When word first broke that Sony was expanding on their Spider-Man universe with a film based on Morbius The Living Vampire, folks were a little confused. Though the character is an interesting one, Morbius is kind of a B or C level villain. He’s certainly not as popular or known as the likes of Venom or Doc Ock. While 2018’s Venom was met with mixed reviews, it was a commercial hit by taking in $856....
MacStories’ founder Federico Viticci regularly shares his useful custom Shortcuts for the iOS Shortcuts app and now he’s put together an archive of 150 of them, with more on the way. The new archive is a great place to explore and find all of the custom Shortcuts Viticci and the MacStories team has created to get more out of your iOS devices. What’s really neat, all of them are available for free and can be further customized to meet your specific needs....
Iconic actor Mark Hamill thanked Star Wars fans in a newly released box set letter. Best known for his portrayal of Luke Skywalker, Hamill has been with Star Wars from the beginning, playing the optimistic Jedi to be in A New Hope when it was released in 1977 to ending his story in The Rise of Skywalker as a Force Ghost. Although the epic Skywalker Saga technically came to a close with Rey finally defeating Palpatine once and for all doesn’t necessarily mean that fans will close their hearts to the story of the Skywalkers and their friends and family....
When you’re using headphones for studio production, you want cans that reproduce the sound exactly as it’s being recorded – nothing added, nothing changed, nothing taken away. That’s a preference many of us share outside the studio, and what monitor headphones are all about. Marshall has today launched a wireless version of its top-of-the-range Monitor headphones. They retain the look, feel and controls of the original: a very traditional-looking black vinyl casing, black aluminum fittings and that single brass joystick control: move up/down for volume, left/right for previous/next track and press for pause/play and to accept/end phone calls....
Warning: SPOILERS for Marauders #8 Sebastian Shaw has welcomed actual Nazis to the X-Men’s mutant nation. Jonathan Hickman’s X-Men relaunch has seen the world’s mutants gather on the living island of Krakoa. There, the X-Men have established a sanctuary and a stronghold, striking an agreement with the United Nations that every past mutant crime would be forgotten. The problem with this amnesty, and indeed with the entire idea of Krakoa, is that the X-Men are welcoming some of the most dangerous villains on the planet....
Director Matt Reeves’ The Batman is set to take fans back to the dreaded Arkham Asylum. Viewers have visited the iconic house for the criminally insane in various live-action incarnations of the Caped Crusader over the years, going way back to the not so fondly remembered Joel Schumacher directed movies of the 90s: Batman Forever and Batman & Robin. While those interpretations may be better off forgotten, the Gothic insane asylum has also been seen in Christopher Nolan’s revered Dark Knight trilogy, as well as Fox’s Gotham TV show....
The MCU has been home to a plethora of villains, each one seemingly out to trump the other with their dastardly schemes and evil plots. Thanos is widely regarded as the best of the bad guys that Disney has given to us so far, while the likes of Killmonger, Hela and the Winter Soldier are also rated highly among fans of the franchise. But what if the heroes, who have so far been successful (just about) in thwarting the villains, were to change sides?...
There’s a new Marvel superhero team coming to the United Kingdom, now that The Union has officially been revealed. Written by Paul Grist with art by Andrea Di Vito, the series will be rolled out during Marvel’s Empyre event and presumably will feature the United Kingdom-based superhero team protecting their homeland from the Kree and Skrull invasion. The teaser image released by Marvel is all the news thus far, showcasing the appearance of the new team....
A site called Windows Prime has posted what Windows watcher Paul Thurrott reckons to be an official specs sheet for the forthcoming Surface Laptop 5. The 2021 Surface Laptop 4 13.5-inch and 15-inch models, which Microsoft released in April, are available with both AMD and Intel processors. However, they are only available with the previous-generation AMD Ryzen mobile processors versus the then-current 11th generation Intel Core CPUs. Surface Laptop 3 ship with AMD processors for the 15-inch model only....
The recent release of Monster Hunter World’s massive expansion DLC, Iceborne, has provided players with new monsters to do battle with on top of a new difficulty and gear. The latest expansion has introduced a variety of new mechanics, new versions of previously included monsters, and brought back fan-favorite beasts from early entries in the series. One of these returning monsters is the fan-favorite electrically charged canine, Zinogre. In its base form, Zinogre is a force to be reckoned with....
