Category: Tech

Alamo Drafthouse’s movie-per-day Season Pass is finally here

[ad_1] There are no contracts, although you will have to cover “convenience fees” and taxes — plus, of course, tickets for anyone who doesn’t have a Season Pass. The wider access comes just weeks after MoviePass went bankrupt and reflects a maturing approach to theater subscription services. Like with AMC, Alamo wants to tempt you […]

Nissan hopes people will pay $699 a month to swap cars on demand

[ad_1] The $699 per month entry-level “Select” plan gives you access to four cars — the Altima, Rogue, Pathfinder and Frontier. For $200 more every month, you can upgrade to the Premium plan, which includes six additional vehicles — the Leaf Plus, Maxima, Murano, Armada, Titan and 370Z. If you want to get really boughie […]

Staples is opening podcast studios in six Boston stores

[ad_1] The soundproof Staples Connect Podcast Studios, developed in partnership with iHeartRadio, will include professional equipment — a RODECaster Pro control board, RODE microphones and SHURE headphones — and space for up to four people. A 60-minute session will cost $60, and a “dedicated in-store specialist” will be on hand to help with any recording […]

Hasbro is relaunching classic Tiger Electronics gaming handhelds

[ad_1] Hasbro will release four LCD games this fall — The Little Mermaid, Sonic the Hedgehog 3, Transformers: Generation 2 and X-Men Project X. The company says that the games are “inspired” by their original counterparts, so there may be some changes to their design and functionality. A rechargeable battery isn’t one of them, though […]

How does the Switch Lite fit into your portable gaming life?

[ad_1] The original Switch is a pretty compact device but, if you never hooked it up to a TV, it might not have been diminutive enough. For those players Nintendo introduced the Switch Lite, a smaller and, dare we say, much cuter version of the OG Switch. The Lite can’t be docked and the controllers […]

Uber helps you report problematic drivers during your ride

[ad_1] To report an issue, riders will tap the blue shield icon to open the Safety Toolkit. They’ll see a “report safety incident” option and be able to type a complaint. Uber’s safety team will contact them after the trip. Uber doesn’t have the best safety track record. Its first safety review, published late last […]

‘No Man’s Sky’ update adds living ships to its universe

[ad_1] You can also expect new deep space encounters, new lifeforms and “mysterious objects.” There will be some appreciable variety even if you don’t care for the update’s main hook, then. The Living Ship update reflects a recent change in strategy for NMS that has seen Hello focus more on smaller but more frequent updates […]

Intel outlines chip that will make quantum computers smaller and faster

[ad_1] The system-on-chip is based on Intel’s 22-nanometer FinFET Low Power process and includes four radio frequency channels that can control a total of 128 qubits. That may not sound like a lot, but it’s more than double the 49 qubits Intel was boasting for its Tangle Lake test chip back in early 2018. It […]

Disney+ may stagger episodes of ‘The Mandalorian’ in Europe

[ad_1] The new Disney+ Twitter account for UK subscribers has tweeted a series of FAQs, including one that reveals the company’s plans for the show’s release: #TheMandalorian episodes will start to roll out from March 24th. @StarWarsUK pic.twitter.com/jY6gA2gFPv — Disney+ UK (@DisneyPlusUK) February 17, 2020 It’s not clear if the episodes will be out for […]

CCP cancels one ‘Eve Online’ shooter, announces another

[ad_1] But he then goes on to say that there’s another EVE shooter in the works, this time developed in London instead of Iceland, where Project Nova was born. To say details of the replacement game are vague is something of an understatement. Speaking of game — which purposefully does not yet have a title […]