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Filming for Need for Speed movie begins in Macon, Georgia

Filming for Need for Speed movie begins in Macon, Georgia
  • Posted May 13, 2013, 3:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News, Gaming
  • Filming for the screen adaptation of Electronic Arts’ Need for Speed franchise has begun in an unlikely location: Macon, Georgia. A local car wash in the southern city is being used as the backdrop for at least a portion of…

Gabe Newell and J.J. Abrams to collaborate on Half-Life or Portal film

Gabe Newell and J.J. Abrams to collaborate on Half-Life or Portal film
  • Posted February 7, 2013, 9:00 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
  • Valve CEO Gabe Newell and director / producer J.J. Abrams recently found themselves sitting aside one another during the keynote at the 2013 DICE Summit. What started out as a casual chat about storytelling in video games and friendly critique…

Hulu's redesigned website makes it easier to find content

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  • Posted August 22, 2012, 2:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News, The Web
  • Hulu has introduced a new website layout with an emphasis on locating and launching your favorite shows as quickly as possible. The redesigned site began rolling out to customers last night and was detailed in a recent blog post by…

Netflix announces its own content delivery network, Open Connect

Netflix announces its own content delivery network, Open Connect
  • Posted June 6, 2012, 8:30 AM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in The Web
  • As the largest single source of traffic on fixed networks in North America, Netflix accounted for 32.9% of peak hour downstream traffic in the first half of 2012. Netflix says that works out to nearly a billion hours of TV shows and movies streamed per month, and all of those videos are served via...

Tuesday tech deals: 40" TV $380 + deals on Blu-ray player and movies

Tuesday tech deals: 40" TV $380 + deals on Blu-ray player and movies
  • Posted May 22, 2012, 2:00 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Tech Deals
  • TigerDirect offers the Toshiba 40" 1080p HDTV for $449.99. This $70 mail-in rebate cuts it to $379.99. With free shipping, that's $9 under a deal from April and the lowest total price we could find by $39. It's also tied as the best shipped price we've ever seen for a Toshiba 40" HDTV...

Netflix revamps Web-based video player with new look, features

Netflix revamps Web-based video player with new look, features
  • Posted May 17, 2012, 8:30 AM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in The Web
  • Netflix has updated its Web-based video player, tweaking the look of existing controls and adding a few new ones. You'll notice that the interface is streamlined with all of the controls on a single line, whereas the previous interface was more disjointed with buttons scattered across two lines...

Ashton Kutcher to portray Steve Jobs in upcoming indie film

Ashton Kutcher to portray Steve Jobs in upcoming indie film
  • Posted April 2, 2012, 11:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Apple
  • Ashton Kutcher will portray Apple co-founder Steve Jobs in an upcoming film titled “Jobs.” The movie will begin filming in May during a break from Kutcher’s role in “Two and a Half Men” following Charlie Sheen’s public departure last year. …

Weekend Open Forum: Have you met anyone famous?

Weekend Open Forum: Have you met anyone famous?
  • Posted November 25, 2011, 11:02 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in WOF
  • Facebook and the University of Milan conducted a study earlier this year to determine the validity of the “six degrees of separation” concept – that each person on the planet is only six steps away, by way of introduction, from…

Mortal Kombat reboot confirmed, coming to theaters in 2013

Mortal Kombat reboot confirmed, coming to theaters in 2013
  • Posted September 30, 2011, 2:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in The Web, Gaming With Video
  • Mortal Kombat will be heading back to theaters in a big way thanks to a fan-made short film in 2010 called Mortal Kombat: Rebirth. The new movie based on the popular tournament-based fighting franchise is scheduled for a 2013 release…

Movie theaters to use emotion-detecting anti-piracy cameras

Movie theaters to use emotion-detecting anti-piracy cameras
  • Posted November 3, 2010, 4:25 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Industry News
  • We often see reports of invasive security measures at airports, but TorrentFreak warns that movie theaters are increasingly guilty of trampling your privacy. Theaters already use metal detectors, night-vision goggles, as well as bag and body searches to catch camcording…

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