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Today has seen another Apple PR fail as the company has, once again, waited until forced to act – this time over Right to Repair pressure. The company has finally now accepted that consumers should be allowed to repair their own Apple kit, including the very latest and most complex devices. Apple’s previous resistance has been widely seen as both greedy, and inconsistent with the company’s environmental stance. Many repairs are simply not worth doing at official Apple prices, making it more likely that consumers will simply dispose of broken devices and buy new ones....

Stephen and Robbie Amell’s indie sci-fi film Code 8 is one step closer to becoming a reality as a new cast member joins the project. Early last year, word began to bubble to the surface that Arrow’s Stephen Amell and his cousin Robbie had begun working on a short film based on an original sci-fi concept. Dubbed Code 8, the short takes place in a world where a small percentage of the Earth’s population have special powers....

With Gillian Anderson not returning for season 2 of American Gods as the god Media, Starz had to come up with a creative way to replace her in the series. Instead of recasting the role of Media, the show will introduce a new character, New Media, with newcomer Kahyun Kim stepping into the role. American Gods is based on the novel of the same name by Neil Gaiman. It follows the story of a young man, Shadow, whose wife dies in a car accident right before he gets out of prison....

When Lucy Maud Montgomery began her Anne Of Green Gables novels, she created a journey for a young girl who believed no one would ever love her finding that love in friendship, family, and romance. That story provided the inspiration for Netflix’s Anne With An E, and created many examples of the different friendships a person can have. Some blossom into love, others are kindred spirits, and still others are better left to fade away with age....

Scott Lang will be an important factor in saving Janet van Dyne from the Quantum Realm in Ant-Man & The Wasp. The latest entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the franchise is going small - both literally and figuratively - with the forthcoming sequel. Despite that, the film is expected to have a huge effect on the story moving forward as it officially introduces the Microverse - “a reality where all concepts of time and space become irrelevant as you shrink for all eternity....

New set photos from Ant-Man and the Wasp emerge online, teasing a flashback sequence featuring Hank Pym and his wife, Janet van Dyne. While Marvel Studios is busy promoting Thor: Ragnarok and Black Panther, the company is also still hard a work with their other projects that are still production, including the Ant-Man sequel. The film will see the return of Paul Rudd’s Scott Lang as the current iteration of the shrinking hero, as well as the introduction of the new Wasp with Evangeline Lily’s Hope van Dyne taking over the suit that her mother initially wore....

America needs all-digital crypto dollars and soon before it runs the real risk of losing out to China. Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC) have become a major talking point with many countries now looking at how they can roll out their own. That’s except the U.S. where cash and traditional bank transactions remain king. Central bank digital currencies might sound a lot like cryptocurrencies, but they are not the same. Technically, cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, are a form of digital currency, but the differences between them do define them....

For fans of America’s Got Talent, we’ve compiled a list of every host and judge fired from the show. We know that Regis Philbin, Piers Morgan, Jerry Springer and Heidi Klum allegedly left on amicable terms. But for the other talented names associated with the show, their departures were shrouded in controversy. Nick Cannon. Cannon joined the cast of America’s Got Talent in 2009. He succeeded Regis Philbin and Jerry Springer....

Ubiquiti announced its first Wi-Fi 6 mesh router today, the AmpliFi Alien. It features true Gigabit speeds with 8×8 MIMO, a color touchscreen, 2.2 GHz 64-Bit Quad-Core CPU, four Ethernet ports, and much more. Ubiquiti announced the news in a press release today: AmpliFi Alien Highlights: Beyond the breakthrough Wi-Fi performance, AmpliFi Alien offers all of the software features praised by the growing AmpliFi user-base including simple setup, powerful connected device management, and a free, zero-configuration VPN service through the АmpliFi Teleport app that places travelers within their home network like they never left....

Lionsgate releases the Angel Has Fallen international trailer. Directed by Ric Roman Waugh, the franchise film was preceded by Olympus Has Fallen and London Has Fallen. All three action thrillers star Gerard Butler as Secret Service Agent Mike Banning. Released in 2013, Olympus Has Fallen was directed by frequent Denzel Washington collaborator Antoine Fuqua. In the film, Butler’s character attempts to protect the U.S. President from a North Korea attack. Produced for $70 million, Olympus Has Fallen earned over $170 at the box office....

According to the experts at Rotten Tomatoes, The Angry Birds Movie 2 is on track to become the highest-rated video game movie on the review site. The first Angry Birds Movie came out in 2016 and boasted an all-star voice cast featuring the likes of Jason Sudeikis, Peter Dinklage, Maya Rudolph and Bill Hader. Based on Rovio Entertainment’s smartphone game, the film focused on the ongoing war between the angry birds of the title and their mortal enemies – a horde of evil green-colored pigs....

The company surpassed analyst expectations considerably for the fourth quarter, which were estimated at $1.78 a share. The company’s quarterly revenue also rose 30% to $12.2 billion, compared to $9.4 billion the prior year. According to the company press release, the increase in revenue is mostly due to a rise in cardmember spending. For the full year, revenue is up 17%, to $42.4 billion, up from $36.1 billion in 2020....

Apple Senior Vice President of Retail Angela Ahrendts is continuing to go all in on growth in China. In video messages to employees in recent days and weeks, Ahrendts has been recruiting employees from United States-based Apple Retail stores to relocate to China to help build up Apple’s retail efforts in the region. In a note to employees late last week, sources say that Ahrendts reported that approximately 200 Apple retail workers from the U....

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One or two people might suggest that, with the current pandemic, this idea was mere madness. We, though, wanted to see what traveling abroad and working abroad truly meant right now. The first step was booking flights. We chose Lisbon simply because we love Lisbon. (It’s that rare example of peaceful, decent civilization in a world gone twisted.) Not so long ago, the Portuguese national airline, TAP, instituted direct flights from San Francisco to Lisbon....

At WWDC earlier this month, Apple once again recognized some of the top designers of iOS and Mac apps with the annual Apple Design Awards. This year, one of the apps that won the student category was Finish, a unique task management app which we reviewed when it launched in January. Finish was created by Ryan Orbuch and Michael Hansen, a high-school duo from Colorado. This week, we sat down with Orbuch and discussed the inspiration behind Finish, the ADA, and more....

Apple is believed to be developing its own custom power management chips for iPhone and iPads, at least according to one industry analyst (via Reuters). The report from Bankhaus Lampe said that Apple is looking to replace a PMIC component currently supplied by Dialog with its own custom silicon as soon as 2019. The analyst notes that Apple has been aggressively hiring engineers from the third-party supplier and already has a significant team of employees working on Apple-designed power management chips....

— Android (@Android) November 12, 2014 The Android 5.0 update was supposed to roll out earlier this month for Nexus 5, but was delayed apparently due to a WiFi bug. There were also reports that Google wanted Nexus 6 to go on sale before releasing the latest OS update to the older Nexus devices. Android 5.0 Lollipop comes with lots of new and interesting features and a complete overhaul of visual design....

The drozer build in tools enables you to use, share and understand public Android exploits. It enables you to send a drozer agent to a device through exploitation or social engineering and perform various tasks on remote devices. Drozer is an open source tool and the source code for drozer can be found in various GitHub project repositories. drozer: has the Console and server drozer-agent: contains the Android Agent drozer-modules: has the central drozer module repository....