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The Honda Civic Type R has long been one of the most iconic ‘hot hatches,’ offering sportcar performance in a body based on the company’s 5-door hatchback. It’s never before been on sale in the USA, but the company has announced that all that is changing with the 2017 model, which will be available from this spring. Along with squeezing 306 horsepower into a 2-litre DOHC engine, the car will come with CarPlay support as standard …...

Honeywell is announcing a new HomeKit-enabled Wi-Fi thermostat today called the Lyric T5 that will cost $149.99. HomeKit support means you can control the temperature with your voice using Siri or with Apple’s new Home app on iOS 10 and watchOS 3. Lyric T5 features a highly improved design over Honeywell’s other HomeKit thermostat and a larger touchscreen display that makes it worthy of being called a smart home accessory....

Apple’s October “Unleashed” event brought the launch of the M1 Pro and M1 Max Apple Silicon chips that power the all-new 14 and 16-inch MacBook Pro notebooks. We also got the 3rd-gen AirPods with Spatial Audio and more. However, there were a few of things in Apple’s pipeline that weren’t unveiled. Let’s look at everything Apple didn’t announce at its October event. While Apple’s October event delivered on the bulk of what we expected, there were some notable omissions....

After the “Peek Performance” event, Apple added the HomePod mini to its stores in the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Belgium. It will arrive in these countries by the end of March. This news doesn’t come as a surprise since the company added Dutch support with HomePod 15.2, and HomePod 15.4, which is currently in the Release Candidate version, offers voice recognition for the language. Since the updated operating system will arrive in the next week for all users, it’s only natural that Apple starts to sell the HomePod mini a few weeks after....

TechCrunch has a fascinating insight into the world of App Store scammers, using the example of a game created from a $10 template that ended up making $10,000 a day. The piece alleges that the developer of the paid version of Red Bouncing Balls Spikes used a network of around 20,000 fake Apple IDs to buy his own app in order to get it to the top of the charts, an up-front investment of $20k that would be repaid many times over … Not all games are created from scratch....

The general success of the 2014 cult action movie hit John Wick has now led its co-helmsmen (who are also well-accomplished stunt coordinators and second unit directors) David Leitch and Chad Stahelski to secure jobs working on other, big-name franchise installments. Leitch is currently in the midst of pre-production mode on the untitled Deadpool movie sequel, whereas Stahelski is leading the charge on Highlander: the reboot of the cult 1980s-born fantasy/action property that has continuously attempted, but failed to make its out of early development for the past several years now....

James McAvoy and Clarke Peters have signed on for BBC One’s much anticipated adaptation of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials series. Fans have been eagerly awaiting news on the upcoming show ever since it was announced over two and a half years ago. His Dark Materials is comprised of three novels, The Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass. The story follows two children, Lyra and Will, as they navigate their way across parallel universes in the midst of a celestial war....

Over the past few months, I’ve been exploring many of the various use cases around Homebridge through the HOOBS all in one box. I have devices that can run Homebridge, but I like the streamlined approach of not needing to manage the nitty-gritty software. My latest experiment with HOOBS is adding the SwitchBot Curtain Motor to my HomeKit environment. HomeKit Weekly is a series focused on smart home accessories, automation tips and tricks, and everything to do with Apple’s smart home framework....

The hit franchise, Hotel Transylvania has another installment coming with the announcement of Hotel Transylvania 4 to be released in December 2021. Produced by Columbia and Sony Pictures Animation, the computer-animated comedy film series became wildly successful after the premiere of its first film, Hotel Transylvania in 2012. Riddled with world famous monsters and voice talents of Hollywood A-listers, Hotel Transylvania follows an ill-fated Dracula (Adam Sandler) whom upon the death of his beloved wife builds a hotel intended as a safe haven for monsters with him and his daughter, Mavis (Selena Gomez), living there full time....

