Month: January 2024
Say no more: Netflix in talks to make a Top Boy spinoff series
Netflix is in talks with Top Boy creator about making a spinoff series of the British crime drama.
Top Boy, the London-set crime drama that started off on Channel 4 and then moved to Netflix, was an incredible show – and when it ended after its third Netflix season I, like many fans, was absolutely gutted. The show was often compared favourably to The Wire, so it was a real shame when it didn’t return for another season.
Its sharp writing, excellent cinematography and, most of all, amazing performances mean it’s a show I really miss. So I’m very excited to discover that Netflix may be making a spinoff. And not only that, but the show may focus on my very favourite character.
I think there are two kinds of Top Boy viewers: there are people – like me – who know that Jaq, played by Jasmine Jobson, was the real star of the show. And there are people who are wrong. So the former camp will be delighted to discover that, according to show creator Ronan Bennett, Netflix is seriously considering a Jaq-centred spinoff.
Top Boy’s spin-off series could be must-watch TV
The news comes via BBC Radio 5, which interviewed Bennett this week. As reported in Deadline, Bennett said that “I think that the world of Top Boy, the world that we jointly created, is so rich, it’s so deep, and it has that fanatical following that it’s something that still has life in it”.
Netflix would no doubt agree. The show is one of its most successful British shows of all time for the best streaming service. Bennett says he’s also had conversations about other shows from the same world – including a stage musical, of all things –but they’re all very much in the earliest stages of discussion. The Jaq-centred show, on the other hand, seems like a much more solid proposition – so much so that Bennet reckons Netflix “will probably be angry” that he’s talked about it.
If you haven’t already seen them, all five seasons are streaming on Netflix. The first two Channel 4 ones are labelled Top Boy: Summerhouse and take place before the three Netflix-made seasons, which are just called Top Boy.
I’m pretty sure that as you get into the show you’ll find Jaq one of the most compelling characters not just in Top Boy, but in crime drama more widely. Jaq is an interesting and complex character who absolutely steals the final season – which, given the quality of the cast, is some achievement – and who many fans believe played a crucial role in the final episode’s shock ending.
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PayPal To Cut About 2,500 Jobs as Rivals Snag Market Share
PayPal will reduce its workforce by about 9 per cent this year as chief executive Alex Chriss, who took over in September, grapples with rising competition, profit pressures and a raft of analyst downgrades. From a report: In a letter to staff on Tuesday, Mr Chriss said the decision was made to “right-size” the company through both direct cuts and the elimination of open roles throughout the year. Affected staff will be notified by the end of the week, according to the letter. PayPal, which employed about 29,900 workers at the end of 2022, announced a similar round of cuts last January. The latest move will affect about 2,500 workers.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
PayPal will reduce its workforce by about 9 per cent this year as chief executive Alex Chriss, who took over in September, grapples with rising competition, profit pressures and a raft of analyst downgrades. From a report: In a letter to staff on Tuesday, Mr Chriss said the decision was made to “right-size” the company through both direct cuts and the elimination of open roles throughout the year. Affected staff will be notified by the end of the week, according to the letter. PayPal, which employed about 29,900 workers at the end of 2022, announced a similar round of cuts last January. The latest move will affect about 2,500 workers.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
AMD’s new CPU hits 132fps in Fortnite without a graphics card
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Upgrade Your Video Calling Game With $46 Off the Opal Tadpole 4K Webcam – CNET
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How to watch today’s PlayStation State of Play showcase
Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge
Sony is ending the first month of the year with a big ol’ livestream full of gaming news. The next PlayStation State of Play kicks off this afternoon, and the company is promising 40 minutes that will cover quite a few video games — more than 15, in fact.
Only two titles have been confirmed, with Team Ninja’s Rise of the Ronin and the anime-style adventure game Stellar Blade. But with Sony saying the event will include “other titles coming to PS5 and PS VR2 in 2024 and beyond,” it’s not hard to guess some of the games that could make an appearance. There’s Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, which is launching very soon; the remake of Silent Hill 2; a rumored PS5 remake of horror game Until Dawn; the sequel to Death Stranding that we haven’t heard much about since its reveal; and the mysterious Judas, the first title from BioShock creative lead Ken Levine’s new studio. Maybe we’ll see some of Sony’s scaled-back ambitions in the live-service space.
If you want to check it out live, State of Play kicks off on January 31st at 5PM ET, and you can watch it at all the usual places: YouTube, Twitch, and TikTok.
Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge
Sony is ending the first month of the year with a big ol’ livestream full of gaming news. The next PlayStation State of Play kicks off this afternoon, and the company is promising 40 minutes that will cover quite a few video games — more than 15, in fact.
