A key stock index of technology giants, the NYSE FANG+, fell 2.8% yesterday, one day ahead of Apple reporting its fiscal Q3 earnings … The WSJ reports that the one-day fall set a new record. While the slide does represent nervousness around the tech sector as a whole, there’s no suggestion that AAPL is a specific influence, investors expecting the company to hit its guidance and reveal modest growth in iPhone sales when it reports its earnings later today....

Sony has released a trailer for its Blumhouse horror movie re-imagining of Fantasy Island. After years of making their name with original thrillers and horror franchises, Blumhouse tried their hand at a legacy sequel with last year’s Halloween. The film was a success across the board for the studio, and currently has a pair of followups in the works for release in 2020 and 2021. It also helped pave the way for similar upcoming Blumhouse reboots like Black Christmas and The Invisible Man, in addition to their Fantasy Island feature adaptation....

Fast & Furious 9 has cast The Walking Dead and Guardians of the Galaxy star Michael Rooker. Long before becoming one of the most recognizable character actors in movies and on TV, Rooker experienced an early career breakout thanks to his chilling portrayal of a heartless murderer in the notorious 1986 independent film Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer. After that early breakthrough, Rooker quickly built his resume with roles in everything from Oliver Stone’s JFK to Tom Cruise’s Days of Thunder to the Stephen King adaptation The Dark Half....

There’s certainly no shortage of buzz around health tracking and fitness-related products and software these days, and Facebook is making sure it its not going to be left out of the race (there’s also no shortage of Facebook acquisitions). Finnish company ProtoGeo Oy, the developers behind the iPhone and Android fitness app Moves (seen above), has been acquired by Facebook as it posted this on its site today: The company also rounded out its announcement with a thank you to customers for making its product a success and the standard promise that data gathered by the service won’t “commingle” with Facebook, but such promises are mostly “feel good” reassurances and surely have no legal merit especially with the “there are no plans” qualifier....

Facebook is planning its own voice assistant as it looks to increase competition with Siri and Alexa. According to a report from CNBC, Facebook has been working on this AI assistant since early 2018. It comes after the company tried and failed to launch a Siri competitor in 2015. Facebook’s virtual assistant development team is being led by Ira Snyder, who also serves as the company’s director of augmented and reality....

Facebook has partnered with The New York Times, BuzzFeed, National Geographic, and six other outlets whose article will show up as part of Instant Articles globally on the iPhone App (android version is incoming). In addition to making the articles load super fast, Instant Articles will provide a suite of interactive features that allow publishers to bring their stories to life in new ways. This includes zoom in and exploring of high resolution photos, watching auto-playing videos, interactive maps, audio captions and many more....

With an amazing 17 seasons on the air and more to come, Family Guy has become one of the most popular animated shows in television history. Its success is even more remarkable considering it was canceled for four years following its third season. Though it has clearly had success after being revived, some think the show’s best years are behind long gone. Family Guy still has plenty of fans, but it’s hard to deny that some aspects of the show have not aged well....

Fast & Furious 9 will arrive into movie theaters around the world on May 22, 2020, but its trailer will drop long before that - here’s when it’s slated to release. The blockbuster will bring Justin Lin back into the Fast & Furious director’s chair for the first time since Fast & Furious 6 in 2013. Also returning for this new adventure will be franchise mainstays Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, and Jordana Brewster....

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission this week reached an agreement with T-Mobile to ensure that customers receive proper information about the speed of their wireless internet connection, even if the user has a capped data plan. The carrier has 60 days to implement the changes outlined in the agreement. The underlying confusion stems from T-Mobile exempting certain speed test services from a customer’s monthly data allotment on capped plans. For instance, a T-Mobile customer with an iPhone 6 could use the popular Ookla SpeedTest app to check the speed of his or her connection without using any data....

Final Fantasy 7 Remake brings back the tough Sweeper enemy at the beginning of the game. Here’s how to easily defeat this mechanical enemy. Final Fantasy 7 is getting a brand new coat of paint with the Final Fantasy 7 Remake. Aside from just rebuilding the world of Midgar from the ground-up, several characters have received a makeover, including each of the enemy characters. When exploring in the first chapter of the game, players will run into the Sweeper enemy....

