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My last term break was mostly spent rotting in bed and streaming film after film on Netflix with little to no breaks in between. Surely my overstimulated brain couldn’t maintain focus for long, and often I stared blankly at the screen with little attention to the plot. And then, it hit me: all these productions…

After a few leaks, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg finally revealed the company’s next-generation Meta VR Glasses at its Connect event tonight. Arriving in Spring 2027, they look like oversized sunglasses (similar to display frames from Xreal and other), paired with an external power and computing pod, like the Apple Vision Pro. The Meta VR Glasses…

The central image of Koreeda Hirokazu’s Look Back references its title in an unexpectedly literal sense. A young girl sits in her room at her desk, working by hand on manga illustrations. Later in the film, this same image repeats: the young woman seated at a kitchen counter; in a school classroom; then as an…

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The jump from Full High Definition (full HD) to Ultra High Definition (UHD) is truly enormous. In a 4K UHD display the number of pixels has been doubled on each axis of the grid, from 1920×1080 to 3840×2160. This means going from 2,073,600 pixels to 8,294,400 pixels, which quadruples the amount of fine detail that’s possible…