Angry Birds artwork by ijul Does it bother you that you cannot continue playing a game on your iPad right where you left off on an iPhone? It always frustrated me that Game Center, Apple’s social network for games, only keeps record of your achievements and leaderboards but not other game data pertaining to your progress and current state of the game. Unfortunately, until a system-wide sync of app data across all iOS devices via cloud iTunes takes off – if ever – it’s just a pipe dream....

Annabelle is causing trouble again - this time, in the Warrens’ own home - in the trailer for The Conjuring spinoff, Annabelle Comes Home. Where the previous two Annabelle films took place prior to Jame Wan’s first Conjuring, this summer’s spinoff picks up shortly after that movie’s prologue. Young Captain Marvel herself, Mckenna Grace, stars here as the Warrens’ ten-year old daughter Judy, who is forced to battle Annabelle when the demonic doll awakens the evil spirits in the cursed artifacts room where she’s been stored....

After a big week of Justice League cast and crew speaking up about the Snyder Cut, another crew member is joining the fray to support the call for Warner Bros. to release the Snyder Cut. Over the course of just a few days, Jesse Eisenberg chimed in on the Snyder Cut for the first time, Jason Momoa once again stated that he’s seen the movie and audiences need to see it, Junkie XL confirmed his Justice League score is complete, two VFX supervisors confirmed many shots are complete or near-complete, and now the aerial second unit director, Clay Staub, is also throwing his hat in the ring....

The third season of American Crime Story will focus on the scandal of president Bill Clinton’s impeachment and his affair with Monica Lewinsky. Premiering on FX in 2015, the anthology has so far focused exclusively on cultural events which defined the 90’s. For its first season, American Crime Story relived the spectacle of the O.J. Simpson murder trial. Guided by the help of the best-selling book The Run of His Life by Jeffery Toobin, the episodes touched on issues of prejudice, sexism, and a frenzied media landscape....

The range which actor Sarah Paulson has displayed over her nine-season reign on the anthology horror series American Horror Story is impressive, to say the least. From mediums to witches to conjoined twins, Paulson has provided the show’s fans with some of the most memorable and compelling characters in the show’s history. American Horror Story is known for its stylized and theatrical approach to horror, relying on melodrama, glitz, and overkill to keep audiences watching....

American Horror Story season 9, aka American Horror Story: 1984, is officially happening, so what can fans expect? Like Fargo, FX’s anthology horror series features a new cast and storyline each season, each twisting darker and more unexpected. In 2011, FX premiered American Horror Story: Murder House and set the narrative tone for the franchise. After the first season, Jessica Lange won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie, and she won again in 2015 for American Horror Story: Coven....

After-hours trading in AAPL stock already values the company at $900B, but target prices from almost half the analyst reports seen following yesterday’s bumper earnings report and record-breaking guidance would value the company at more than a trillion dollars … Business Insider had a roundup of 15 analyst ratings, with seven of them setting a target price for the stock above the magic $193 which would see the company hit a market capitalization of a trillion dollars....

A week from today, Apple is expected to introduce the iPhone Xs and iPhone Xs Max, as well as a new 6.1-inch LCD iPhone. Supply chain sources have indicated that this year could be the biggest year for the iPhone since the iPhone 6, and now more analysts are joining that conversation. As noted by Barron’s, KeyBanc Capital Market analysts issued a new investor note today in which they touted the effects that an upgrade in screen size will have on iPhone demand....

The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills creator Andy Cohen explained how he thinks a resolution between co-stars Lisa Vanderpump and Kyle Richards could happen. He’s still holding out hope, while a lot of fans think their friendship is over for good. Fans of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills know by now that Vanderpump has officially left the show following “puppygate,” an incident surrounding a rescue dog from Vanderpump’s dog shelter....

Despite their similar powers, Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) and Hope Van Dyne (Evangeline Lilly) could not be more different superheroes in Ant-Man & the Wasp. They are the first duo to headline a Marvel Cinematic Universe film, and as fans of the original film recall, they are quite the odd couple. The contrast between Hope and Scott will be even more prounounced and will be further explored when the heroes team up in their newest adventure....

