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A major update to the Twitter app, rolling out from today, puts far greater emphasis on photos and video – both in terms of your feed, and your own ability to share. Initially rumored to be a separate app, Twitter has instead boosted the role of imagery in the main app … Twitter hasn’t historically made it easy to take photos or video from within the app. You had to open the Twitter app, click the compose button, find the camera button, take the video or picture, then click on the tweet button....

Apple’s smart home standard, HomeKit, is gradually picking up steam as more accessory manufacturers get on board. However, the availability of HomeKit accessories is still much smaller outside of the US. For smart lightning, bulbs like Philips Hue are great for a quick-and-easy way to add HomeKit into your home, but ideally you want to make your light switches themselves smart. Lutron Caseta has been available in the US for some time....

Sonos and IKEA’s home decor meets smart speaker collaboration has an interesting challenge: will it blend? Not in the squeeze-it-in-a-blender sense; will it blend in with your home and fit your taste? Like sound, design preference is highly subjective. What’s not is just how versatile the new SYMFONISK lineup can be. Sonos and IKEA have bundled a Play:1 level Wi-Fi speaker inside a table lamp and bookshelf end cap. Useful features and attractive prices make both speakers worth considering even if you’re not in the Sonos ecosystem....

Warning: Contains SPOILERS for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker finally reveals the truth about Rey - and here’s her full story. Star Wars is a generational saga, and each generation has its own champion. The prequel trilogy is best understood as the age of Anakin Skywalker, the original trilogy allows his son Luke Skywalker to stand tall, and the sequel trilogy is really all about Rey....

Clint Eastwood’s latest strong-armed production, Richard Jewell, tells the true story of the security guard who saved thousands of lives at the 1996 Summer Olympics, only to be vilified by the press and the FBI as the investigation’s prime subject – but how reliable is the film in telling what actually happened, and how much did it change? I, Tonya and BlacKkKlansman actor Paul Walter Hauser stars as the titular Jewell: an overly-ambitious, wannabe police officer whose social oddities make him the perfect target for a government agency that wants quick results, and the media machine that wants a story....

Adult Swim’s acclaimed animated series Rick and Morty will return for its season 4 premiere in November 2019, it has been announced. Created by Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland, Rick and Morty debuted in 2013 and immediately garnered a loyal following among fans who fell in love with its twisted take on animated science fiction. Centered on the dimension-hopping adventures of mad scientist Rick Sanchez and his hapless grandson Morty (both voiced by Roiland), the show features wildly imaginative storytelling, bizarre characters and sometimes profoundly dark humor straight from the mind of the ever-warped Harmon....

Nomura analyst Richard Windsor has warned clients that Research In Motion is struggling to develop the touch interface for use within its forthcoming ‘iPhone killer’, the BlackBerry Thunder. The analyst says the implementation even lags behind Nokia (who we think themselves are trailing Apple on touch controls). “Those who have handled prototypes complain of poor typing, unresponsive keys, bugs in the user interface cause by touch as well as accelerometer issues,” Windsor said, as reported by MarketWatch....

Lucasfilm has released two new videos that highlight some of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’s many easter eggs. There are a lot of exciting developments happening in the world of Star Wars. After a ten year break between Revenge of the Sith and The Force Awakens, the movies are now coming once a year; every two years the main story - which began all the way back in 1977 - gets a new chapter, and in the years between audiences are shown a glimpse of other stories which happened “a long time ago in a galaxy far far away....

Roku streaming devices gained the Apple TV app last month for viewing Apple TV+ shows as well as content from HBO, Showtime, and other Apple TV Channels. Now Roku customers are gaining a convenient new way to control the viewing experience from the Apple Watch. Roku announced a new version (specifically 6.1.3) of its remote control app for iPhone today that will bring features like navigating and searching for what to watch to the Apple Watch....

Regé-Jean Page is best known for his role in the History Channel’s 2016 remake of Roots, but what other shows and films has the British-Zimbabwean actor been in? The original Roots miniseries aired in 1977 on ABC and was based on the novel Roots: The Saga Of An American Family by writer Alex Haley. The series tells the tale of Kunta Kinte (The West Wing’s John Amos) – a young man abducted from his Gambian village and sold into slavery in the U....

