Leslie Horn

Apple TV is adding the Showtime Anytime app to its offerings today. Slowly, but surely, you’re getting more options on the Apple streaming platform.

Good God, Someone’s Selling a 99-Pack of Beer

Because everything is bigger in Texas, an Austin brewery has made a 99 pack of beers for 99 bucks. Ninety-nine beers, in one case. God bless America. In each massive case—you’ll need two, possibly three people to carry the whole thing—you will find 99 cans of Austin Beerworks’ Anytime Ale. But getting one of these…

Evernote’s New Desk Organizers Keep Your Physical Stuff Tidy Too

Evernote has been helping you organize your digital world for a while, and now it has a little more to offer as far as your desk is concerned; it’s just added a whole new line of desk organizers to its offerings. The Pheiffer Collection was designed by furniture maker Eric Pfeiffer in collaboration with Evernote’s…

Here’s What Sin City Looks Like Before They Add Any Special Effects

It takes a whole lot of special effects to bring a comic book to life on the big screen. So what does a movie like Sin City: A Dame for Kill look like before all the after effects are applied? The answer is basically nothing like the actual film. Sin City, which opens in theaters…

Sprint’s New Unlimited Plan Only Costs $60

It’s quite the day for new phone plans—first T-Mobile offered up a year of free LTE for people who convince a friend to abandon one of the other big three carriers, and now Sprint has announced an unlimited talk, text, and data plan for just $60/month. https://gizmodo.com/you-can-get-free-unlimited-data-if-you-convert-friends-1625048349 Sprint’s new plan is open to both new…

Hey Hey Hey What Is Going On Here? Saved By the Bell Is 25 Years Old

When I wake up in the morning, and the alarm gives out a warning and—holy shit Saved by the Bell first aired 25 years ago today. You’re old, Preppy. It’s weird to think that there are kids—and not just kids, actual almost adults—who haven’t seen this show, which for a lot of us was a…

CSI: Cyber Is Already Perfect When the First Episode Is “Kidnapping 2.0”

CBS is adding a new version of CSI to the mix, called CSI: CYBER, starring James Van Der Beek and Bow Wow (YEP). Bow Wow is on set today for his first day of filming, and revealed in a tweet that the first episode in the series is titled “Kidnapping 2.0.” Emmy committee, do you…

Halt and Catch Fire Not Halted, Not on Fire, Will Be Back Next Year

Saddle up and set the DVR, because AMC’s drama on the genesis of the personal computer, Halt and Catch Fire, will be back next year for a second season. According to Deadline, AMC has ordered a second season of the show that brought a very modest viewership of about 1.3 million viewers. I’m going to…

ZTE’s Cheap, Unlocked Smartphone Has Camera Cred To Spare

Cheap, unlocked phones are harder to come by in the U.S., but you’re about to have at least one more option with ZTE’s new Nubia 5S Mini LTE, which ships August 27 for $280. Joining the affordable ranks of Sharp’s just-announced $250 Aquos Crystal is the Nubia 5S, which comes with 2GB of RAM, 16GB…

Netflix has agreed to pay Time Warner Cable for guaranteed access to broadband—similar to the deal Netflix already has with Comcast, Verizon, and AT&T. Call it a domino effect, but the agreement—reached reluctantly on Netflix’s part—will ensure the cable provider delivers on its bandwidth promises for streaming video. [Variety]

A New Movie Puts the Inner Lives of Smartphones in Sad, Sharp Relief

This is the trailer for Men, Women, and Children, the new movie from Juno director Jason Reitman. It’s all about how the internet has irrevocably changed a group of people’s interpersonal relationships—and though melodramatic, it doesn’t seem terribly far from the truth in its portrayal of gadgets and sadness. Screens are everywhere—they’re sort of our…

Oh God, A Startup Is Snapchatting the News

There’s a startup called NowThisNews that delivers the news du jour in short videos embedded on their site and mobile apps. But these days, apparently that’s not enough. So the Awl has noticed, now in addition, NowThisNews is sending out news bulletins via Snapchat. Abandon all hope. Their news reels (if you can call them…

Meet Roku TV: The TV Set With Your Favorite Streaming Platform Inside

Many smart TV platforms are less than perfect, so you’re almost always better off adding some kind of streaming device. Now Roku is cutting out the middleman completely, by releasing TVs with Roku baked right inside. Synergy! There are two OEMs making Roku TV, TCL and Hisense. The TCL sets go on sale today via…

Diplo: Sarah

The first time I heard Diplo, it was on a mix CD burned for me by a boy I liked in the 11th grade. I remember thinking “what is a Diplo,” and searching Kazaa furiously for more songs by this person or people. Now the dude is everywhere. In the 10 years since Diplo’s first…

Big K.R.I.T. – Mount Olympus

Big K.R.I.T. is southern rap, but his music isn’t exactly something you can pigeonhole into the hip hop categories de jour. He’s not trap, he’s not spitting about Molly, and he’s very much his own thing. But that’s a good thing! Although it kept him from getting much traction, thus “Mount Olympus,” a big F-U…

7 Rules for Recording Police

We republished this post from Reason two years ago; the information is still valid, and given the recent events in Ferguson, Missouri, seem more relevant than ever. We’ve made minor edits to account for some technological and legal advances since the original publication date, but the key points are there. It seems trivial to say…

How VFX Made the Guardians of the Galaxy Characters Come to Life

The vigilantes in Guardians of the Galaxy are a multi-species motley crew, and naturally it took a lot of computer-based magic to come to life. FX Guide has the scoop on how a vast team of VFX artists made a mouthy raccoon, a teenage tree, and the rest of the gang look like aliens you…

The First Supercomputer-Designed Wind Farm Is Coming To Mexico

Mexico is getting a brand new wind farm from a Spanish company called Iberdrola, and it’s no ordinary field of windmills. This one will be the very first to be designed by a supercomputer. Humans: who need ’em? The farm will be located on a mile and a half high spot in Puebla state, which…

Double Tap: A Teen Ballad That Reminds You Sometimes Creeping Is Okay

What do you do when you log onto Twitter and find out your honey’s unfollowed you? Or you try to friend her on Facebook but she never accepts? What if you’re also a teen and you just got braces? You fire up this ballad and you double tap, baby. Maybe you can’t call her or…

Dinosaurs Can Roam the Earth Again With Righteous Tricera Hi-Top Shoes

The news has been rough this week, but you can have faith that some things are still going right because someone has invented a pair of dinosaur sneakers called Tricera Hi-Tops. They’re about as close as we can get to bringing dinos back from extinction. Also they’re super cool. Dinosaurs have long been gone from…