Piracy is booming in Ukraine: HDRezka is 4.5 times more popular than Netflix and twice as popular as Megogo in search queries
According to Bloomberg, Ukraine is among the top six countries with the highest level of consumption of pirated content — so it’s no surprise that the latest Similarweb statistics showed that the third most visited site among Ukrainians is the pirated UAKino.
The head of Black Myth: Wukong prepared a speech for «Game of the Year» 2 years ago, and the choice of Astro Bot brought the developers to tears
The CEO of Chinese studio Game Science, which developed Black Myth: Wukong, Feng Ji, has expressed his disappointment with this year’s The Game Awards ceremony.
Ukrainian IT professionals have chosen 25 most desirable companies to work for: Grammarly leads among seniors, while juniors choose mono
DOU website surveyed Ukrainian IT professionals and found out which companies they would most like to work for.
Foldable Apple iPhone to debut in 2026, and iPhone 17 Air will get a «nice price», — WSJ
A new report from The Wall Street Journal spills the beans on Apple’s upcoming foldable devices and the price of the super-thin iPhone 17 Air.
Apple is working on a giant foldable iPad — it will run macOS apps and be released in 2028
Rumors about Apple’s foldable devices have been swirling for years, but it looks like the first such gadget might be an iPad, not an iPhone.
«Craven the Hunter» opened with $11 million — worse than any of Sony’s Spider-Man movies
Right now, “Kraven the Hunter” is Sony’s biggest flop in the Spider-Man Universe.
Only 4% of Ukrainians donate «Winter eSupport» to the Armed Forces, the rest — pay for utilities or mobile communications
So, as part of the “Winter eSupport” program, 1,000 UAH has been credited to the cards of 1.8 million adults and 520,000 children.
Emma D’Arcy of «House of Dragon» reveals the main change in Reynarda in Season 3
Actress Emma D’Arcy, who played the adult version of Reynarda Targaryen in the series «A House of Dragons», spoke about the changes that await her character in the third season.
Prison Break relaunch is officially in the works — Hulu has ordered a pilot episode
The events of the new series “Prison Break” will take place in the same universe as the original, but will likely focus on new characters.
Chris Evans will play Nomad in the movie «Avengers: Doomsday», — Jeff Snyder
Chris Evans, like Robert Downey Jr. will appear in the movie «Avengers: Doomsday» in a new incarnation, saying goodbye to the images of Captain America and Johnny Storm.
The zombie from the trailer «28 years later» was not played by Cillian Murphy, but by an actor who looks like him
Movie trailer «28 years later»released a few days ago, puzzled many fans because the zombie shown in one of the frames of the video looked very much like the character of Killian Murphy from the original 2002 Danny Boyle film.
A first look at the thriller «Novocaine» — with Jack Quaid, who feels no pain
Paramount has released the first trailer for the action thriller «Novocaine» starring Jack Quaid («The Boys»).
«Stop Hiring Humans»: San Francisco startup scares citizens with AI cringe ads
An AI startup from San Francisco decided to «troll» people and run an ad urging them not to hire human labor and instead use artificial intelligence technologies.
Horror master Mike Flanagan to direct a movie about Batman’s «oldest» enemy for DC
DC Studios has given the «green light» to Mike Flanagan’s film, which will tell the story of Clayface.
Ukrainians searched for electronics on Google in Russian in 78% of queries, but Ukrainian is growing every year, — Promodo
According to a study by Promodo (via Forbes), e-commerce searches in Ukrainian on Google grew by 5% in 2024, while in 2025 — they are forecast to grow to 36.6%.
An absolute failure: Sony’s «Craven Hunter» launched with 15% on Rotten Tomatoes
Thought it couldn’t get any worse than “Madame Web”? But then Sony took on “Kraven the Hunter” and outdid itself.
Elon Musk is the first in the world to get rich up to $400 billion — wealth increased by 77% after Trump’s victory
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has become the first person in the world whose fortune has exceeded $440 billion.
