Year: 2021

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds officially beings production

StarTrek.com has announced that its newest shows Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, has begun production.

The below is part of the actual article which appears on StarTrek.com:

Paramount+, the new streaming service from ViacomCBS, today announced five new cast members joined the upcoming Original Series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Babs Olusanmokun (Black Mirror, Dune), Christina Chong (Tom and Jerry, Black Mirror), Celia Rose Gooding (Jagged Little Pill), Jess Bush (Skinford, Les Norton), and Melissa Navia (Dietland, Billions) will join as series regulars. A teaser video featuring the series’ cast was also released today, announcing that production on the series is officially underway in Toronto, Canada. 

“In a career, there is never enough work that is pure joy. I feel that my friend Alex Kurtzman along with David Stapf at CBS Studios and Julie McNamara at Paramount+ have given me just that by letting me haunt the stock rooms of my favorite candy store and I am grateful,” said Akiva Goldsman, co-showrunner and executive producer of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. “With a hell of a cast and undying love for The Original Series, we boldly go.”

"Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" follow the adventures of Captain Christopher Pike of the U.S.S. Enterprise before Captain Kirk took over the helm after Captain Pike got seriously hurt during an away mission.

No release date has been announced.

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HBO Max coming with a cheaper, ad-supported option in June, 2021

HBO Max will launch a cheaper, ad-supported tier of its U.S. streaming service in June, adding commercials to its programming in exchange for a discount to its now $15-a-month subscription price.

Parent company AT&T didn’t specify the price for the new HBO Max membership level, but it may clarify how much it costs during an investor presentation later Friday.

But the ad-supported version of HBO Max won’t let you stream any of the newest Warner Bros. movies like The Suicide Squad, Dune, and The Matrix 4, which Max is making available at home the same day those movies hit theaters. Only subscribers to its ad-free tier can watch those.

The newer, cheaper tier also won’t splice commercials inside the original HBO programming that has never run with advertising on one of HBO’s own platforms before, according to Jason Kilar, the CEO of AT&T’s WarnerMedia unit that operates HBO Max. Kilar, however, didn’t discuss whether commercials could run before original HBO programming, what is know[n as] preroll advertising.

Via: C|Net

Rumor: iPhone 13 to introduce Touch ID under the display

In a research note shared with MacRumors today, the analysts added that iPhone 13 models will feature a smaller notch and that the LiDAR Scanner will remain limited to iPhone 13 Pro models this year… Here’s the excerpt from the research note, with emphasis added:

For the coming iPhone 13 cycle in 2H21, we foresee a more tightly integrated version of the existing structured light system, which will enable the long awaited reduction in the notch. On the rear, we do not anticipate Apple to broaden the adoption of the Lidar 3D sensor beyond the Pro models.

For the 2H22 product cycle, we anticipate an architectural shift from structured light to time-of-flight, allowing for an even smaller footprint. Based on our industry conversations, we do not think structured light beneath the screen is likely to be ready for mass deployment in 2H22. We also view the adoption of fingerprint-under-glass, that likely is added in the 2H21 iPhones, as a structural headwind for additional 3D sensing content at Apple and could be the security feature of the future.

Via: MacRumors.com

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