Apple Watch gains a handy functional improvement with watchOS 8.5 paired with tvOS 15.4. Follow along for how to authorize Apple TV purchases on Apple Watch. watchOS 8.5 doesn’t come with as many changes as iOS 15.4 but new features do include a fresh Siri voice, new emoji, and the ability to restore the wearable wirelessly with iPhone. It’s time to update your Apple Watch software with watchOS 8.5 Apple has also included a change that will prove valuable to its set-top box users with a seamless double-click now the default to authorize Apple TV purchases on Apple Watch (previously and still works via iPhone/iPad too)....

Tomorrow, Apple will unveil the new Apple Watch Series 8 alongside two other new Watches. While people are eager to know more about the new smartwatches, Apple Watch Series 7 Hermès Edition and its bands are now unavailable at the Apple Online Store. In addition, Hermès removed from its website the Watches and bands in collaboration with Apple. Hermès has been an Apple partner since the first days of the original Apple Watch....

Remember the good old days when you had to plug a telephone line into your computer to access the internet? Well, those weren’t exactly good days, and thankfully technology has come a long way since then. And to reflect the modern times we live in, Apple will no longer help you set up a dial-up modem on your Mac. Dial-up is gone with macOS Ventura Apple on Wednesday released macOS Ventura beta 4 to developers, and while today’s release isn’t exactly packed with new features, it does come with one very interesting change....

WARNING: This article contains SPOILERS for Arrow Season 6, Episode 2 - The latest episode of Arrow dropped a bomb on its fans, with Oliver Queen deciding to quit crime fighting - and making John Diggle the new Green Arrow. The twist is sure to land even harder than expected on the fans, considering the other bombshell of the episode. But when all was said and done, the fact that Oliver Queen confirmed Bruce Wayne exists in the Arrowverse is but a footnote to the real story: that Oliver Queen’s time under the hood of Green Arrow may truly be over....

It’s easy to agree that Avatar: The Last Airbender was an endlessly innovative and entertaining show. It successfully blended comedy, fantasy, and drama through top-notch storytelling into an easily digestible package that worked equally well for all age groups. Just when Avatar seemed in danger of becoming too frivolous, we’d be hit with a touching moment that nearly drove us to tears. And when the adventures became extra tense, moments of zany fun or intelligent humor were sure to be waiting around the corner....

Phase 1 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe ended with the tease that the newly formed Avengers’ baddest foe is waiting in the wings. The smirking turn for those unaware was just that of a random purple alien, but for comic fans, it was instantly recognized that Thanos had been introduced. Since then, Thanos hasn’t really done much of anything besides have his attempts to have others bring him the Infinity Stones go wrong, leaving him stoneless still....

Fans can now get their Avengers: Infinity War tickets, six weeks before it rolls out around the globe. Starring more than 70 actors from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the film is dubbed the start of the culmination of everything that has transpired in the last 10 years, finding narrative threads in every single film installment that has come before it. It’ll also set up what would be the bookend to 22-film storyline that the franchise has been treading since 2008 in the still-untitled Avengers 4 coming out next year....

You can check back into Bates Motel this coming March, as the prequel story to Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 adaptation of Psycho returns for season 4. The 10-episode season will continue to chronicle Norman Bates’ (Freddie Highmore) slow descent into madness and bloodlust. Meanwhile, Norma Bates (Vera Farmiga) will seek professional help for her son, but this act will be perceived as betrayal and drive the Bates family apart. A previous teaser trailer for the upcoming season indicated that the series is drawing closer to the end, as events come further into alignment with the film....

VR or Virtual Reality gaming has been one of the biggest stories of this year’s E3, with major publishers and hardware developers coming out strong in support of a technology that many had worried would remain an expensive niche medium like previous attempts at VR gaming had been. So far several publishers have emerged with exciting new titles and VR-enabled versions of mainstays like Resident Evil and Star Trek being showcased to an enthusiastic response from crowds both present at the show and watching from home....