The Game of Thrones star gave some intimate advice to Emma D’Arcy from House of the Dragon before the start of filming
Emma D’Arcy, who played the adult Reynira Targaryen in «House of the Dragon», said in a new interview that she had a frank conversation with Emilia Clarke (Daenerys in «Game of Thrones»), who gave her some important advice before the start of filming.
12 useful Google Chrome extensions that were downloaded most often in 2024
Google unveiled a ranking of the most popular Chrome extensions — some of which can help you boost productivity, have fun, or even save money.
Amazon has launched online car sales — Hyundai is already «in business»
The e-commerce empire Amazon has expanded into car sales—starting today, the beta version of Amazon Autos category is live on the website.
EasyPay turned off the refund function because Ukrainians «abused» it to convert «eSupport» into cash
EasyPay CEO Oleksiy Avramenko has announced that the payment service has disabled the refund option due to a “fraudulent scheme” with the “Winter eSupport” program.
Sony cancels movies with «supporting» Spider-Man characters after the failure of «Venom» and «Madame Web»
“Kraven the Hunter” will wrap up Sony’s work on films about characters from the “Spider-Man” universe, which were supposed to create a separate franchise from Marvel for the studio.
Pornhub’s year in review: Ukraine is in the top 15 in terms of views, Android «dominates iOS, and PS5 garnered 60% of traffic from consoles
Traditionally, at the end of the year, various services and platforms wrap up with their year-end summaries — Pornhub is no exception, having recently published its own usage statistics.
Google Docs has 40 new templates — and they can make your work much easier
Google Docs just rolled out new templates designed to jazz up your documents and generally make your life easier.
The director of «Dune» Denis Villeneuve named the 5 best films of 2024 — and you might have missed them
Director of “Dune” Denis Villeneuve in an interview with Games Radar shared a list of movies released in 2024 that he particularly enjoyed.
2024 in Google queries: what did Ukrainians search for most often?
Google named the most popular search queries among Ukrainians in 2024 — and unsurprisingly, “power outage schedules” took the top spot.
The first trailer «28 years later» — Cillian Murphy seems to have become a zombie, and Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Jodie Comer are on the run
Sony Pictures just dropped the first trailer for the post-apocalyptic horror movie “28 Years Later” — the much-anticipated sequel to “28 Days Later” and “28 Weeks Later”.
Intel is among the top five «best-managed» companies in the US — despite losing 50% of its value and firing its CEO
The Drucker Institute and The Wall Street Journal have published their annual ranking of the 250 best-managed US companies — and, surprisingly, Intel made the list despite currently going through what might be the biggest crisis in its history.
Rockstar Games asked GTA 6 writers to be «less rude» to transgender people, — Bloomberg
Reliable industry insider Jason Schreier from Bloomberg has released a new report on the development of GTA 6.
«Avengers: Doomsday» will bring Chris Evans back to Marvel, but probably not as Captain America
Actor Chris Evans, best known to Marvel fans as Steve Rogers (Captain America), will join Robert Downey Jr. in the movie “Avengers: Doomsday.”
The director of «Indiana Jones 5» says the movie failed because of «Harrison Ford’s old age»
Despite “Indiana Jones 5” debuting in theaters over a year ago, its flop still haunts director James Mangold. What’s more — he seems to have pinpointed the reason for the “rejection” and believes it was due to the age of the leading actor.
Pat Helsinger urged people to «pray and fast» for Intel and its 100,000 employees
Pat Gelsinger, who was fired as the CEO of Intel a week ago, has called on people to support the company and its employees by turning to “higher powers”.
The average salary in Ukraine «increased» to ₴21,946. The largest increase is in IT (+37,7%), while the education sector lags behind
According to State Statistics Service, the average salary of full-time employees in Ukraine in the third quarter of 2024 increased by 22.3% to ₴21,946.
There will be no discounts: GeForce RTX 4090 has become scarce and is selling for $3500 before RTX 5090 launch
If you were planning to snag a GeForce RTX 4090 on the cheap just before the RTX 5090 drops, that’s probably not happening.
Teaser of the action movie «Ballerina» — a new look at «The Dancing Assassin» Ana de Armas and Keanu Reeves in the spinoff «John Wick»
Lionsgate has dropped some behind-the-scenes shots of the high-octane action flick “Ballerina” along with fresh images of Ana de Armas as Eva Macarro – a hired assassin out for revenge after her family’s murder.
Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot is now free for everyone — it’s faster than ChatGPT and has no censorship. How to use it?
Chatbot Grok now runs on X (formerly Twitter) and used to be available only to owners of Premium subscriptions — now it’s open to everyone registered on the social network.
«The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim» started with a disastrous $2 million at the box office
Warner Bros.’ fantastic animated movie “The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim” made its debut in international theaters this weekend, pulling in a modest $2 million from 31 countries (including Ukraine). The top earners were Spain ($347K), Mexico ($239K), and Thailand ($146K).
The first footage of «The King and the Conqueror» — Jamie Lannister from «Game of Thrones» back in knightly armor
BBC revealed the first glimpses of its upcoming series — the historical drama “The King and the Conqueror”, where Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Jaime Lannister from “Game of Thrones”) takes on one of the leading roles.
«Kyivstar» will increase tariffs by 25% on average by the end of the year — «forced», but will offer more services
Kyivstar has already reviewed the tariff plans for contract mobile subscribers, and by the end of the year will update tariffs for prepaid as well.
New ChatGPT model o1 «schemed against humans» and prevented itself from shutting down during control tests, — Apollo Research
OpenAI has finally released the full version of ChatGPT o1, and with it came the red team tests, which showed that the new reasoning model is somewhat sneakier than its predecessors and tried to deceive people more often than leading AI models from Meta, Anthropic, and Google.
NASA has postponed the mission to land humans on the Moon until 2027. What went wrong?
NASA has announced the postponement of the Artemis 2 and Artemis 3 missions, which were set to return humans to the Moon for the first time since 1972.
George R.R. Martin said he did not know whether he would be able to finish «The Winds of Winter»: «Many people are already writing me obituaries»
Fans have been waiting for “The Winds of Winter” for 13 years, but George R. R. Martin hints that this wait might have been in vain.
A mix of «John Wick» and «Slow Horses»: Netflix released a spy thriller with a perfect 100% score on Rotten Tomatoes
At the center of the plot is the story of Helen Webb, who leads a double life, hiding from her politician husband her profession as a spy and passing information about him to a secret organization called “Black Doves”.
Series «Harry Potter»: 32,000 children auditioned for the main roles, and adult characters will be shown «younger than in the films»
HBO shared new details about the upcoming Harry Potter series.
Mocha Mousse is the color of 2025 according to Pantone. And it doesn’t look too promising
In the press release, the Pantone Color Institute writes that this shade of brown “nourishes us with the sublime qualities of chocolate and coffee, providing a sense of comfort.”
«I am ashamed»: Francis Coppola regrets making «The Godfather 2» because he set a «bad example» for Hollywood
“The Godfather Part II” is considered by many to be one of the best sequels in history, yet the director himself, Francis Ford Coppola, has somewhat different thoughts.
PrivatBank customers spent ₴24 billion per week «Black Friday»: 80 thousand goods — in installments, including
During the week leading up to “Black Friday” (this year it fell on November 29), PrivatBank customers made 68.5 million non-cash purchases in the bank’s acquiring network, totaling over ₴23.7 billion (an increase of 22.5% compared to last year).
More than 600,000 Ukrainians have changed operators with number portability. One — is in the top by a huge margin
As of December 1st, 647,845 Ukrainians have used the Mobile Number Portability (MNP) service since its launch. Such data is provided by the Mediasat publication with reference to the report from the National Commission that carries out state regulation in the fields of electronic communications, radio frequency spectrum, and postal services (NKEK).
Spain proposes to label smartphones with health warnings
An expert group appointed by the Spanish government has suggested that smartphones sold in the country should have health hazard labels. However, instead of printing warnings on the boxes, they propose issuing notifications on the smartphones — during the use of certain apps or services.
New «Pirates of the Caribbean»: Johnny Depp is in the script and Disney «does not rule out» his return to the role of Jack Sparrow
Two new movies are currently being developed for the “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise, and the script for one of them, according to Variety reports, includes Captain Jack Sparrow played by Johnny Depp.
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