The second trailer for Charlie’s Angels offers a closer look at the new team of Angels played by Ella Balinska, Naomi Scott, and Kristen Stewart. Although it seems like a hard reboot on the surface, the upcoming film is actually a partial continuation of director McG’s Charlie’s Angels movies from the 2000s (which themselves, of course, were based on the original 1970s TV show). And with Elizabeth Banks serving as a director, writer, and costar, the film will also carry over its predecessors’ action-comedy tone, albeit with less male gaze-iness (so to speak)....

The rumours around new AirPods continue to build. A Chinese report today from Economic Daily News indicates that Apple will sell the ‘AirPods Pro’ in multiple colors, like black, white and midnight green. This would be significant as obviously the current AirPods only come in white. Whereas AirPods have only been offered in one variety so far, Apple’s subsidiary Beats has always sold its headphone products in various colorways. For instance, the Powerbeats Pro are sold in black, ivory, navy and moss....

Chinese site Feng is reporting that Taiwanese media is saying that Apple wants to launch the smartwatch sometime in February. Most recently, The Information said Apple would be “lucky” to release the Apple Watch by Valentine’s Day. Officially, Apple has only quoted ‘early 2015’ as a launch window for the Apple Watch. According to the report, Apple is supply constrained by the sapphire output of GTAT, which will mean the Apple Watch will hit in limited quantities....

13 Reasons Why star Christian Navarro has auditioned to play Prince Eric in Disney’s live-action The Little Mermaid remake. The upcoming re-imagining of the studio’s much beloved 1989 Oscar-winning film (itself based on Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale) is yet another effort by Disney to find renewed life in their lengthy catalogue of animated classics by revisiting them in live-action. Although recent efforts like Aladdin and The Lion King haven’t exactly wowed critics, their billion dollar box office receipts prove that audiences want live-action remakes....

Following a petition with thousands of signatures related to GPU complaints and a class-action lawsuit filed in the United States, another class-action lawsuit has been filed north of the border against Apple Canada over the same GPU issues affecting some 15-inch and 17-inch 2011 MacBook Pro models equipped with an AMD graphics chip. The virtually identical class-action lawsuit was filed in Canada by Montreal-based legal firm Lex Group Attorneys and argues that certain 2011 MacBook Pros suffer from a design and manufacturing defect that causes graphical issues such as severe screen distortion, pixilation, graphical artifacts, and ghosting, often rendering the notebooks unusable....

HomeKit Weekly is a series focused on smart home accessories, automation tips and tricks, and everything to do with Apple’s smart home framework. I’d love to see Apple expand HomePod to work in much the same way. For Apple Music and Apple Podcasts, it can play content directly from the internet. Why can’t other apps do the same thing? AirPlay 2 does exist and is a stop-gap to this problem, but it doesn’t solve it....

The two organizations joined forces last year for their first accelerator and are now eager to expand the program to help create a new pipeline of tech talent across the African continent. Husband-and wife-team Tony Effik and Perky Noah-Effik created Black and Brilliant last year as a way to diversify the tech workforce and increase access for BIPOC communities. The two met Codecademy’s CEO Zach Sims at an event last year and decided to partner on the effort....

The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) has officially announced the details for CES 2022 today. The event will make an in-person return to Las Vegas but will still keep a virtual component and run from January 3-8. The CTA shared the news in a press release today. It called the all-virtual CES 2021 “successful” and revealed the January 3-4, 2022 dates for the media days, with the public portion slated from January 5-8....

There aren’t many people who haven’t heard of Dracula. The Count has been around since 1897, when he first appeared in Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula. The character actually turns 120 this year, so why not explore another tiny sliver of Dracula’s unique history. A big reason for Dracula’s staying power has to be the fact that the character exists in the public domain. This pretty much mean that he can be used by almost anyone, in any story they choose, and has led to many versions of the character showing up in books, films, plays, TV, & comics....

With reports percolating about Henry Cavill’s departure from the DC and a reboot in the near future, if the rumored frontrunner, Michael B. Jordan, passes up the caped wonder, who should be cast as DC’s next Superman? The future of Superman in the current has shifted dramatically over the course of the decade. Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel not only kicked off the current DC Extended Universe, but it marked Cavill’s first appearance as the iconic Clark Kent/Superman....

