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The Last of Us | Image: HBO Along with the occasionally-glitchy premiere of House of the Dragon , HBO presented a teaser trailer of content its new owner hasn’t abruptly shelved that provided the first in-motion look of Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey playing Joel and Ellie, respectively, in its upcoming The Last of Us TV show. Neil Druckmann — the writer and creative director of both The Last of Us games — is an executive producer of the show, and tweeted , “You ain’t seen nothing yet.” Other content in the preview came from The Idol, Love and Death, Succession, The White Lotus, And Just Like That, Hacks, The White House Plumbers, Our Flag Means Death , but the Naughty Dog-made PlayStation franchise’s live-action TV debut is the one we’re interested in the most. In the... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/2bmYL85

Besides unreleased and disappearing content, there have been plenty of complaints about the HBO Max streaming apps since they launched. Still, they’ve generally held up well under the stress of premieres for content like Tenet, Wonder Woman, The Matrix , or Westworld , but for HBO there may not be anything like a Game of Thrones premiere. Tonight’s debut of the show’s spinoff, House of the Dragon , is the first taste of a new GOT experience inside HBO Max, and while many people trying to stream the premiere episode are watching without a problem, others said the app crashed on them, or froze up once it got past the pre-show teaser trailer. Based on reports seen on Twitter, Reddit , and elsewhere, it appears that most of the people having... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/JPUzimF

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A concerned father says that after using his Android smartphone to take photos of an infection on his toddler’s groin, Google flagged the images as child sexual abuse material (CSAM), according to a report from The New York Times . The company closed his accounts and filed a report with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) and spurred a police investigation, highlighting the complications of trying to tell the difference between potential abuse and an innocent photo once it becomes part of a user’s digital library, whether on their personal device or in cloud storage. Concerns about the consequences of blurring the lines for what should be considered private were aired last year when Apple announced its Child... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/Z1LMpDg

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Netflix’s upcoming ad-supported tier might not show commercials on all the content included in the cheaper subscription plan. A report from Bloomberg suggests that Netflix may cut commercials from newer original films, as well as certain kids’ shows. According to Bloomberg , Netflix may not run ads during original movies when they’re first released, and will instead insert ads at a later date. It’s still too early to tell how long Netflix will show a newer movie without ads, but as noted by Bloomberg , this decision may help alleviate some of the concerns filmmakers might have about ads detracting from their work. Netflix original kids’ programming will also reportedly get the ad-free treatment — just like Disney Plus plans on doing with... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/vX5GsjJ

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Tesla’s increasing the price of its Full-Self Driving (FSD) software to $15,000. In a post on Twitter , Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced that the new price will go into effect in North America starting September 5th, representing a $3,000 jump. Drivers who order a vehicle before September 5th won’t have to pay the newly-increased price, Musk says. The price hike comes as Tesla begins rolling out FSD beta 10.69 to drivers, a version Musk calls “a big step forward.” It’s still unclear whether Tesla plans on raising the price of its FSD subscription, which currently costs $199 per month . After wide release of FSD Beta 10.69.2, price of FSD will rise to $15k in North America on September 5th. Current price will be honored for orders made... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/GcFRHXP

Image: Ray Mona / Library of Congress The decades-long search for the American version of Sailor Moon has finally come to an end. Ray Mona, a YouTuber who documents her efforts to find lost media ( including the never-released Mean Girls game ), has managed to unearth the pilot episode of the unaired, never-finished series that the Sailor Moon fandom has come to know as Saban Moon . The story of the Americanized Sailor Moon starts in 1993, about two years before the debut of the dubbed Sailor Moon that we know today. At the time, animation studio Toon Makers teamed up with Renaissance Atlantic Entertainment, the producers behind the original Power Rangers , in a bid to make an English version of the series. The two companies pitched a project that blends live-action with... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/eWjGvZY

Photo by Sean O’Kane / The Verge YouTube has removed a video that shows Tesla drivers carrying out their own safety tests to determine whether the EV’s (electric vehicle) Full Self-Driving (FSD) capabilities would make it automatically stop for children walking across or standing in the road, as first reported by CNBC . The video , titled “Does Tesla Full-Self Driving Beta really run over kids?” was originally posted on Whole Mars Catalog’s YouTube channel and involves Tesla owner and investor, Tad Park, testing Tesla’s FSD feature with his own kids. During the video, Park drives a Tesla Model 3 toward one of his children standing in the road, and then tries again with his other kid crossing the street. The vehicle stops before reaching the children both times. Does... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/rRKucpJ