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Oscar-winner Morgan Freeman has joined the cast of the Hitman’s Bodyguard sequel, The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard. Released in 2017, the original Hitman’s Bodyguard teamed Ryan Reynolds and Samuel L. Jackson for a fast-talking Lethal Weapon-style action-comedy about an elite bodyguard protecting the life of a famed hitman set to testify at the International Criminal Court. Directed by Patrick Hughes, The Hitman’s Bodyguard did little to impress critics, but it did happen to land during a slow period at the box office and took advantage of the meager competition to gross a respectable $75 million domestically on a budget of $30 million....

Hive is a social app that allows users to connect with others around them. However, recent users have complained about several issues, including slow loading times, crashes, and bugs. How to Fix If Hive Social Not Working Today Also Read Hive Social Something Went Wrong, How to Fix? Some users have also reported that the app suddenly stopped working. If you are one of them, do not panic, we are here to help....

With AirPods and the W1 chip, Apple introduced a proximity-based set up system that automatically pops up a card on your iOS device when a configurable device is nearby. The same system is used to share Wi-Fi passwords, set up new iOS devices, Apple TVs and even Apple Watch. HomePod will use the same set up system, but it includes a few more steps, depending on your particular setup… The process starts when your iOS device (iPhone/iPad running iOS 11....

Lossless streaming music service Tidal is reported to be running out of cash, having run up losses of around $44M last year. Jay-Z and other owners are said to have lost more than half a billion dollars in all. Norway’s Dagens Næringsliv says that the company now has only enough cash to last it six months, raising the prospect of the service closing down by the summer – despite a $200M investment by Sprint …...

This is what the Most Used section looks like on the Windows 10 Start menu: Hide Most Used Apps from Windows 10 Start To get started the first thing you want to do is open Settings. You can do that from the Start menu itself or if you practice keyboard kung fu, hit the Windows Key + I keyboard combo. When the Settings app opens up select Personalization from the list....

While the Miami mission of Hitman 2 had players in the relative comfort of sunshine and an assassination mission that allowed for Agent 47 to blend in easily, the third mission isn’t so easy-going. Leaving Miami for Colombia, Agent 47 finds himself fighting the cartel in the Three-Headed Serpent mission of Santa Fortuna. Hitman 2 ups the assassination count once again from two targets to three (hence the Three-Headed Serpent name) and sees the player targeting three high ranking members of the Delgado cartel, including the head of the family himself: Rico Delgado....

During the third day of Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, the company shared the latest updates coming to its HomeKit home automation platform. Among the updates, Apple is introducing new product type categories, a much easier setup process for accessories, improved latency, software authentication to allow older accessories to add support, and more. Sprinklers and Faucets For the new product types, this year Apple is adding sprinklers and faucets to the list....

I consider myself a technology enthusiast, but I am not someone who wants to maintain a complicated setup. I previously wrote about the Starling Home Hub and how it turned the Nest Homebridge project into a turnkey solution. This product is my ideal type of setup. It’s a turnkey solution that accomplishes something very technical. Homebridge is a growing platform, though. There are countless other projects going to make all of your smart home products HomeKit compatible....

On iPhone and iPad Not surprisingly, most of this year’s Maps changes are found on the iPhone, Apple’s top-selling product. New Features Cyclists, take note. You can now find bike paths and lanes and bike-friendly roads in the Maps app. Before starting a ride, Apple highlights the expected elevation, offers current traffic conditions, and suggests routes to avoid steep inclines or stairs. There’s also customized voice guidance available throughout your ride and specialized navigation on Apple Watch....

Home Alone is one of those classic Christmas movies that you absolutely need to watch every year around the holidays. The 1990 film stars Macaulay Culkin as Kevin, an eight-year-old boy who accidentally gets left at home by himself when his large family heads off to Paris for Christmas. As his mother (Catherine O’Hara) frantically tries to make her way back to him when she realizes he is missing, Kevin finds himself setting up a series of intricate booby traps to take down a pair of hapless thieves (Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern)....

