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We mentioned last month that Apple is working to offer audio stories for Apple News+ subscribers, and now we can confirm that with iOS 13.5.5 beta. Apple News+ Audio will be available through the existing News app, which will get a new “Audio” tab. The interface is very similar to Apple News, but as the name suggests, users will have access to several recorded audio news instead of text. You can tap the Play button to listen to all the recent news, or choose a specific story to play....

Disney is rebooting Home Alone, and has set Disney+ as the home for the reimagining. Over the last two years, Disney has seen two major changes come its way. They announced that they were developing a streaming service of their own, one that will offer content from Marvel, Pixar, Star Wars, and more all in one place. But, Disney’s vast library of pre-existing content and their slate of original offerings for Disney+ were not viewed as enough content for the service if it was going to compete with the streaming giant that is Netflix....

Rob Zombie’s sleek, grotesque, and stylish 2003 cult classic, House of 1000 Corpses, left lots of film on the cutting room floor due to Zombie needing to make necessary cuts in order to achieve an R-rating for his movie. His original intention was to release the additional footage as a director’s cut of the film, which would have been an unrated cut like he did with his 2007 remake of Halloween, but now Zombie says that will never happen....

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While the original Highlander was not a huge success by any means, the film found life on home video in the form of a rabid fan base, which spawned various movie sequels and even a few small-screen iterations. The sequels were not well received, most notably Highlander II: The Quickening which attempted to alter the mythology introduced in the first film by making the Immortals from outer space. In spite of this, love for the first Highlander has not waned over the years, which has naturally led to development of a reboot....

HBO’s adaptation of His Dark Materials features a world with some disturbing social issues and unique reality of souls outside of bodies. People’s behavior changes when they can see for a fact that they have souls. It’s interesting to see these out-of-body souls arguing with their humans in the show. And the shapes of the souls can be a tip-off about the human’s personality. Some complex characters live in this world and deal with unusual ethical questions....

Vic Son, a retired salesman from Boston, recently purchased an Apple Watch and found it to stop charging after four months. The watch was still under its one year manufacturer warranty and Son had also purchased two years of AppleCare+. What could’ve been a simple exchange turned into a finger-pointing debacle between Apple and FedEx. According to Boston Globe, in February, Son had arranged with Apple to have a replacement watch sent to his home via FedEx....

A Quiet Place director and star John Krasinski explained how he was convinced to return for A Quiet Place 2 and how it won’t be a traditional sequel. Initially there were no plans to return for a sequel, but Paramount managed to get Krasinski back in the writing position. The original film was a hit with fans and critics alike so it was no surprise when a sequel was announced, and A Quiet Place 2 is scheduled to be released in May 2020....

Hideo Kojima is one of the most beloved game developers out there - which is why the mecha genre needs him. As the creator of Metal Gear Solid, Kojima helped define gaming for many years, and now he and his team have brought their talents to the PS4 with Death Stranding. The big question, though, is what’s next for Kojima Productions? Considering it’s Hideo Kojima, he could go anywhere, but it’d be perfect for Kojima to return to mecha, a genre he hasn’t touched in almost two decades....

When Showtime’s Homeland first premiered back in 2011, it was met with rapturous critical acclaim, and quickly assembled a dedicated group of fans. Stars Claire Danes, Mandy Patinkin, and Damian Lewis were all on the receiving end of awards attention for their performances as two dedicated, investigative CIA operatives and a former soldier who came back from the war after spending years being tortured and imprisoned in Afghanistan. Since the series’ first, tense season, however, Homeland’s critical attention and acclaim only seemed to decrease with each passing season, plateauing especially in its much-maligned third season....

A lesser-known feature of Apple Watch is the ability to add hourly Taptic Chimes to the wearable. The handy capability works in both silent or ring modes and includes a few customization options. Here’s how to turn on hourly chimes on Apple Watch. Taptic Chimes add a whimsical way to be more in tune with what time it is. In addition to being able to set up top-of-the-hour chimes, you can opt to get the alerts every 30 or 15 minutes on your Apple Watch....

It’s long been taken as read that high tech company salaries push up housing costs in the surrounding areas, but the WSJ commissioned home tracking company Zillow to provide some hard data. By tracking the increase in values of homes owned by Apple employees, it was able to prove that home values in those areas rose further and faster than in surrounding areas with similar demographics. The piece notes that zoning laws and regulatory red tape also have a significant effect, by limiting the supply of housing at a time when demand is increasing, but the comparison does suggest that there is a direct link to tech companies like Apple....

Because my entire home is filled with HomeKit products, I often forget that some people are getting started with HomeKit and other smart home platforms, so I wanted to take some time this week to explain some basics of how to get started with HomeKit and what products should be your first purchases. Read on to learn more about HomeKit, and what items should be your first purchases in your Homekit starter kit....

Spotify’s chief legal officer Horacio Gutierrez has said that he likes Apple products but considers the company a disingenuous bully. Gutierrez made the remarks in an op-ed in the WSJ, and in an interview with The Verge … Gutierrez has been accused of hypocrisy for attacking Apple while using the company’s products, but said in the WSJ last month that there was no contradiction between the two. He has now echoed these comments in an interview in The Verge, additionally accusing Apple of being disingenuous in claiming that it has no idea how much money the App Store makes....

The ending of Ari Aster’s feature film debut Hereditary owes as much of its ending to horror movies like Rosemary’s Baby and The Omen as it does to Greek mythology and mental health. That said, it’s not especially cut and dry, so cue the complicated layers of interpretation. In Hereditary, Annie Graham (played by Toni Collette) is an artist whose mother has just passed away. And though her son Peter (played by Alex Wolff) and husband Steve (played by Gabriel Byrne) appear to be mostly indifferent towards her death, Annie’s daughter Charlie (played by Milly Shapiro) seems especially troubled....

Recent reports indicate that after ten years of development since acquiring the rights to the Highlander film franchise, Lionsgate Films finally has found a satisfactory script for a reboot film. The script was reportedly written by Colony writer Ryan Condal and the studio has already planned to start pre-production on the film later this year. Released in 1986, the original Highlander is widely regarded as a cult classic work of fantasy, which inspired a spin-off television series and several sequels....

The new units pack a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chipwith the company’s 7th Gen AI Engine, Cortex-X2 CPU Architecture, and built-in 5G support. Honor claims this will provide 20% faster CPU performance and 30% increased GPU performance over the previous generation. Both the Honor Magic4 and Magic4 Pro will include 8GB of RAM and 256GB of internal storage. All of this hardware will be further enhanced by Honor’s “Turbo Engines,” a framework of software features designed to optimize the included hardware across functions such as gaming, power consumption, AI processing and more....

January has seemed like the longest month ever, and especially for horror fans, who are quick to lament about 2020 horror movies being dead in the water before the year has even gotten started. While there have been quite a few offerings for wide release horror films in January 2020, such as The Grudge, Underwater, The Turning, and Gretel & Hansel, none of them have gotten off to a particularly strong start....

A proxy server is a router that allows users to connect to the internet. As a result, it prevents cyberattacks by protecting your data while connected. A residential Ips or proxy server is referred to as an intermediary because it sits between the end-user and web pages while they browse the internet. When you connect your windows computer to the internet, it will use an IP address. This tells incoming data where to go, much like a street address....

The report also mentions about provisional specs of the first Tizen smartphone. It comes with a 4.8-inch 720p (HD) display, powered by a 2.3GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 quad-core processor. No word on other details like RAM, camera and internal storage. From the leaked image, we can see that the externals look very similar to the existing range of Galaxy smartphones, while the UI is reminiscent of Windows Phone’s square tiles UI....