«They should have made a better game»: fantasy «In the Lost Lands» based on the work of George Martin started with 21% on Rotten Tomatoes
On the eve of release in theaters The fantasy action film «In the Lost Lands», which adapts George Martin’s short story, has received its first reviews from foreign critics — and they are not very encouraging, to put it mildly.
The star of «The Lord of the Rings» has named a film adaptation that should be «removed from the history of cinema»
Elijah Wood, as an actor who starred in the epic trilogy «Lord of the Rings» Peter Jackson, certainly knows something about how to create perfect adaptations — but this time he shared his opinion on which movie has no chance of being recognized.
NASA will use Drone.UA robots to prepare for lunar exploration — the manufacturer was spotted at CES-2025
The other day, the head of the Ministry of Digital Transformation announced that Ukraine’s Drone.UA had delivered a batch of ground robots to NASA, and now Forbes Ukraine revealed some details of the cooperation.
Barack Obama concedes a cameo in «Severance» to Keanu Reeves — says he's a «big fan» but very busy
It turns out that former US President Barack Obama could get a cameo in the most popular Apple TV+ series.
The series «Daredevil: Born Again» was released on Disney+— perfect MCU adaptation with 95% of viewers on Rotten Tomatoes
Disney+ has released the first two episodes of the «Daredevil series: Born Again» — a continuation of the Netflix series canceled 7 years ago, but in Marvel’s vision
Sony launches PlayStation — beta testing program with new PS5 features and games for PC and consoles
Sony has followed in the footsteps of Xbox and Steam andopened register for the new PlayStation beta program — it is available in all PlayStation Network regions (including for Ukraine).
The star of «Shogun» Cosmo Jarvis will play in «Odyssey» Christopher Nolan
Cosmo Jarvis, who portrayed John Blackthorne in the new version of «Shogun», has joined the cast of Christopher Nolan’s «Odyssey», according to Deadline.
The movie «In the Lost Lands» got «everything Game of Thrones fans love», but the actors «feel pressure» from the success of the series
Milla Jovovich and Dave Batista star in the movie «In the Lost Lands», which is an adaptation of George Martin’s dark fantasy of the same name — but this work was not easy, primarily due to the success of the series «Game of Thrones».
The director of «Mad Max» has a ready-made script for a new part — probably a sequel «Fury Road»
The director of «Mad Max» George Miller has revealed in a new interview that he has a script ready for the next film in the Max Rockatansky franchise — although he is not sure if it will ever be made.
Rozetka has received a license from the NBU to open accounts for buyers and sellers — what will change in the marketplace?
The National Bank has issued a permit to open accounts for individuals and legal entities to RozetkaPay — a payment service operating in the Rozetka ecosystem.
Disney loses at the «Oscars» for the third year in a row — the longest losing streak for the studio
Previously, it was hard to imagine «Oscar» animation nominations without Disney’s creations — it won 4 times for Best Animated Feature and was nominated 13 times (excluding Pixar projects), but this year’s main film award ceremony marked the third consecutive year that the studio was ignored.
NASA shows the moment of breaking the sound barrier — in a special image of the XB-1 jet flight
Boom Supersonic and NASA published a special photo taken during the flight of the XB-1 jet aircraft, which demonstrates the moment of breaking the sound barrier.
Microsoft fixes «annoying» bug in Copilot that gave tips on how to activate pirated Windows 11
It turns out that to find tips on how to activate pirated Windows — you just need to ask Copilot, Microsoft’s main AI chatbot, about it.
The Severance series revealed the secret of Mark Scout's PC and the connection of «macro data processing» with other floors
The second season of Severance is on its way to completion, and it’s no surprise that the creators are gradually revealing the secrets of Lumon Industries.
Robert Downey Jr. turned down the role of the villain in «Odyssey» Christopher Nolan — and Marvel is to blame
Director Christopher Nolan has assembled a star-studded cast for film adaptations «Odyssey» Homer, but lost one key actor along the way, and who would you think is to blame — Marvel.
NYT: Elon Musk installed a gaming PC in the office of DOGE — the department that looks for inefficient employees in the US government
Why not play a couple of sessions of Diablo 4 between firing inefficient government employees, Elon Musk thought — and installed a gaming PC in his new DOGE office.
The leaked artwork for «Avengers: Doomsday» revealed key MCU characters who will join Robert Downey Jr.
