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According to a new report from Variety, J.J. Abrams has written a new sci-fi drama television show that has attracted interest from both HBO and Apple. The show is said to focus on “a world’s battle against a monstrous, oppressive force.” It’s unclear at this point whether HBO or Apple is leading in efforts to obtain the rights to the show, with Variety only saying that the two are engaged in a “bidding war” over the series....

Apple Retail chief Angela Ahrendts has appeared in a video interview promoting the new Today at Apple initiative launching at Apple Stores this week. In the discussion with LinkedIn’s Daniel Roth, Ahrendts talks about her approach to leading Apple Retail to success when some retailers are struggling. Included in the video are some interesting numbers like Apple’s employee retention rate and even how many beacons were just installed overnight as part of the Today at Apple effort....

A Kindle that looks classy? Yep! The Voyage is Kindle turning on the style. Earlier Kindles were known for being sturdy and functional, and well, smart at best. This one? Ah, it is definitely not flimsy but whoever we have shown it to has remarked on its sleek finish. At 7.6 mm, it is definitely in the slim category – the iPhone 6 Plus is 7.1 mm – and at 180 grammes, is just a fraction heavier than the iPhone 6 Plus, which is 172 grammes....

With Instapaper and The Magazine, Marco Arment effectively invented the read-it-later and independent publishing idioms on iOS. Naturally, competitors followed but Arment was already a ‘front runner’ in the market. With Overcast, Arment is the follower. Overcast joins a whole host of other developers in a segment of the App Store that is already well established. It’s a different set of challenges. In many respects, Overcast acts like its the only podcast app on the iPhone....

Creating an ebook isn’t difficult. If you’ve written your book in Pages, you can export to EPUB–the format needed for iBooks–direct from the app. There is also the excellent Calibre app (featured in our How-to guide), which will convert just about any file format to any type of ebook. There’s also iBooks Author, but that has the disadvantage that if you use it to create your book, you’re not allowed to sell the iBooks version through other channels....

Following Dave Bautista’s vicious attack on Ric Flair that ended Monday’s WWE Raw, the former Evolution teammates trade threats on Twitter. Over the last several weeks, WWE had been heavily promoting last night’s episode of Raw, which emanated from Atlanta, and was to feature Flair’s 70th birthday celebration. “The Nature Boy” had experienced some of the greatest highlights of his career in Atlanta, which was a hotbed for former WWE competitor WCW back when Flair was cementing his status as one of the greatest world champions of all time....

RIM has filed an ‘opposition action’ (via Patently Apple) in Canada against Apple’s trademark application for ‘WebKit’, the rendering platform based on KHTML that Apple help create before making open-source. The move grants RIM more time to build their case before a November 22, 2011 deadline. Apple originally filed the trademark application in May of 2010 which, while getting a little bit of media attention, kind of flew under the radar of most....

WARNING: This post contains POSSIBLE SPOILERS for Star Wars: Episode VIII - Now that 2016 has come to a close and Rogue One is officially in the books (mostly), Star Wars fans are finally turning their full attention to the next installment - the most anticipated movie of 2017 by Screen Rant - Star Wars: Episode VIII. Despite the hype and anticipation, Lucasfilm hasn’t even begun official marketing for the next episodic Star Wars installment....

MLB Advanced Media has announced that R.B.I. Baseball 15 will be released this spring and will be available for the first time on Mac. This is a follow-up to the popular version from last year that made its debut on iOS. R.B.I. Baseball 15 promises a number of updates bringing the most realistic experience to date, most notability including authentic ballparks and full 25-man rosters for all 30 Major League teams....

The Iron Man death scene in Avengers: Endgame was originally super gruesome and new fan art imagines this R-rated version of Tony Stark’s death. After originating the role of Tony Stark in 2008’s Iron Man, Robert Downey Jr. concluded his time in the Marvel Cinematic Universe with the release of Avengers: Endgame. Though Tony started off his journey as a self-serving - albeit genius, billionaire, playboy philanthropist - hero, Iron Man sacrificed himself in Avengers: Endgame to defeat Thanos....

