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Last month, we took a look at HomeRun, a new Apple Watch app from indie developer Aaron Pearce. HomeRun makes it incredibly easy to run HomeKit scenes from the Apple Watch, and today the app has been updated with support creating custom complications. The premise of HomeRun is that it makes launching HomeKit scenes from Apple Watch incredibly easy and straightforward. Today’s update adds a new layer of customization to that....

Now that Disney owns Fox and its properties, they are beginning work on a new installment of Planet of the Apes, but instead of being another reboot, they could take cues from the previous series and continue with the legacy of Caesar (Andy Serkis). Planet of the Apes’ origins go back to 1963 with the novel written by French author Pierre Boule, and the first adaptation on screen was in 1968....

In a response to the looming regulations in the European Union, Apple is reportedly working on deep changes to how iOS and the App Store work. According to Bloomberg, the company is even considering allowing alternative app stores on its devices. Now developer Riley Testut, who created AltStore, has shared his thoughts on iOS having official support for third-party app stores. For those unfamiliar, the AltStore is an alternative app store for iOS that can be installed even without jailbreak by using some developer tools....

The beloved works of Nickelodeon animation dominated the 1990’s; programs such as Rugrats, Doug, and Spongebob Squarepants were introduced to global audiences and individuals across the world became enamored with these aptly named “Nicktoons.” A featured gem in their animation crown was Hey Arnold!, a show that followed the adventures of 4th grader Arnold, while simultaneously exploring the interpersonal connections he formed with his family, friends, and neighbors. Running from 1996 until 2004 and spawning two films, Hey Arnold!...

A new Hobbs & Shaw teaser video confirms an April 18 release date for the new trailer. Directed by David Leitch, the action comedy is a spinoff of the Fast and the Furious series with Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham reprising their franchise roles. In Hobbs & Shaw, Johnson stars as Luke Hobbs, a character who first emerged as a villain in Fast Five. Since then, Hobbs has been part of four subsequent films, in which he serves as a United States Diplomatic Security Service agent, a bounty hunter, and a comrade to Vin Diesel’s Dominic Toretto....

In my quest to get everything in my home working with HomeKit, I thought it would be time to replace our carbon monoxide detector with a HomeKit compatible one. After doing a bit of research, I settled on the First Alert GLOCO–500 WiFi Environment Monitor with Battery Backup. For a HomeKit carbon monoxide detector, it is exactly what I wanted. HomeKit Weekly is a series focused on smart home accessories, automation tips and tricks, and everything to do with Apple’s smart home framework....

As one of the most successful and critically acclaimed medical drama series of all time, House accomplished many things in its eight-season run and also brought awareness to many medical conditions that viewers had likely never heard of before. However, as serious as the series might have been, there was also an ongoing gag within the series pertaining to one diagnosis that never seemed to quite fit. Until it did....

Warning: SPOILERS Below For Avengers: Infinity War! - Ant-Man & The Wasp receives a bit of mild set up in Avengers: Infinity War. Hitting theaters this July, the sequel directed Peyton Reed, who helmed 2005’s Ant-Man, actually takes place before the events of Infinity War, which helps explain the absence of Ant-Man from the big Avengers team-up. In Captain America: Civil War, Scott Lang turned out to be an impact player when the Falcon recruited him to fight for Team Cap, but the shrinking superhero ended up paying a heavy price for getting involved in the Avengers’ breakup....

Northern Lights (known in North America as The Golden Compass), the first book from Philip Pullman’s famous His Dark Materials trilogy, was first published way back in 1995 and has since become a classic along with its two following installments, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass. In fact, BBC even named it one of the 100 Novels That Shaped Our World! It’s no wonder that the trilogy would eventually be adapted for big or small screens in some form....

When I saw that Flic HomeKit-compatible smart buttons were available, I had to take them for a spin. Second-generation Flic smart home buttons now have HomeKit compatibility, along with multi-color LEDs to indicate the status of the device they control. The original Flic buttons from Shortcut Labs could control a reasonably wide range of devices — including Ikea, Nanoleaf, Lifx, Lightify, Philips Hue, Sonos, Spotify, and WeMo — but HomeKit support now makes them suitable for a much wider range of smart home products…...

