Ozone Nightmare

Today on the 5: The most recent Monsterverse film Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire recently hit digital release, but I somehow missed it up until this weekend. I jumped on it as soon as I realized I c…

Today on the 5: You may have seen some news items about a possible mass exodus by creatives from Instagram to the relatively new Cara platform. Whether that number is real or not, I'm not sure these …

Today on the 5: Only a day after I talked about Zoom's plan for virtual meeting attendees, Vox posted an article talking about an artist named FKA Twigs working on her own deepfake avatar. Those two …

1200Today on the 5: Spotify CEO Daniel Ek recently made some statements that angered a lot of musicians. While nothing that was sauid really surprises me coming fronm a company that is not exactly be…

Today on the 5: The CEO of Zoom thinks in the next few years we'll all be able to skip meetings by sending a "personal LLM" to attend for us. While I'm certainly pleased a major CEO is tacitly acknow…

Today on the 5: I came across a movie that looked like something from a slice of time that no longer exists. The video is called Oblivion 2 Backlash, and it's an adorably fun example of what you'd se…

Today on the 5: Between terrible internally created ads and wonderful externally crafted creations, I've had a real desire to see the old Apple come back in some way. Remember when their products had…

Today on the 5: Microsoft recently held a Surface and Windows event where they made a bunch of hardware and software accnoiuncments. One of the most highly discussed news items from that event is Re…

Today on the 5: I've been waiting for Love Lies Bleeding to hit VOD and it finally did, so I watched it over the weekend. I had seen comparisons of the film to Bound, which makes a lot of sense but s…

Today on the 5: Amazon is reportedly getting set to unveil an upgraded version of the Alexa voice assistant. Just like everything else on the planet, this new version will be augmented by AI. Most in…

Today on the 5: After seeing a lot of good reviews for the Sony INZONE Buds, I kept an eye out for a good deal on them and when one came up I grabbed them. So far, a lot of my time with the INZONE Bu…

Today on the 5: News and discussion about AI is basically inescapable right now, and it often ends being awed anticipation or fiery fearmongering. No matter which side of the fence you end up on in r…

Today on the 5: Listening to the John McTiernan series that the podcast Blank Check recently did reminded me that I had never seen the 1986 film Nomads. Luckily, it's easy to see for free pretty much…

Today on the 5: Mars Express has been on my radar for a while now, and I finally got a chance to see it. While I wouldn't draw the same comparisons a lot of reviews have, I would absolutely agree tha…

Today on the 5: Thanks to Andy Last over at Beyond Synth, I was reminded that a cartoon had been made based on the movie Beetlejuice. I picked up the complete run on DVD and have been watching it. It…

Today on the 5: In the last few days both OpenAI and Google have made major announcements about their generative models. They both spent a lot of time demonstrating uses of their products that are cl…