A fan-made In Memoriam montage recognizes certain individuals who were ignored during the 2019 Oscars. While the montage that aired during the Oscars recognized everyone from Stan Lee to Margot Kidder to Burt Reynolds, it left out some major names who have made indelible marks on the film industry. During the 91st Annual Academy Awards, the ceremony took a break from handing out awards to honor individuals affiliated with the film industry who passed away between the 2018 and 2019 Oscars....

There’s a new display and brightness feature in iOS 9.3 called Night Shift which “automatically shifts the colors of your display to the warm end of the color spectrum after dark.” Apple even says that Night Shift “may help you get a better night’s sleep” which is mainly why I’ve been using (and enjoying) the feature during the iOS 9.3 betas. Who doesn’t want a better night’s sleep, right? But Night Shift has me thinking about other ways iOS could be optimized to make our iPhones and iPads less distracting at night....

Major Apple suppliers say that they currently plan to resume production in China on February 10. Most large Chinese companies have extended the Chinese new year holiday in order to limit the spread of the coronavirus. February 10 is the government’s target date to re-open factories and re-start production… Bloomberg reports four major Apple suppliers adopting this target. Apple also currently plans to re-open its retail stores and offices on the same date....

FIFA 23 is the latest football simulation video game by Electronic Arts which is the last installment under the FIFA franchise and the game will start a new journey with the new branding next year. Meanwhile, plenty of FIFA 23 players are reporting multiple issues or bugs with the gaming on the PC platform and the game not running smoothly on the PC is one of them. It’s performing quite badly since release....

After years of silence, there has finally been an update concerning the Final Fantasy VII Remake. Square Enix revealed a new gameplay trailer during Sony’s State of Play event, which offered a new glimpse at the characters and the events at the start of the game. There have been rumors of a Final Fantasy VII remake since the days of the PlayStation 2, but it wasn’t until E3 2015 that the project became a reality....

First Officer Kelly Caglia with an iPad in a Boeing 777. Credit: The New York Times The Federal Aviation Administration has certified Apple’s iPad for use in pilot cabins. Pilots won’t be playing Angry Birds: The approval paves the way to replacing some forty pounds worth of dead trees in pilot bags with shiny apps. Printed manuals, safety checklists, logbooks, navigation charts, weather information, airport diagrams – iPad will obsolete all of this paperwork with elegant apps, a true paperless cockpit, reports The New York Times:...

One of the things we all love to hate about Facebook is the way that it thinks it knows better than we do which posts we want to see. Facebook uses unspecified algorithms to assign rankings to posts, boosting the visibility of those it thinks we want to see, and demoting those it thinks will interest us less. A new iOS Facebook app rolling out later today will for the first time allow us to choose for ourselves whose posts get bumped to the top of our feeds....

Facebook has officially announced its new Messenger Day feature for iOS and Android after previously testing the Snapchat Stories clone with a limited number of users. Messenger Day is rolling out globally to Facebook’s Messenger app beginning today. Like Snapchat Stories and the many clones that have followed including Facebook-owned Instagram Stories, Messenger Day takes the format of sharing photos and videos with effects and annotations with friends for 24 hours....

After Facebook stopped harmful content and brought support for hardware security keys on mobile devices, the company now says it’s tackling misinformation across its apps. In a blog post today, Facebook’s VP of Integrity Guy Rosen explains the challenges Facebook is dealing with across its apps. To avoid misinformation on its social network, Facebook has a global network of more than 80 independent fact-checkers, who review content in more than 60 languages....

We’ve been hearing that FaceTime will work over 3G in iOS 5 but it will be up to carriers to allow it (like Tethering or VoIP apps). A reader sent in this screenshot (above) which seems to confirm that Apple plans on enabling FaceTime for those carriers that allow it. Carriers, especially in the Middle East, have been able to get Apple to block FaceTime use, even though it was Wifi-only....

