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Archives for October 2024

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Charles Pulliam-Moore
Toxic fandoms are scaring the hell out of studios.

Focus grouping upcoming films is a pretty standard practice. But according to Variety, the rise of toxic online fandoms who treat review bombing and leading harassment campaigns like it’s their job has prompted many of Hollywood’s studios to start soliciting feedback from “superfans” about how to avoid potential backlash from trolls who “are just out for blood, regardless.”

Umar Shakir
Umar Shakir
Ionna’s first charging station is breaking ground in North Carolina.

The Durham, NC-based EV charging company backed by eight automakers, including BMW, Honda, General Motors, Hyundai, Kia, Mercedes-Benz, Stellantis, and most recently Toyota, is building its first “Rechargery” location in Apex, North Carolina. The location will offer 10 bays with CCS and NACS ports supporting 400kW charging. Apex is outside the Hurricane Helene disaster zone, where residents have reported using their EVs to power their homes during blackouts.

A small rest stop surrounded by EV chargers
The rendering features an EV from each company.
Image: Ionna
The Pentax 17 is low-stakes analog photography fun that doesn’t feel like a toy0

$500 is a lot for a point-and-shoot film camera, but it rewards you with a joyous experience.

Antonio G. Di Benedetto
Thomas Ricker
Thomas Ricker
Apple’s own 5G modem cometh.

Gurman said it would come in 2025 or 2026 and now 9to5Mac is citing a trusted source saying it’ll make its debut inside the iPhone SE 4 coming next year:

Codenamed “Centauri,” the modem is quite ambitious and will also handle Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and GPS [...] The new modem will drastically reduce battery consumption, especially when users switch on Low Power Mode on the iPhone.

This one’s been rumored forever given Apple’s dislike of Qualcomm, desire to control its own destiny, and purchase of Intel’s modem business in 2019.