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Netflix sparked a bit of an outcry last week when the streaming giant cancelled One Day at a Time , a Netflix original family comedy inspired by the old Norman Lear series of the same name. The cancellation led Netflix to issue a rare explanation on social media, which this Facebook post from the company noting: "The choice did not come easily -- we spent several weeks trying to find a way to m...

It's been an interesting and unusually busy week thus far for Apple. In the span of a few days, Apple unveiled a brand new iPad Air and iPad Mini along with a revamped iMac lineup. What's more, there are now rumblings that Apple may release a refreshed iPod Touch later in the week. With Apple seemingly on a hardware release binge, there's a good chance the company is getting some of its relativ...

Many of NASA's satellites spend their entire lives pointed deep into the cosmos, but the space agency also had plenty of lenses pointed back down towards Earth. NASA tracks all kinds of things that happen here on our planet, including weather systems and natural disasters like the record-setting floods currently taking place in Nebraska. In a new series of images , NASA's Landsat 8 satellite sh...

Firefox's latest release aims to fix one of the most annoying things about surfing around the web -- videos with sound that autoplay when you load a new page, which can now be blocked in Firefox 66 along with slow-loading images and ads that interrupt the page-loading experience. Today's release includes a host of other minor new features, but it's the video-blocking that's arguably the most he...

One of the best-selling video game series of all time is finally making its way to mobile devices. On Monday, Activision announced that it is teaming up with Chinese game publisher Tencent to bring Call of Duty: Mobile to the West. Made by Tencent's Timi studio, the free-to-play game draws on maps, modes, weapons, and characters from the history of the franchise, including the Black Ops and the...

Most people play video games for their entertainment value or simply to kill a bit of time, but games have also proven useful in a variety of medical contexts. Customized interactive digital experiences have helped patients battle symptoms of PTSD and even train doctors to be better at their jobs . Now, researchers from Northwestern Medicine have developed a retro-styled arcade game designed sp...

Most of our readers probably realize by now that spending $50 per bulb on pricey big-brand smart LED lights isn’t necessary to put together an awesome and versatile smart lighting setup. In fact, you don’t need to spend anywhere near that much. There are plenty of great options out there, but there’s one in particular that you should check out. It’s called the MagicConnect Bluetooth Mesh Multic...

Apple on Monday announced a couple of new iPad models -- the 2019 iPad Air and iPad mini -- with prices starting at $499 and $399, respectively. Both devices share the same set of specs, and both of them are almost as powerful as the 2018 iPad Pro — the new tablets have the iPhone XS’s A12 Bionic chip inside, rather than the A12X flavor that goes into the Pros. That makes them great alternative...

Bond fans -- this is going to be a tough pill to swallow. Netflix is dumping not one, not two, but eleven James Bond movies next month, including Casino Royale , Goldfinger , and The Spy Who Loved Me . If you're looking to get your spy fix in, you'll need to do it before April, because they're all being removed on the 1st. Netflix will also be losing the entire Star Wars: The Clone Wars animate...

We can’t see the future, but there’s one thing we can guarantee: there will never come a time when iPhones will have microSD card slots. Not. Ever. Apple makes a ton of money by forcing its customers to buy more expensive iPhones if they want extra storage, and there’s no way the company will ever leave all that money on the table by supporting expandable memory. There is a way to use memory ca...