We’re now just a short wait away from finally seeing Ben Affleck’s Dark Knight go head to head with Henry Cavill’s Last Son of Krypton on the big screen. Directed by comic book movie regular Zack Snyder (300, Watchmen), Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice follows Cavill’s first outing as Superman in Man of Steel, which was also directed by Snyder. Specifically, Batman V Superman sees an older, more weary Batman wanting to keep Superman’s actions and powers accountable....

Ridley Scott has now begun production on Alien: Covenant, the sequel to his film Prometheus (the quasi-prequel to Scott’s original 1979 Alien movie), as evidenced by photos from the film’s sets in New Zealand and Australia having started to make their way online. However, now that the studio behind the Alien film property, 20th Century Fox, has formally announced that the plan is for Covenant to serve as the middle chapter in a Prometheus/Alien movie prequel trilogy, this has raised the question: is there still a place for filmmaker Neill Blomkamp’s Alien 5 in the future of this sci-fi/horror series?...

AMC has canceled Kevin Smith’s Comic Book Men after seven seasons and 96 episodes. Debuting in 2012, Comic Book Men followed the exploits of geeks Brian, Walter, Mike and Ming at Jay and Silent Bob’s Secret Stash, the New Jersey comic book store owned by Smith. Filmmaker, podcaster and comic book superfan Smith’s involvement in the series was mostly limited to appearing in filmed podcast bits that tied together the show’s various segments....

Being a Titanfall spin-off, many players have long hoped and speculated that Respawn Entertainment would eventually get around to adding Titans to Apex Legends, but the developer has spoken up to confirm that it will not be happening. It always seemed like a long shot, but it still stings something fierce to know that the main series’ defining feature may never make it to its popular battle royale cousin. It hurts doubly when considering that Apex Legends’ rapid development and continuing support are the culprits behind Titanfall 3’s prolonged delay, making the soonest that fans will likely see a Titan in action or control one a next-generation experience at the most optimistic....

In this episode of Apple @ Work, Bradley chats with Rich Trouton and Charles Edge about their Apple device management book. Links: Buy the book Follow Rich on Twitter Follow Charles on Twitter Connect with Bradley Twitter LinkedIn Listen and subscribe Apple Podcasts Overcast Spotify Pocket Casts Castro RSS Listen to Past Episodes

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Apple has acquired rights to upcoming sci-fi romance drama feature film ‘Fingernails’, via Deadline. Ahead of the festival, the package was highlighted as one of the hot properties on sale at the Cannes market. The film will stream worldwide, exclusively, on Apple TV+. The movie has Jessie Buckley and Riz Ahmed attached to star. Apple Original Films secured the deal on Saturday for an undisclosed price. The ‘Fingernails’ premise is that a test can reveal whether married couples are truly in love....

In MBLM’s Brand Intimacy 2022 Study, Apple has ranked third in how consumers bond with the brands they use and love, staying behind Tesla (second place) and Disney (first place). Here are the top findings of the report. According to the study, three technology brands are featured in the top 10 (Apple, Tesla, and Android), up from two in 2021. The scale of the study included more than 600 brands and more than 1....

It’s time for my Apple Report Card 2021 – a personal view of how the company performed this year, taking into account everything from product launches to issues impacting the company’s reputation. When it comes to new products, it could be argued that 2021 was more of a continuation year rather than one in which we saw anything completely new (beyond AirTag), but I think that doesn’t really do justice to the importance of some of the product developments we did see …...

Apple is preparing to upgrade and potentially expand its lineup of external displays designed for Mac and iPad users. A new report today says that the company is working on “multiple new external monitors” with Apple Silicon inside, including a new version of the Pro Display XDR. Currently, Apple sells two external monitors: the Studio Display and the Pro Display XDR. The former was released earlier this year and starts at $1,599, while the latter was released in 2019 and starts at a whopping $4,999 (without a stand)....

Update: This outage appears to have been a brief one. iMessage is coming back online for most users. Apple hasn’t yet commented on what happened. Original story below. Apple’s System Status dashboard now acknowledges the outage and says it has been resolved. Apple’s iMessage is experiencing an outage this afternoon, according to a number of affected users. The outage appears to have started shortly after 12pm ET and is affecting users across the United States....