Producer: Live-Action Evangelion Project Still Active

Halo Legends/Ex Machina‘s Joseph Chou: film may ‘start moving even next year’ Ohayocon attendee Chris Adkins has been in touch to inform us that the studio discussions and fight for final rights of the Evangelion adaptation properties are in the midst of taking place, with everything still going ahead given the success of that other […]

Apple Releases iPhone OS 3.1.3

Apple today released a minor update for the iPhone and iPod touch. The update which weighs in around the upper 200MB mark depending on device seems to deliver just bug fixes according to the attached release notes. iPhone OS 3.1.2 Software Update This update for iPhone and iPod touch contains bug fixes and improvements, including […]

Friday Discussion: End of the Star Wars License

Well, it looks like after a good run, Wizards of the Coast will not be renewing the Star Wars license with Lucasfilm. Both the minis and RPG lines will go away, with the license officially ending this May. The license has been interesting for WotC at times, with limits imposed on print production of RPG […]

How a stray mouse click choked the NYSE & cost a bank $150K

The term comes from the idea of a clumsy, ‘fat-fingered’ typist, who presses extra keys without being aware of it. As the practice of high-frequency trading continues to become more widespread, concerns are growing that erroneous trades carried out by ‘algos gone wild’—a sort of digitally amplified version of the ‘fat finger’ phenomenon—could cause a […]

Valve might need a few Macintosh and Linux engineers

It seems as if Half-Life and Left 4 Dead developer Valve is looking for a few good men to engineer things for Linux and Macintosh. Several sleuth sites, as well as more than a share of Mac-focused sites, have been reporting on a rogue sentence not-so-tucked-away in Valve’s Chris Green’s LinkedIn profile, indicating that the […]

Rex on hold for present.

Entertainment Weekly is reporting that NBC have put David Tennant’s US pilot Rex is Not Your Lawyer on hold. There were reports that it was under consideration to fill a 10pm slot this spring, to help fill the space on the network caused by moving the Jay Leno show out of primetime. However it now […]