Ahead of the upcoming Dune movie, the classic Dune board game is being re-released after decades out of print. The game originally launched in 1979, releasing five years before David Lynch’s cult classic movie adaptation enthralled audiences. The team behind 1977’s Cosmic Encounter (Bill Eberle, Jack Kittredge and Peter Olotka) were also the designers for the Dune board game. These individuals were responsible for the creation of a game that very much reflected the underground nature of the Dune fanbase that was present ever sense the movie achieved cult status....

In an ironic twist on the controversy over Apple’s return policies in China, five employees at a Chinese electronics store have been arrested for a scam in which they claimed to have carried out iPhone repairs, sending components from fake phones back to Apple and using the ‘replacement’ parts to build and sell real iPhones. Fake iPhones are commonplace in China, and can often look extremely convincing both externally and internally....

For the last few days, Chinese state media started a mini smear campaign on Apple, criticising the company’s App Store policies and voicing frustration at ongoing SMS and iMessage spam in the region. Reuters reports that the Chinese media quoted an Apple rep announcing that Apple will be rolling out new ways to block iMessage spam accounts, and is developing ‘advanced technology’ to automatically identify junk messages. In a statement to Reuters, Apple said that they have been ‘working to reduce the issue of spam for quite some time’....

Actor Chris Hemsworth busts a move in an Avengers: Endgame behind-the-scenes video on Instagram, where the Australian franchise star provides fans with a throwback post that includes his MCU castmates. In Avengers: Endgame, Hemsworth reprises his role as Thor. In the Russo brothers’ film, the superheroes battle the big bad Thanos, along with time itself, in order to gain control of the six Infinity Stones. For the 22nd installment - the penultimate film of the MCU’s Phase 3 - Thor has a significantly different look, one that’s crucial to the storyline....

Chris Rock is working on a reboot of the Saw franchise that’s scheduled for a 2020 release date. The original Saw was released in 2004 and was created by James Wan (Aquaman) and Leigh Whannell (Insidious). The blood-spattered story told of a serial killer - John Kramer, played by Tobin Bell - who snares his victims in deadly booby traps that were designed to test their morality and survival instincts....

The FBI and Department of Justice caused a minor furor on Thursday when both came out harshly against The Strengthening American Cybersecurity Act, landmark cybersecurity legislation that sailed through the Senate unanimously on Tuesday. The act forces critical infrastructure organizations to report cyberattacks to CISA within 72 hours and ransomware payments within 24 hours. In statements to Politico, FBI Director Christopher Wray and Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco trashed the bipartisan bill because the FBI and DOJ are not included alongside CISA....

Former The Bachelor star Colton Underwood is ready to pass the torch. He recently explained why Peter Weber, who appeared on the latest season of The Bachelorette, is ready to be the next Bachelor. Underwood, who first appeared on Becca Kufrin’s season of The Bachelorette, starred in the 23rd season of The Bachelor, where he ended up proposing to contestant Cassie Randolph. In between, he had a brief stint on the spinoff Bachelor in Paradise....

Apple has been rather quiet about an all-new Mac Pro it first teased a year ago. We did, though, learn two new things yesterday. Last year, all that Apple said about timing was that the new machine wouldn’t be released that year. That left open the possibility that the machine might be launched in 2018, or it might be later – and we now know it’s the latter … Apple yesterday told TechCrunch that the new Mac Pro won’t be released until next year....

Catch Me If You Can is a wildly entertaining story and one of Steven Spielberg’s most underrated films. It stars Leonardo DiCaprio in the real-life story of Frank Abagnale, a young man who, before he turned 20, mad become one of the most successful con men in American history. The movie dives into Frank’s exploits and offers a fun and exciting adventure as he takes daring risks and lives lavishly while trying to remain one step ahead of the lawmen who are on his trail....

It’s a stats day today as research firms push out various surveys at the beginning of each month. Having chewed on Apple increasing its lead over Android in mobile OS usage and Chrome surpassing Firefox globally, it’s time for some iPhone numbers. According to a ChangeWave Research survey of 215 iPhone 4S owners conducted November 2-9, folks are loving their new handset better than the previous model. Apple hit new highs in customer satisfaction as a whopping 96 percent of respondents are Very Satisfied (77 percent) or Satisfied (19 percent) with their new iPhone 4S, while only two percent consider themselves Unsatisfied....