These governments have an intense cooperation in signals intelligence, also known as SIGINT, the discipline that refers to the intelligence-gathering by interception of signals. The US National Security Agency and the British GCHQ Agency, according the documents leaked by the former NSA consultant, have developed powerful cyber capabilities that allow them to spy on every individual on every communication channel. Their operations have influenced the choices of respective governments; the information collected by their appliances has been gathered with stealth cyber attacks conducted by the elite hacking units of the intelligence agencies....
Ludi Lin is in talks to play Liu Kang in the upcoming Mortal Kombat movie produced by James Wan. The fighting video game has already been put to the big screen twice before in 1995 and the 1997 sequel Mortal Kombat: Annihilation. After over two decades on the shelf, New Line Cinema is gearing up to reboot the franchise. The new film is directed by Simon McQuoid and written by Greg Russo, and the latter has been teasing a proper adaptation of the violent video game this time around....
MacStadium— the company that offers developers dedicated Macs and Mac private clouds that run on genuine Apple hardware– today announced ‘Orka’ (Orchestration with Kubernetes on Apple), a new virtualization/orchestration product for Mac. The company also announced that its data centers plan to rack the new Mac Pro that Apple officially announced during its WWDC keynote yesterday. Head below for more details: Orka is MacStadium’s new virtualization layer for Mac, allowing users to build infrastructure based on Docker and Kubernetes technology....
Dropbox announced today that Mailbox, the popular gesture-heavy email client it bought last year, will soon be launching a desktop version of its software. The company also announced a set of new features like Dropbox account sign in and syncing and delete automation coming soon to the iPhone and iPad versions that will debut first in a version available for Android; this marks the first time the email software will be available on another platform aside from iOS as Mailbox is available on the Google Play Store today....
Though Marvel’s partnership with Netflix is over, fans can buy items from two of their shows, The Punisher, and The Defenders, in an auction this June. The partnership between Marvel and Netflix began in 2015 with the premiere of Daredevil, starring Charlie Cox as the blind, masked crusader. A lawyer by day, Matt Murdock dons the iconic devil outfit to defend Hell’s Kitchen. Well-received and very popular, Daredevil successfully set the stage for the multiple series’ to follow....
IFC releases a trailer for Mary Magdalene. Directed by Garth Davis, the biblical drama stars Joaquin Phoenix as Jesus Christ and Rooney Mara as the title character. Earlier this month, Mary Magdalene finally received an April release date, this coming after a turbulent distribution journey after the film initially premiered in February 2018. In the canonical gospels, Mary Magdalene is referenced more than Jesus’ apostles, and the film chronicles her unique relationship with the founder of Christianity, as she allegedly witnessed his crucifixion, burial, and resurrection....
As fans gear up for week 5 of The Masked Singer, there are 11 contestants left whose identities have yet to be revealed. The internet has done well with guessing in the past, and so far, this year is no different. This season, the clues have been slightly more vague in an attempt to keep fans guessing. However, with the internet at their disposal, fans are still coming through with some excellent guesses....
Facebook Messenger and Instagram chats are now officially merged, as the company implements the next phase in its planned unified messaging service for Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. We first learned about the company’s plans at the beginning of last year … Later the same month, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg confirmed the plans, but stated that the process would take some time. The New York Times is reporting that Facebook plans to combine messaging services across its applications, merging chats from WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger....
Michael B. Jordan has wowed critics and audiences with his talent, charisma, and geniality ever since he first appeared on the big screen at the age of 12, in the film Black and White. More than twenty years later, he’s as clever and affable as ever - except now he also has quite a few blockbuster film roles under his belt. We’re going to be ranking both his career’s biggest hits and its biggest misses, at least according to review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes....
Update Monday 11/26 @ 1:30PM ET: For a brief few minutes today, Microsoft officially passed Apple to become the most valuable company in the United States. As reported by Bloomberg, Apple’s market capitalization fell to $812.60 billion, while Microsoft’s continued increasing to $812.93 billion. The numbers continue to fluctuate, and it remains to be seen who will be on top at the end of trading today. Update Sunday 11/25 @ 10:45AM ET: Due to changes in outstanding share counts, Apple still leads Microsoft by $26 billion....
