Christmas is the season of giving. Few things feel better than gifting a present to a loved one. Buy enough of them, and the money adds up, cutting into your daily expenses. Assuming you like to watch movies, streaming services are probably a priority within your budget. Like holiday presents, streaming services are rather expensive. To save money, take advantage of a FAST service, which stands for “free ad-supported television.” These services are free at sign-up. A few ads will run during your feature presentation, but that’s not a big deal, considering the movies are free. Plus, these services have…
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Star Wars: Squadrons is the most underrated Star Wars video game to be released since Disney acquired Lucasfilm, and you can pick it up during this Steam sale for just $2. It’s a great time to pick it up, too. December is a month I have always associated with Star Wars. I have fond memories of getting games like 2005’s Star Wars: Battlefront II or Star Wars: The Force Unleashed on Christmas as a kid, and Disney has typically released recent Star Wars films in theaters or aired TV shows on Disney+ during this month. Right now, Star Wars: Skeleton…
Last year, I discovered a new addition to my usual rotation of must-watch Christmas movies: This is Christmas. A co-production between Sky Cinema and MGM+, the 2022 British film is a low-key charmer, an unabashedly sentimental and optimistic movie with the sole purpose of lifting your spirits. It does just that, and that’s really all you can ask for in a quality holiday movie. A morning commute like no other Have you ever taken a morning commute on public transportation, looked around at the people sitting next to you, and wondered, “Who the heck are they?. This is Christmas taking…
Best time to watch Christmas movies, or at least Christmas-adjacent films. These stories don’t tend to play the same way in March as they do in December. Plus, Christmas films have the added benefit of being family-friendly selections… for the most part. Some Christmas action movies are probably best left for older viewers. This year’s selections for the 10 best movies to watch on Christmas are available on most of the major streamers and include new films mixed with some older titles. Not every selection below is strictly Christmas-related, but they all share the Christmas spirit in one way or…
With a US TikTok ban scheduled to take effect in less than a month, President-elect Donald Trump said Sunday that he’d like to keep the app around, according to Reuters. President-elect Donald Trump indicated on Sunday that he favored allowing TikTok to keep operating in the United States for at least a little while, saying he had received billions of views on the social media platform during his presidential campaign. Trump’s comments before a crowd of conservative supporters in Phoenix, Arizona, were one of the strongest signals yet that he opposes a potential exit of TikTok from the U.S. market.…
Autonomous vehicle technology and electrification startups were once the darlings of the VC and corporate world. The two technologies promised billions of dollars in revenue—and a new pathway for automakers to make money beyond building and selling cars. Those VC-money-printing days have been over for AVs for a while now, with a few exceptions like Waymo and Wayve. But as 2024 kicked off, there was still a lingering EV buzz in the air, albeit quieter than before. Now, as 2024 draws to a close, it’s safe to say that buzz is more of a whisper, with several EV startups faltering…
The now-defunct Mars helicopter Ingenuity flew over and snapped pictures in April 2022 of debris flung onto the Red Planet by the Perseverance rover’s landing capsule.No astronaut has ever stepped foot on Mars, but that doesn’t mean humans haven’t left their mark — literally. Since 1971 when the Soviet Union’s Mars 2 spacecraft crash-landed onto the Red Planet, people have littered the Martian surface with man-made junk, quite a feat from an average of 140 million-miles away. Broken spacecraft debris, parachutes, and rover tracks are just some of the ways our species has disrupted the foreign environment – not to…
Humans have an innate desire to name things, but to be honest, we’re not always that good at it. Take climate tech: it’s a category of companies and technologies that, broadly speaking, seek to minimize or reverse our impact on the climate while also helping us adapt to its increasing changes. As terms go, climate tech is actually not bad since it defines the sector’s focus in two words. It’s certainly better than its predecessor, clean tech. It’s what startups that today fall under the climate tech banner would have likely called themselves just over a decade ago. It wasn’t…
December is, for many, a time for celebration and reflection. If you’re lucky enough to have downtime during this busy season, you might be looking for the perfect movie to fill it with. One of the best ways to pick a movie on a service like Amazon Prime Video, which has so many to choose from, is to pick a movie that you know won’t be there much longer. That’s exactly what we’ve done here. Steve Jobs is leaving Prime Video at the end of the month, and you should definitely make time for it before it does. The movie, which tells…
Love them or hate them, but robotaxis have certainly been making headlines in 2024. And beyond the glamorous, sci-fi-inspired marketing around Tesla’s recently unveiled Cybercab robotaxi, safety has remained, in one way or another, a recurring theme. Earlier this year, a survey revealed a majority of the U.S. public, or 68%, brought up safety concerns when asked what they thought about having self-driving vehicles (SDVs) on public roads. Yet within that majority, more than half either believe that SDV safety issues can be addressed or that SDVs will actually be safer than humans. Recommended Videos It’s no wonder then that…
