CES 2016: Alienware Unveils World’s First OLED Gaming Laptop
Alienware announced the world’s first gaming laptop featuring an OLED display. OLED offers a few distinct advantages over the traditional LCD panels found in notebooks and monitors like deeper blacks since there’s no need for a backlight and lower latency. In fact, Alienware claims OLED enables the display to have a one millisecond refresh rate.
While OLED screens have been seen in smaller devices like cellphones and even non-gaming laptops, Alienware is the first to market with an OLED gaming laptop with the display technology. OLED panels used to be prohibitively expensive in larger sizes but they're finally affordable enough to be placed in laptops like the Alienware.
XXX 3 Adds Vampire Diaries’ Nina Dobrev and 2 More Actresses
xXx 3 is set to cast a trio of actresses, including The Vampire Diaries’ Nina Dobrev.
Orange Is the New Black star Ruby Rose and Bollywood star Deepika Padukone are also reportedly in talks to join the sequel, tentatively titled xXx: The Return of Xander Cage, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Nina Dobrev (seen here in The Vampire Diaries)
The White House Responds to Making a Murderer Petition
Spoilers for Netflix's Making a Murderer ahead.
The White House has responded to a petition calling for the imprisoned subject of Netflix's Making a Murderer documentary series, Steven Avery, to gain a presidential pardon.
The 170,000-plus signature strong petition called for President Obama to free Avery, who was convicted for the murder of Teresa Halbach back in 2007. Avery and his nephew Brendan Dassey were the central focus of the popular Netflix series, which posed a lot of troubling questions around the nature of their convictions.
“Thank you for signing a We the People petition on the Teresa Halbach murder case, currently featured on the Making a Murderer documentary series,” reads the statement from the White House. It then goes on to explain that President Obama cannot pardon state prisoners.
Thor: Ragnarok: Cate Blanchett Not a Certainty
While Cate Blanchett was reportedly in talks to play the villain in Thor: Ragnarok, it appears the actress isn't a lock for the upcoming Marvel film, but would "love" to be involved.
"I don’t know what I’m going to do, actually," Blanchett told USA Today backstage at the Palm Springs International Film Festival Gala. "After every film, you think: 'OK, I’m done, I’m done now, that’s enough.'"
When asked specifically about starring in Ragnarok, Blanchett said she "would love that," adding with a smile that she'd "love to get fit and punch people." The identity of the film's rumored villainess is still a mystery, though, Amora the Enchantress or Hela the Goddess of Death are likely possibilities.
No End for the Walking Dead Planned; AMC Open to More Spinoffs
AMC's executives are "not actively talking about the end of The Walking Dead," the network announced. In an interview with Vulture, AMC network chief Charlie Collier and programming president Joe Stillerman opened up about the future of the series.
"The answer to how long the show will go on in some way is directly correlated with the health of the storytelling in the comics," Stillerman said. And the comics are doing well with creator Robert Kirkman at the helm—"he still writes every line of dialogue in those books."
"He sort of felt like, in real life, this goes on for a very long time. We're along for that ride."
TBS’ Angie Tribeca Spoofs Cop Shows, Naked Gun-Style
Today at the Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour, the cast and producers of TBS' new Naked Gun-style comedy series, Angie Tribeca, appeared for a Q&A session - including husband/wife co-creators Steve and Nancy Carell, and star Rashida Jones.
Steve Carell spoke first about the idea behind Angie Tribeca - which stars Jones, Hayes MacArthur, Justified's Jere Burns, and Deon Cole as members of the LAPD's elite RHCU (Really Heinous Crimes Unit) - and how it all stems from the name "Angie Tribeca" itself, which he and Nancy came up with one day. "The name just made us laugh," he revealed. "And we sort of built the character based on the name and it expanded over time. And we created this world of who this detective would be."
U.S. Marshals Raid Chinese Hoverboard Booth at CES
Today, U.S. federal marshals conducted a raid on a Chinese company’s one-wheeled skateboard booth at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. U.S. Marshals served a court order and packed up a hoverboard, signs, and fliers and carried them away.
Bloomberg reports Changzhou First International Trade Co., is accused by Future Motion, a Silicon Valley startup, of selling an alleged knock off of their hoverboard.
Future Motion designer Kyle Doerksen said his company has federal and international patents on its Onewheel hoverboard, which sells for $1500 USD on its website.
320,000 Time Warner Cable Accounts May Be Compromised
The email passwords of up to 320,000 Time Warner Cable accounts may have been stolen.
The telecommunications company told Reuters the information was likely obtained through phishing attacks or data breaches of outside companies that store account information of Time Warner customers. Time Warner's own systems, however, don't appear to have been breached.
Individuals whose information was compromised will be contacted directly by Time Warner and encouraged to change their email password.
Jordan Sirani is a freelance news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @jdsirani.
Power Rangers Exhibit to Open in California to Kick Off New Comic from BOOM! Studios
Are you a Power Rangers fanatic in the Southern California area? Because BOOM! Studios has teamed up with Gallery Nucleus to present an exhibit of fan art and production pieces from the show to celebrate BOOM's new Mighty Morphin Power Rangers comic.
The exhibition will run from January 16 to January 31at Gallery Nucleus in Alhambra, CA. Admission is free, and there'll be a reception on opening day where the first hundred attendees will get a door prize.
Someone Remixed The Wizard of Oz, Alphabetizing Every Word
A coder recut the entire 101 minutes of The Wizard of Oz to create an alphabetical remix called Of Oz the Wizard.
Speaking with Vox, Matt Bucy said the idea came about back in 2001 and he began re-cutting the film in 2004 before posting the final result this year.
He even went as far as to rearrange all of the text seen in the movie, including the opening and closing credits.
When asked how he was able to remix the film, Bucy said he created an app to mark the location of every word in the movie.