Jenna Ortega steps into a quieter, more open space with her latest role in ‘Klara and the Sun’. She plays Klara, a solar-powered robot built to keep loneliness at bay for the people who choose her. Taika Waititi directs and shapes the story from Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel, turning the page into a film that reaches theaters on October 23.
Shoppers scanning options for a new chair often pause on the Respawn 110 Ergonomic Gaming Chair, priced at $81 (was $168). It carries a sharp racing profile without demanding a premium outlay. The current gray fabric edition keeps the look understated yet purposeful, with minimal stitching and an integrated headrest that avoids the cluttered appearance of older designs loaded with separate pillows.
Prison tablets offer a few basic purposes: to provide approved entertainment, messaging, and limited services to those jailed while limiting access to anything else. Manufacturers go to great pains to reinforce these boundaries through hardware and software decisions.
Valve recently revealed the price of the Steam Machine this week, after months of suspense from potential buyers. Four variants gives fans several options based on their storage needs and if they want the bundled Steam Controller. Entry-level storage of 512GB costs $1,049, and adding the controller boosts the total to $1,128.
Original NES hardware shipped with a graphics processor that handled everything through a single chip and a set of strict rules. Backgrounds stayed flat. Sprites capped out at eight per horizontal line. Colors came from a fixed palette with tight limits on how many could appear together on screen. Nintendo built in four extra pins on that processor and left them grounded, effectively locking away a path to more complex visuals. One modder recently put those pins to work and gave the console a second graphics processor.