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Disney+ is making its first foray into HDR10+ content, but access to this content will be limited at the start. About 1,000 shows from Hulu will be available with this HDR standard, although other programming under the Disney umbrella will add support at an unspecified later date. Samsung, which is a major player behind this standard for high dynamic range video, announced the news. Disney+ will first offer the HDR10+ content on Samsung Crystal UHD TVs and above for models dating back to 2018, as well as select on Samsung Smart Monitors.HDR10+ builds on the HDR10 tech for image quality.…
Activision has officially announced its plans to make a Call of Duty movie. It will be written and directed by Friday Night Lights creator Peter Berg with some writing help from Yellowstone’s creator Taylor Sheridan. No release date was shared. On October 30, following an initial report from Deadline, Paramount and Activision confirmed that after signing a deal in September to work together on a future Call of Duty movie, the companies have settled on a director for the live-action war movie based on the popular first-person shooter franchise. Peter Berg is directing, writing, and producing the Call of Duty…
Tired of pet hair and dust in the hard-to-reach spots of your home? Our favorite pick for cordless stick vacuums, the Bissell PowerClean FurFinder, is marked down to just $180 at Amazon. That matches the best price yet for this lightweight and capable stick vacuum, the same discount as Prime Day earlier this year. It even stands up on its own when not in use, truly blurring the line between stick and upright vacuums.Photograph: Nena FarrellPhotograph: Nena FarrellCourtesy of BissellBissellPowerClean FurFinderJust because it’s a small cordless vacuum, doesn’t mean it lacks power. The 200W motor inside does an excellent job…
Researchers and amateur astronomer Worachate Boonplod kept track of 3I/ATLAS using GOES-19 weather satellite data. (Image credit: Image: CCOR-1/GOES-19/NOAA. Processed and annotated by Worachate Boonplod.)Comet 3I/ATLAS is rapidly brightening as it swings behind the sun, spacecraft observations have revealed.The comet has been flying around the sun, obscuring it from Earth’s view, to reach perihelion (its closest point to our star) on Thursday (Oct. 29).Yet, while most of the world has been waiting for it to re-emerge, some researchers and amateur astronomers have been using spacecraft to follow its path. You may like On Oct. 18, amateur astronomer and seasoned comet…
Samsung had a great quarter, beating forecasts and pleasantly surprising investors by more than doubling its operating profit from the previous quarter. While announcing this news, the company also used the occasion to tease the Galaxy S26, talking about AI, a new chipset, and camera sensors.Samsung says the Galaxy S26 is going to be revolutionaryIt’s only natural for a company to boast about its products, but Samsung sounds even more confident than usual when it talks about the Galaxy S26. During the Q3 2025 earnings call, Danie Araujo, Samsung’s VP of Mobile Experience Division, said that the upcoming flagship lineup…
Much like Half-Life: Alyx, Thief’s long-awaited return is a VR exclusive. The game was announced in June, but now we know when it will arrive. You can play the pioneering stealth franchise’s new chapter, Thief VR: Legacy of Shadow, on December 4.Thief VR takes place about halfway between the events of the original trilogy and Thief (2014). You play as Magpie, a cunning thief (duh), who discovers a legendary eye artifact with a mysterious connection to the past. You’re operating in a city that’s under the grip of Baron Ulysses Northcrest, “a tyrant who crushes rebellion before it can take…
All of the major laptop manufacturers have gaming sub-brands these days. Just to name a few, Lenovo has Legion, HP has Omen and Victus, Asus has ROG, Acer has Predator and Nitro, and Dell has Alienware. These are a good place to start, especially if you’re looking for something more budget-friendly.Asus has the most full-featured lineup, however, spanning high-powered juggernauts to gorgeous, slim models. Asus also offers some of the cheapest models with its TUF brand and some hyper-portable options in the ROG Flow line. MSI is another noteworthy brand, and it has dozens of models under various names denoting…
For the last month, I’ve been playing around with Hyperkin‘s new Competitor controller. This wired gamepad is an officially licensed Xbox controller that is designed to look and feel like a PlayStation 5 controller. And it’s a great controller, but holy crap does it break my brain when I use it. Out now, Hyperkin’s new Competitor controller costs $50 and is a damn fine gamepad. It features super-smooth and responsive Hall Effect joysticks, so stick drift shouldn’t be a problem anytime soon, and it has Xbox-like Impulse Triggers that rumble as you’d expect. This wired controller is incredibly well built…
What’s new with Google’s AI tools for developers You can use the ‘Play Console’ to validate deep links and other tasks. | Image credit — Google Google just announced a bundle of new AI-powered tools aimed at both sides of the app equation: building and growing. It’s all about lowering development costs and maximizing your results on the Play Store.On the Google Play side, two things stand out. First, they’re integrating Gemini to offer high-quality, free translations for your app’s text (what devs call “strings”). This is huge for helping developers reach global markets without a big budget. Second, the…
Almost four decades ago, researchers discovered a collection of perfectly preserved fossils inside an impact crater in the Canadian High Arctic. Now, those remains have finally yielded their secrets, revealing they belong to an extinct species of hornless rhinoceros that lived 23 million years ago.Scientists have called the animal Epiatheracerium itjilik, with the species name meaning “frost” or “frosty” in Inuktitut. These creatures were similar in size to modern Indian rhinos (Rhinoceros unicornis), according to a statement from the Canadian Museum of Nature (CMN). The newly identified fossils are the only specimen found to date and show that the animal…
