Welcome to 2025. Say goodbye to yesteryear with the biggest losers in technology. Casting our favorite villains in 2024 was a challenge when it simply wasn't a good time for technology. With the depressing spiral that is social media, the dance of will they or won't they ban TikTok in the US, and the endless edited and faked content, it's so loud. Is it the Internet of garbage? Is it exhaustion? Are AIs talking to AIs about AIs? Among all that, there's the obsolescence of connectors of the past, Intel's major struggles to change its fortunes, and, ugh, those ai assistants.
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Tintin dancing Rhapsody in Blue.
It's the start of a new year and a new crop of creative works have entered the public domain. Today, many materials copyrighted in 1929 and sound recordings from 1924 become fair game to adapt, reuse, copy and share freely. Several prominent directors released their first projects with sound, such as Alfred Hitchcock. Blackmail and Cecil B. DeMille Dynamite. 1929 was also the year that Walt Disney directed the iconic short Skeleton Dance animated by Ub Iwerks, as well as when Mickey Mouse starred in his first talking film.
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Two games from a decade ago and a critical failure.
Sony has just revealed the first set of PlayStation Plus games in 2025 available to all subscribers. This month includes Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, Need for Speed Hot Pursuit Remastered and Stanley's Parable: Ultra Deluxe. suicide squad is a surprising addition: it suffered multiple delays, received largely negative reviews, and reportedly cost Warner Bros. an estimated $200 million. The developers announced that the current season of content would be the last, although there are no plans to close the game just yet. So play while you can…can you?
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