Illustration: Picryl / Gizmodo Apple never comes to the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), but this year, of all years, the company showed up. Sort of. Looming above the monorail station at the Las Vegas Convention Center, there’s a massive black-and-white mural with the silhouette of an iPhone and a message: “What happens on your iPhone…

Photo: Sam Rutherford (Gizmodo) Then Samsung sanded and polished each panel to the point where can sort of see the aluminum’s grain, while adding little touches like diamond-cut edges and sturdy sides that are ribbed for your pleasure. And the result actually leaves Samsung with a distinctive look that stands out from the MacBooks and…

Photo: Adam Clark Estes (Gizmodo) On the eve of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), there’s an itching feeling in the air that this year isn’t a big year for Samsung. The company unveiled (literally) a smaller version of last year’s big TV, the Wall, featuring MicroLED technology at an event in a ballroom. More than…

Screenshot: YouTube/Vertical Entertainment Where Hands Touch, director Amma Asante’s new film about a love story between a biracial black teen (Amandla Stenberg) and a member of the Hitler youth (George MacKay) in Nazi Germany, promptly received backlash online after it was made available on streaming services this month. And as some are pointing out, it…