It has more than 23 million global active monthly users, Netflix advertising head Amy Reinhard said at a Variety conference; that’s up from the 15 million figure the company revealed in November.
Given the Netflix standard tier costs $15.49 per month (and that the Basic tier, for those who still have it, recently got a price bump), I can see why people are opting for the more affordable $6.99 ads plan.
The trailer for the remake of the Game Boy Advance puzzler shows off new levels, new obstacles, a less-punishing casual mode, and local co-op.
The game launches on February 16th.
The folks over at the Out of Spec Reviews channel started this Cybertruck look by comparing the pinch sensors (or lack thereof) of the doors and frunk of a Rivian truck, a Cybertruck, an F-150 Lightning, and a Tesla Model X.
Something to watch if you’re curious about what happens if you don’t get your snack out of the way in time.
It’s apparently an origin story that “takes place decades before the original 2009 Star Trek film,” Deadline reports. It will have some notable star power attached: Toby Haynes, who directed multiple episodes of Andor, is set to direct the movie.
IDC reports they fell 13.9 percent from 2022 to 2023, with all five of the top PC makers seeing their shipments drop. The slide continued the trend of lowered shipments the industry also saw in 2022. “This downturn, unparalleled in the industry’s recorded history, reflects the aftermath of the significant surge in PC purchases driven by the COVID-19 pandemic,” IDC says.
But things weren’t as bad year-over-year in just the fourth quarter of 2023, where total shipments only fell 2.7 percent. (IDC says that “marginally surpassed expectations.”)
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Lucasfilm has been busy registering a bunch of Indiana Jones domain names ahead of Microsoft’s Xbox Developer_Direct event next week. The Xbox and PC exclusive Indiana Jones game, which is being developed by the same studio behind the Wolfenstein franchise, is set to get its big reveal during the Developer_Direct. Thanks video game researcher Kurakasis we might already know its name: Indiana Jones and the Great Circle.
Nvidia’s Chat with RTX lets you train your own local chatbot with your own files for free, no cloud required. Seconds after I fed it the Epic v. Google legal complaint PDF, I got decent answers to questions like “What does Epic Games want” and “Which laws does Epic allege Google violated?”
But it also confidently hallucinated that Framework’s Nirav Patel is The Verge’s CEO after ingesting this YouTube transcript, LOL. Maybe I’ll just use it as memory aid for reams of old notepad files?
Factories around the world rely on Wi-Fi-enabled wrenches to precisely calibrate the torque applied to screws and other fasteners. Now, Ars Technica points out that those tools are hackable.
Researchers from Nozomi found 23 vulnerabilities in the operating system of a popular connected tool, which could be exploited to install malware. In theory, at least, this could lead to fastening screws too tightly or loosely, disabling an entire fleet of wrenches, and otherwise disrupting the factory’s operations.
It’s a delightful run through Very Recent History, with a helpful tracker of the number of submissions that happened and the price of Bitcoin. Of course, we all know how the story ends.
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That’s the record civil penalty diesel engine maker Cummins would pay in a proposed settlement after US and California regulators alleged that “nearly a million” Cummins-equipped 2013 – 2023 RAM pickup trucks used software to cheat on emissions testing and were excessively pollutive in real-world driving.
The company also has to spend over $325 million to offset excess NOx emissions, including by paying to replace 27 out-of-date diesel locomotives across the country.
