Apple might not be working on a standalone TV set of its own, but the company is still interested in changing the way you watch TV. And in the process, it might offer its customers one more reason to cut the cord – or at least dump their current cable provider and enjoy live TV streamed over the Internet to an affordable Apple TV box.
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Wait, you thought we were done showing you all of the awesome new exclusive trailers and teaser videos spilling out of San Diego Comic-Con 2015? Not even close.
On Monday we rounded up the 10 best trailers Comic-Con had to offer this year, and if you haven’t already seen them, you can view them all right here. If you want to get a taste of some of the best new movies and TV shows set to debut this year, you really should.
Now, however, we’ve got plenty more action to show you. We’ve dug through the deepest depths of the Internet and come up with 24 more trailers, teasers and other new videos that debuted exclusively at San Diego Comic-Con 2015. These movies and TV shows will be among the most exciting premieres of the year, and you can get a taste of them all right here.
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It took us over nine years to travel more than 3 billion miles through space to reach the farthest planet in our solar system, but we finally made it. This is Pluto, as seen by the New Horizons spacecraft during its Pluto flyby mission.
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Apple has a long and, sadly, uneventful history with Liquidmetal. The promising and shockingly strong material has so far been used only in small iPhone components, but now it has finally made its way to a smartphone housing. Unfortunately for Apple fans, there’s still no sign of a Liquidmetal iPhone. Instead, an Android handset called the Turing Phone is set to become the first ever smartphone to sport a Liquidmetal case when it launches in the coming weeks.
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Earlier this month, we highlighted an intriguing new piece of hardware capable of providing secure and anonymous Wi-Fi connectivity within a 2.5 mile radius. The brainchild of researcher Ben Caudill, the device, dubbed ProxyHam, was scheduled to be officially introduced at Def Con in Las Vegas early next month.
But then something funny happened.
Caudill’s talk was abruptly cancelled under extremely mysterious circumstances over the weekend.
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You’d think that charging your iPhone or Android handset on a train in London would be perfectly acceptable, but that’s not at all the case. In fact, police arrested an iPhone user who did that – “abstracting electricity,” as they called it – on a London Overground train.
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Yes, sleeping on your back means you’re more likely to snore and wake up your significant other, which is something you have probably discovered for yourself. But it’s also a sleeping position that’s beneficial for your spine, and therein lies the problem.
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It’s always neat to look at pictures of Earth from space but Japan’s Himawari-8 weather satellite has just outdone every beautiful set of Earth photos we’ve ever seen. The New York Times brings us word that the satellite is now snapping a picture of Earth every 10 minutes and the publication has used them to create a stunning timelapse of the planet over a 24-hour period.
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Oh, Comcast. Even when you do things that should be cool, you manage to make them massively disappointing. Our latest example is the pricing for the company’s new 2Gbps Internet service, which we now know will cost you $300 per month plus up to $1,000 in installation fees. A more Comcastic pricing scheme we could not imagine.
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The cable industry is in turmoil. Amid excessive pricing and the emergence of services like Netflix, the value proposition offered by traditional cable companies is arguably less compelling than it’s ever been. Underscoring this shifting market dynamic, The Wall Street Journal recently reported that ESPN in the last year alone has lost upwards of 3.2 million subscribers. Given that ESPN has long been the most profitable cable channel, this data point is certainly eyebrow raising.
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