The Morning After: What is it with Netflix cropping ‘Seinfeld’? | Engadget

Welcome to Monday. How was your weekend? For me, a wet October — England doing what it does — stored me indoors, however luckily, there was a crop of reveals I used to be planning to look at anyhow.

While I caught up on the cultural phenomenon that’s Squid Games, plenty of you dipped your toes into your complete run of Seinfeld, which is now obtainable to stream on Netflix.

You may need observed the march of progress inadvertently squashing a few of the visible gags out of shot. Case in level: The pothole featured in season 8 is actually out of shot to suit the present into the fashionable 16:9 widescreen format.

Cropped reveals have at all times been a difficulty: Seinfeld has been on cable TV and Hulu with related cropping. The recognition of Netflix has merely meant the present is getting extra consideration at this second in time. There are options. When your complete run of The Simpsons hit Disney+, it was equally squashed into widescreen. Disney finally launched the seasons that aired in 4:3 of their unique facet ratio.

Will Netflix do the identical?

— Mat Smith

According to rumors, that’s.

Apple has now up to date the iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch for the vacation season — we’re nonetheless ready for a launch date for the wearable — however what concerning the Macs? There have been loads of rumors a couple of completely redesigned MacEbook Pro popping out this fall, and the dependable Mark Gurman at Bloomberg says an M1X-powered MacEbook Pro will arrive “in the next month.”

It wouldn’t be an enormous shock: Apple has sometimes held Mac-focused occasions in October or early November; the primary M1-based Macs have been introduced in early November, final 12 months.

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It arrives in Japan subsequent month.

Toyota’s newest three-wheeler isn’t a motorbike or a automotive. Like the headline suggests, it’s extra like a Segway, constructed for pedestrianized areas and extra geared toward mobility than sheer A-to-B transport. To that time, it has a most pace of simply over six miles per hour, although it’s attainable to throttle it down to at least one mile per hour, and contains an impediment avoidance system. It beeps when it detects one thing in your path and slows down if a collision is imminent.

Toyota believes the scooter may assist aged employees journey throughout giant services, like warehouses, factories and airport terminals.

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Many tech corporations have lobbyists who’re combating the $3.5 trillion price range invoice.

Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Disney are among the many main corporations backing company foyer teams and organizations battling a US local weather invoice, in accordance with a report. That’s regardless of these corporations all making pledges to cut back their influence on the surroundings. The Guardian stories that watchdog Accountable.US analyzed the teams to be taught which corporations have connections to them.

The United States Chamber of Commerce, the Business Roundtable and the Rate Coalition are three of the lobbyist and enterprise teams that oppose the Democrats’ $3.5 trillion price range invoice, which incorporates measures to battle local weather change.

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The two corporations have settled their spat.

The YouTube / NBC drama is formally over. After reaching a brief deal to maintain NBCUniversal channels on YouTube TV, the businesses formally resolved their regardless of Saturday afternoon. “We’re thrilled to share that we’ve reached a deal to continue carrying the full NBCUniversal portfolio of channels,” YouTube wrote on its weblog. “That means you won’t lose access to any of their channels, and YouTube TV will continue to offer 85+ networks for $64.99. We appreciate NBCUniversal’s willingness to work toward an agreement, and we also appreciate your patience as we negotiated with them on your behalf.”

It was such a possible downside for YouTube TV that the service stated it could minimize its value by $10 monthly if it wasn’t capable of attain a cope with NBCUniversal. Fortunately for YouTube TV prospects, nothing is altering, at the least for now.

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