“Alexa, play the new Taylor Swift!” …read more Source:: CNet

Avengers: Endgame has already earned more money in just five days than 17 of the 21 previous films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe did in their entire theatrical run (including Captain Marvel). The Wrap reports that it’s the first time in history a movie has earned over a billion dollars in just its first weekend….

Iwastheone tipped us off to a scathing editorial by the senior editor of Tom’s Guide: Consider the F8 conference from a year ago that began with a prolonged apology over the Cambridge Analytica scandal, where a data mining firm got a hold of the personal data of 50 million Facebook users… Zuckerberg promised a Clear…

It’s the end of an era for the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Here’s what I learned. Warning: spoilers ahead. …read more Source:: CNet

Before there were Nintendo Switches, there were Game Boys. And before that there were all the successive generations of Game Boys and other consoles right back to the Game and Watch, and then those handheld Simon and Space Invaders games of the late 1970s. These devices typically packed a 4-bit microcontroller and an array of…

Materials researchers use synthetic hydrogels which mimic the features of human muscles — they”re strong, soft, full of water, and resistant to fatigue. Now researchers have discovered they mimic human muscles in another way, writes technology_dude: MIT researchers have found a way to give synthetic hydro gels human muscle characteristics: by taking the hyrdogels “to…

Samsung took back the review units and cancelled the launch of the Galaxy Fold. A couple new phones showed up last week, Pixel prices drop in anticipation of Google I/O, and Kevin continues to find Chrome OS improvements. …read more Source:: ZDNet

How the latest Avengers movie compares with the 21 previous movies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. …read more Source:: CNet

Mike Bouma (Slashdot reader #85,252) tipped us off to “Amiga present and future,” an interview with Trevor Dickinson of A-EON Technology, a group funding ongoing hardware and software development for the Amiga community. “Amongst the topics are the still in betatest Mini-ITX and quad-core PPC Amiga motherboards. Trevor regularly writes editorials for the Amiga Future…

Everyone’s ready for a battle that seems unwinnable in the dark trailer for Sunday night’s episode. …read more Source:: CNet