Fernandes signs new Man Utd contract until June 2027
- August 14, 2024
Manchester United captain Bruno Fernandes signs a new contract which extends his stay at Old Trafford until June 2027, with the option for a further year.
Your Gym Locker May Be Hackable
- August 14, 2024
Security researchers say they’ve extracted digital management keys from select electronic lockers and revealed how they could be cloned.
Instagram Isn’t Protecting Women Politicians From Hate Speech
- August 14, 2024
A report found that Instagram left up 93 percent of violent comments toward female candidates—the kind of online abuse that has led them to not seek office.
Is Ukraine’s Advance Damaging Putin?
- August 14, 2024
Plus, inflation is up for the first time this year
Apple will let other digital wallets into Apple Pay, and even be the default
- August 14, 2024
Alternative wallets and new apps may bloom—if they “pay the associated fees.”
They All Got Mysterious Brain Diseases. They’re Fighting to Learn Why.
- August 14, 2024
Doctors in Canada have identified dozens of patients with similar, unexplained symptoms — a scientific puzzle that has now become a political maelstrom.
There’s another BlackBerry movie coming out and this one’s a documentary
- August 14, 2024
If you weren’t sated by last year’s dramatic retelling of the BlackBerry story, you’ll have another chance to witness the rise and fall of the once-iconic smartphone. Filmmaker Eddie Schmidt, one of the directors behind Netflix’s Ugly Delicious, is prepping a documentary about the handset, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The documentary is currently in production and is being made by Unrealistic Ideas, which is a production company founded by Mark Wahlberg aka the guy from Fear. This team was behind HBO’s McMillions, a documentary miniseries about the infamous McDonald's Monopoly promotion scam.
The project is currently untitled and there’s no release date, but we do know that the filmmakers have been given exclusive access to the Research In Motion Alumni Association. So there will be plenty of interviews with former executives who were involved in the BlackBerry story in one way or another. The film will also include “an array of never-before-seen archival footage.”
Director Schmidt shared a statement and said that he is excited to “explore this unpredictable real-life saga at the intersection of technology and popular culture.” One thing the documentary won’t have, however, is actor Glenn Howerton absolutely crushing it as former Research In Motion CEO Jim Balsillie.
BlackBerry was a legitimately good movie. We highly recommend it, particularly for the scene embedded above. I mean, come on!
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/tv-movies/theres-another-blackberry-movie-coming-out-and-this-ones-a-documentary-173618810.html?src=rss
California A.I. Bill Causes Alarm in Silicon Valley
- August 14, 2024
California state senator Scott Wiener wants to stop the creation of dangerous A.I. But critics say he is jumping the gun.
These Modern Homesteaders Live Off the Grid, but They’re Extremely Online
- August 14, 2024
In corners of the internet — and in wooded, undeveloped parts of the country — young men are documenting their efforts to to live off the land.
Meet the man who set a world record by hooking up 444 consoles to one TV
- August 14, 2024
Chances are you’ve got a couple of old video game consoles gathering dust in your closet right now. Would you be able to hook all of them up to your TV without some kind of adapter? Meet a guy who owns 444 game consoles and has them all hooked up to a single television, according to the Guinness Book of World Records.
Ibrahim Al-Nasser of Riyadh holds a Guinness World Record for the most video game consoles hooked up to a single television. His collection includes some of the classics such as the first Sony PlayStation, the Nintendo 64 and (his personal favorite) the Sega Genesis, complete with the 32x and Sega CD expansions. He also owns and can play games on those handheld plug-and-play consoles with arcade classics like Ms. Pac-Man and Dig Dug that you find in Target, classic and modern handhelds like the Hyperkin SuperBoy and obscure consoles like the Magnavox Odyssey.
Al-Nasser uses a series of switchers to play each console on a single screen. He keeps track of their location and powering procedure on an Excel spreadsheet. He’s even organized his collection so the cables aren’t showing or creating the kind of tangled mess most of us have to deal with when we have just two consoles hooked up to a single television.
That may sound like a lot of video game consoles for one collection but it’s far from the actual record. Linda Guillory of Garland, Texas currently holds the record for the largest collection of playable gaming systems with her collection of 2,430 items, according to Guinness World Records.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/gaming/meet-the-man-who-set-a-world-record-by-hooking-up-444-consoles-to-one-tv-171848639.html?src=rss
