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All of Thursday’s best deals are now up for the taking, with a $589 refurbished Apple 11-inch iPad Pro discount leading the way. That’s alongside Apple’s official Silicone iPhone 13 MagSafe case at $26 and VOCOlinc’s HomeKit air purifier. Hit the jump for all that and more in the latest 9to5Toys Lunch Break. Save up to $589 on Apple’s refurb prev-gen. 11-inch iPad Pro Woot is now discounting a selection of previous-generation iPads in certified refurbished condition....

All aboard the beta train. Apple is now rolling out iOS 15.2 beta 3 to registered developers, bringing new features and continued refinements. Today’s update to beta 3 comes just one week after the release of beta 2 to developers and public beta users. Head below for the details. Today’s new release of iOS 15.2 beta 3 is available to developers via an over-the-air update in the Settings app. As usual, if the update does not immediately appear for download, keep checking, as it sometimes takes a few minutes to roll out to all registered developers....

5.2.2 Third-Party Sites/Services: If your app uses, accesses, monetizes access to, or displays content from a third-party service, ensure that you are specifically permitted to do so under the service’s terms of use. Authorization must be provided upon request. Update with comment from Apple: You can read the comment from Apple below:

Apple today announced a major new sports streaming deal. Following on from its MLB Friday Night Baseball deal on Apple TV+, the company today announced that it will be the exclusive streaming destination to watch Major League Soccer games, in the US and internationally, starting with the 2023 season. Unlike Friday Night Baseball, watching the games will require a separate subscription to an MLS streaming service, available exclusively through the Apple TV app....

Apple today announced some changes to its Apple Developer Program agreement, which are the terms that developers are required to agree to in order to offer their apps on the App Store. The new terms clarify the use of Swift Playgrounds, Xcode Cloud, and more. Ahead of the Swift Playgrounds 4 launch, Apple has updated its terms to mention the platform as one of the alternatives for creating iOS apps. This is because one of the main new features of Swift Playgrounds 4 is the ability to create and submit apps to the App Store directly from an iPad, so now the app is considered an “Apple SDK,” just like Xcode....

Today, Aqara has announced the US release of its new G2H Pro camera designed as an Aqara hub and supporting HomeKit Secure Video. Aqara’s product lineups allow end users to build out a HomeKit setup at the lowest cost possible. Read on to learn more about the G2H Pro and its comparison to the original. HomeKit Weekly is a series focused on smart home accessories, automation tips and tricks, and everything to do with Apple’s smart home framework....

So many dead characters are returning to Arrow for the show’s eighth and final season, but how? In March, it was confirmed that Arrow, the series that started the Arrowverse, would end with a ten-episode eighth season. After season 7’s future storyline dropped numerous hints, the season 7 finale confirmed Oliver (Stephen Amell)’s death and set up the story for season 8. It was revealed that Oliver’s next mission is to save the multiverse, with his journey tied directly to the upcoming Arrowverse crossover event, “Crisis on Infinite Earths”....

[This is a review of the Ash vs. Dead season 2 premiere. There will be SPOILERS.] - It is always fascinating to see a series learn new ways of telling a story as it moves on from its inaugural season. The first time around, Ash vs. Evil Dead was, in many ways, fueled by nostalgia for the original Sam Raimi-directed, Bruce Campbell-starring films that proved popular enough to see the franchise live long enough to need a sports car to fulfill some deep-seated, existential need....

The Avengers: Infinity War fan who has watched the superhero blockbuster 43 times and counting has been officially invited to the world red carpet premiere of Avengers 4 next year. Marvel Studios and even their stars have been sending fans to their high-profile red carpet events as a way to give back to their loyal following. However, this latest one is a bit different compared to previous instances where fans either have to partake in a charity event or a raffle draw to receive an invite....

Electronic Arts (via PC Gamer) continues to reveal more about their upcoming first-person shooter Battlefield V. Today they revealed a new mode called Airborne, that will feature players parachuting down into battle. Most interesting, though, it might very well be setting the stage for a battle royale mode down the line. Airborne mode will be just one of the many multiplayer offerings inside Battlefield V when DICE’s latest shooter releases October 19....

