Romola Garai's chilling horror film Amulet is about being trapped in a house - CNET

In a new episode of the I'm So Obsessed podcast, the actor best known for Atonement and Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights opens up about making a Gothic horror movie that might hit way too close to home for some.

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Less than a year after its launch, the Disney Plus streaming service has made a fantastic awards season debut, snagging a total of 19 nominations for this year's Emmy Awards, with The Mandalorian scoring 15 nods in total.

Among its many nominations, the live-action Star Wars series managed to score a nomination in the Outstanding Drama Series category, which is the Emmy equivalent of Best Picture at the Oscars.

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Other notable categories for which The Mandalorian was nominated include Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance for Taika Waititi's memorable portrayal of the IG-11 droid, Outstanding Cinematography For A Single-Camera Series (Half-Hour) and Outstanding Special Visual Effects.

Along with The Mandalorian, Disney Plus' Star Wars Resistance also received a nomination for Outstanding Children’s Program, alongside nods for The World According to Jeff Goldblum, The Imagineering Story, A Celebration of the Music From Coco, and Disney Pixar's animated short Forky Asks a Question.

Also making its Emmys debut this year is Apple TV Plus, with the service landing 18 nominations across a number of shows and specials, including The Morning Show, Beastie Boys Story, Defending Jacob and Central Park.

Some seriously stiff competition

While Disney Plus' first showing at the Emmy Awards is certainly impressive, it is but a small drop in the ocean compared to Netflix's record-breaking number of nominations. 

The streaming giant has made history with an astounding 160 nods in total, easily smashing the 137 nomination record set by HBO in 2019. Of the Netflix shows receiving Emmy appreciation, Ozark leads the pack with 18 nods, followed by The Crown selected for 13 categories in total.

That's not to say that HBO is lacking in nominations, picking up an incredible 107 nods of its own, with its celebrated Watchmen series earning 26 nominations – the most of any single series in competition this year. 

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In second place is Amazon Prime Video's The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, which picked up an impressive 20 nods. Surprisingly, Amazon's hit original series The Boys only picked up one nomination for Outstanding Sound Editing.

Streaming service Hulu also fared well, picking up nominations for Wu-Tang: An American Saga, Little Fires Everywhere, Ramy and The Handmaid's Tale. 

As you can see, the competition at this year's Emmy Awards is certainly going to be fierce – you'll be able find out if your favorite show will take home the big awards of the night when the ceremony airs on September 20, 2020.

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It's fair to say we're big fans of the new Sony's new hybrid video camera, with our Sony A7S III review concluding it's "as good as it gets" for video shooters. But that doesn't mean we won't be tuning into Sony's bonus livestream for the A7S III, which should shed even more light on the full-frame star.

Following today's relatively brief announcement, Sony is promising a "deep dive" on the A7S III in a live webinar today, which will be open to anyone who registers for the event.

The 90-minute event will apparently include an in-depth look at the camera, along with special guest interviews with filmmakers Philip Bloom and Olivier Schmitt, who have both spent some extensive time with the A7S III. 

There'll also be a live Q&A where Sony technical experts will answer any questions you have (aside from "can I have one?") about the full-frame camera. 

This could be useful, because there's no doubt the Sony A7S III is a complex beast of a super-camera – even if you're not planning to buy one, the webinar could well boost your knowledge of state-of-the-art mirrorless camera tech.

So how do you tune into the Sony A7S III livestream? Here's how.

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How to watch today's Sony A7S III livestream

The Sony A7S III "Imagination in Motion" event livestream will be starting on July 29 at 12pm EDT / 5pm BST (which is 2am AEST on July 30).

Sony suggests registering at Alpha Universe for the event, though it appears you can also simply tune in on its YouTube channel.

The streams haven't started yet, but YouTube lets you set reminders so you can get a nudge when the event is about to start. To do that, just hit the 'set reminder' button at the bottom of the YouTube video. 

We'll see you there. In the meantime, you can warm up for the event by reading our Sony A7S III vs A7S II: 10 key differences you need to know about feature, or diving into our full Sony A7S III review.

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After a bit of teasing around, Realme has announced a fully loaded smartphone - Realme C15 in Indonesia. The C lineup of smartphones in Realme is the entry-level devices that are aimed at budget smartphone users. This new smartphone is a successor to the Realme C11 that was recently launched in India.

The Realme C15 comes with somewhat similar specifications as its predecessor C11. It has the same processor; however, the primary differences can be counted as a quad-camera setup and a bumped-up battery pack.

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Realme C15 price and India availability

The Realme C15 comes in Marine Blue and Seagull Silver colour options and is available in multiple storage and memory variants. The Indonesian pricing of Realme C15 can be found below:

Variant	Price in Indonesia	Approx INR Price
3GB RAM, 64 GB storage	Rp 1,999,000	Rs. 10,000
4GB RAM, 64 GB storage	Rp 2,199,000	Rs. 11,000
4GB RAM, 128 GB storage	Rp 2,299,000	Rs. 13,000

The company has not yet revealed anything around the availability of Realme C15 in India. As the C11 has already been launched in the country, you can expect its successor to make it to the Indian shores within a couple of months.