Steven Universe is one of Cartoon Network’s most exciting properties, as Steven and the Crystal Gems have had numerous hilarious, heartwarming and unforgettable adventures. The show’s success led to a full-length musical film Steven Universe the Movie, and a sequel series Steven Universe Future. The film took place two years after the events of the original series finale, and now we have a closer look at the feature in a new art book, The Art of Steven Universe the Movie, by Dark Horse Comics....

New set photos from The Falcon and the Winter Solder tease the return of Sharon Carter (Emily VanCamp) alongside the leading duo. As the Marvel Cinematic Universe enters Phase 4, Marvel Studios is expanding the story to the small screen like never before. Thanks to Disney+, Kevin Feige and his Marvel Studios team are producing multiple mini-series that will focus on characters who haven’t been put in the spotlight before or introduce those that will be important in the years to come....

The latest Avengers: Endgame trailer hilariously includes Ryan Reynolds’ Deadpool in a new fan-made video. Marvel Studios surprisingly dropped the second full trailer for the much-anticipated blockbuster last week with a mix of old and new footage. And it didn’t take long before fans hacked the Merc with a Mouth in there to put a fun twist in a rather serious clip. Directed by Joe and Anthony Russo, Endgame will be the culmination of the 22-film arc that the MCU has been treading since 2008’s Iron Man....

A Fantastic Four fan has depicted Hollywood power couple, John Krasinski and Emily Blunt, as Marvel’s Mr. Fantastic and the Invisible Woman. Earlier this year Disney acquired 20th Century Fox in a $71 billion super-deal that brought everyone from Deadpool and the X-Men to the Fantastic Four under the Marvel umbrella. Now that Marvel has acquired the rights to Fox’s roster of comic book heroes, fans are having a lot of fun speculating about who will inhabit the wide variety of superheroes now available to the Marvel Cinematic Universe....

FaZe Clan’s EwOk has dropped Twitch for Mixer, marking yet another in a long line of popular streamers who have transferred to the newer service. From the world’s most popular streamer Ninja to other game streamers like Shroud and King Goliathon, Microsoft’s service has been gaining more and more activity recently, and although some players and viewers feel Mixer offers nothing new to the table many others have joined simply because they are tired of the way Twitch has been operating....

A new short film shot on iPhone 11 Pro gives perhaps the best insight yet into what a professional filmmaker can do with nothing more than an iPhone. There’s no shortage of films and ads proclaiming they were ‘shot on iPhone,’ but most have cheated by using cinematography lenses and stabilization kit costing many times the price of the phone. We now have a more realistic test thanks to filmmaker Rian Johnson – whose work includes Star Wars: The Last Jedi – creating a short film shot using only the iPhone 11 Pro, handheld, with just its built-in lenses…...

Dubset has announced that hundreds of its DJ mixes are now available on Apple Music, including three exclusive sets. Dubset mixes are treated as albums. It follows a deal first struck with Apple back in 2016, though it took several months before single-track mixes made it to Apple Music. The company seems to be moving at a very slow pace, it took more than a year between submitting mixes and beginning the approval process....

The Federal Trade Commission is reportedly looking into filing a preliminary injunction against Facebook over antitrust concerns based on the interoperability of its apps. A potential injunction could focus on how Facebook interacts with Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp. Reported by The Wall Street Journal, anonymous sources close to the matter have said FTC officials are looking into filing a preliminary injunction as soon as next month. Facebook has been talking about creating stronger interoperability between its apps publicly for a year and plans have been progressing since....

Facebook has announced a major ecommerce move today that sees the launch of Facebook Shops. The company is pitching it as a way for businesses to create one online store that will work across Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp. Facebook shared all the details about the new ecommerce platform in a blog post today, highlighting the pandemic as a key factor in small businesses trying to figure out online sales....

With a story spanning over 10 films, the Fast and the Furious franchise has provided viewers with tons of thrilling street races, aggressive rivalries, intimate romances, and suspenseful encounters with law enforcement that have allowed the franchise to continue with the development of its 10th film. As one could expect from such a highly detailed cinematic universe, The Fast and the Furious features an array of fascinating and unique characters who have provided viewers with plenty of entertainment over the years....