As the coronavirus COVID-19 continues to spread across the world and into the United States, widespread comparisons have been drawn between this outbreak and the global pandemic depicted in the 2011 Steven Soderbergh feature Contagion. Like many of Soderbergh’s directorial efforts, Contagion is an ensemble piece, with this particular movie using that extensive cast to explore various perspectives in the middle of a virus wiping away out significant parts of the human race....

Hereditary director Ari Aster’s Midsommar has moved up a month. While it didn’t earn much (or any, really) love this past awards season, Aster’s feature debut was generally considered to be one of the best horror movies of 2018. Fans of the genre didn’t have to wait long to find out when Aster’s sophomore film would be arriving either, as Midsommar was announced before Hereditary begin its theatrical release last May....

The Fast and the Furious spinoff Hobbs & Shaw and the Star Wars Disney Plus streaming series The Mandalorian have both wrapped filming. Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham head up the cast of Hobbs & Shaw, which takes the title characters away from the main Fast and the Furious franchise for their own wild adventure. Fans got their first taste of the movie’s over-the-top action when the first trailer dropped during the Super Bowl....

Since Apple pushed the firmware for its upcoming HomePod last Friday, developers have been discovering more specs for the smart speaker, along with confirming details about the iPhone 8. Today, we’re learning a few more things about HomePod’s RAM and display… Developer Steve Troughton-Smith shared last week that HomePod will run a full iOS stack and uses a shell app called SoundBoard. He also mentioned more specifics about the display/touch surface stating “The center part of the HomePod surface appears to be an LED matrix and not just big LEDs—could perhaps display shapes/symbols....

The ending of Crisis on Infinite Earths in DC Comics could provide clues as to how the TV version of the story will wrap up in the Arrowverse. The first three installments of the five-part event aired in December 2019, with the last two chapters (Arrow and Legends of Tomorrow) releasing in January. Since the state of the DC Universe is very different from the Arrowverse, there are some obvious differences between the two crossovers; however, so far, Crisis has been a fairly accurate interpretation of the 1985 – 1986 miniseries....

Sure, you can take the time to reorganize all of the items and declutter your desktop. Or, you can hide everything with just a couple of clicks. Hide or Display All Desktop Items in Windows 10 The first way to quickly hide everything is a built-in feature of Windows 10. Just right-click an empty area of the desktop and select View and then uncheck Show desktop icons from the context menu....

The coming back of Nokia with HMD has been a big news in the smartphone market last year. With a couple of new devices in the name of Nokia HMD was able to gain 1% of the global smartphone market. Although it is not a big percent, this is a great achievement in a short period of time. HMD aims for nothing but increasing their sales in the market and have plans for few new launches....

Home Alone is one of the best Christmas movies of all time, and it’s been loved by many fans for nearly thirty years now. The movie is definitely known for being extremely funny, but it also somehow captures some of the best things about the holiday season. Kevin McCallister is the perfect protagonist, and there are many iconic moments from the movie. Another thing that makes Home Alone so great is that it has many emotional moments....

Update: The app has now been updated to add HomeKit support. If you’ve been waiting for a HomeKit-compatible air purifier, the good news is that there’s now one on the way. The Vocolinc PureFlow Air Purifier is already available for pre-order in some European and Scandinavian countries, with shipping shown as 11-12 days. You can’t yet order them in the US, but the company says that US distributors have already placed orders …...

Although I do generally have a rule that smart home tech has to be HomeKit-compatible, there have been a few exceptions here and there. HomeKit-compatible window blinds were one of these, because the only option available at the time was just crazy money for the number we needed. We did still get iPhone-controlled blinds, with HomeKit support promised down the line. Alexa support arrived first, which gave me an interesting insight into how the two ecosystems compared – but then HomeKit support finally landed for Hunter Douglas blinds …...