It’s a hog on a diet.

Harley-Davidson announced Monday at CES that its all-electric motorcycle, the LiveWire, is now officially available for pre-order. It starts at $29,799 and will begin shipping in August.

The iconic motorcycle company first introduced the LiveWire in 2014, but it had been more of a flashy concept than a reality until last year. In 2015, it appeared on screen as the steed of Scarlett Johansson’s Avengers character Black Widow. And, finally, in the company’s January 2018 earnings call, it confirmed that the bike would ship in the next 18 months — which now appears to be right on schedule. Read more…

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In a newly released short story, Blizzard confirmed yet another major Overwatch is canonically LGBTQ. And we are ready for him to get a fabulous rainbow skin in the next update.

Though Ana is the protagonist of “Bastet,” it was the macho military man Soldier 76 (aka Jack Morrison) who got a bombshell backstory reveal while discussing his past relationship with a “dark-haired man” named Vincent.

Ana asks Jack about him, and the implication is hard to miss:

Writer Michael Chu confirmed on Twitter that, while the relationship happened a long time ago, both Jack and Vincent identify as gay. Read more…

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HTC’s best VR headset just got a lot more exciting.

The company unveiled a new Vive Pro Eye headset, which has eye tracking features built directly in, eliminating the need for external controllers. 

Instead of using hand controllers to navigate content, the headset uses “gaze-oriented menu navigation.” In other words: you can navigate around menus and other content just by looking at them.

The Vive Pro Eye comes one year after HTC first launched the $799 Vive Pro, its first VR headset optimized for enterprise users. The Vive Pro Eye has a similar design as last year’s Vive Pro, though it’s gotten upgrades under the hood to incorporate eye tracking. Read more…

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Daimler trucks are going autonomous — eventually.

For now, Level 2 (L2) partial automation will have to suffice. The vehicle company behind Mercedes-Benz cars announced Monday at CES 2019 that its new Freightliner Cascadia big-rig will include higher levels of robotic driving. The semi-autonomous trucks will start production in July in North America. It’s not fully self-driving, but it’s pushing the trucking industry deeper into an autonomous mode. 

Truck CEO Martin Daum admitted he was skeptical of autonomous capabilities back in 2015, when Daimler unveiled its Freightliner Inspiration autonomous concept truck. Now he sees Level 4 autonomy (full autonomy in most situations, climates, and environments) coming to trucks within the decade. Read more…

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Samsung is mostly known for its Galaxy smartphones and home appliances, but its big breakthrough in laptops might come this year.

At CES 2019, we got to take a look the 2019 Notebook 9 Pro to see whether the Korean electronics giant has what it takes to compete head-to-head with last year’s best laptops: Microsoft’s Surface Laptop 2, Huawei’s MateBook X Pro, and Apple’s MacBook Pro.

Our early verdict: nicely done Samsung!

Now that the mighty MacBook Pro is no longer perfect thanks to its controversial and uber-flat keyboard, there’s a real opening for PC makers to step in with some real kickass clamshells computers. Read more…

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Dear CES, Captain America is not here for your bullshit. 

As the tech journalists of the world converge en masse this week on the annual Las Vegas consumer electronics show known as CES, Chris Evans — the actor who famously stars as Captain America in the Marvel cinematic universe — tweeted a message seemingly tailored to dunk on the convention’s entire raison d’etre. Namely, that so-called “smart” gadgets are trash. 

“Dear All Technology,” wrote the embodiment of a certain kind of American fantasy, “Remember the 90’s when you just WORKED??? I don’t need a ‘smart’ feature on my TV, thermostat, lights, music, refrigerator, security cameras, and f-ing car.” Read more…

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Someone turned the iconic fire drill scene from The Office into a horror short, and it might give you nightmares. 

By removing the jokes, adding music from Captain America: Winter Soldier, and darkening the scene to a more ominous color scheme, Austin Spencer made paper salesman Dwight K. Schrute look like an absolute psychopath. 

(Granted, Dwight usually seemed a bit psychopathic in the show, but in a lovable way!)

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Last year’s Crazy Rich Asians was a landmark moment for representation in Hollywood.

In a sincere and kind opener, Golden Globes co-host Sandra Oh praised the groundbreaking movie, calling it “the first studio film with an Asian-American lead since Ghost in the Shell and Aloha.”

Quick to respond to the burn was Emma Stone, who was cast as the quarter-Hawaiian and quarter-Chinese Allison Ng in 2015’s much-criticized Aloha. 

“I’m sorry!” Stone could heard shouting from the audience after Oh’s dig on Sunday. Read more…

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Call over the Globes bartenders cause we’re gonna need some ice for these burns. 

Coming off of an astoundingly successful and record-breaking holiday streaming season, Netflix seems to have felt just a little left out of Sunday night’s Golden Globes festivities—despite a number of its projects being honored during the ceremony.

Posting to their official Twitter account, Netflix delivered the following scorching burn during the show.

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Game of Thrones fans have been starved for months for a look at the show’s final season, and we finally got one during the 2019 Golden Globe Awards.

In a new promo for HBO’s 2019 seasons, we witness Sansa Stark’s first meeting with Daenerys Targaryen, who arrives in Winterfell on the arm of Jon Snow.

“Winterfell is yours, your grace,” says Sansa. We can only imagine how loaded those words are from one queen to another – Jon’s relationship to either notwithstanding. Also, Dany’s winter furs are fresh as hell!

Game of Thrones returns in April. Read more…

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