Synth historian Oli Freke will spend big on a good bicycle
Synth historian Oli Freke will spend big on a good bicycle

Oli Freke is a musician and journalist whose works have appeared in Sound on Sound, The Quietus, and Mixmag. This has included using math to explore the melodic potential of the Western 12-tone scale and deep dives on effects plug-ins. He’s even written a book tracing the evolution of the synthesizer from 1963 through 1995, […]

This Week In Space podcast: Episode 220 — First on Mars
This Week In Space podcast: Episode 220 — First on Mars

On Episode 220 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik are joined by Dr. Pascal Lee and astrobiologist Dr. Penny Boston to mark the 50th anniversary of Viking 1’s landing on Mars.

Warner Bros. is suing Amazon for poaching employees
Warner Bros. is suing Amazon for poaching employees

Warner Bros. Discovery has filed suit against Amazon, accusing it of illegally poaching employees, including Pia Barlow, former senior VP for originals marketing. In the complaint, Warner says that “Amazon has chosen to ride on the coattails of other well-established Hollywood mainstays,” and that it engaged in a “lawless employee shopping spree.” Deadline reports that […]

What Surrounds Us will make you think a lot about circles
What Surrounds Us will make you think a lot about circles

What Surrounds Us takes its title literally. You play as a circle surrounding a hole in its middle – it looks like a donut with frosting. You work together with other sentient moving circles, sometimes helping them joyfully meet with others. And you traverse a large map that’s composed entirely of, you guessed it, a […]

3 underrated Apple TV shows you should watch this weekend (July 24-26)

Three acclaimed but overlooked Apple TV series headline this weekend’s watchlist, spanning a multiverse sci-fi thriller, a family drama, and a true-crime miniseries.

3 underrated movies on Apple TV you should watch this weekend (July 24-26)

This weekend we have three hidden gems on Apple TV prove some of the platform’s best work still flies under the radar.

Roku raises streaming hardware prices by up to $50
Roku raises streaming hardware prices by up to $50

Roku has increased prices across its streaming hardware, with the cheapest HD Streaming Stick now priced at $39.99 instead of $29.99, as first reported by The Desk. The price hike affects all of Roku’s other devices as well, with some increasing by as much as $50. Here’s a rundown of the changes: Roku is currently […]

We boldly chat with ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ showrunners about space dinosaurs and Lovecraftian horrors for season 4 (interview)
We boldly chat with ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ showrunners about space dinosaurs and Lovecraftian horrors for season 4 (interview)

‘The minute we started talking about doing dinosaurs, we were like, ‘Yeah, let’s figure out a way to do that.”

Blade Runner 2099’s moody dystopia streams on Amazon in November
Blade Runner 2099’s moody dystopia streams on Amazon in November

After teasing the series with some first-look images yesterday, Amazon is finally properly unveiling its Blade Runner streaming series. Called Blade Runner 2099, the show hits Prime Video on November 25th with all eight episodes dropping at once. We also got the first trailer for the series, which is full of Blade Runner staples: a […]