Daily Archives: May 12, 2016

The Future For Apple Music’s Social Feature ‘Connect’ Doesn’t Look Bright

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Ahead of its anticipated relaunch next month, it is being reported that Apple’s namesake music streaming platform is looking to shy away from one of the components that it hoped would make the service stand out from other, more established outlets. It is highly possible that Apple is preparing to start lowering the profile of Connect, the social feature that is a currently a big part of its streaming offering.

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This ‘Assassin’s Creed’ Movie Trailer Looks Like Every Other Bad Video Game Movie

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This is a hardworking trailer, this Assassin’s Creed trailer. It exists, it would seem, to assuage fears. That this is both a faithful adaptation of the game and it’s own thing, that we’ll have plenty of parkour and spinny blade work, that the animus thing isn’t total nonsense, that it’s okay to listen to Kanye West during the Spanish Inquisition, etc. Paul Tassi loved it, but I’m not there with it. Show me enough over the top stuntwork mixed with too much fanservice, and I’ll show you a stupid movie. There’s no rule that says we need to get a great video game movie any time soon, after all — call it the curse of the Leguizamo.

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NASA’s IceBridge Flies Over the Front of a Greenland Glacier

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Operation IceBridge, NASA’s airborne survey of polar ice, has returned from the Umanaq B mission along Greenland’s western coast. This top-down view from a NOAA P-3 aircraft shows the calving front of Sermeq Kujatdleq glacier. The Naircraft’s #2 lower engine nacelle and left main landing gear fairing is in the foreground at top. via NASA http://ift.tt/220Oins