This weekend’s episode of Saturday Night Live was one of the best of the season. Not only did the episode’s many sketches feature a wide variety of different comedic styles, it also provided host Peter Dinklage with the opportunity showcase a bit of his acting range. Whether he was playing a stuffy boss at a magic show, Winnie the Pooh, or even a lounge singer singing about his “space pants”, it […]
Upcoming Huawei P9 will be the first smartphone by the company to sport a Leica co-developed camera. This news was confirmed by Huawei’s deputy chairman Guo Ping at the Chinese company’s press conference where the annual financial report was made public. The device is scheduled to launch in London on April 6. According to a report by GSM Arena, he stated, “We are going to launch our P9 flagship phone […]
Doctor Sleep, Stephen King’s sequel to The Shining, is to be made into film. The book, which was a bestseller in 2013, is being adapted by Akiva Goldsman, who won an Oscar for adapting A Beautiful Mind. The plot picks up the story of Danny Torrence, the boy with psychic powers in The Shining, years after the traumatic events in the Overlook Hotel. Now Torrence develops a psychic link […]
A new “smart boot” can warm up cold feet, thanks to a built-in heating system controlled by a smartphone app. Called the “world’s first luxury heated smart boots,” the footwear will work with both iOS and and Android headsets, connecting over Bluetooth. Wearers of the Lundí boots can adjust the temperature of the smart footwear by using a temperature slider on the mobile app. According to the maker, the boots […]
Have you ever heard of Rose Red? She’s apparently Snow White’s sister — but not the Snow White best associated with an evil stepmother, seven dwarfs and poisoned apples. You see, Rose Red and Snow White are actually sisters in an entirely different story by The Brothers Grimm. Their fairy tale involves a wicked dwarf and [SPOILER] a bear that turns into a prince, and it’s not about the Snow White […]
Musicians from Perry Farrell to Bettye LaVette descended on Carnegie Hall Thursday night to pay tribute to the late David Bowie. The concert, part of an annual charity series produced by Michael Dorf, wasin the works well before Bowie’s January death, but gained additional notoriety when the New York Timescoincidentally announced its lineup the morning that news of the rock icon’s passing broke. “I’ve been trying to get permission from […]
House of Cards star Robin Wright is in final negotiations to star in Alcon Entertainment’s sequel to Blade Runner. The actress will join Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford in the sci-fi project, being directed by Denis Villeneuve, the acclaimed filmmaker behind drug drama Sicario. Other plot details are being kept under wraps, but it is known that the story takes place several decades after the conclusion of the 1982 original […]
This guy is simply amazing! Watch him solving 3 Rubik's Cubes in under 20 seconds whilst Juggling Mills Mess! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kF9WbaJ0GZ4
The rumor that Twitter will scrap its 140-character limit for tweets just won’t die. In an interview with NBC, CEO Jack Dorsey has gone on record to say that the limit is staying. In September 2015, we first heard Twitter was experimenting with tweets longer than 140 characters. Then in January, the rumor came back, suggesting the company was hoping to launch a feature internally referred to as “Beyond 140” […]
