Netflix confirms season 2 of ‘The Umbrella Academy’

We’ve heard about this a few days ago but now Netflix has confirmed that The Umbrella Academy is getting a second season. The main cast—which includes Ellen Page, Tom Hopper, David Castañeda, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Robert Sheehan, Aidan Gallagher, and Justin Min—are all coming back to reprise their roles. It’ll be a 10 one-hour episode season, but we don’t know yet when the new episodes will drop. However, production will begin this summer. Steve Blackman will be returing as showrunner and executive producer. My Chemical Romance’s Gerard Way, who is the creator of the comic series the show is based on, will be coming back as co-executive producer.

The Umbrella Academy just got confirmed for Season 2, and if anything happens to Five we riot. pic.twitter.com/zoMkmsNwK2

— NX (@NXOnNetflix) April 2, 2019

Source: Engadget

Audi teases AI:me self-driving city car concept

Volkswagen isn’t the only one with a self-driving concept that will be debuted at the Shanghai Motor Show. Audi will be showing off the AI:me. The car maker teased a sketch of the car and describes it as a “vision of an automated driving compact car for the megacities of tomorrow.”

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Nokia launches hole-punch display-toting X71

Nokia is taking on the hole-punch display trend with its newest Android One phone. The brand’s licensee HMD Global just launched in Taiwan the X71. Aside from the new 6.39-inch display, the X71 is a camera-centric phone with a Zeiss-branded triple-camera system. It has a 48-megapixel main sensor, 8-megapixel wide sensor, and 5-megapixel depth sensor. The hole-punch houses a 16-megapixel selfie shooter. It runs on a Snapdragon 660 processor, 6GB of RAM, 128GB of expandable storage, and a 3,500mAh battery.

It’s priced at around US$385 (around CA$510) and pits it against the $490 Huawei Nova 4 and $203 Redmi Note 7 Pro, which both carry the same Sony 48-megapixel sensor. It’s rumoured to be getting a global release under the name Nokia 8.1 Plus.

Source: Engadget

Volkswagen calls its full-size electric SUV concept the ID ROOMZZ, because why not?

Volkswagen is going to be showing off its new electric car concept at the Shanghai Motor Show. And we’re sure you’ll remember it for its name. The car maker teased its sixth all-electric car and they’re calling this full-size electric SUV concept the ID ROOMZZ (yes, with two zeds). It’s in good (?) company when it comes to interesting names. The ID ROOMZZ follows the ID, ID Crozz, ID Buzz, ID Vizzion, and ID Buggy. Clearly, someone at VW loves to press the “z” key when they think up names for its all-electric concepts.

The name refers to the new seat configuration in this vehicle. According to VW’s Chief Designer Klaus Bischoff, “The ID ROOMZZ shows us what we can expect from full-size electric SUVs in the future.” The ID ROOMZZ offers case level 4 autonomy, which means it can drive itself “without an active driver.” It’ll also reportedly deliver “high-quality materials” and “customizable light.” A production-ready version is expected to debut in China by 2021.

Source: Top Gear