Realme C15 specifications and features

The Realme C15 sports a 6.5- inches LCD with a waterdrop notch and an HD+ (720x1,600 pixels) resolution. The display gets Corning Gorilla Glass protection. The phone draws power from an octa-core MediaTek Helio G35 SoC, coupled with up to 4GB of RAM and up to 128 GB of storage. The phone does support memory expansion up to 256 GB of storage with the help of a micro SD card.

It houses a quad rear camera setup that consists of a 13-megapixel primary sensor, an 8-megapixel 119-degree ultra-wide-angle sensor, a 2-megapixel black and white sensor with f/2.4 aperture, and a 2-megapixel retro sensor with f/2.4 aperture. While on the front, it has an 8-megapixel sensor with an f/2.0 lens housed in the waterdrop notch.

A massive 6000 mAh battery powers the device and comes with an 18W fast charging support. The phone runs on Realme UI based on Android 10 and has a rear-mounted fingerprint sensor. This is a dual-sim smartphone phone that comes with connectivity options like Dual 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth v5.0, GPS/GLONASS/Beidou, MicroUSB, and 3.5mm Audio jack.

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Twitter restricted Donald Trump Jr.’s ability to tweet from his account for 12 hours on Tuesday, after it required him to delete a post that violated the social media site's policy on coronavirus misinformation. He had posted a viral video of doctors talking about the drug hydroxychloroquine.

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Next stimulus bill: HEALS Act contains much more than just another check - CNET

A new $1,200 stimulus payment could be just one part of the benefits you could receive. Here are the other incentives proposed to offset the worst financial effects of the coronavirus pandemic.

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Watch Benedict Cumberbatch walk into a comic book store dressed as Doctor Strange - CNET

He even kept the accent.

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In an exclusive email exchange with TechRadar Pro, CEO and founder of Nimbus Data Thomas Izakovich revealed that solid state drives with capacities of up to 400TB are on the horizon.

"We can do 200TB in 2021 and likely 400TB by 2023," he said, in reference to the unformatted storage capacity of the company's yet-to-be-announced SSDs. This is a symbolically significant milestone, because a prospective SSD with a native capacity of 400TB equals 1PB in tape capacity.

Tape vendors usually deliver a native/compressed number for tape storage. The largest tape size, LTO-8, currently tops 12TB native and 30TB compressed, while LTO-9 (expected to land later this year) is set to double the capacity to 24TB (60TB compressed).

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In other words, you would need at least 17 of these tapes to match the expected capacity of a 400TB Nimbus Data SSD.

While the theoretical Nimbus drive is likely to be a few orders of magnitude more expensive, it will probably be much smaller (as it doesn’t need a separate tape drive) and far faster.

Nimbus Data is behind the world’s largest solid state drive to date, the $40,000 100TB ExaDrive DC, and has remained unchallenged for two years now. The full email interview, set to be published next week, covers topics including:

• Nimbus Data's view on computational storage
• Where Ultra High Capacity (UHC) solid state drives fit in the storage continuum
• Why no big vendors have released a drive bigger than 32TB
• Why 3.5-inch SSDs are here to stay
• What's inside the 100TB drive

So, make sure to keep your eyes peeled.

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Google Stadia is finally ready to break free of Wi-Fi and be played on a 4G and 5G mobile connections using most Android devices.

It’s a feature Google has been working on for months and follows other Stadia Experiments that enabled touch controls for some games and widespread roll out of the Stadia app to most Android devices that launched in June.

Until now, subscribers have been able to use the game-streaming service on Android devices – but only when connected to steady Wi-Fi. Today’s news changes that.

According to a community blog post about it, Google says to opt into the latest 4G/5G experiment all you have to do is open the Stadia app on an Android phone, select Experiments under your profile, and then choose Use Mobile Data. 

Is streaming on a mobile connection worth it?

Theoretically, streaming over your mobile connection could be a fantastic way to play your Stadia game collection anywhere, anytime. 

We say theoretically because, on paper at least, both 4G and 5G connection speeds surpass Google's recommended connection speeds of 10Mbps down to play in HD. 5G can reach data speeds several times that rate, according to our 5G speed tests, so Stadia should theoretically play flawlessly when you're standing under a 5G tower.

The potential downside here is that all this gaming on the go could chew through your mobile data cap, if you have one. Google has warned in the past that using the service can eat up between 4.5 and 20GB of data per hour played, so you might want to play outside sparingly. 

All that being said, having the extra option to play on the go is a neat perk of the service and, as long it works well, it could bring some gamers back to give the service another go.

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PS5 or Series X? Gabe Newell picks next-gen Xbox over PlayStation - CNET

Valve's co-founder is confident Microsoft's Xbox Series X will be the superior next-gen console.

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100 million-year-old life forms found on the ocean floor - CNET

They could be the oldest known organisms on planet earth.

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Netflix's answer to the X-Men just got really, really good - CNET

Review: The Umbrella Academy hits its stride in its second season, finding the right balance between fun escapism and emotional punch.

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Realme C11 will go on its second sale today, July 29, at 12pm (noon) via Flipkart and Realme India website. The phone was originally unveiled in Malaysia in June and launched in India earlier this month.

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Best coolers of 2020: Cabela, Igloo, Yeti, Coleman and more - CNET

Nothing beats a frosty beverage on a hot summer day, but you'll need a dependable cooler to hold the cold. Here are the winners out of the 18 we've tested.

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2020 Emmy Awards: Start time, how to watch or stream online - CNET

Emmy nominations have dropped, so it's a good time to get prepped for the main event.

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