“It’s literally like watching as a comic book comes to life,” one fan writes after seeing new footage of the movie during a panel on Saturday. …read more Source:: CNet

An anonymous reader writes: The 24th annual Interactive Fiction Competition kicked off Monday, unveiling 77 new text adventures which will vie for nearly $9,000 in prize money. The contest’s organizers are encouraging people to play and rate the free games, and encourage their friends to join in the fun (or to donate more prize money…

Is there a so-called “beauty mode” on the iPhone XS? …read more Source:: CNet

At NYCC 2018, CBS showed off a brand new trailer for Discovery featuring the classic character. …read more Source:: CNet

Tesla’s model 3 is now one of the five top-selling sedans in America (while sales of the Mercedes-Benz C-Class are down 28 percent through September), Bloomberg reports. Elon Musk tweeted out a link to their article on Thursday — but it was his other tweet, a satirical criticism of the SEC, that made headlines. MarketWatch…

Right after the Sotheby’s gavel comes down, “Girl With Balloon” runs through a shredder embedded in the frame, making it one very expensive art prank. …read more Source:: CNet

The Peril-Sensitive sunglasses of Hitchhiker’s Guide fame directly affect the user’s response to a stimulus, turning completely opaque in response to danger. That’s a great idea, but what if sunglasses could affect your emotions? That’s what the EmotiGlass project in this year’s Hackaday Prize is doing. It’s a concept that allows a computer to change…

“Girl With Balloon” ran through a shredder embedded in the painting’s frame, making it one very expensive art prank. …read more Source:: CNet

“Linux runs the world, right? So we want to make sure that things are secure,” says Linux kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman. When asked in a new video interview which bug makes them most angry, he first replies “the whole Spectre/Meltdown problem. What made us so mad, in a way, is we were fixing a bug…

Tom Hardy commits to the toothy, twitchy antics in this twisted caper, but formulaic superheroics poison Venom’s demented double act. …read more Source:: CNet