Netflix will stop reporting the number of subscribers — from April 2025
Netflix published report for the first quarter, and the most interesting thing about it is that profits grew very significantly, largely due to the successful fight against password sharing and advertising rates.
Trap — Warner Bros. reveal trailer for M. Night Shyamalan’s psychological thriller with Josh Hartnett
Warner Bros. Pictures Ukraine has released the first trailer for M. Night Shyamalan’s new film Trap — psychological thriller starring Josh Hartnett as… a serial killer. From an outstanding physicist in Christopher Nolan’s «Oppenheimer» to a maniac, quite a transformation.
Henry returns. Kingdom Come announcement, trailer, and details: Deliverance II — release in 2024
The big premiere took place: after a teaser with a release window leaked by IGN journalists in the morning, Warhorse announced its new game, which turned out to be Kingdom Come: Deliverance II (What a surprise!). Yes, we welcome all fans of the original «kami» 2018, which finally got a sequel. According to its announcement, the game should be…
The new Toyota Camry is available exclusively as a hybrid — the ICE-only version is no longer available. The grille? In place!
The price of the newest Toyota Camry 2025 sedan in the United States starts at $29.5 thousand.
Again? Again! Seven Waymo robocars blocked traffic on one of San Francisco’s highways
Fully self-driving cars continue to fight traffic cones — a new curiosity occurred with a motorcade of seven Waymo drones that temporarily blocked traffic on the San Francisco highway exit.
Google has allocated 700 thousand euros to Ukraine to study the basics of artificial intelligence
In February, Google released Gemma open-source language models and at the same time launched a special educational fund worth 25 million euros to teach Europeans about this very artificial intelligence. And now the program has become available for Ukraine.
Quentin Tarantino suddenly changed his mind about «Film Critic» and is looking for a new idea for his last 10th film
We expected to see Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt у «Movie Critic» / The Movie Critic, the last 10th movie of the famous Quentin Tarantino? Forget it. The director of «Pulp Fiction» and other cinematic masterpieces suddenly dropped the project and is now looking for something else for his 10th film, which is supposed to be his last feature,…
🤖Atlas is dead, long live Atlas! Boston Dynamics unveils a new generation of humanoid robot
Boston Dynamics is very original introduced The new generation of the bipedal robot Atlas — all-electric (without any hydraulics), much faster, more flexible, more agile, and even more terrifying. Together with Robops Spot and a robot manipulator Stretch he will be engaged in solving «the most complex problems in industry».
🚙🔋Volkswagen follows Tesla — Chinese electric architecture CEA will reduce the cost of future electric vehicles by another 40%
Volkswagen together with Chinese Xpeng developed a new architecture for CEA electric vehicles that will further reduce the cost of future all-electric battery-powered models.
Video interview with Durov conducted by Carlson: on maintaining Telegram’s neutrality, FBI pressure, Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg
Last night we got it the same interview with Telegram founder Pavel Durov, which was taken by the famous propagandist Tucker Carlson. As expected — this is a continuous stream of Telegram self-promotion and of course «heroic struggle» Elon Musk Durov for freedom of speech and secrecy of correspondence. In this post, we present…
GTA VI publisher — Take-Two — fires 5% of employees and cancels games
The meme is funny, the situation is scary.
XDefiant — the first Ubisoft game with official Ukrainian localization
Well, Ubisoft, good start, and we are looking forward to Ukrainian in future Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry games.
Free mod editor for «The Witcher 3» from CDPR — Steam page and sign up for testing
The free mod editor for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt / «The Witcher 3: Wild Goose», which CDPR announced at the end of last year, is nearing release — Steam has a page The Witcher 3 REDkit (that’s the name of the toolkit) and started signing up for a two-week Playtest, which will take place from April 16 to 30.
🤡Durov gave an interview to Tucker Carlson, who now also has a Telegram channel
Telegram founder Pavel Durov announced a new interview with Tucker Carlson, the same American pro-Russian propagandist who recently interviewed Putin for Elon Musk’s Twitter account X. And before that, the propagandist, who was kicked out of Fox News, repeatedly claimed that the genocide in Bucha was an orchestrated attack and blamed Ukraine…
Keanu Reeves in Sonic the Hedgehog 3 — Cyberpunk 2077 star gave voice to black hedgehog Shadow
The news is one line, but what a news: Keanu Reeves has suddenly joined the cast of the hotly anticipated third film about the super-fast hedgehog Sonic the Hedgehog 3 — the adaptation of the famous SEGA platformer series.
Elon Musk continues to fight bots: X\Twitter to introduce paid subscription for new accounts
Well political advertising on X/Twitter was not enoughand we really need the money, so previously announced Elon Musk «a small fee» for new users is introduced to the general public.