2016 was a rough year for a lot of people, but for Sony Pictures, it was especially dreadful. The company’s only high-profile successes were The Angry Birds Movie ($350 million worldwide) and Mei Ren Yu, a.ka. The Mermaid (which did $554 million worldwide, but only $3 million domestically). Ghostbusters and The Magnificent Seven failed to validate their inflated budgets and Passengers didn’t fare much better. While smaller projects like The Shallows and Sausage Party managed to turn a profit, it wasn’t enough to prevent the company from treading water at best....

It’s as minimalist of a design as docks can get: a big, solid-feeling box hiding your Apple Watch Magnetic Charging Cable and a 2000mAh battery inside. And it’s available in colors matching nearly every Apple Watch, even including gold and rose gold. You’ll have to decide whether or not it makes sense for your personal needs, but one thing’s for sure — there’s nothing else quite like it on the market, or likely to appear any time soon…...

One of the downsides of living in a city is that opportunities to fly your drone tend to be limited. Where I live is well inside the massive chunk of drone-free air over London. Indeed, I’m inside both controlled airspace for my nearest airport (London City, less than five miles away) and a separate Restricted Area above central London. So if I want to reach clear airspace, it’s either a car ride or train journey away – which means I only really do it when I have a specific reason or project in mind....

Rick And Morty season 1 episode 5 “Meeseeks And Destroy” introduced Mr. Meeseeks to the series - and a cult hero was born. Rick And Morty was created by Dan Harmon (Community) and Justin Roiland, who also voices the title characters. The basic setup finds a genius scientist dragging his insecure grandson around the universe on adventures that always take a dark, violent turn. Rick And Morty debuted on Adult Swin in 2013 and became an instant cult favorite, due to the combination of heady sci-fi ideas with great voice acting and black comedy....

The first look at Robert Pattinson’s costume for The Batman has been revealed, and it shows how the actor’s take on the Dark Knight is already proving his critics wrong. With Ben Affleck stepping down from the role of Batman, Matt Reeves has cast Pattinson as his Batman for the DC movie set to be released on 25 June, 2021. Anyone chosen for the role of Batman is going to be met with skepticism, but that was particularly the case for Pattinson....

Fandango schedules Rocketman screenings two weeks prior to the wide release date. Directed by Dexter Fletcher, the biographical musical drama stars Taron Egerton as the iconic English musician Elton John. Titled after John’s 1972 hit song of the same name, Rocketman explores his personal and professional ascent during the ‘70s. Like the 2018 music drama Bohemian Rhapsody - a film about Queen and lead singer Freddie Mercury - Rocketman addresses behind-the-scenes struggles, along with the subject’s pop culture influence....

Asus ROG Phone 5 Ultimate is an impressive gaming smartphone that comes out of the box with Android 11. The device gets powerful hardware and also promised to receive regular security patch update and bug fixes. However, it’s not a new case when some of the users haven’t received the latest firmware OTA update notification. Meanwhile, some of the ROG Phone 5 Ultimate owners also look for the stock ROM to install mostly....

UPDATE: The Digital Bits is reporting there is little chance of this happening, based on comments made by Disney’s Theo Gluck and Fox’s Shawn Belston at a presentation. The original cut negatives exist within the special editions, and no reconstruction work has been done to date. Original article follows. - This year marks the 20th anniversary of the release of the special editions of the original Star Wars trilogy. The alternate cuts provided viewers with an opportunity to see the groundbreaking saga on the big screen once more, but many longtime fans were left perturbed by the changes George Lucas made to the Oscar-winning films....

As more and more consumers switch to using iOS devices to enjoy media, the need is becoming apparent for a more full featured and well-rounded video player. While Apple’s Videos app provides basic and simple functionality for viewing movies, when it comes to storing, organizing, and viewing your entire library of videos and movies, Apple’s stock app falls flat. FireCore, the group behind the popular aTV Flash software for jailbroken Apple TVs have released a new app called Infuse, which promises to fix all of that, offering you a versatile way to view and organize videos in a variety of different formats....

For the past few weeks, I have been using Mophie’s Powerstation Duo device charger, and it has been a tool that has already improved my technology-filled life. I’m constantly using my iOS devices, like an iPad and an iPhone, and I am hardly stationed in one place. I’m always on the move, and relying on the batteries of my mobile devices to last throughout the day is unrealistic. On my previous iPhone, I used to use a Mophie case with a built in battery pack, but since the iPhone 5 is yet to see a compatible Mophie case, a brand I trust for these types of accessories, I’ve been using the Duo....