‘House of the Dragon’ is the prequel to ‘Game of Thrones.’ The series is based on George R.R. Martin’s novel Fire & Blood and tells the story of House Targaryen two centuries before the events of “Game of Thrones.” Viewers have been officially thrust into the future timeline of the prequel with the premiere of House of the Dragon. Episode 6 laid the groundwork for the next conflict that will take place within House Targaryen, and the remaining episodes of Season 1 are sure to ramp up the tension....

Deleted scenes from Avengers: Endgame featured on Disney+ reveal how reshoots for the film changed the time travel. After Thanos snapped away half of all life across the universe in Avengers: Infinity War, the remaining heroes of the Marvel Cinematic Universe had to figure out a way to undo this devastating act. This proved to be more difficult than they imagined, as it took them five years and Ant-Man luckily escaping the Quantum Realm to get the idea of going back in time to get the Infinity Stones for themselves....

People usually don’t ask, “how big are solar panels?” unless they’re looking to purchase them. Since installing such systems in households is getting increasingly popular, prospective buyers must make the right choice when it comes to their size. Otherwise, they might either overspend or not get enough panels to meet their energy needs. Read on to avoid the common pitfalls on the road to going solar. Solar Panel Dimensions in Australia What are solar panels made of?...

Until recently, I merely thought of Hitachi as the company that builds the OEM hard drives that are found in some Apple and other high end PCs. It turns out that Hitachi makes very high quality enclosures for those same hard drives that companies like Apple demand for their machines. Hitachi’s drives that range from the G-Drive portable hard drives (which I reviewed earlier this year, above) to the newer G-Speed for high end A/V professionals....

After a long wait, the third installment in the Homeworld series is coming! And the more we learn about Homeworld 3’s story details and gameplay, the more impatient we become. Homeworld was released in 1999, followed by Homeworld 2 in 2003, but since then there has been a long wait for a continuation of the franchise. Before we get into the Homeworld 3 release date info and other details you’re itching to learn, you may need a refresher....

This, of course, is an attempt to modernize how credit cards work, just as Apple has done with the Apple Card. One of the highlights of the Apple Card is the easy management process that lets users check all information through the Wallet app, not to mention the activation process where the user simply has to hold the iPhone against the Apple Card envelope. However, this is not the first Venmo card, as the company already has a digital bank account with a debit card....

One of the more annoying aspects of the Windows 10 update process that I’ve noticed (especially when testing Insider Preview builds), is the welcome screen can display for longer than ‘just a moment’. In fact, sometimes it can sometimes seem like hours before you’re able to get to the desktop while Windows is ‘gettin g everything ready’. Luckily, if you’re running Windows 10 Creators Update (Version 1703), you can disable the welcome screen which Microsoft refers to as the “Windows welcome experience”....

But there’s a new twist to home-buying scams. You won’t believe how sneaky these schemes are. If you fall for them, it could cost you the down payment on your new home. Read on to learn how this scam works and what you can do about it. Here’s the backstory Anybody who’s bought a house recently can attest to the mountain of paperwork it takes. The process can take several months to run its course....

Basic team structure In today’s world of penetration testing, there is no set method dictating how the teams are actually organized. The number of actual penetration testers involved in a project will depend primarily on key three factors: The types of penetration tests being performed The size of the business or corporation in question (this can be a direct function of employee size) The complexity of the IT Infrastructure to be tested...

El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie ends the story of Jesse Pinkman in conclusive and satisfying fashion, but the character’s finale was actually set up way in advance of the Breaking Bad sequel film. In the final season of Breaking Bad, Jesse was mostly a figure of tragedy. Imprisoned by the Nazi meth gang, forced to watch the death of his partner and seemingly abandoned by Walter White, Jesse found himself at a particularly low ebb....

With these changes, we reviewed data from our 20,000+ customers to see how usage of social media has changed during this time. You can use this information to update your strategy and get a sense of how audiences’ priorities and interests have changed during the course of this global pandemic. As with our earlier look at the best times to post this year, the way we get this data is similar to how Sprout’s Optimal Send Times determines the best times to get engagement at an individual account level....