GoKawiil
Tech News
Sony chairman Tom Rothman has said the studio will mount an awards campaign for the upcoming 'Spider-Man: Brand New Day,' arguing the film merits Oscar consideration. Rothman laid out his reasoning for why the superhero movie deserves recognition typically reserved for prestige dramas.
Director Bong Joon Ho has restored his 2006 monster film 'The Host' in 4K but chose not to correct certain small imperfections present in the original. He explained his reasoning for preserving these flaws rather than cleaning them up during the restoration process.
LinkedIn introduced tools letting members vouch for colleagues' or classmates' work history, distinct from endorsements, and gave companies new controls over who can associate with their brand on the platform. The company said its existing verification tools have already confirmed 115 million users and over 700,000 companies.
Fusion startup Realta Fusion signed a deal with utility Madison Gas and Electric to explore building a 200-megawatt fusion power plant in Wisconsin by the mid-2030s. The utility also made an undisclosed equity investment in Realta, which is converting a former Oscar Mayer factory in Madison into its research facility.
A new open-source project called Open OSCAR Server, written in Go, lets classic AIM and ICQ clients connect and communicate again by reimplementing the old OSCAR and TOC protocols. It supports a wide range of legacy Windows clients from the late 1990s through 2000s, along with features like buddy lists, chat rooms, file sharing, and user profiles.