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Ant-Man and the Wasp director Peyton Reed won’t rule out the possibility of time travel in Anthony and Joe Russo’s Avengers 4. Last year, a batch of photos from the set of Avengers 4 seemed to indicate that the film would be returning to the Battle of New York from Joss Whedon’s first Avengers movie. It was unclear exactly what was happening in the photos as well as what will draw the superhero team back to the momentous battle, but it was certainly clear that time travel was somehow involved....

Apple is looking to entice new customers with its credit card this holiday season with two promotions. To start December, it launched 5% cash back for new cardholders through Christmas and the company is now also offering a $75 Daily Cash bonus when using a referral link from a friend. We saw Apple Card offer this $75 referral bonus this past spring, but only for two weeks. This time around, those signing up for the credit card through a friend’s link are eligible to grab the $75 through February 2023....

As part of the macOS Ventura announcement, Apple has unveiled new updates to gaming. Metal 3 is the latest version of the Metal software that brings new experiences to gamers. Coming to Apple Silicon Macs and iPads Macs running Apple Silicon can now play titles like EA’s GRID Legends, Capcom’s Resident Evil Village, and Hello Games’ No Man’s Sky. Previously, these games available on gaming consoles and/or high-performance gaming PCs. Since Apple Silicon is also on iPad, game developers can bring AAA games to both Mac and iPad....

The Apple Online Store in Russia has suddenly halted sales of all products in Russia amidst the ongoing international conflict as a result of Russia invading Ukraine. The company has also shared a comprehensive statement on the situation. Ukranian minister Mykhailo Federov reportedly said ‘thank you Tim Cook’ in response to the news. When browsing through the Russian Apple Online Store, all of Apple’s products are now reporting that they are ‘currently unavailable’ for sale....

Following the release of a major update to the Safari Technology Preview earlier this week, Apple is now inviting macOS Monterey and Big Sur users to try out the new Safari 16 beta ahead of the release of macOS Ventura later this year. Users are being invited through the AppleSeed program, which lets them try out beta software that’s not part of the Apple Developer or Apple Beta Software programs. The program is by invitation only, which means that you can’t apply for an approval....

Apple Maps tightly integrates with Yelp to source information and reviews for restaurants and more and the latter has announced today that it is launching new options for business owners to share COVID vaccination policies. As reported by The Verge, the new vaccination policy options will show up for business owners when logging into their Yelp for Business accounts under the “Amenities & more” section. Two new options are included, “Proof of vaccination required” and “All staff fully vaccinated....

Arriving a week after the third macOS 12.4 beta for developers and public testers – including the first webcam fix for Apple’s Studio Display – Apple has seeded macOS 12.4 beta 4 today to developers. macOS 12.4 beta 4 is now available via OTA for developers already enrolled in the beta as well as being available soon from Apple’s Developer website. Today’s beta comes with build number 21F5071b. We didn’t see much new in the first macOS 12....

Apple has set a pair of Apple Watch Activity Challenges for next month in China and Russia. On August 14 in Russia, Apple Watch users can celebrate Physical Culture Day with their Apple Watch, while users in China can celebrate National Fitness Day on August 8. On August 8 in China: And on August 14 in Russia: National Fitness Day Challenge On August 8, let’s all earn this award by doing any workout for at least 30 minutes....

A major update from MicroOLED, the company behind ActiveLook is bringing what looks like an impressive AR experience for Apple Watch owners. Offering what it says is the first real-time heads-up display for Apple Watch exercise data, ActiveLook’s new Light AR platform brings the live metrics into AR sports glasses like ENGO and Julbo. MicroOLED shared the big news on the compatibility with watchOS 9 for use with ActiveLook-powered AR glasses in a press release:...

Nicole Kidman has made her official debut as Queen Atlanna in a pair of new Aquaman-themed magazine covers. The queen of Atlantis was mentioned by Mera (Amber Heard) and Atlanna’s son Arthur Curry (Jason Momoa) during a scene in last year’s Justice League, but will make her proper big screen debut in the Aquaman solo movie later this year. It’s not clear just yet what role the character will play in the DC cinematic universe moving forward, though it has been established that her relationship with her half-human son is tense, to put it simply....

The Aquaman trailer may secretly reveal Black Manta’s origin story. The first Aquaman trailer made the next entry in the DCEU the most-discussed movie from SDCC 2018 on Twitter, although it divided viewers due to questionable editing and CGI. However, regardless of the advert itself, the trailer revealed or confirmed a lot of the most important Aquaman plot points, particularly those in the film’s first act. It showcased most of Arthur Curry’s backstory, and even showed clips from the scene in which Mera approaches him, asking him to head to Atlantis in order to stop a war between the seven tribes and the surface-dwellers....

The season 5 premiere of Arrow is right around the corner, and while details regarding the season’s new characters – mostly the villains – have been making the rounds, there’s still some question of how it’s all going to come together. That’s especially pressing considering where season 4 left things from a narrative standpoint. Following the fall of Damien Darhk, Team Arrow was in the wind, with both Thea and Diggle heading off in different directions and presumably leaving a life of vigilantism behind....

Director Ridley Scott called the shots on his landmark sci-fi/horror film Alien all the way back in 1979, while filmmaker Shane Black played a supporting role in the original Predator film and helped to fine-tune the project’s script throughout production, back in 1987. Cut to the present in 2016 and now both of these storytellers are actively moving these sci-fi/action/horror franchises into the future, at an interesting point in these respective film properties’ histories....

Andy Serkis has shared some of the first details about Mowgli, including the MPAA rating as well as some details about his interpretation of his role as Baloo. Mowgli is the non-Disney adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, which takes a much more direct approach to the iconic novel. Unlike the recent Jon Favreau reboot, this approach will take away the Disney frills and sing-a-longs, while adding a darker tone to the story....

[This is a review of the Animal Kingdom season 2 finale. There will be SPOILERS.] - In the first season of TNT’s Animal Kingdom, the family dynamics at play within the Cody crime family served as one of the show’s biggest dramatic assets, and it was fascinating to watch each member’s strong, emboldened personality push and pull against one another from the perspective of an essentially-neutral outsider in J (Finn Cole)....

Security researchers discovered 85 apps engaged in ad fraud; ten are on the App Store, and the other 75 are on Google Play. Combined, people downloaded them over 13 million times. They’re part of a new ad fraud campaign named “Scylla.” The information comes from Bleeping Computer. According to the publication, researchers from HUMAN’s Satori Threat Intelligence team found 85 apps available on the App Store and Google Play that flood mobile users with ads – both visible and hidden – or generate revenue by “impersonating legitimate apps and impressions....

Earlier this week, a group of bipartisan US senators introduced a sweeping piece of legislation taking aim at Apple’s App Store. The US House of Representatives is now following suit, with a group of bipartisan representatives introducing a similar companion bill dubbed the Open App Markets Act. As reported by Reuters, the bill is backed by Ken Buck, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee antitrust panel, and democrat Hank Johnson....

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Apple has made a small but notable change to the job title of veteran executive Eddy Cue. Cue joined Apple in 1989 and has long served as the company’s Senior Vice President of Internet Software and Services, but that title has been changed to emphasize Apple’s ever-increasing focus on Services. According to a recent change to Apple’s Leadership webpage, Eddy Cue’s title is now: Senior Vice President of Services. “Internet Software,” no more, apparently....

Apple has published a new support document this week focused on a “limited brightness” display message that MacBook Pro and Pro Display XDR users might see. This comes several months after the launch of the new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro, and two years after the release of the Pro Display XDR. According to the support document, some MacBook Pro and Pro Display XDR users might notice that their display is limiting its brightness....