On Friends, Ross, Rachel, Phoebe, Joey, Chandler and Monica are catches, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy for them to find love. The characters are relatable because, in spite of being gorgeous, living in great apartments and having very cool jobs, they have their ups and downs when it comes to finding that special someone. Throughout 10 seasons, all six friends hook up, break up and make up as they traverse the complicated, frustrating and often comical dating scene....

Rdio today announced support for CarPlay, allowing its users to listen and control content from the subscription music service using the built-in touchscreen of CarPlay-enabled vehicles. CarPlay Support. Control Rdio playback and navigate your favorites and playlists from the built-in display in CarPlay-enabled cars. Vehicles with CarPlay, Apple’s new feature that brings an iOS-like experience to in-dash touchscreens connected to an iPhone, first hit the road earlier this year in pricey new Ferrari models followed by an aftermarket solution from Pioneer....

Star of The Real Housewives of Orange County, Tamra Judge warns Meghan King Edmonds to “run for the hills” amid messy split with Jim Edmonds. Tamra has had a hard divorce of her own that was documented on an earlier season of the hit show and hopes to help out King Edmonds in the process. When King Edmonds first made her debut back on The Real Housewives of Orange County in 2015 on the 10th season of the hit show, she was not a fan favorite due to her difficult personality....

Realme V5 5G is the newly launched upper-midrange segment smartphone that comes with a 6.5-inches LCD 90Hz display, Android 10 (Realme UI 1.0), MediaTek Dimensity 720 5G processor, 6GB/8GB RAM, 128GB onboard memory, 48MP quad rear cameras, a 16MP selfie shooter, 30W fast charging supported 5,000mAh battery and more. Though the handset is quite new in the market, some of the users are eager to know about the Realme V5 5G Android 11 (Realme UI 2....

Apple has been working diligently over the last year to clean up the App Store and rid it of spam and clone applications. A new report from TechCrunch, however, outlines the effect that Apple’s newfound efforts are having on apps built around templates… The report explains that Apple is cracking down on applications that are built from a “commercialized template or app generation service.” While Apple had included new rules about these types of apps following WWDC in June, only now is it starting to crack down....

CIRP is out today with new data on carrier activations and growth for Q1. Unsurprisingly, Verizon and AT&T took the top two spots for the most activations, but T-Mobile did gain more new customers than any other provider. Additionally, the report gives more details on why T-Mobile and Sprint have fired up merger discussions again. For CIRP’s 2018 Q1 results, Verizon came in with 28% of US mobile phone activations, followed by AT&T in second place with 23% (down from 26% YoY)....

But do you know what Resistive RAM is, or simply RRAM or ReRAM? The official description goes like this: To put it in plain English, this is the next step when it comes to flash memory. Indeed, there is a number of different companies that are working on this technology but it seems that we have one that’s ahead of them all. Crossbar, a company placed probably in the best location for such start-ups, Santa Clara, California has officially gone “out of stealth mode” and announced a new kind of a memory chip that might prove to be revolutionary for the $60 billion dollar flash market....

At the start of the week we saw Apple officially pull the plug on Beats Music after using it as the foundation for Apple Music which includes a streaming radio station dubbed Beats 1 as a salute. On the hardware front, Apple is totally marching forward with the headphone and speaker business it acquired after buying Beats for $3 billion a year and a half ago. The first totally new product to come from Apple under the Beats brand is the recently announced Beats Pill+ ($195, reg....

Robinhood trading restrictions for GME and other stocks were bad for customers, the company has admitted. However, CEO Vlad Tenev denied that the company had been pressured into this by hedge fund and business partner Citadel, saying that the company had been left with no choice. Tenev said that the volume and value of trades meant that its deposit requirements rocketed … Bloomberg reports: The company initially stopped customers buying any of the stocks being pumped by WallStreetBets before allowing “limited” purchases....

Director Dexter Fletcher debunks rumors that Paramount reportedly wants to cut a provocative scene in the new biopic Rocketman. The alleged scene in question includes the exposed buttocks of the film’s star, Taron Egerton, and Game of Thrones’ Richard Madden. Rocketman is a biographical musical fantasy drama that explores the life of English musician Elton John. Born Reginald Dwight, the now-iconic singer released his studio debut Empty Sky in 1969, and has since released 29 more albums....