The Golden Globes kicked off the 2019 awards season last night with what’s become a predictably unpredictable awards show - but some things stood out. Hosts Sandra Oh and Andy Samberg opened the show with an anti-roast routine that fiercely honored the nominees and their work, Bohemian Rhapsody and Green Book shocked critics by taking home the two Best Picture awards, and we got to hear Lady Gaga’s “100 people in a room” story not once, but twice more - and not even from Gaga herself....

The laptop weighs only 2.3 pounds (1.04kg) and feels very light in the hand, according to early hands-on. It comes in a variety of colors (Google’s standard choice and a signature for Chrome products) – red, blue, green and yellow but the colors don’t cover the entire surface of the Chrome OS laptop as there are only two stripes on its back: a thin and a thicker one. The device doesn’t have any vents or fans, maybe because it’s powered by the ARM based 1....

Google today has announced an update to its Maps app on iOS that brings a few notable changes. The update improves ride sharing integration with Uber, while it also refreshes the ride sharing interface as a whole. The update is also coming to Android. First off, the update refreshes the entire ride sharing interface. Google says that when you open the ride sharing screen, you’ll now see new ride options and more actionable informational....

If you’ve ever been frustrated by visiting a website on your iPhone or iPad and finding it won’t work because it uses Flash, you’ll welcome the latest Google initiative: it is now flagging Flash content in its search results, warning that the site may not work on your device. As Google notes, Android has now also abandoned Flash support due to the same reliability, security and performance concerns that Steve Jobs expressed in his famous open letter to Adobe back in 2010....

To the surprise of absolutely no one, the upcoming disaster flick Geostorm is a really bad movie. In its defense, the film never pretended to be anything other than what it is – an excuse to blow things up and watch Gerard Butler do Gerard Butler-y things – but nevertheless, critics are taking to it exactly as you’d expect they would. What may go down as the most ill-timed movie ever, Geostorm is finally making its way into theaters in the wake of a trio of devastating hurricanes that ravaged the United States and her territories....

Ghost Recon Breakpoint was disappointing for everyone involved: gamers aren’t happy with what they got and Ubisoft isn’t happy with how it performed. Unfortunately, the publisher has gone a step further and implied it was the players’ faults for their latest game’s failure, or at least the structure that led to it. Before its release, Ghost Recon Breakpoint was the highly anticipated sequel to the middling Ghost Recon Wildlands, a game that sought to reboot the Ghost Recon franchise in an open world....

Glee was a ratings juggernaut for much of its earlier seasons. Following a plucky group of high schoolers in their efforts to win the national group singing competition while at the same time battling teen pregnancy, homophobia, infidelity, and so much teen drama, the show relied heavily on its reworkings of pop songs for its success. The cast of the show was an eclectic bunch of fashion models masquerading as Hollywood’s perception of geeks and losers....

This is far better than the most recent season of American Gods, which received only a 58% Rotten rating with critics and a 67% positive rating with fans. Those numbers don’t sound so bad until they are compared to the numbers from American Gods season 1, which earned a 92% Fresh rating with critics and a 84% positive score with viewers. The drop in positive reviews coincided with a major drop in the show’s ratings, with one-third of the audience vanishing between seasons and one-third of the new audience disappearing after the season 2 premiere....

The MGM deal falls on the heals of the Paramount Pictures deal Google announced just few weeks back and of course the Disney, Pixar and DreamWorks deal back in November. All in, YouTube has signed five of the six major studios (Fox is still the holdout) which puts it on pace to bring my prediction to fruition that YouTube will soon make NetFlix irrelevant in the long-term, at least in regards to its online streaming business....

There can’t be many occasions on which a huge tech company has added a new feature to an app – then removed it just 24 hours later after user kickback. But that’s exactly what’s just happened with an update to the iPhone version of Google Maps. And of all the unlikely things that feature could be, it’s a cupcake … In an apparent effort to encourage people to walk rather than drive, Google Maps started showing alternative walking directions when short driving directions were requested, complete with a note on how many calories you’d burn during the walk....

