

CES 2023 expected to be 50% bigger than 2022
“People are excited to head back to Las Vegas for CES 2023, and it will rock” said Gary Shapiro, President and CEO, Consumer Technology Association (CTA) during a virtual press conference held on November 30. “We are optimistic we can hit our attendance goal of 100,000, which would make it the largest independently-audited post-pandemic tech event”. Owned and produced by CTA, CES 2023 will take place in Las Vegas on January 5-8, 2023. It also expected to be 50% bigger than previous year. CES 2023 by the numbers as of Nov....

#OscarsSoAsian – The 95th Annual Academy Awards and Predictions
THE SLAP HEARD AROUND THE WORLD It's been nearly a year since Will Smith infamously slapped Oscar host Chris Rock live onstage at last year's Academy Awards telecast after cracking a "G.I. Jane" joke aimed at Smith's wife, Jada Pinkett Smith. It was indeed a surreal moment as the audience watched Smith laugh initially then turn to his wife who was fuming from the inside, got up from his chair to approach the stage and strike Rock. Most of the audience thought that it was just "part of the act", but when Smith returned to his seat...

Metaverse attracts the grocery retailers
On Cyber Monday, one of the oldest grocery retailers in America, Albertsons, started selling and delivering tangible items in the metaverse. Metaverse, a platform for augmented reality, enables users to build interactive experience that combine the virtual and real worlds. Metaverse is very popular in online video games, like Fortnite by Epic Games, and offers immersive digital gaming and social space that is an example of a real-life metaverse-like environment. As the other retailers, fashion brands and restaurants have been...

Sony Pictures Classics Releases 30th Anniversary 4K UHD Box Set
I vividly remember the first time becoming totally immersed with an “Arthouse film” It was in 1992, in a little dinky hole-in-the-wall cinema in San Francisco. I sat there completely mesmerized watching, and as far as I can tell, a “near-perfect” movie, as every component of it’s filmmaking was simply superior in every aspect. The movie was “Howards End”. The tiny theater consisted of less than fifty uncomfortable seats, but that didn’t matter much, as I was glued to how the the story moved along with Emma Thompson’s nuanced...