Over the weekend, a bunch of conceptual images of the upcoming «Avengers» — movie appeared on the web, and, in addition to The return of Robert Downey Jr. in a new roleThey reveal some of the other key MCU characters that will appear in the upcoming Marvel crossover.
Sergey Brin: Google will be the first to launch «strong AI», but you need to work from offices — and at least 60 hours a week
Sergey Brin co-founded Google in the 1990s with Larry Page, but stepped down from the company in 2019 — however, the AI boom forced the businessman to return to the office, and now he believes that other employees should follow suit.
«Anora» triumphed at the Oscars 2025 — with five awards (including Best Picture) and Russians on the main stage
On the night of March 3, the 97th ceremony of the world’s main film award took place — «Oscar-2025», which was traditionally organized in the theater «Dolby», but this yearwith a new host, Conan O’Brien, who replaced Jimmy Kimmel.
AAA projects are declining because gamers don't have time — 66% spend less than 10 hours a week on games
The latest survey Midia Research shows that gamers have less and less time to play games, with two-thirds of PC and console players spending only about 10 hours a week.
Ukraine has launched the «Ukrenergo» — application for monitoring the state of the grid and electricity availability in the regions
The mobile application «Ukrenergo» has been launched in Ukraine to help users balance electricity consumption and receive information about the state of the grid in their region.
The Severance series launched a game with «macro data processing» in the browser — welcome to Lumon Industries!
Apple TV+ has created a browser game for fans of the series Severance — you need to sort mysterious numbers, just like in the series «Separated», employees of the macro data department at Lumon Industries.
The «Lord of the Rings» series has renewed its cast — The Windows from «Stranger Things» will play «new love» Galadriel
The third season of the «Lord of the Rings series is expected to start filming in the spring: The Rings of Power» will start in the spring, so announcements about the renewal of the cast are slowly appearing.
Microsoft launched Copilot for macOS and updated versions on iPhone / iPad
That day has come — and Microsoft has finally launched a native program Copilot for macOS.
Meta fired 20 employees for leaking information to the media — and promises to cut «even more» spies
On Thursday, Meta announced the dismissal of 20 employees, allegedly for disclosing confidential internal information to journalists.
OpenAI has launched GPT-4.5, but with limited access — because «GPUs are out»
OpenAI presented GPT-4.5 is the largest AI text chat model to date, which is currently available with limitations in a trial version, but will be made available to the public soon.
Christopher Nolan was supposed to direct «James Bond» instead of «Oppenheimer», but refused due to «disdain» of the producers
The rumors that Christopher Nolan was considered one of the main candidates to direct the next 007 movie are not new — but now there are interesting details about why he turned down the job.
A Disney employee accidentally «leaked» 1 TB of internal company data — through a free AI program downloaded from GitHub to his work PC
The leak included employee logins and passwords to various services, 44 million messages exchanged at work between different Disney departments, and some customer data.
Google Translate «upgraded» with artificial intelligence — with explanation of grammar, regional features and change of translation styles
Soon, Google Translate may receive new artificial intelligence features that will allow users to interact with translations and get additional context (cultural and regional, in particular).
Online S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 on Steam dropped by 90% in three months — the last maximum was reached by 12,448 players
At the release, the peak online S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 on Steam reached 121,335 people, while in recent weeks, only 12,448 people have registered the maximum, according to SteamDB.
The dark fantasy «In the Lost Lands» received a favorable review from George Martin: «Captured my voice better than other adaptations»
George Martin, the creator of «Game of Thrones», praised the fantasy adaptation «In the Lost Lands» —, at least according to the film’s director Paul Anderson.
The series «The Boys» will reunite the stars of «Supernatural» — Jared Padalecki and Misha Collins among the cast
The official Twitter account of the series The Boys posted a video with Jenson Ackles gathering the stars of «Supernatural» to work on the fifth season — Jared Padalecki and Misha Collins, among others.
The owner of GSC Game World and Navi heads the Ukrainian Esports Federation
Businessman, and among other things owner of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 developer GSC Game World and esports team Navi, Maksym Krippa has taken the position of president of the NGO «Ukrainian Esports Federation» (UESF), as first reported by the gaming publication Game Inside and confirmed the Ukrainian Forbes.
