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Apple’s iPad production is nearing three million units every month in the lead-in to Christmas, with manufacturing partner, Foxconn, opening aditional capacity in its new plants in Chengdu, China. The new production lines are limited at present, churning out 10,000 iPads each day, but the capacity has been bought onstream to satisfy demand, Digitimes reports. “Foxconn had previously refuted claims that the company would establish iPad production lines at the plants in Chengdu, but related component players have pointed out that Foxconn already started shipping iPads from the site in November and expected the site to become a major supply base starting the first quarter of 2011....

Earlier today Apple pushed out firmware for the HomePod smart speaker ahead of its launch in December, and naturally developer Steve Troughton-Smith has unpacked the code and discovered new details. HomePod firmware code (labeled AudioAccessory1,1) shows that the smart speaker runs the full iOS stack like an iPhone without a screen and relies on a shell app called SoundBoard (presumably like SpringBoard on iOS). Like Apple’s other products, HomePod will support accessibility features including VoiceOver according to the firmware code....

The Chinese tech-giant Huawei seems quite active at the start of 2020 by providing the stable EMUI 10 update based on Android 10 to some of its eligible devices and Honor 20i is one of them. Honor is a subsidiary brand of Huawei and offers plenty of great budget category smartphones in the market. Honor 20i was launched in April 2019 and came with Android 9.0 Pie over EMUI 9.1 skin....

Horror-genre anime is not so popular due to its heavy gore and the possibility of psychological scarring. So Tokyo Ghoul created a major stride for the anime horror genre when it was popular enough to get its own video games and live action films. Its manga became known as a best seller in Japan and before we knew it, Hot Topic was selling shirts and wallets with the characters faces on them....

Most sitcoms leave the air with all kinds of unanswered questions and unresolved plot holes. After all, it’s a brand-new episode and situation every week. Seldom do sitcoms have major reoccurring storylines and plot lines connecting every season and every episode. Still, How I Met Your Mother set up a very elaborate and interwoven tapestry over the course of its run, almost as in-depth as Lost’s. Some people remain divided over how the whole show ended and how it was just one nine-year-long story Ted was telling his kids to get approval to AGAIN go after Robin after his wife Tracy had died, but it was still, more often than not, a pretty fun ride....

It looks like Apple’s HomePod launch is closer than ever as the smart speaker has now received FCC approval. New details emerged today about the HomePod receiving FCC approval, which likely means a launch is imminent. Details on the filing include an image of the bottom of the smart speaker where the FCC label will be located. Interestingly, many of the FCC documents are dated September 27, but have just now been released, which suggests that the hardware may not have changed much in the past months....

Are you seeing some strange status bar icons on your iPhone? Or maybe you’re just curious to see the full list? Follow along below for a complete rundown of all the iPhone status bar icons. You’re probably aware of what most iPhone status bar icons mean, but there are some that you don’t see very often among the 27 total icons. Check out the full list below to figure out one that you’re not sure of, or bone up on your random iPhone knowledge....

Alarm systems should have your protection at heart. The information your alarm company accesses should be used for that purpose and that purpose only. What does Ring know about you? The policy states: What does SimpliSafe know about you? The SimpliSafe Privacy Policy clearly explains that it takes your privacy seriously. It uses the information it collects to: Send you alarm alerts and other important service information about your alarm and its servicesContact you about your orders, process credit card/debit card transactions and ship its products to youProvide information to third-party service providers that help process orders and fulfill Deliver products and services you purchase...

The new campus features the Steve Jobs Theater, named in honor of the late Apple co-founder, known for his iconic product unveilings and stage presentations. Steve played a major role during the early design of the campus, too, and so it is a vision realized for the more than 12,000 employees who will work there. So, what did Apple unleash at the event? A lot actually: the Apple Watch 3 with cellular capabilities, 4K HDR Apple TV, iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus and the much anticipated next generation iPhone X....

