Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings series is expensive. The first season cost almost half a billion dollars

Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings series is expensive.  The first season cost almost half a billion dollars

New Zealand Stuff reports that Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings series is a really expensive production. According to them, the first season of the series has cost 465 million dollars, which is more than four billion kronor. That’s quite a lot of money, so much so that the TV series’ budget is $ 150 … Read more

Nintendo releases blue Switch Lite. Hurray?

Nintendo releases blue Switch Lite.  Hurray?

Nintendo announced today that they will release a blue Nintendo Switch Lite in Europe on May 7. Like previous Lite models, it is made for handheld gaming with its integrated controls and smaller and lighter form. So you who have longed for a Nintendo Switch Lite now have a date to look forward to. – … Read more

Logitech Stops Manufacturing Harmony Remotes. Another era ends

Logitech Stops Manufacturing Harmony Remotes.  Another era ends

Logitech announced this week that it will no longer manufacture any more Harmony remotes. This was not entirely unexpected as Logitech has generally been very quiet about the Harmony series lately. Of course, it will still be possible to buy the units in stores, but when all of them have run out, they will not … Read more

The next major Ghost Recon: Breakpoint update will be released this spring. Allows you to upgrade your AI teammates

The next major Ghost Recon: Breakpoint update will be released this spring.  Allows you to upgrade your AI teammates

Ghost Recon: Breakpoint’s existence surprises every time you read the game’s title, but some who do not forget that the game exists are the developers Ubisoft. Now the gang has delivered some news about upcoming updates and a big one will be released in late spring. The title of the update will be Teammate Experience … Read more

Support for Apple’s M1 chip is now available in Linux 5.13. But it will be a while before Linux becomes completely stable on Apple Silicon

Support for Apple’s M1 chip is now available in Linux 5.13.  But it will be a while before Linux becomes completely stable on Apple Silicon

At the end of last year, Linux developer Hector Martin stated that he would try to secure support for Apple’s own M1 chip in future versions of Linux, something that, among others, Linux creator Linus Torvalds previously said was something he wanted. Now Martin states that he has managed to implement an initial support for … Read more

New world record in Super Mario Bros. First time a man comes in 4:55!

New world record in Super Mario Bros. First time a man comes in 4:55!

Recently, a new world record was set in Super Mario Bros. which is always exciting. The previous record was 4: 55.646 and was set by speedrunner Kosmic. The new record was set by Niftski and is at 4: 54.948, a time that has previously only been achieved by bots. Niftski managed to break the dream … Read more

TV12 back in Com Hem’s basic offer. Not sure if anyone is happy about that

TV12 back in Com Hem’s basic offer.  Not sure if anyone is happy about that

When TV4 and Com Hem quarreled a few years ago, it resulted in TV12 disappearing from Com Hem’s basic offer. But last week, the channel looked back to the basic offer and via the streaming service Com Hem Play. I must admit that I did not even know that the TV channels had gone up … Read more

Now Ingenuity stands on its own two feet on Mars. NASA’s Mars helicopter has begun preparing for its first flight

Now Ingenuity stands on its own two feet on Mars.  NASA’s Mars helicopter has begun preparing for its first flight

During the Easter weekend, NASA’s Mars rover left Perseverance of the mini-helicopter Ingenuity at the place where it will soon hopefully carry out the first helicopter flight on Mars. Ingenuity was separated from Perseverance on April 3 and then began using its own solar panels to provide its system with the heat required so that … Read more

Apple’s new privacy rules are coming soon. Apple is ready to press the button

Apple’s new privacy rules are coming soon.  Apple is ready to press the button

Since the release of iOS 14, Apple has said that it will add a feature that means that apps must ask users for permission if the apps want to track them. There was, to say the least, a bit of a fuss about this and especially Facebook has complained a lot in recent months. Apple … Read more

Respawn hints at Titanfall stuff in Apex Legends. Hold on to your hat, Titanfall fans!

Respawn hints at Titanfall stuff in Apex Legends.  Hold on to your hat, Titanfall fans!

Titanfall 2 was released in 2016 and is still one of the sharpest FPS on the market and everyone who claims the opposite is simply wrong. Fans have begged and asked for a third game in the series, but we will not see anything like that for a while as the focus is on Apex … Read more