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Happy Thanksgiving! For readers with an Apple Watch, remember to run or walk 5K today to earn a unique Activity achievement medal and an iMessage sticker. This is the first special Activity Challenge event and is only available for a limited time. To earn the reward, you must start and complete a running or walking workout using the Apple Watch Workout app by the end of November 24th, Thanksgiving Day. The achievement is technically only available to Apple Watch users in the United States but there is a way to make the award appear if you live elsewhere …...

Remnant: From the Ashes brings guns and friends to the Soulslike table, and playthroughs remain engaging despite its several flaws and bad tendencies. Darksiders 3 developer Gunfire Games’ Remnant: From the Ashes is the newest Soulslike, introducing high-intensity gunplay and online co-op to the well-trodden genre while still aping a sufficient amount of Dark Souls series elements to fit the trendy criteria. This surefire formula means that combat and exploration are decently rewarding, but the game inherits its antecedents’ worst annoyances in the process....

While the report doesn’t elaborate on what types of apps or services will be announced, it indicates that Apple will add new categories beyond the existing integrations that currently include ride booking, messaging, photo search, payments, VoIP calling, and Workouts. Several recent reports have indicated that Apple is planning to unveil a new standalone Siri product at WWDC next week alongside new Macs, iPads, iOS 11 as well as macOS 10....

Apple is reportedly planning to offer a bundle of Apple TV+, Showtime, and CBS All Access through its Apple TV Channels platform. This comes after a report earlier today indicated that Apple will debut its own bundle of services like Apple TV+, Apple Music, and Apple Arcade later this year. Bloomberg reports that the new bundle with Apple TV+, Showtime, and CBS All Access could launch as soon as Monday, August 17....

The Pwn2Own 2021 event is promoted by the Zero Day Initiative as a way to encourage developers and researchers to report zero-day vulnerabilities to the affected companies instead of selling these breaches to malicious hackers. This year, systems researcher Jack Dates was paid $100,000 after finding a new exploit in Apple’s Safari web browser. For those unfamiliar with the term, a zero-day exploit is basically a newly discovered vulnerability whose fix is still unknown to the developers....

As a writing tool, Scrivener may be a niche app, but it has a fan-base almost unlike any other app I know. For those unfamiliar with it, it’s an app written by a writer for writers. You can read my review of the Mac app here, but I’ll save time by including my summary here. I wouldn’t dream of writing a novel in anything else, and many other writers say the same....

Two decades later (and the many changes to the media landscape that’ve come with them), the tale of Richard Jewell is one that still teems with relevance. It’s a story about how quickly a person can go from being propped up as a hero to being vilified by the media before all the facts are in. But under the direction of Clint Eastwood, any kind of subtly or nuance gets tossed out the window in favor of unrefined melodrama....

When Apple revealed on Tuesday that the current Mac Pro will not see a major update and instead an all-new modular Mac Pro is being developed, the company stopped short of saying just when that decision was made and how long ago the new project started. Apple said the modular Mac Pro won’t be available in 2017, but didn’t explicitly promise the new machine would be ready next year. OSNews managing editor Thom Holwerda believes the project actually started “only a few weeks ago” and won’t be complete as soon as we may expect....

Comic book publisher Boom! Studios recently announced the next installment in R. L. Stine’s Go Beyond series of graphic novels, titled Go Beyond: Beast Island. The Goosebumps and Fear Street author is working with Kelly & Nichole Matthews, artists known for Pandora’s Legacy and the webcomic Wishbones, and cover artist Julian Totino Tedesco (Daredevil: Know Fear, Mystik U). Beast Island is releasing this October. This is the third OGN in the Go Beyond line of middle-grade supernatural horror books....

Former star of The Real Housewives of Orange County, Alexis Bellino gets slammed for calling her housekeepers"maids" and for calling them out publically on social media. Alexis had always been a contentious character on the show, and many were happy to see her leave the show when her time ended. However, leaving the franchise wont stop her from creating controversy. Even though Bellino has since left the hit Bravo show she does not seem to have changed her entitled ways....

