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After Math: 24-hour PogChamps and 56-inch 'Hyperscreens'
The virtual CES 2021 starts this week, and Section 230 is apparently staying put. Here are some of the top headlines from this just bonkers week.
After Math: Sony is spending a billion bucks on Crunchyroll's anime service
It’s been a week of big deals, big trouble (at least for Facebook), and even bigger televisions. Check out some of this past week’s top headlines.
After Math: Deals on deals on deals
As we collectively recover from a day of too much turkey and another of too much (hopefully online) shopping, with our eyes ahead towards what is sure to be an unprecedented holiday season, let’s take a look at some of the top headlines from this past Thanksgiving week. You could argue that Amazon’s warehouse workers have been greasing the wheels of the nation during the pandemic (or at least relieving our boredom with all those impulse purchases).
After Math: Windows turns the big 3-5 (updated)
The company announced that it had labeled nearly 200 million posts with content warnings ahead of the recent presidential election. 'Wonder Woman 1984' comes to HBO Max for a month starting Christmas Day Finally, some good news for this year.
After Math: Apple debuts devices running on its own silicon
The world tuned in on Tuesday to watch Apple CEO Tim Cook unveil the company’s latest technological advancement, the M1 chipset, as well as the brand new devices that will be running on it. Looks like Twitter is finally getting serious about the spread of political misinformation on its platform... well, serious by Twitter’s standards at least.
After Math: Premium Pricing
Netflix is raising the price of standard and premium plans in the US Netflix is yet again getting a little more expensive. The company announced last week that its standard plan will now cost $14, a dollar increase, and its premium plan will rise two dollars to $18 a month.
After Math: Quibi keeping it short in every sense of the word
Jeff Bezos will have his company town, dammit, and he doesn’t care how many synergistic crossover deals between various holdings within his retail empire he has make to get it done! ‘90s kids are old enough to remember when Hummers were the Darth Vaders of eco-friendly transportation, seemingly purpose built to guzzle gas.
After Math: Apple's unveils its inaugural 5G phone amid a week of firsts
Lucid announced last week that its first entry into the EV market, dubbed the Air, would be competitively priced against the main rival, the Tesla Model S. That is, right up until Tesla CEO and overwrought man-child, Elon Musk, unilaterally dropped the price of the Model S to, and I shit you not, $69,420. October 22nd is shaping up to be a big day for Virgin Galactic. Should the launch go according to plan, this will mark the first time that the vehicle has operated out of the firm’s new headquarters at Spaceport America.
After Math: No 'Dune' for you! Come back, one year!
2020 is the year of “this is why we can’t have anything nice.”
After Math: Sonos sues Google again while Facebook keeps cleaning house
Really, Google, we expect this sort of behavior from the likes of Facebook, not you. Amazon reveals 19,816 employees have had COVID-19 If you thought that Trump campaign rallies were rife with COVID, let me introduce you to a little place called an Amazon distribution warehouse.
After Math: Quibi wins some Emmys and Ridley Scott's 'Wolves' is renewed
Not only did Apple reveal a bunch of new wrist-bound and palm-top hardware during its September 2020 Watch event on Tuesday, Sony’s Playstation 5 event followed right on its heels with news that the next-gen gaming console (the digital only version, at least) will start at $400, roughly the same introductory price as its Xbox rival. While most folks were reveling in the news that Harley Quinn is returning for a third season of animated antics, Ridley Scott’s dystopian sci-fi series Raised by Wolves, has quietly been re-upped for its sophomore season. If you and seven friends have find yourselves in the enviable position of still having you economic recovery checks burning holes in your collective pockets, hoo boy has Aston Martin got the ludicrous luxury item for your to blow them on.
After Math: Ninja pulls the old 'Twitcheroo'
Just as TV killed the radio star, music streaming has absolutely slaughtered physical media sales. Pressed disc sales accounted for 62 percent of physical media sales in the first half of the year, totaling $232 million.
After Math: Fast cars, discount scooters and hopping spacecraft
As the IFA conference winds down and gadget release season heats up, let’s take a look at some of the headline highlights of the past seven days. The 1,502HP electrically-driven Ford Mustang Cobra Jet 1400 aims to find out.
After Math: 15-Minute COVID tests and 27,000 not-so-great scots
Congratulations on making it through another seven days as the world burns around us — in California’s case, quite literally — so let’s take a look at some of the top headlines from the week that was. While Walmart joined the bidding frenzy, TikTok’s recently acquired CEO, former Disney bigwig Kevin Mayer, announced that he is leaving the company after just three months. This new rapid COVID test from Abbot promises to diagnose people for the virus in just 15 minutes, rather than the 15 or so days current testing systems require.
After Math: Everything is awesome
While the Trump administration spent this past week kneecapping the US Postal Service in an obvious effort to throw the upcoming November election in its favor, other events occurred as well. Well, I guess one solution would be to for you to simply call your elected representatives and tell them in no uncertain terms that this aggression will not stand, man. Call your representatives in Congress and tell them what you think about it.
After Math: Big leaks, small savings and free Quibi
The first week of August has been an eventful one, what with Samsung unveiling its new lineup of Galaxy products and the President trying to strong arm the sale of a foreign company to US interests. Disney on the other hand can apparently charge whatever the heck it wants (see: Mulan) and people will still scream, “shut up and take my money.”
After math: Big Tech gets bigger while AMC's release window gets shorter
As the dust settles on another non-stop spate of news let’s take a look back at the some of the top headlines from the week that was. Trolls: World Tour isn’t the sort of film that one would expect to cause controversy but at the start of the COVID pandemic, AMC and Universal got themselves into a knock down drag out fight over the family film — specifically whether or not it could be released on VOD before its window of theatrical exclusivity closed.
After Math: Quick, throw some money at it
With federal unemployment benefits expiring this weekend, millions of people unemployed by the COVID-19 pandemic are set to lose the $600 weekly lifeline they have relied upon since the start of the outbreak. The company announced last week that its forming a $200 Creators Fund to compensate its top talents.
After Math: Twitter's very bad breach
Let’s take a look at Twitter’s worst Wednesday in living memory, as well as some stellar game sale numbers amid the COVID-19 shutdown and a high-end video camera with more resolution than even James Cameron can handle. Sisyphus would have had an easier time getting over hump day than Twitter did last Wednesday.
After Math: With the kids away, it's time to play
Since it looks like the fall school semester is happening whether we’re ready for it or not, you’ll finally have dibs on “next game” on that console your kids have been bogarting for the past quarantined four months. Used to be that if you wanted to reassign the gender of your World of Warcraft’s character, you’d need to shell out $15 — that’s in real cash money, not in-game currency.
