much as an account. You can go to places like Pluto TV, Tubi, The Roku Channel, and Plex on the web and start watching tons of free movies and TV shows right now for free (with ads), and there are enough options that it makes you wonder why you were ever paying for streaming in the first place. Here are some of the biggest…