If you’re looking to upgrade your home appliances and add Siri control, then HomeKit is a key feature you’ll want to look for when buying new hardware. The number of HomeKit-compatible smart thermostats is continuing to grow with Honeywell’s Lyric Round Wi-Fi Thermostat (2nd-gen) as the latest to hit the market. Among competing thermostats, the basic premise is the same: Wi-Fi connectivity lets you remotely control heating and cooling from mobile apps, and intelligence using location and the Internet let you add some home automation....

The promise of Apple’s USB-C laptop future is expandability, versatility and flexibility. Plugging in single-device dongles for USB and HDMI is a stop-gap, but is wasting the potential of the port. The OWC Thunderbolt 3 Dock ($299) better fulfills the idea: one port, one cable, provides power and a multitude of inputs and outputs like normal USB, a 3.5mm jack, SD card, mini DisplayPort, Ethernet and more. It isn’t perfect, but I’ve been using it for months now with my MacBook Pro and it adds so much convenience and utility....

Forbes iPhone 8 mockup While a handful of reports and analysts have indicated the iPhone 8 won’t launch as scheduled this year due to production difficulties, Twitter leaker Benjamin Geskin today claims that the device is not delayed and has recently entered trial production… In a tweet, Geskin quoted his source as saying all three new 2017 iPhone models have begun trial production, including the iPhone 7s, iPhone 7s Plus, and iPhone 8....

Slickwraps sent us some of their awesome MacBook Pro covers (starting at $20) this month to give a test drive on our Retina MacBook Pro. These are basically hi-tech ‘stickers’ that you apply to your Apple device. Application is easy and bubbles and warps are easy to smooth out. What you see above is the result of about one minute of application of the ‘carbon fiber skin’. If I had spent a little more time, I probably could have aligned things exactly....

Fans are still waiting for the arrival of Rick and Morty season 4, but their absence isn’t keeping the show’s stars from poking fun at the plot of Avengers: Infinity War and its snap-happy villain, Thanos. After releasing a shorter than expected third season, fans were faced with good news and bad. Rick and Morty signed on for 70 more episodes, but when those will actually begin to roll out on Adult Swim… is anyone’s guess....

Riot Games says that League of Legends pro players and caster should refrain from sharing their views on what it calls “sensitive topics” ahead of this weekend’s League of Legends World Championship. The developer’s statement follows days of controversy after Blizzard banned a Hearthstone player for calling for Hong Kong sovereignty in a post-game interview, but Riot doesn’t mention that incident directly. Blizzard’s controversial week started after the developer banned champion Hearthstone player Chung “blitzchung” Ng Wai for his pro-Hong Kong statements....

New Riverdale images announce Molly Ringwald’s arrival as Archie’s mother, Mary Andrews. The series has become a big hit for The CW, quickly developing a devoted fanbase. Based on Archie Comics, Riverdale has Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa as showrunner, Archie Entertainment’s Chief Creative Officer and the writer of Afterlife With Archie, the zombie Archie Comics spinoff, Plus, the series boasts a strong cast including Cole Sprouse, Lilli Reinhart, K.J. Apa, and Luke Perry, to name but a few....

Robert Downey Jr. is hosting a new YouTube documentary series on artificial intelligence and the first trailer is now available to watch. Artificial intelligence has already become an important aspect in many technology sectors and so it is no surprise YouTube has taken the opportunity to produce a series about A.I. Especially considering Google, who owns YouTube, is one of the companies that has heavily invested in artificial intelligence over the last few years....

It also helps you to handle multiple networks and routes network traffic between them. In your home network, your router has one connection to the Internet and one connection to your private local network. Moreover, many routers also contain built-in switches that allow you to connect multiple wired devices. What is a Switch? A network switch is a computer networking device which connects various devices together on a single computer network....

Apple introduced Wireless CarPlay support two years ago with iOS 9, and this year the untethered version of Apple’s infotainment feature is starting to hit the market. Just as wired CarPlay is becoming standard in nearly all new cars, BMW has become the only auto maker to support Wireless CarPlay standard in new models. But what if you’re not shopping for a new BMW? That’s where Alpine can help with the new iLX-107 receiver (from $695, reg....