Tesla will lay off about 14 thousand employees — 10% of the total staff
At the beginning of the month, Tesla for the first time in four years reported about falling sales of electric vehicles, and now the market leader is preparing to lay off at least 14,000 employees, —10% of the total staff (140,473) by early 2024. About this write Electrek and Reuters, who received a copy of an internal letter of instruction sent…
20 times is not the limit. SpaceX updates Falcon 9 reusability record
Do you still remember the famous SpaceX skeptic meme «then we’ll talk»?
iOS 18 will get local AI. Apple’s big language model does without cloud computing
A starter set of new artificial intelligence features (read: new Siri) that Apple plans to add to iOS 18will not rely on cloud servers at all, reports Mark Gurman in the latest Power On digest for Bloomberg.
During the first quarter, Ukrainians bought 75% more cars from China, most of them — Volkswagen ID.4
Chinese-made electric vehicles continue to reshape the landscape of the Ukrainian automotive and electric market — you can see for yourself by looking at the latest statistics of Ukravtoprom regarding the most popular models in the first quarter of 2014.
Baldur’s Gate 3 is the first game in history to win all five major GOTY awards
Baldur’s Gate 3 is not just a winner BAFTA Games Awards 2024 (five awards along with the main GOTY), but also the first game in history to collect all the major «Game of the Year» awards in the industry, drew attention to GamesRadar.
«Nova Energia» — NOVA («Nova Poshta») entered the electricity generation market
NOVA (the parent holding «Nova Poshta») is expanding and entering the electricity generation market — a separate company «Nova Energia» was created for this purpose. About creating a new business saidVolodymyr Popereshnyuk, co-founder of the group, on his Facebook page.
The creators of Kingdom Come: Deliverance creators announced the next game’s screening in a week — April 18
Fans of Kingdom Come: Deliverance fans have finally waited for the sequel.
«Dark Matter» / Dark Matter — first trailer of Apple’s sci-fi series about parallel worlds with Jennifer Connelly
Apple has released the first trailer for the sci-fi series «Dark Matter based on the 2016 novel by American science fiction writer Blake Crouch, starring Joel Edgerton and Jennifer Connelly. Crouch himself is the showrunner of the series.
«Most likely not, but it’s not certain»: Todd Howard on the adaptation of The Elder Scrolls and other Bethesda games
Today, Amazon Prime Video has a big and hotly anticipated premiere — the first season of the Fallout series has been released in full (8 episodes) with Ukrainian subtitles. After the premiere in Hollywood, the series producer and Bethesda game director Todd Howard said IGN editor, how high are the chances of the studio’s adaptation of The…
Charismatic Emma Stone and her incendiary dances. New teaser of the anthology Kinds of Kindness / «Varieties of Kindness» by Yorgos Lanthimos
Kinds of Kindness / «Varieties of Kindness», the next film by Yorgos Lanthimos with Emma Stone, has been selected for the main competition program at the Cannes Film Festival.
Rakuten Viber announces AI feature based on ChatGPT that creates a chat summary
The most popular messenger in Ukraine, Rakuten Viber, has announced the launch of a new feature «Chat Summary», which will provide a summary of unread messages in a group chat (whether parental or home) on demand. It works on based on ChatGPT technology and now is being tested among 10% of iOS and Android users in Ukraine, the USA, Japan,…
Telegram achieved a positive cash flow in the first quarter and expects to turn a profit this year
Telegram is actively adding new users and may become a billionaire by the end of the year.
The official Cyberpunk 2077 mod for Opera GX is out
Opera GX developers have teamed up with CD Projekt Red to create a full-fledged theme for browser users in the style of the sensational hit Cyberpunk 2077. Spoiler alert: it turned out to be as authentic and atmospheric as possible.
Suddenly, BMW’s electric car sales have risen sharply amid a decline in Tesla and Volkswagen
BMW AG sharply increased sales of all-electric cars last quarter, a rather unexpected success for a German brand that has a peculiar reputation in Ukraine, especially in sharp contrast to the less optimistic results of Tesla and Volkswagen.
UA Drone ID — drone recognition technology («own — foreign») for the DELTA battle management system
UA DroneID technology will enhance the situational awareness system DELTA This will help prevent friendly fire on drones and better analyze their use against enemy targets.
Beeper, the multimessenger that Apple desperately fought for, has been acquired by Automattic (WordPress and Tumblr)
We haven’t forgotten yet Beeper — the same multimessenger that iMessage launched on Android, which upset Apple, so it acquired Automattic, which owns WordPress, Tumblr, Simplenote, and other services.
Heavy rocket Delta IV Heavy takes off for the last time — it has been in use for 20 years
On the evening of April 9, Delta IV Heavy completed its last mission and ended its 20-year flight career as the ULA heavy launch vehicle launched a classified military satellite for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office.
After the earthquake in Taiwan, memory manufacturers stopped publishing contract prices — Will SSDs and RAMs rise even more?
Recently, the DRAM and NAND memory markets have seen a disappointing upward trend in prices for consumers, which is already directly affecting the price of end devices (SSDs and RAM for mobile gadgets and computers). It is likely that this trend will only intensify in the future.