Apple this week released HomePod Software 15.6 along with iOS 15.6 and other updates. While iOS 15.6 isn’t exactly a major update, the latest HomePod Software enables voice recognition support for more languages. But more than that, the update hints at imminent launch of HomePod in Norway and Sweden. As we previously reported, HomePod Software 15.6 enables Siri voice recognition for Mandarin Chinese (China mainland, Taiwan), Cantonese (China Mainland, Hong Kong), and Japanese (Japan)....

HBO’s His Dark Materials, based on the book trilogy of the same name by Phillip Pullman, deals with a lot of big moral and philosophical questions. It follows a young girl named Lyra Belacqua as she uncovers secrets about her past and mysteries of the universe at large. The books were and still are somewhat controversial for the way they tackle philosophical and religious questions. Every character is searching for answers they believe will put everything into its proper place, though their motivations differ....

Idris Elba is brandishing a flamethrower in a new photo from the Fast & Furious spinoff movie Hobbs & Shaw. A new addition to the Fast & Furious franchise, Elba will be playing the spinoff’s main villain known only as Brixton. In Hobbs & Shaw, two Fast & Furious characters, Luke Hobbs and Deckard Shaw (played by Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham, respectively), are reunited and have no other choice but to work side-by-side for the greater good....

The characters in Schitt’s Creek are more likely to sort themselves according to fashion preferences than they are to figure out their appropriate Hogwarts houses. In fact, the family members of the broke video store empire probably aren’t even familiar with the Harry Potter franchise or what the different Hogwarts houses would even mean for them. It’s certainly entertaining to wonder how David or Moira Rose would handle having to wear the same uniform as everyone else....

There are probably not many details that can still be taken away from Home Alone, the 1990 family Christmas comedy by Chris Columbus. One of the most famous films ever made, Home Alone has become a tradition for families the world over to take in every holiday season. As such, it has become one of the most rewatched films, potentially of all-time. Yet, the film was created with such love that there is still something new to take away from it each year....

When I was in my early 20s, I worked for an independent telephone company in Ringgold, Georgia. One of the projects I worked on was building a home and business security product. I ended up working with customers in a sales role after we got the product up and running. I say all that to make the point that I am somewhat of a veteran in the home security industry. I’ve been using the abode system for the past year, so if you’re researching the best options for a Homekit alarm system, keep reading to learn more about abode....

Apple debuted the HomePod mini back in October with an all-new spherical design and impressive list of features and specs priced at $99 — $200 less than the list price of its bigger brother. Read on for a detailed HomePod mini vs HomePod comparison. Update 3/15/21: Now that the original HomePod has been discontinued you might be wondering if it’s worth picking one (or more?) up before they’re totally sold out....

Apple released today HomePod 15.1 Software with the long-awaited Lossless and Dolby Atmos support. While both the HomePod and HomePod mini support Lossless, if you want to listen to Spatial Audio with the HomePod mini, there’s a hidden workaround… When iOS 15 and all the other systems were released, the company pushed back Lossless and Dolby Atmos support for its smart speakers because the features weren’t ready. Then, with HomePod version 15....

WARNING: There are spoilers for House of Cards season 4 below. - With its fourth and most current season, House of Cards continues to be one of the most slickly produced and compellingly written – though, of course, certainly not the most perfect – television shows on the air. This is thanks in no small part to this latest season’s strategy of taking everything that has come before, from the series premiere all the way to the third-season finale, and synthesizing it all together in one comprehensive storyline, ending this year’s outing on a sweeping, climactic crescendo....

Iron Man’s “Underoos” cue for Spider-Man in Captain America: Civil War was changed in regional dubbings. Along with pitting Cap and Shellhead against each other, Civil War was also the main launching pad of the new iteration of the wall-crawling superhero, with the “Underoos” reference marking his proper introduction. The line was first heard in the second full trailer for Civil War and quickly became synonymous with this new version of Spider-Man....

When actress and singer Olivia Rodrigo, the star of High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, dropped her first solo single, “Drivers License,” the series suddenly had a whole lot more attention. The Disney+ homage to the original Disney Channel trilogy, starring Zac Efron, was already one of the streamer’s best new series. But the explosion into superstardom for Rodrigo has led to anticipation for what the show will do next....