Eyes Of Gadget and Tech
Forget summer. Home Depot is summoning spooky season early, morphing into a Halloween haven amidst the lawnmowers and lumber. Forget Skelly, meet Ultra Skelly: a $279 animatronic behemoth poised to haunt your dreams (and your wallet). Is it July, or did someone accidentally set their calendar to October? One thing’s for sure: The Home Depot’s…
Crunchyroll’s AI experiment hit a snag last year. President Rahul Purini hinted at generative AI subtitling to The Verge, but shortly after, viewers slammed the debut of “The Yuzuki Family’s Four Sons” for laughably bad subtitles, forcing a temporary takedown. The incident suggests Crunchyroll’s AI subtitling is still a work in progress. The translation was…
Last year, Crunchyroll’s President hinted at a high-tech future: AI-powered subtitles. Rahul Purini told The Verge that generative AI was being tested for subtitling and captioning. This announcement came shortly after the streaming service fumbled the debut of “The Yuzuki Family’s Four Sons,” pulling the first episode due to fan outrage over its subpar subtitles….
From TV adaptations fittingly headed by Paul and Chris Weirtz-“Crying for Help, Reluctantly.” Forget the shining armor: in this sci-fi drama, can a protagonist who refuses heroism still win our hearts? On May 16, “Murderbot” premieres with a 10-episode sci-fi thrill ride about how a security robot with a secret threatens to unravel a planetary…
Cassian Andor wanders precariously toward destruction. Rogue One sealed his fate by condemning him to flame and glory in rebellion. That doom casts nothing but a shadow in the first season of Andor, following his descent from petty thief to defiant spy; it is a suffocating presence. The final season is promising something much worse-the…
