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Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead didn’t quite win over critics, but the genre-blending zombie heist movie has at least two attributes that make it stand out from other living-dead sagas: Gorgeously ambitious visual effects and a Tiger King connection. Part ensemble heist film, part action-horror adventure, Army of the Dead follows a group of mercenaries recruited…

The announcement of new iPad software at this year’s WWDC conference had an abnormally large expectation hung on it. The iPad lineup, especially the larger iPad Pro, has kept up an impressively frantic pace of hardware innovation over the past few years. In that same time frame, the software of the iPad, especially its ability…

China’s Zhurong Mars rover, captured by a wireless camera. CNSA The China National Space Administration (CNSA) has shared new images of its Zhurong rover on the surface of Mars. Zhurong, which has been on the martian surface since last month, is named after a traditional Chinese fire god to match the Chinese name for Mars,…

NASA For the first time, NASA will send a probe to the far side of the moon. Before sending humans back to the moon under its Artemis program, the agency plans to send three payloads to be delivered to the moon to investigate more about our planet’s satellite. The program, called Payloads and Research Investigations…

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly ProWellTech series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android devices…

I’ve always been a full-keyboard kind of guy. Not to the point of using macros, but I’ve been religious about the full 104-key layout with a numpad, in hindsight, out of a purist’s mentality. But I’ve now been reviewing keyboards for the better part of a year, and I’m starting to doubt my faith. You…

Ah, the bidet. No longer the mainstay of European bathrooms, they’ve made their way into our homes in the U.S. — and we’re so glad they did! The toilet paper shortage at the start of the pandemic may have prompted bidet adoption in 2020, but sales of this item had been on the rise prior…

The Dark Souls series and other Souls-like games, such as Bloodborne and Sekiro, are constantly praised by fans for the way narrative is hidden throughout the worlds. Hidden is the key word here; players can go through an entire Souls game without ever really understanding its story. For the most part, the mythology is largely…