New monsters appearing in Pokémon Sword and Shield’s setting of Galar was an inevitability, and the latest Nintendo Direct delivered on just that. The latest creatures are unique enough to stand out against the existing roster of Pokémon, which numbers over 800 as of this writing. More importantly, the look of the creatures appears to be a direct result of James Turner taking over as the art director for these core Pokémon titles....

Each year sees the release of amazing movies, but sometimes it’s hard to know which movies are really worth watching. Though most theaters only play major releases backed by big studios, the vast majority of films released each year come out with comparatively little fanfare, premiering at film festivals and often opening only in select theaters before hitting streaming services. These movies tend to lack the star power and easy categorization of most blockbusters, but the best among them find creative and unique ways to make up for it, whether with tension, humor, character, thematic substance, or even sheer originality— a quality lacking in many of 2017’s big-budget studio releases....

And at a time when comic book characters are central to the biggest movie franchise the film industry has ever seen, to the point that nearly every Marvel movie is an obligatory theater-going experience, The Boys couldn’t have been more timely in making its small screen debut. In bringing Ennis and Robertson’s work to television, Kripke has envisioned a world in which superheroes are the world’s biggest celebrities, with their faces (masked and otherwise) emblazoned on every imaginable product from beer to breakfast cereal, and when they’re not saving citizens from armed bank robbers or maniacs with guns, they’re starring in movies about themselves....

Gerard Butler’s action sequel Angel Has Fallen has secured a summer 2019 release date. The ‘Has Fallen’ franchise has proved surprisingly robust, and launched in 2013 with Olympus Has Fallen. The movie was one of two competing White House under siege blockbusters of that year, but Olympus Has Fallen’s R-rated violence and b-movie thrills proved much more popular than Channing Tatum’s White House Down, which ultimately failed at the box office....

An analyst has suggested that antitrust issues are the single biggest threat to AAPL, and that company execs should outline plans to address the matter during today’s earnings call. We’re expecting to hear good news today, the Wall Street consensus anticipating revenue of $72.93 billion for the quarter, which would be dramatically up on the same quarter last year … However, there could be choppier waters ahead on the antitrust front, and Reuters reports that some investors will expect to hear what Apple plans to do to minimize the threats to its business model....

Apple is delaying support for storing ID cards in the Wallet app until 2022. The company announced this feature at WWDC in June, initially promising that it would be released in “late 2021.” As some of us suspected might occur, this release date has now been pushed to 2022. Apple Pay VP Jennifer Bailey announced the feature during Apple’s WWDC 2021 keynote. Bailey explained during the keynote that this is the final thing that Apple needs to bring to the Wallet app to let you be “fully free of your physical wallet....

Apple paid a bug bounty of $100K after a cyber security student who successfully hijacked the iPhone camera back in 2019 did the same with the Mac camera. Ryan Pickren used an imaginative approach that allowed him to run arbitrary code on a target Mac, and received what he believes to be the largest bug bounty Apple has ever paid … Background Pickren is a PhD student in cyber security at the Georgia Institute of Technology....

Just one day after releasing iOS 16.2 and macOS Ventura 13.1 to all users, Apple today is rolling out the first beta of macOS Ventura 13.2 to developers along with iOS 16.3 beta. Read on as we detail what to expect from this update. With macOS Ventura 13.1, Apple introduced Advanced Data Protection to iCloud, which provides end-to-end encryption for messages, backups, photos, notes, and other data stored in iCloud. The update also brought Apple’s Freeform app for collaborative projects and a new, more efficient architecture for the Home app and HomeKit accessories....

In response to new regulatory pressures, Apple announced earlier this month that it would allow developers of dating applications in the Netherlands to use alternative payment systems. The Dutch Authority for Consumers and Markets has now published its own press release, saying that Apple’s announcement “fails to satisfy” the requirement set forth by the competition commission. Apple’s original announcement was relatively vague and didn’t elaborate on many details of its planned changes....