Save on Anker MagSafe chargers and more from $12 Delivering MagSafe compatiblity with the latest iPhone 13 and iPhone 12, you’re looking at a portable power bank that can magnetically snap onto the back of your device. It packs an internal 5,000mAh battery and can be refueled via USB-C, plus has the novel inclusion of a fold out stand. You can learn all about it in our Tested with 9to5Toys review, then head below for more....
As Apple mainly relies on Samsung and LG to manufacture its OLED panels for the iPhone, another Chinese factory wants a piece of Cupertino’s company money. As reported by The Elec, “Chinese display maker CSOT has formed a team to evaluate its production line in a bid to supply OLED panels to Apple for iPhones.” As both companies are in early talks, CSOT plans to make a demo line and see the performance of the panels made there....
After a “strategic” month-long delay, the UK release of Ant-Man and the Wasp saw the third-lowest opening for any Marvel Studios movie, and failed to beat Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again, which was in its third weekend at the box office. The staggered release, which also affected several other international markets, was intended to take Ant-Man and the Wasp out of competition with the FIFA World Cup and The Incredibles 2, and give it a clear run at the UK box office....
A week after seeding developers and public testers with macOS 12.1 beta 4, Apple has released the 12.1 RC ahead of a public launch. Notably, the macOS 12.1 release candidate doesn’t include support for the highly anticipated Universal Control feature. The macOS 12.1 release candidate is appearing now via OTA for developers with build number 21C51. You can also download it from Apple’s Developer website if you’re not running the beta yet (full guide here)....
Apple is not exactly a service company since its main revenue still comes from hardware, but subscriptions have become a vital part of the company. They are now bigger than products like the Mac and iPad. Still, the company seems to want to take its service category even further by pushing streaming platforms and advertisements. According to a Business Insider report based on sources familiar with the matter, Apple wants to restructure its Services team to make the category even more profitable....
Fortune magazine has published its annual “Most Powerful Women” list, and Apple SVP of retail and people, Deirdre O’Brien, and VP of environment, policy, and social initiatives, Lisa Jackson, are among them. O’Brien (pictured above) is Apple’s top HR official and the retail business boss. Jackson, apart from being the figure who told everyone during the iPhone 12 keynote why Apple was removing the power brick from its boxes, is also leading the company to a carbon-neutral future by 2030....
Apple Studio Display details By comparison, Pro Display XDR has a 32-inch 6K (6016 x 3384) panel with 218 pixels per inch. A higher resolution could mean that the new Apple Studio Display will have a higher pixel density of 245 PPI or that it will keep the same 218 PPI as the Pro Display XDR but on a larger 36-inch panel. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman recently reported that Apple plans to introduce multiple new Macs in 2022, plus a new external display that is half the price of the Pro Display XDR targeted at regular users....
Sydelle Noel has joined the cast of Arrow in a recurring role. Season six of Arrow is shaping up to be a bit different than the previous five years. The island flashbacks have all been told, so the flashbacks to come will serve a different purpose. Laurel Lance is still gone, but her Earth-2 counterpart will be around - most likely causing confusion and pain. Slade Wilson is back. Malcolm Merlyn is dead, and the season five cliffhanger indicates that it’s likely he won’t be the only one....
Every fan of Avatar: The Last Airbender knows that no matter how mighty an Avatar may become, they are only the latest in line… and unlikely to ever match the legendary Kyoshi; one of the strongest, greatest, and most fearsome Avatars that had ever lived. Now thanks to her very own prequel novel, the story of The Rise of Kyoshi will finally be told. The Last Airbender series allowed its hero, Aang, to commune with the previous incarnations of the Avatar....
Avengers: Infinity War is set to be Marvel’s most ambitious film to date. Considering this is the studio that, by Phase 3’s end, will have released twenty-two movies in eleven years and made household names of the Guardians of the Galaxy and Ant-Man, that is saying a lot. This movie will tie together everything that Marvel has been building toward since Iron Man was released in 2008, with the fourth Avengers film bringing about the end of the MCU as we know it....
New fan art turns Cassandra Cain actress Ella Jay Basco into Batgirl for Birds of Prey 2. Released in February, Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) adapted a number of famous comic book characters to DC’s movie universe for the first time, including Dinah Lance/Black Canary and Helena Bertinelli/Huntress. Audiences were similarly introduced to Basco’s Cassandra, an orphaned pick-pocket who’s targeted by the sadistic Black Mask after stealing - and swallowing - the highly coveted Bertinelli diamond....
It’s a world where death is not the final truth anymore. If you are insanely rich, you can live for gazillion years or until the end of time, whichever is greater. It is made possible due to the invention of a special chip called a cortical stack plundered from alien technology. This is the premise of the 2002 neo-noir sci-fi novel Altered Carbon turned Netflix series. But, like many other shows, this one strayed from the books too, sometimes too far and sometimes not far enough....
According to user reports aggregated by Downdetector show that a number of services are affected by the AWS outage, including: The outage are focused in the US East 1 AWS region, so it’s possible that not everyone is experiencing the issues outlined above. We are experiencing API and console issues in the US-EAST-1 Region. We have identified root cause and we are actively working towards recovery. This issue is affecting the global console landing page, which is also hosted in US-EAST-1....
Several AMC locations around the country are adding late-night 2 am screenings for Star Wars: The Last Jedi due to high consumer demand. At long last, the eighth chapter of the Skywalker saga is upon us, beginning its domestic theatrical run with preview showings on Thursday, December 14. Though the film is not expected to top the astronomical box office numbers of 2015’s The Force Awakens, Last Jedi is estimated to rake in around $200 million in its U....
Ant-Man and the Wasp is projected to be a much larger box office hit than its 2015 predecessor. Marvel Studios has celebrated their 10th anniversary in style, starting 2018 with a pair of $1 billion blockbusters (Black Panther and Avengers: Infinity War). Before the franchise closes out this year, they have one more film set for release. Peyton Reed’s Ant-Man and the Wasp is just a few weeks away from its premiere, helping set the stage before Avengers 4 in 2019....
A class action lawsuit alleging that Apple has an App Store monopoly has been rejected by a federal court judge, in a 34-page ruling. Part of the ruling essentially said that the plaintiffs did a poor job in stating their case, but another element potentially puts Apple in a strong position when it comes to defending other antitrust cases against the App Store … The lawsuit was led by the developers of Coronavirus Reporter, whose app was banned by Apple under rules, which only allow COVID-19-related apps from official governmental health bodies....
An App Tracking Transparency antitrust investigation is underway, on the basis that Apple requires third-party apps to ask permission for tracking, but the company does not do so for its own apps. The investigation has been launched in Germany, which is a somewhat surprising fact … That’s because App Tracking Transparency (ATT) is designed to protect user privacy, and Germany has a particularly strong stance on data protection. But while the country is happy with the privacy protections granted by ATT, it isn’t happy with Apple exempting itself from its own rules....
The iPhone 14 launch has been anything but smooth. The Apple Store Online and Apple Store are both going through some major issues this morning, leading to server errors, trade-in failures, double orders, and much more. At the same time, delivery estimates for many iPhone 14 models have already slipped into mid-October… As is tradition, the Apple Store app and Apple Online Store both went offline overnight as Apple prepared for iPhone 14 pre-orders....
