While Google has long offered a way to block pop-ups in Chrome, it’s never been a feature that's been very easy to find. To turn it on you’ll need to dig deep into the settings, and most people who use the browser probably don’t even know it’s there. But now Google is finally getting serious about annoying ads. And that includes their own. In a blog post, Sridhar Ramaswamy, senior […]
Trust Redditors for coming up with a great list of apps and games for the whole Android community. It’s not a list of the most popular applications but of the best deals we can find today. Of course, the list doesn’t just include the free ones but those the developers know mobile users will find useful and interesting. The list comprises of apps from different categories such as games to tools […]
The show will launch a national tour and make its international premiere in the Netherlands. Gloria Estefan's On Your Feet! is stepping down from Broadway. The musical, based on the life and music of the seven-time Grammy-winning Latin pop sensation and her producer-musician husband Emilio Estefan, will play its final Broadway performance at the Marquis Theatre on Aug. 20. It will have played 746 regular performances and 34 previews. The production […]
The Underwoods are back. [Warning: While this article does not contain spoilers from Season 5, it does contain spoilers from Seasons 1 through 4 of House of Cards.] Why couldn't Netflix release the newest season of House of Cards over the long Memorial Day weekend? That'll sure be the question fans of the political thriller will be asking as they start to watch the fifth season of the Kevin Spacey (Frank […]
Patty Jenkins has never understood why people want to mess with Wonder Woman. To take the glorious Amazonian goddess, with her tiara and bracelets, her breastplate and hot pants, and try to make her modern or human or somehow more “real” simply made no sense. “I always wanted it to stay a very simple origin story,” Jenkins said. “I believe in Wonder Woman and the true spirit of Wonder Woman, […]
Disney’s “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales” is sailing into first place at the domestic box office this weekend, but the story the numbers dictate is not one of swashbuckling heroics. Johnny Depp’s fifth outing as Jack Sparrow is looking at a three-day total of $62.2 million from 4,276 locations, and a four-day holiday weekend sum of $77 million. If not for international appeal, that would be […]
With the prizes given out, the bags packed and the hangovers kicking in, the 70th Cannes Film Festival has drawn to a close. This year's top prize went to surprise winner The Square, a Swedish film about the sometimes bonkers art world and how we can best help others. Cannes has seen dozens of film premieres and parties, and red carpet appearances from the likes of Rihanna, Bella Hadid and […]
Apple is reportedly working on a dedicated artificial intelligence chip that would power AI-related tasks on mobile devices, according to a report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. The chip, which may be called the Apple Neural Engine, would be used to offload tasks that require sophisticated algorithms related to facial and speech recognition and augmented reality tasks that rely heavily on computer vision. This chip could improve the device’s overall battery […]
Heat Vision went on an early scouting mission to James Cameron's long-awaited attraction, which opens to the public Saturday. If you've passed through the gates of Walt Disney World's Animal Kingdom Park, you're familiar with the signposts pointing toward exotic locales like Africa and Asia. Enter the Florida park now, though, and you'll notice those signs have added a new directional arrow, one leading to the fictional land of Pandora. […]
