From January 3 through January 5, Apple TV+ will be free on any device where streaming is available. To take advantage of this offer, sign in with an Apple ID and password during the promotional period. Apple TV+’s entire library will be available to stream during the free weekend. One of the most anticipated shows of 2025 is Severance, the sci-fi thriller about a group of employees who choose to separate their work memories from their personal ones. Severance received critical acclaim upon its debut in February 2022 and garnered 14 Emmy nominations, including Outstanding Drama Series. With season 2 premiering…
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If you’re not feeling like counting down with Ryan Seacrest this New Year’s Eve, there are plenty of good alternatives to kill time, including these five great Netflix sci-fi movies. Netflix has a solid selection of sci-fi movies, but it can be difficult sorting through the collection, especially when it’s filled with Netflix Originals that you may not have heard anything about. Although interminable scrolling does feel a little like something that might happen in a dystopian sci-fi film, we’re here to help you avoid that fate. Ring in 2025 with one or more of the following great sci-fi movies…
This was a historically awful year in data breaches. We saw some record-breaking breaches this year that got the attention of the public, involving hackers accessing some very sensitive information, including Social Security numbers, credit card numbers, and more. Let’s look back at the worst cybersecurity incidents of the year and let them encourage all of us to be as prudent as we can with our activity online. National Public Data, where hackers claim to steal 2.9 billion personal records Background check company National Public Data, also known as Jerico Pictures, suffered one of the worst data breaches when hackers…
The U.K.’s antitrust watchdog said it was considering whether International Business Machines’ planned $6.4 billion takeover of HashiCorp HCP 0.01%increase; green up pointing triangle would affect competition. The Competition and Markets Authority, the U.K.’s antitrust watchdog, has opened an investigation into whether IBM’s planned acquisition of cloud software vendor HashiCorp would affect competition. The CMA said Monday it was inviting comment on the merger from interested parties by January 16. The regulator set a provisional February 25 deadline to decide whether to clear the deal or refer it for further review. As The Wall Street Journal reports, IBM announced it…
AI holds huge promise for healthcare, but not just on the medical side; many startups are convinced machine learning-based systems can do a lot of good on adjacent tasks such as appointment scheduling and confirmations. Brazilian startup Carecode is among these AI believers. It’s coming out of stealth with an ambition to reduce healthcare costs and improve medical outcomes by developing AI agents that focus on tasks that happen before and after a medical appointment — and would typically be run by a call center. “We tend to think that only the moment with the doctor is what matters, but…
German electric air taxi company Volocopter has filed for bankruptcy protection, the latest in a string of similar startups to hit financial turbulence. The company plans to keep operating while it searches for new investors. “We are ahead of our industry peers in our technological, flight test, and certification progress. That makes us an attractive company to invest in while we organize ourselves with internal restructuring,” CEO Dirk Hoke said in a statement. Volocopter’s decision comes after it spent months teetering on the edge of falling apart. It also comes just one week after fellow German electric vertical takeoff and…
One of the biggest criticisms of regular iPhones in recent years has been their lack of 120Hz displays, which have been available in the iPhone Pro models going back to the iPhone 13 Pro in 2021. For instance, the iPhone 16, though celebrated for being the best iPhone on the market, still operates at a 60Hz refresh rate like many of its predecessors. However, this is expected to change with the upcoming iPhone 17 series set to launch next year. Industry insider Digital Chat Station is the latest to confirm that all iPhone 17 models will feature a “high refresh…
Many of this year’s new series also dominated our picks for the 10 best Netflix shows of 2024, but there were two returning favorites that earned their place on this list. Looking ahead at 2025, with returning shows including Stranger Things and The Witcher, Baby Reindeer, the veteran series could have a much bigger presence on this list a year from now. For now, it’s time to look back at the year that was. Most of the shows we picked blended comedy and drama together to the point where the series can’t be easily defined. There were also two animated shows…
With CES 2025 right around the corner, most of us expect the big announcements to arrive in a week — but some companies are already teasing new products. In Intel’s case, the manufacturer plans to add more CPUs that might compete against some of the best processors. To that end, Intel has now announced preorders for new Arrow Lake CPUs, but most of us can’t get our hands on them yet. Intel China announced that preorders for the Core Ultra 200 non-K CPUs are opening today, with availability planned for January 13. These CPUs will presumably just be non-overclockable versions…