«Disintegrating before our eyes»: James Webb telescope finds two strange planets that catapult themselves into space
Astronomers have observed for the first time how two worlds outside the solar system eject their outer layers into space — and this data, collected James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)offer an «unprecedented» view of what distant planets hide in their insides (in fact, something that is beyond the reach of even the Earth).
OpenAI has started deploying GPT-4.5 for ChatGPT Pro subscribers, public release is expected in the coming days
ChatGPT Pro subscribers have started receiving offers to try out GPT-4.5 — a new and not yet officially presented OpenAI artificial intelligence model.
«House of the Dragon» will show an important thing» from George Martin's books in the third season that was missed by «Game of Thrones»
The first two seasons of House of the Dragon were generally successful for HBO, but they did not escape criticism from the creator of the original story, George Martin. He complained, among other things, that the showrunners got rid of important characters from the books too early, which may affect the structure of the extension — and it seems…
Tesla used Internet videos to teach self-driving technology to drive in China, — Elon Musk
On Tuesday, Tesla launched autonomous driving functions for some of its car models in China, but the decision did not please all drivers, primarily due to the limited nature of the program compared to the US version.
New life for «Star Wars»: Disney to retire Kathleen Kennedy, and Kevin Feige — one of the candidates for Lucasfilm CEO
According to reports Puck and Variety, Disney is considering a replacement for the head of Lucasfilm — Kathleen Kennedy may retire «this year, while several interesting and well-known candidates are applying for her position.
Adobe launches new Photoshop app for iPhone — free and with generative artificial intelligence
Adobe has launched a new Photoshop mobile app for iPhone (an Android version is promised later this year), which offers a bunch of artificial intelligence tools for designing and editing photos, or creating images from scratch.
James Gunn has planned «6 years on DCU» — with a final movie in the style of «Avengers» Marvel
James Gunn and Peter Szafran have revealed a six-year plan for the DCU — the rebooted DC Cinematic Universe that will begin with «Superman» and include a «big Avengers»-like event, reports Kotaku.
Developers spend only 16% of their working time on coding, the rest is spent on background and operational tasks
The latest analyst report IDC (via InfoWorld) shows that the vast majority of developers’ efforts in 2024 were spent on background and operational tasks, while coding took only 16% of the total working time.
Dark theme does not save devices' charge, but even discharges batteries faster, — researchers (yes, British)
Researchers have found that a dark theme for smartphones and laptops can drain their batteries faster than previously thought.
Anthropic introduced Claude 3.7 Sonnet — the first hybrid reasoning model and «the best AI for IT professionals»
Anthropic’s hybrid AI is distinguished by the fact that it combines the capabilities of standard and reasoning models — that is, it can provide both quick answers and detailed answers with step-by-step reasoning visible to the user (interestingly, the API even allows you to specify how many tokens the model can spend on reasoning).
«We Are at War»: Disney releases trailer for the second season of «Andor» and episode schedule
Disney has released the first teaser trailer for the second season of «Andor», a prequel to «Star Wars» starring Diego Luna.
«The best of three parts»: the first reactions to the «early» version of Avatar 3 — from James Cameron's friends
James Cameron showed an early version of «Avatar 3» (officially titled «Avatar: Fire and Ashes») to a few «select» people — and, according to the director, the first reactions were overwhelming.
The release of the movie «Spider-Man 4» has been postponed to a new date — and it's Christopher Nolan's fault
Sony and Marvel updated the premiere date of the fourth Spider-Man movie.
Women's version of «Peaky Blinders»: Stephen Knight's new series — drama «A Thousand Blows» about a gang of robbers and underground boxers
Steven Knight, the creator of «Peaky Blinders», has debuted a new series called A Thousand Blows — a drama based on real events that took place in Victorian London.
Microsoft allows you to connect external disks with a capacity of more than 16 TB to Xbox
Microsoft released an Xbox software update that will allow consoles to recognize external hard drives with huge capacity.
Sony closes PlayStation branch in Poland and outsources some tasks, — Polish media
Polish gaming sites reportthat Sony has begun the process of liquidating the local PlayStation branch.
Ticket sales for «Captain America: The Brave New World» fell by 68% in the second weekend — one of the biggest box office «collapses» Marvel
The new «Captain America» stalled at the box office and recorded a drop in domestic ticket sales of at least 68% — after a strong start of $100 million.
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