Omitting an integrated stand was a critical decision when Apple designed the first iPad: it eliminated the thickness, moving parts, and weight that the feature would certainly have required. But stand functionality was obviously needed, so Apple built one into the lid of the very first iPad case, then evolved it into Smart Covers and folio-style Smart Cases. ZeroChroma and several other companies subsequently built stands into the backs of lid-free iPad cases, but most of the other great iPad stands out there are standalone — meant to sit around waiting for your iPad to return....

The reviews for Control have begun to go up and the reception to the game has been incredibly positive, even if there are a few flaws that hold it back from being a modern classic. Control is the latest game by Remedy Entertainment and it has been praised for refining the gameplay style used in earlier Remedy titles, such as Quantum Break, without losing its focus on interesting characters and an engaging story....

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker writer Chris Terrio reveals they executed Leia Organa’s surprise flashback scene using Star Wars: Return of the Jedi footage. It’s been weeks since the Skywalker saga officially closed out via J.J. Abrams’ film. The movie tried to tie up loose plot ends together and provide Star Wars fans a satisfying culminating film. Aside from the big task of rounding up all three trilogies for a final movie, it also had the enormous task of incorporating Carrie Fisher’s beloved character with very little footage....

Robert Downey Jr. makes light of Martin Scorsese’s criticism against the Marvel Cinematic Universe movies. Kicking off the MCU in 2008 via Jon Favreau’s Iron Man, the actor brilliantly played the role of Tony Stark/Iron Man for 11 years across 10 movies before hanging up the suit in this year’s Avengers: Endgame. And as the franchise’s inaugural actor, fans are intrigued with what his take on the veteran director’s comments on the universe he helped build....

Robert Downey Jr.’s film career is like something out of a movie itself. He started out in small roles in the ’80s, slowly making a name for himself and then becoming one of the most fascinating young actors around. His career was sidelined by drug addiction and legal issues before he made one of Hollywood’s most dramatic comebacks, becoming one of the biggest stars in the business. From his iconic role as Iron Man in the MCU to his stellar work as a character actor, Downey Jr....

While the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus aren’t supposed to start arriving to pre-order customers until this Friday, at least one lucky AT&T customer got a surprise today. A Twitter user by the name of @MoonshineDesign based in San Diego today received her iPhone 6s in the new Rose Gold color variant. According to her tweets, she ordered the device through AT&T. The user shared a variety of images of the device as she unboxed it and set it up....

Brandon Routh’s Clark Kent gets a significant promotion at The Daily Planet in a new image from the set of this year’s Arrowverse crossover titled Crisis on Infinite Earths. The actor is ditching his DC’s Legends of Tomorrow character, Ray Palmer/Atom and suiting back up as the Kingdom Come Superman in the upcoming much-anticipated TV event. And following a slew of marketing images with regard to his return as an iteration of the Man of Steel, a new set image gives fans an idea what his civilian alter-ego is currently up to....

An increasing number of cameras these days have wifi built-in, allowing instant viewing of photos on your iPhone or iPad, and from there instant sharing on Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and so on. Which can leave those of us with less sociable cameras feeling a little left out in the cold. Eye-Fi has offered solutions to this for some time, in the form of wifi-equipped cards that you can insert into your older or pro camera and transmit the images to a PC or Mac....

Not a fan of Apple’s EarPods? Looking for something new to use with your iOS devices? We took the Nue Era in-ear headphones by Polk Audio for a spin this week. The Nue Eras are, as the name implies, a brand-new model that was just recently released. Are they worth checking out? Keep reading for our full review. Sound I listen to a lot of bass-heavy music, but I can’t usually hear most of the bass unless I’m in my car....

Rick and Morty is perhaps the hottest, currently running animated television show for adults. From the strange, philosophical meta-humor to the childish toilet humor, Rick and Morty is willing to go anywhere and do anything in pursuit of laughs. One of the more important characters in the show is Jerry Smith. A somewhat pathetic loser of a dad, Jerry tends to be the show’s biggest foil. Often in pursuit of his own self-interests, Jerry makes mistakes that put his whole family in a heap of trouble....