A new set video from The Falcon and The Winter Soldier reveals a huge action scene with the show’s evil Captain America. After Avengers: Endgame concluded with Steve Rogers passing the Captain America shield to Sam Wilson aka Falcon (Anthony Mackie), it appeared fans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe would get to see the MCU’s new Cap in Marvel Studios’ first Disney+ series. This will be true when the The Falcon and The Winter Solider debuts later this year, but Sam Wilson will not be the one to take on the mantle or carry the shield....

A fan-created Indiana Jones radio drama sounds like the sequel that fans need. Since its early beginnings as the brainchild of George Lucas, the Indiana Jones character has gone on to become synonymous with adventure and Harrison Ford, who’s played the globetrotting archaeologist in four films, with a fifth on the way. Beginning with Raiders of the Lost Ark in 1981, Steven Spielberg helped to build the mythology around Indiana Jones, with each successive film along the way arguably further solidifying the character as one of the most popular heroes in cinematic history....

How many Hollywood franchises can say they’ve had a successful run? Of course, Marvel has the throne and the Rocky franchise along with Star Wars has its place cemented, but who would’ve thought a movie about cars would be so huge? The Fast & Furious franchise is so big that is has spawned nine movies, including a spin-off in Fast & Furious: Hobbs and Shaw. Looking back over the films, which scenes stands out the most as the best ever shot?...

Facebook has announced that it is adding messaging to both Facebook and Instagram that encourages people to wear face masks to slow the spread of COVID-19. The messaging will appear at the top of the News Feed on Facebook and the top of the main feed on Instagram. As reported by the Verge, the banners will direct users to the latest information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for more information....

At today’s F8 developer conference from Facebook, the company is focusing on privacy along with announcing some upcoming products like FaceTime competitors, a Tinder clone, and more. In a post on the platform today, Mark Zuckerberg noted: He notes that this is similar to clearing your cookies, cache and history, meaning that clearing your Facebook history will also force the platform to re-learn everything about you and your preferences. However, Zuckerberg says that this is the right move as it allows users to remove any data they don’t want from Facebook....

A blink-and-you-missed-it scene in Fear the Walking Dead may have given away a major plot reveal for The Walking Dead season 10, as the series may have teased the true identity of Beta (Ryan Hurst), one of the current antagonists on the flagship show. Season 9 of The Walking Dead kicked off the Whisperer War, which will continue into season 10. The two main villains of this storyline are Alpha (Samantha Morton) and Beta....

Thus, Reliance customers in six Indian states – Tamil Nadu, Mahararashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Kerala, and Telangana, will be able to access 38 websites ranging from news, health, travel, local jobs, sports, communication, and local government information. Here are some of the most popular websites and what they do: AccuWeather: Get updated weather information BBC News: Read news from around the world Bing Search: Find information Dictionary.com: Search for meanings of words Facebook: Communicate with friends and family India Today: Read local news NDTV: Read news Times of India: Read news Wikipedia: Find information wikiHow: Find information...

The people who pre-ordered Final Fantasy VII Remake will now have to confirm their purchase, due to issues caused by the delay of the game. Final Fantasy VII Remake was originally slated to be released in March, but Square Enix confirmed that the game was delayed for over a month and will now be released in April, as it needs more polish. Final Fantasy VII is one of several high-profile games that have been delayed in recent weeks....

Earlier today, developers uncovered the latest piece of information in the HomePod’s firmware: a potential upcoming Apple TV model with 4K support and more. Now, iHelp highlights yet another new iPhone 8 detail from the HomePod firmware, this time related to Face ID… The blog specifically points to a line that references support for facial recognition even when the device is laying flat on its back, note that Pearl is believed to be Apple’s name for Face ID:...

Popular messaging service WhatsApp has today announced its first desktop client for Mac OS X. The launch of a desktop Mac client comes a few months after the Facebook-owned service launched a web interface and a month after it rolled out end-to-end encryption for all communication. Much like the web client, the WhatsApp Mac application relies heavily on the mobile version of the communication platform. Much like iMessage between iOS and OS X, WhatsApp keeps all conversations synced across all of your devices....