This year, most of the predictions were not about particular technologies, like Hadoop, Kafka or Spark. And they weren’t even about tech genre issues like the battle between data warehouses and data lakes. Instead, this year’s predictions (for next year) focused on broader business or even societal issues, many of which stem from the world’s collective experience of the Coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic and the changes it has imposed. Technology’s in there, of course; for example, there was a lot of discussion of artificial intelligence (AI), low code/no code platforms and architectural approaches to analytics, like Data Fabric and Data Mesh....

Developer Joe Hewitt scored acres of anti-Apple coverage when he slammed the company for its closed iOS development environment — I wonder, then, just how much coverage his latest rant will achieve now Hewitt is slamming Google for claiming Android is “open”, when it isn’t really. At the center of Hewitt’s argument is that Google’s Android code — which claims to be open in the same sense as Firefox or other open projects — isn’t really developed in the same way....

When we spoke to Andy Serkis at San Diego Comic-Con 2017, he said that he’d “love to” return to the Planet of the Apes franchise one day. Serkis most recently starred in War for the Planet of the Apes - and given how successful the other Apes prequels have been, that shouldn’t really be a surprise. Serkis has previously discussed how much depth went into making Caesar as his own character and not just a CGI visual effect....

Following Tim Cook’s introductory comments, retail head Angela Ahrendts took the stage to talk about Apple’s retail experience. Ahrendts touted Apple Retail as the company’s “largest product.” Ahrendts said that over 500 million people visit Apple retail stores every year and talked about Apple’s recent expansion of retail efforts, including its new Today at Apple initiative. She also talked up Apple’s biggest retail stores, which include things such as a boardroom for collaboration, a public forum, the Genius Grove, and more....

If you thought it was annoying having to buy MacBook/MacBook Pro dongles, spare a thought for owners of Microsoft’s Surface Pro and Surface Laptops … If they want to connect any USB-C devices, they’ll need to lay out $80 for a dongle. Not only that, but the Surface Connect to USB-C Adapter is huge, measuring more than 3 inches by 1.5 inches by 3/4-inch – which The Verge notes is about the size of the Surface power brick....

WhatsApp has finally fixed one its annoying bugs in the latest update to its iOS update: you will no longer see unread notifications badges for muted chats … Muted chats are one of the most handy features of WhatsApp. It’s quite often the case that there will be a thread in a WhatsApp group that doesn’t interest you. Muting that thread means you no longer get sounds, vibrations and banners for that chat, nor will you see it in your notifications – but that pesky badge would still indicate a new message....

Pardon a Forstallism in the headline (“blow-away”), it’s actually a fitting description of AMD’s just announced Radeon HD 7970 graphic card powered by the Tahiti GPU. Traces of support for Tahiti-driven AMD GPUs have recently been found in a beta of OS X Lion 10.7.3, indicating Mac Pro users will probably be able to pop in this beauty inside their system for a pretty significant boost in the oomph department. According to HotHardware, the 7970 is between 1....

American Horror Story co-creator Ryan Murphy hinted that the witches from American Horror Story: Coven will return in future episodes of the hit anthology TV show. American Horror Story: Coven was the central theme of the third season in the series. Over its eight-season run thus far, the widely acclaimed horror series has done its best to tap into viewers’ deepest, darkest fears – from witches, demons, and clowns to hospitals, insane asylums, and the apocalypse....

Since the launch of the iPhone X on Friday, there have been an abundance of overdubs using one of Apple’s newest features, Animoji. With the facial mapping software that Apple has included in the new iMessage app, people are finding hilarious and creative ways to insert these Animoji into everything from music to movies. When Apple announced Animoji at its September event, some people were skeptical. Now, after three days with this new technology, a new breed of creatives are crawling out of the woodwork (or at least making themselves more apparent)....

The early episodes of American Dad! didn’t really know what to do with Roger. Since he was an alien and Stan was forcing him to stay in the house, he just drank wine and watched TV. However, as soon as the writers figured out they could put him in disguises that would fool every character outside the Smith family, he became arguably the funniest character on the show. Roger has had a ton of disguises, from one-offs that only appear in a single episode to returning disguises from a few episodes that have basically become recurring characters on the series....