Star Wars creator George Lucas advised Jon Favreau that the upcoming series The Mandalorian should focus more on kids as its target audience. Although there were rumors about a new Star Wars series in early 2018, Favreau did not release details about The Mandalorian until later that year, when he revealed the show’s title and synopsis. The series takes place after the fall of the Empire in The Return of the Jedi, but before the rise of the First Order in The Force Awakens....

Black Friday might be a week away, but the price drops are just starting. With the Black Friday Mac Bundle, you can get PDF Expert, Roxio Toast Titanium and six more great apps for just $30 (Orig. $493) at 9to5Toys Specials using exclusive coupon code BFMAC9. That’s less than the price of any one of these apps, some by more than a magnitude of 3… While the Mac App Store has plenty of choice, you have to pay Apple’s premium on new software....

Over the weekend, some customers using Macs may have started seeing expired or invalid certificate warnings when trying to use Sprout Social. This is a problem caused by an expired intermediate certificate issued by DigiCert, the company that Sprout Social and many other websites use to get SSL certificates. This is not an issue with Sprout Social. We take extra steps to ensure that our SSL certificates do not expire to provide all customers with a secure user experience....

Director Terry Gilliam has finally finished filming his long-gestating passion project The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. The director has tried to make the film a whopping eight times in the past nineteen years, leading to it becoming one of the most infamous projects trapped in development hell. But now The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, based on the 1605 novel Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, is seeing the light of day....

Following updates for the Google Docs suite of apps last week, Google today has pushed an update to Gmail for iOS that brings support for the iPhone X. The update comes after nearly a month of iPhone X availability… This update is good news for hardcore Gmail users with the iPhone X as prior to today, the app was letterboxed along the top and the bottom of the display, significantly reducing the amount of screen real-estate available in the app....

A Godzilla fan has recreated the new trailer for Godzilla: King of the Monsters using footage from the Toho Godzilla movies. The character of Godzilla may have been Americanized for Hollywood blockbusters, but in 1954, Toho released the first Godzilla film. The film was titled Gojira, and revolved around a giant creature that attacked Shinagawa, after being created by American nuclear weapons testing. Over the years, Toho released dozens of Godzilla movies, many of which introduced fan-favorite characters such as Mothra, Rodan, and King Ghidorah....

Good Omens premiered this weekend and featured a huge cast of heavenly (and some not so heavenly) creatures. Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s apocalyptic comedy lead by David Tennant and Michael Sheen introduces angels, demons, the antichrist and, as any good apocalypse story should, the four horsemen. When the antichrist is born and Heaven and Hell start gearing up for the end of the world, part of the path to war includes calling on the Four Horsemen, the traditional harbingers of the apocalypse, which, Biblically, includes the death of one quarter of the human population at their hands and on the show, they’ll presumably help bring about the end of the world/humanity while the angels and demons fight for celestial dominance....

Rescheduling Meetings in Google Calendar If you have a large organization, when it comes to scheduling a meeting, it can be a tedious process, but Google is trying to make things easier with new additions to Calendar. A couple weeks ago the company added Out of Office Mode to Calendar. It helps your coworkers know when you’re not available to respond to requests or accept meetings. And today’s announced new feature will help your organization manage meetings, too....

To get started, install the Panic Button extension for Chrome. The PanicButton icon appears next to the Chrome address bar. To hide all tabs, click the PanicButton icon and it hides all the tabs and will turn green. It also displays the number of tabs hidden. Click on it again to reopen all of the tabs. It lets you assign shortcut keys to PanicButton as well. To do that, right click on PanicButton icon and click on Options....

After rolling out early support for the feature on Android and desktop last month, Google today has updated Chrome for iOS with support for exporting passwords. The feature comes as part of version 66 of the app… Support for exporting saved passwords in Chrome first came to Android and desktops last month. The feature was included in Chrome 65, though required enabling via an experimental flag, suggesting it was not yet ready for primetime....