When theApple iMacre-emerged last year after a two-year hiatus, I was hit with a wave of nostalgia. One of my favorite computers from my youth had returned. But once the nostalgia wore off, I was left wanting moremore screen, more power, more options. © Adriano Contereas This configuration is geared toward power users who plan to use the iMac as a workstation or editing suite. With the base model, youll miss out on the gigabit Ethernet and the two extra Thunderbolt ports....

I had high expectations for this years Apple Mac mini. Compared to last years offering, the Mac Mini with M4 is nearly flawless. The only thing I can really nitpick is the power button, which is in a truly odd location. © Adriano Contreras My review unit is a step up, costing $799 with double the storage. Next is the $999 model, which increases the unified memory to 24GB while retaining the 512GB SSD....

Hes a video producer and wanted something that would be his mainstay Mac for many years. Now, I get to see if I am right. Whats more, the base M4 version doesnt come with many new features. © Photo: Adriano Contreras / Gizmodo It doesnt get the Thunderbolt 5 support as the M4 Pro or M4 Max. The only real upgrade besides the chip was a brighter screen at SDR....

Apples newMacBook Pro 16 with M4 Prois not carrying the old idiom, whats old is new again. The MacBook Pro 16 with M4 Pro sports the same look and chassisweve seen for the last three years. Theres an existential quality to thelatest MacBooks. © Photo: Kyle Barr / Gizmodo You know theyll be powerful. You know theyll last you a good, long while. You know it so well that you may struggle to justify the upgrade....

Alothas changed between then and now, but what hasnt are his goals for the show and its future. Animation can do anything, he noted. If you dont [experiment], then why do animation at all? © Netflix This is the show thatwewanted to see. It all comes down to where we want to focus: whats our Iron Man or Thor? Want more io9 news? © Netflix News from the future, delivered to your present....

Albanese is now Prime Minister and will be forced to work with Trump on the world stage. Albaneses ambassador to the U.S. has even been deleting tweets critical of Trump to protect against his petty wrath. The most destructive president in history, Rudd wrote in the now-deleted tweet. The front pages of the morning newspapers in Melbourne, Australia, on November 7, 2024, show the reaction to the re-election of Donald Trump....

The government of Canada ordered TikTok Technology Canada to dissolve on Wednesday, citing national security concerns. TikTok Technology Canada is the business arm of the Chinese company ByteDance in the country. Canada, like the U.S., has been scrutinizing TikTok for a few years now. The argument is that because ByteDance is a Chinese company its beholden to the Chinese Communist Party. The app hoovers up the data of those in the West and makes it available to the Red Chinese....

But lest we forget, the company first made its name in gaming. To that end, Nvidia today ismaking some changesto its GeForce Now cloud gaming service. Perhaps the most welcome change is that players will now be able to save graphic prefs across sessions. Nvidia is capping playtime on its GeForce Now service to 100 hours a month.picture alliance / Getty GeForce Now comes with a monthly subscription fee and players also need to bring their own games....

Pompeii was famously buried by hot ash and debris when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79. The people werent so lucky. Their remains decayed long ago, besides their skeletons. Casts of victims of the 79 CE eruption at Pompeii.Photo: Archaeological Park of Pompeii The researchers behind the new study extracted DNA from 14 of the 86 plaster casts currently undergoing restoration. Long interpreted as a mother and child, the remains actually belong to an unrelated male and a child....

But hey, look over there, its a shiny new AI chatbot! Below the answer are links toPoststories that it culled the information from. Others have instead beensuingto stop the unauthorized use of their reporting. The Washington Post is launching a chatbot answers questions based on the newspaper’s reporting.Stefano Guidi / Getty And in the case of thePost, of course, its trying to make its own chatbot. The newspaper acknowledges that chatbots have a tendency to hallucinate or make up stuff that isnt true....

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As Gambit said, hes about to make a name for himself. Oh, boy, had he tried. But, according to co-star Ryan Reynolds, he just needed a chance. Ryan Reynolds thinks Gambit has already made a name for himself.Image: Marvel Studios. Its kind of like the same situation I went through. Once you show that it works well, thats really what they need. Sometimes they just need to see it in action....

Plus, Jack Black becomes Satan, with a festive twist. Mickey 17 Meanwhile,Mickey 17is now scheduled for an April 18, 2025 theatrical release date. Peacemaker In response to a fan onThreads, James Gunn confirmed the second season ofPeacemakeris still shooting. © Paramount Stranger Things Finally, the officialStranger Things Twitter page has released few behind-the-scenes photo from season five. News from the future, delivered to your present. Simon Pegg Still Has Hope ForStar Trek 4 Plus, A24’sDeath Strandingmovie finds an intriguing director....