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Makoto Shinkai wants Suzume to build a bridge of memory between generations
Suzume director Makoto Shinkai sees his latest film as an invitation to young theatergoers to build relationships with the past. Share this story a:hover]:text-gray-63 [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray [&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-63 dark:[&>a]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a]:shadow-underline-gray”>Photo by Victoria Sirakova / Getty Images In Suzume, Your Name and Weathering with You director Makoto Shinkai’s latest film, an ordinary highschooler finds herself pulled into a life of chasing down otherworldly creatures and sealing portals that would otherwise unleash catastrophic tectonic devastation across Japan. Out of all of Shinkai’s animated features, Suzume’s one of his most direct in the way it ...
Bluesky is my favorite Twitter clone yet
/ Right now, the small community is delightful to be a part of. And thanks to the AT Protocol, the service has a promising future.
Bluesky is my favorite Twitter clone yet
/ Right now, the small community is delightful to be a part of. And thanks to the AT Protocol, the service has a promising future.
Why I’m using a keyboard phone in 2023
/ I have never gotten more questions about a gadget than I have about this $300 phone. For the past month, I’ve been using the Unihertz Titan Pocket, a phone released in 2021 that rocks a 3.1-inch display above a full Qwerty keyboard. To be clear, it’s been by choice — my editors didn’t assign me to do this as a prank (in fact, some of them have clowned on me for using it), and it’s not like I don’t have other options. I’ve got a perfectly good iPhone 12 Mini that I actively gave up to switch to this phone. So uh… why? The first reason is that it can just be kind of fun to try something new. Or, in this case, go back to something old; my first experiences with a smartphone were stealing my dad’s Navy-issued BlackBerry to email my significant other when I was in middle school. But for...
‘Angry Birds’ company is reportedly about to be sold for $1 billion… to Sega
/ Sega is reportedly nearing a deal to acquire the company behind Angry Birds, Rovio Entertainment, for a cool $1 billion.
21 Year-Old Texas Airman Jack Teixeira Arrested For Leaking Confidential Pentagon Documents On Discord
He shared confidential information for clout. The post 21 Year-Old Texas Airman Jack Teixeira Arrested For Leaking Confidential Pentagon Documents On Discord appeared first on The Latest Hip-Hop News, Music and Media | Hip-Hop Wired.
HHW Gaming: Lil Wayne Is Hosting A ‘Street Fighter 6’ Presentation On 4/20
Now this makes all the sense in the world. The post HHW Gaming: Lil Wayne Is Hosting A ‘Street Fighter 6’ Presentation On 4/20 appeared first on The Latest Hip-Hop News, Music and Media | Hip-Hop Wired.
In Final Fantasy XVI, you can command the dog (and a whole lot more)
/ Sony’s Final Fantasy XVI State of Play revealed a ton more stuff you can do and showed off some pretty slick Eikon battles.
Twitter Leans Into Finance, Launches New Feature to Help Users Trade Stocks and Buy Crypto
Twitter has inked a new partnership that will see it move into the finance space. The company is teaming up with social trading and investment company eToro to integrate trading stocks and buying and selling cryptocurrency into its app.Users will now be able to view market charts, which summarize how the stock market has performed over a period of time, right in the app. While it was already possible to check out trading data via Twitter’s “$cashtags,” the partnership will lead to an expanded scope of financial instruments and asset classes, CNBC reported first.A new button will present Twitter users looking at market charts with the option to “view on eToro,” bringing them to the company’s website. From there, they can buy and sell assets through the online brokerage.“As we’ve grown over ...
Anker, Bambu, Prusa, Creality: 3D printers suddenly have a need for speed
/ Forget 50mm/s — these companies claim 500 or even 600mm/s is possible right out of the box. a:hover]:text-gray-63 [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray [&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-63 dark:[&>a]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a]:shadow-underline-gray”>Image: Creality 3D printers can take hours or even days to produce simple parts — but it only took two weeks for the biggest names in consumer 3D printing to declare that era is over. On March 29th, Prusa announced the $799 Prusa MK4, its first new printer in four years. The company boasts it can print a “draft mode” 3DBenchy boat in under 20 minutes, four times faster than the 80 minutes it took with the previous generation. a:hover]:text-gray-63 [&>a:...
Leica Introduces New M11 Monochrom
Celebrated camera brand, Leica, has introduced its new M11 Monochrom camera – marking the fourth generation camera with a black and white sensor.Since first debuting the camera model in 2012, the German brand has been refining its technique on black and white photography. As such, the new model enhances the previous model's capabilities of balancing light and shadow. Appearing in an all-metal body with an aluminum top plate and sapphire glass display, the camera is just as striking as it is functional. The camera's design also includes a black scratch-resistant paint finish and a solid leather covering.On a technical side, the camera can create raw files in a DNG or JPEG format with 60, 36 or 18-megapixel resolutions. Enhancing that is its 125 to 200,000 ISO range. Another focal specificat...
National Guard member arrested for leaking classified documents on Discord
/ The 21-year-old allegedly shared a trove of classified US government documents with the members of a small Discord server.