Realme XT was announced just a few days ago and has become a staple as it brings a massive 64MP camera sensor along with the aesthetics of a flagship device. Google announced Android 10 aka Android Q on September 3 and rolled it out across its Pixel series and Essential PH. Further, Redmi K20 Pro became the first non-Pixel Android smartphone to get the update first along with OnePlus 7 & 7 Pro....

Rockstar Games’ Wild West sandbox seems like its PC debut lies just beyond the horizon, as a PC port of the critically acclaimed Red Dead Redemption 2 was recently listed on a programmer’s resumé. There’s been a lot of back and forth within the gaming community over whether or not PC players will get to step into the boots of Arthur Morgan on their platform of choice, and this most recent development has renewed hope that it could still happen....

Apple has reportedly made another payment to Samsung for selling too few iPhones. According to a new report from Display Supply Chain Consultants, Apple made a one-time payment of $950 million to Samsung for purchasing fewer OLED iPhone displays than required. Samsung noted in its Q2 guidance release that the operating profit for Q2 2020 included a “one-time gain related to its display business,” but it did not include the amount....

A new report today from the China Times says that Apple is planning to unveil a new 23-inch iMac later this year, alongside a new 11-inch iPad Air. The report also elaborates on how COVID-19 is affecting Apple’s planned transition to mini-LED. The China Times report was first spotted by Macotakara. This isn’t the first time we’ve heard of a new 11-inch iPad. Just yesterday, we reported on an anonymous user on Twitter who indicated that Apple is developing a new 11-inch iPad Air with Touch ID under the display....

Action cams are a great way to relive fun experiences, and also provide the reassurance of video evidence should anything untoward happen while cycling. I’ve run a camera on my bikes for a few years now, my current one being the Garmin Virb Elite. The Drift Stealth 2 has a similar form-factor to the Garmin, but is about half the size, so I thought I’d see how well it stacks up....

It’s finally here. Tapbots unleashed a new member of their extremely popular Tweetbot family on the world today in the form of Tweetbot for Mac. The new bot has been eagerly awaited by Twitter users since it went into public alpha in the middle of July. The OS X version of the popular iOS client boasts a similar feature-set, including timeline position syncing between devices via Tweet Marker, and even more syncing options through iCloud....

The iPhone comes with a pretty decent weather app, but many people find it to be lacking. Aside from the fact that it only predicts up to seven days of weather, many find its forecasts—which are powered by Yahoo!—to be somewhat inaccurate. That’s a void that WeatherSnitch 2 is eager to fill. WeatherSnitch’s interface is packed with all the weather-related information you could possibly want, but presented in a neat and orderly way that makes sense....

The mid-season finale of Rick and Morty season 4, “Rattlestar Ricklactica,” paid homage to a number of movies that involved time travel. The episode also explored several classic science-fiction concepts, such as going back in time to kill Hitler or save Abraham Lincoln, that have been done, redone and parodied so much they are practically a genre unto themselves. The plot of “Rattlestar Ricklactica” focused on how Morty’s attempts to ease his own guilt at killing the first astronaut from a civilization of space snakes spiraled out of control....

With the upcoming debut of the fourth season of Riverdale, fans everywhere are looking forward to more mystery, drama and deceit among the residents of the small town we’ve come to love. There’s always plenty of angst, plot thickenings and twists in store. The last three seasons have placed us in whirlwinds beyond our wildest dreams. Relationships have certainly been a part of that phenomenon. In all that time, we’ve had relationships we’ve supported, and some not so much....

Rob Zombie’s Halloween (2007) may get a lot of negative reviews from horror fans who are loyal to Carpenter’s 1978 original, but Zombie did his best to adapt from the source while putting his own spin on the material. In 1980, Carpenter sold the television rights to Halloween to NBC for approximately $3 million. The edited version of Carpenter’s original film aired for the first time in October 1981. In order to satisfy the Standards and Practices department of NBC, Carpenter had to film an additional twelve minutes of footage that would be edited into the final cut and replace many of the murder scenes....