Ben Edlund’s The Tick has had been around for decades in comic book form, but the dark, satiric series about a nigh-invulnerable, super-strong do-gooder in a blue suit who calls himself simply, the Tick gained considerably more exposure when it was translated into a Saturday-morning cartoon on FOX. Not long after, the network tried its hands at delivering the Tick, his sidekick Arthur, and all the other weird, semi-competent heroes protecting The City in live-action form with Patrick Warburton as the titular character....

Apple’s 2014 Lucky Bags went on sale in Japan today. The sale is an annual tradition in which Apple sells bags full of assorted Apple products and accessories, with buyers not knowing what they’re actually getting until they look inside. This year’s bags cost ¥36,000, which comes out to around $340. The bags this year come with one of a few different sets, as reported by Macotakara. Every bag includes an Incase City Collection Compact backpack, which costs $99....

The TV adaptation of Philip Pullman’s fantasy epic His Dark Materials has secured its title cast and director. BBC One first announced plans to adapt Pullman’s His Dark Materials into a TV series in 2015, with Bad Wolf producing. And now, Bad Wolf is expected to begin production on the adaptation soon, seeing as their other project, A Discover of Witches, wrapped production last month. National Treasure writer Jack Thorne also signed on to handle scripting duties for the His Dark Materials adaptation....

But you’re not alone if you haven’t been in the best of moods lately. Millions of people across the U.S., like you, regularly activate goblin mode. Don’t know what this means? It’s become such a popular term that it has been awarded the Oxford Word of the Year. Read on to find out what it means and other quirky words that made it into the 2022 lexicon. Here’s the backstory The English language is strange and fascinating....

The latest Disney live-action remake works to fix issues with the source material, but in the case of Aladdin, many of the choices make a lot of sense. With the release of Aladdin this week, The Walt Disney Company is two thirds of the way through its 2019 slate of live-action remakes. The photo-realistic take on The Lion King opens this summer and is expected to perform strongly, but Tim Burton’s Dumbo disappointed with audiences and critics alike....

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cP-SSg_zZ1M] The Verge: TechCrunch: For this review, I returned to the iPhone after a fairly long period of using and testing other devices. Spending a week with Apple’s newest phone, I’m reminded again of just what makes the company’s products so special. It’s not specs, services, or apps. This phone is not perfect. Certainly it can be improved. But there is something here, beyond the screen and CPU, beyond iCloud, something under the surface....

There are tons of smart bands available in the market right now. Multiple OEMs have ventured into this segment keeping in mind the growing need to be fit in the current scenario. People want to stay fit and keep their activities tracked and in this case, smart bands come handy. We have OEMs like Xiaomi, Honor, Huawei, Samsung, etc brands in this field. These smart bands are priced very aggressively and in the recent past are packing in features that you would get on a dedicated smartwatch....

It turns out Apple Watch isn’t only touching lives with features like fall detection and atrial fibrillation alerts. A prescription app called NightWare is helping veterans who suffer from nightmares due to post-traumatic stress disorder. The app uses Apple Watch sensors and haptic feedback to detect and cleverly disrupt nightmares as they happen. Apple highlights NightWare and how retired first sergeant Robert Guithues has used the solution to decrease stress from nightmares after his time serving in Afghanistan....

Apple’s Craig Federighi recently rocked our worlds with one insight into automatic iPhone updates that we find fascinating. If you’ve ever wondered why it takes so long for your iPhone to update itself, you’ll want to check this out. Your iPhone’s security may be hanging in the balance. Read on to find out why manually updating your iPhone is the way to go and how to do it. Why some automatic iPhone updates come later than others Recently, Reddit user Kechoopix posted a short email exchange between himself and Apple’s Senior Vice President of Software Engineering, Craig Federighi....

The sample malicious smart contract shown in Melson’s Tweet shows that this attack vector is still in the test phases, as the hidden code only tries to run a program that is already installed on the host computer (indicating that the computer has already been infected by malware). In this post, we’ll discuss how this new technique works and some of the possible applications. Hiding data in fake certificates Digital certificates are a common sight on the Internet....