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Tales From the Loop: Amazon has turned Simon Stålenhag’s sci-fi art into a stunning TV series

By Kervyn Cloete
February 28, 2020
in :  Entertainment
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Some TV series may get referred to as art, but now we're getting a TV series based on art as Amazon will adapt Swedish artist Simon Stålenhag's eerie retro sci-fi digital landscape paintings into an intriguing new drama series.

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Auschwitz Memorial calls Hunters’ fictional Nazi atrocities “disrespectful and dangerous”

By Kervyn Cloete
February 25, 2020
in :  Entertainment
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Amazon's new Nazi hunter thriller series is pretty great, but it's drawn considerable controversy for a fictionalized event at Auschwitz concentration camp.

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The current winner of the streaming wars might not be who you think

By Craig Risi
February 14, 2020
in :  Entertainment
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We might look at the streaming wars as an epic battle for dominance, but the truth is that there is a clear winner and its's not even close.

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Sort the signal from the noise in Amazon’s sci-fi mystery The Vast of Night

By Trevor Davies
February 11, 2020
in :  Entertainment
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In the twilight of the 1950s, on one fateful night in New Mexico, a young, winsome switchboard operator Fay (Sierra McCormick) and charismatic radio DJ Everett (Jake Horowitz) discover a strange audio frequency that could change their small town and the future forever. Dropped phone calls, AM radio signals, secret reels of tape forgotten in a library, switchboards, crossed patchlines and an anonymous phone call lead Fay and Everett on a scavenger hunt toward the unknown.

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Xboss Phil Spencer says that Amazon and Google are their real competition in the upcoming cloud gaming war

By Darryn Bonthuys
February 6, 2020
in :  Gaming
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Microsoft is headed towards the cloud and while Nintendo and Sony will always be primary competition in the gaming space, they won’t be considered rivals to the Xbox brand in the decade to come.

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Technology

Amazon releases service to help brands build custom text-to-speech voices

By Craig Risi
February 5, 2020
in :  Technology
6

Alexa wants to enable other brands to use their text to speech software and create custom voices of their own.

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Amazon reveals Lord of the Rings prequel series cast; to start filming next month

By Craig Risi
January 15, 2020
in :  Entertainment
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Amazon has announced a rather epic cast list for their ambitious fantasy prequel series based on Lord of the Rings.

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Technology

Sonos is taking Google to court for stealing its smart speaker tech

By Geoffrey Tim
January 8, 2020
in :  Technology
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Speaker maker Sonos was one of the progenitors of the home wireless speaker. In 2013, they thought they’d won big when Google agreed to design its music streaming service, Google Play Music, to easily work with Sonos’ home speakers. In doing so, they handed the bluebrints for their speakers over to Google.

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