Only two titles have been confirmed, with Team Ninja’s Rise of the Ronin and the anime-style adventure game Stellar Blade. But with Sony saying the event will include “other titles coming to PS5 and PS VR2 in 2024 and beyond,” it’s not hard to guess some of the games that could make an appearance. There’s Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, which is launching very soon; the remake of Silent Hill 2; a rumored PS5 remake of horror game Until Dawn; the sequel to Death Stranding that we haven’t heard much about since its reveal; and the mysterious Judas, the first title from BioShock creative lead Ken Levine’s new studio. Maybe we’ll see some of Sony’s scaled-back ambitions in the live-service space.
If you want to check it out live, State of Play kicks off on January 31st at 5PM ET, and you can watch it at all the usual places: YouTube, Twitch, and TikTok.
Nvidia RTX 3050 6GB spotted at retailer – but the specs don’t calm our fears that this might be a flop of a GPU
It looks like Nvidia is about to introduce a new contender to the budget GPU arena, but the RTX 3050 6GB could lack punch.
Nvidia’s RTX 3050 6GB, a rumored new spin on the budget graphics card from Team Green, has been spotted listed online (not for the first time, we might add).
German tech site Computerbase noticed that Austrian retailer E-Tec had an RTX 3050 6GB live on its website, but the product listing has since been taken down. (That usually happens when these kinds of leaks – which cynics might argue are sometimes intentional – get reported on).
However, the listing wasn’t ditched before all the details of this graphics card were grabbed by VideoCardz (via Tom’s Hardware), including the all-important specs and price.
The MSI Ventus 2X OC (overclocked) version of the RTX 3050 with 6GB of VRAM (the card normally has 8GB) was shown to run with 2,048 CUDA cores, a major 20% cut compared to the 2,560 cores which the existing (8GB) model sports.
The Ventus 2X is also listed with a base clock of 1,552MHz and a boost of 1,807MHz, along with a TDP of 130W. As for the price, that requires a huge amount of seasoning, more so than the specs – and we’ll discuss that more in a moment…
(Image credit: Future)
Analysis: A bewildering soup of rumors
At this point, the rumored specs for the RTX 3050 6GB seem rather all over the place, frankly. We’ve heard it’ll maintain the CUDA core count of the existing RTX 3050, or that it’ll be cut down by around 10%, or that it will suffer a major slash to the tune of 20% as is shown here – we’ve heard the latter theory before (twice, in fact).
We’ve also seen speculation that the clocks will be massively dropped, potentially, although that definitely isn’t the case here. They will always be faster on an overclocked model like this Ventus OC, mind, than an entry-level graphics card.
Even the rumored TDP widely varies, from 130W here, to 115W, then down to 70W (mind you, that’s for a leaked fanless model from Palit, which will need a lesser power usage due to the lack of active cooling).
Whatever the case, with all the theories around the specs, and the leaks we’ve witnessed, all bouncing around all over the show, we’re inclined to say just forget about the hardware specification, really – and hope that Nvidia isn’t cutting much down aside from the VRAM. (Although the CUDA core count dropping seems to be rather likely, sadly, or at least a more prevalent idea).
The best thing to focus on with all this is that given the weight of rumors, and more than one online retailer jumping the gun now, the RTX 3050 6GB seems to be incoming – and in theory, it’ll arrive as soon as next month, or likely in Q1 (the latter is mentioned by the Austrian retailer). As for the price, the retailer has it pitched too high (costing more than the 8GB model), so we can safely ignore that asking price (it’s a placeholder, no doubt).
The theory is that this graphics card will be priced at $179 or in that ballpark in the US, considerably less than the MSRP of the current RTX 3050 which was $249 at launch. (And the pricing of the new GPU will be in line with that 30% drop in other regions, no doubt, compared to the respective recommended pricing).
The problem is that this doesn’t look competitive (particularly not if this new spin on the RTX 3050 is as cut back as some suggestions make it seem) against AMD. Team Red has a very competitive offering in the form of the RX 6600, which is undeniably one of the best cheap GPUs you can buy.
We’re struggling to see how some incarnations of the purported RTX 3050 6GB are going to compete, frankly, unless Nvidia drops the price below the currently rumored demand on the budget gamer’s wallet.
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No more Taylor Swift on TikTok after negotiations with label break down
Universal Music Group says TikTok is engaging in “bullying” as contract expires.
Universal Music is set to pull its songs from TikTok after a breakdown in negotiations over payment, which would remove the social media platform’s access to music from stars such as Taylor Swift, The Weeknd, and Drake.
Universal, the industry giant that controls a third of the world’s music, has been in tense negotiations with Beijing-based TikTok for the past year, according to people familiar with the matter.
Universal on Tuesday accused TikTok of “bullying” and said the company wanted to pay a “fraction” of the rate that other social media sites pay for access to its music catalog. As a result, Universal said it would stop licensing its content to TikTok when its contract expires on January 31.