The global PC and laptop market has returned to growth after a two-year decline. The leader is still Lenovo
PC market, as expectedlast quarter returned to growth after a two-year decline, as evidenced by reports from leading analytical agencies IDC and Canalys: in the first quarter of 2024, about 60 million computers were sold worldwide (1.5% more than a year ago).
Anton Ptushkin’s film grossed UAH 2.3 million during its debut weekend — a new record for documentary cinema
Anton Ptushkin’s film «We, Our Pets and the War» earned UAH 2.3 million in its first weekend at the national box office and became an absolute record holder among documentaries. About the opening weekend said Veronika Yasinska, CEO of the distribution company Green Light Films, tells Ukrainian Forbes.
Musk predicted the emergence of an AGI smarter than the smartest person in two years and called Chinese automakers «the most competitive»
At the end of 2023, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang predictedthat artificial intelligence will be able to compete with humans in 5 years. And now Elon Musk, known for his «very accurate predictions» has shared his own assessment — the owner of Tesla and SpaceX expects a full-fledged AGIsmarter than the smartest person next year or by 2026 at the…
Gigabyte Aorus 16X and G6X — 16-inch gaming laptops with AI starting at UAH 53 thousand launched in Ukraine
Gigabyte Ukraine has announced the launch of G6X and Aorus 16X gaming laptops — these are 16-inch modifications of the 2024 model year that boast not only modern «hardware» but also AI Nexus and AI Boost software optimizations based on artificial intelligence.
Floppy disks are not giving up. In San Francisco, trains are run on a floppy disk system that should last at least another 10 years
In San Francisco, in the heart of Silicon Valley, the public has been really alarmed by an automated train control system that runs on floppy disks (yes, those floppy disks). The head of the local transportation company added fuel to the fire with his fears of a «catastrophic error» risk, as the system had already served its purpose and was not…
Last year, Rakuten Viber blocked almost 40 thousand fraudsters and spammers in Ukraine — against 130 thousand in 2022
The Japanese company Rakuten (owner of Viber) has reported on counteracting phone fraudsters and spammers in Ukraine for 2022-2023.
Gurman: New iPad Pro and iPad Air launch on a week, starting May 6. Prices for Pro likely to rise
Apple has tentatively scheduled the release of the new iPad Pro and iPad Air during the week of May 6 — timeline clarified Mark Gurman in the latest weekly Power On digest for Bloomberg.
Nova Post has canceled payment for parcel forwarding throughout Ukraine (except for courier delivery)
«Nova Post» made free forwarding of parcels in transit throughout Ukraine — previously the service was provided free of charge only within the city limits.
Construction of the 3.2 gigapixel digital camera for the LSST telescope — the largest in human history is completed
Specialists of the National Accelerator Laboratory SLAC noted a historic event lasting more than two decades — the completion of the construction and testing of the 3.2 gigapixel (!) digital camera LSST. This is the largest camera ever created, and it will operate on the future Simonyi Survey Telescope at Rubin Observatory (named after the…
Tesla has reported a drop in electric vehicle sales for the first time in history. BYD’s sales fell by almost 1.5 times
And once again, we return to our favorite section Tesla vs BYD electric cars, and discuss the new report on Tesla’s car sales, which in the next round won a confident victory over BYD after the first knockdown in the last quarter of 2023. But there’s a caveat: for the first time in the history of Elon Musk’s company, sales have…
The end of an era: Jim Ryan resigns as CEO of PlayStation, no longer working for Sony
Ryan has been leading the PlayStation gaming business since February 2019 and has worked at Sony for 30 years in total (his career began a year before the first PlayStation console was released). The division is now led by Hiroki Totoki, Sony’s current CFO and COO, who has additionally and temporarily assumed the role of PlayStation chief…
Telegram has launched a channel monetization program, but it does not work in Ukraine
The authors will be paid in Toncoin, but not in Ukraine.
«The Witcher 4» / The Witcher 4 is already at the pre-production stage — more than 60% (400 people) of the CD Projekt team are involved in the game
The Witcher 4 is gradually approaching its release — CD Projekt yesterday reported for 2023, which was the second best year in the history of the famous Polish video game developer.
«Kyivstar» raises prices — from April 9, the monthly fee for 20+ subscription tariffs will increase by an average of 30%
«Kyivstar» announced new wave updating of tariffs, which will also affect subscriptions — this time, the terms and conditions of those that have not been updated since last year and earlier will be revised. The new terms and conditions for more than 20 tariffs will come into effect on April 9.
Embracer to sell Gearbox (Borderlands) to Take-Two (owners of Rockstar and 2K) for $460 million
Embracer continues to sell off assets — Swedish gaming holding company has just confirmed sale of The Gearbox Entertainment studio to Take-Two Interactive. The amount is — $460 million and will be paid in newly issued Take-Two shares.
Joel Schrödinger — Helldivers 2 players spotted a cheat trail in a recent viral APC video
Do you remember Joel — the master of Helldivers 2, capable of influencing the course of the intergalactic struggle for democracy? Recently, a rather curious situation happened to the players of the sensational cooperative action game.