Paramount + is effectively centered around Alex Kurtzman due to its ongoing reliance on Star Trek, and it is clear that CBS will do whatever it takes to keep the director and producer on board. CBS Studios has signed a contract under which Kurtzman and his Secret Hideout unit will produce shows exclusively for Paramount … Read more
This mission was seen as a success, even if it was hardly able to solve the deep-seated problems of Haiti. According to a 2013 study by the non-partisan RAND Corporation that said Haiti welcomed the mission to “continue indefinitely” and that it “could easily have evolved into a longer engagement” was “at risk of it … Read more
Given that the redesigned Apple TV 4K looks identical to the last model, we assumed it would be equally easy to fix. And according to iFixit’s teardown video, that’s exactly the case. Thanks to a little curiosity and standard screws, the construction site was able to break through the housing of the set-top box. In … Read more
About two hours before a 4-year-old was found on a neighborhood street in Dallas, a man lifted the sleeping boy out of his bed and carried him away. The boy, whom the authorities identified as Cash Gernon on Monday, was cared for by Cash’s father’s girlfriend, according to the authorities. The friend, who said Cash’s … Read more
The births are falling. The population is aging. The workforce in the world’s second largest economy is shrinking. China’s most recent once-a-decade census, conducted last year, showed the slowest population growth since the 1960s and confirmed that the country is in the midst of an urgent demographic crisis. The results could lead the government to … Read more
Here’s what you need to know: Although it is recovering, Uber is still losing money. Credit…Teresa Eng for The New York Times Uber said its business was recovering from the slowdown caused by the pandemic, although it continued to lose money. The company said on Wednesday that revenue was $2.9 billion in the first three months … Read more
The PS5-exclusive Returnal will be released in just a few hours, but what can gamers actually expect when they dive into the rogue world? A 30-minute video by Housemarque combines elements of multiple runs, giving us the best glimpse yet of what players in the suit of Selene, an explorer who seems to have collapsed … Read more
A rendering of the Ever Given container ship, which is stuck in the Suez Canal, is shown in a “Microsoft Flight Simulator” video released on TikTok. (TikTok screenshot via @donut_enforcement) Nothing like a couple of current events prying into your video game. The saga of a container ship that has been stuck in the Suez … Read more
A sign over Interstate 5 near Seattle during the COVID-19 pandemic. (GeekWire photo) It turns out that sitting at home goes a long way towards keeping people out of traffic. INRIX, the Kirkland, Washington-based transportation technology and data company, released its 2020 Global Traffic Scorecard, and the COVID-19 pandemic – and stay-at-home orders – has … Read more
In a boot camp that started in January, students from the University of Washington School of Nursing are training other UW students and faculties who want to help with COVID-19 vaccinations. (Photo by Kiyomi Taguchi / University of Washington) With Washington residents struggling to sign up for COVID-19 vaccinations, a volunteer team of software engineers … Read more