It’s the moment we’ve all been waiting for since season 32 was announced. The full ‘Dancing with the Stars’ cast for the upcoming season was revealed on ‘GMA.’
It’s the moment we’ve all been waiting for since season 32 was announced. The full ‘Dancing with the Stars’ cast for the upcoming season was revealed on ‘GMA.’
Farewell Lightning cable. I will miss you when I inevitably get rid of all my cables, only to forget my MacBook wireless keyboard and trackpad still need you. Yes, the iPhone is going USB-C for 2023. That’s true across the iPhone 15, iPhone 15 Plus, iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max. And AirPods Pro.
Apple hasn’t changed the screen sizes of this year’s iPhones. The base iPhone 15 and the Pro have 6.1-inch displays, while the Plus and Pro Max have 6.7-inch screens. All the 2023 family now get the dynamic island display cutout that debuted on last year’s iPhone 14 Pro, and the iPhone 15 hardware has an all-new design with rounded edges. Apple has introduced a new camera system to the iPhone 15, which includes a 48MP main camera, but the most impressive imaging upgrades are just for the Pro phones.
Touching on the most-specced out device, thePro Max differentiates itself with some heady camera upgrades I’m very excited to try. You’ll get a 5x telephoto zoom lens with a 120mm focal length equivalent — a substantial jump from 3x zoom of the iPhone 15 Pro (and last year’s models). Apparently, this was achieved withtetraprisms.
On the side of the iPhone 15 Pro, there’s a new Action button that replaces the old Mute switch. This allows users to quickly access features like the camera, flashlight, Voice Memos and more. You can also configure it to activate your own shortcuts, with a new press-and-hold gesture, featuring haptic feedback and visual cues from the Dynamic Island, to ensure you know when a command goes through.
Both Pro phones will get a newA17 Pro chip, capable of ray tracing graphics, and Apple is teasing that AAA games, like Death Stranding, Resident Evil Village and Assassin’s Creed Mirage (more on that one below), will come to the iPhone 15, running natively.
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— Mat Smith
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Apple revealedtwo new watches this year. The Series 9 features overall performance boosts and a new processor, the S9 chip, which promises 18-hour battery life. Apple has also added a gesture to the Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2:Double Tap. This lets you control various system functions by tapping your thumb and index finger together twice quickly. You can use Double Tap to answer or end calls, snooze alarms, play / pause music or start and stop timers.
The hardware might not be entirely game-changing, but the software is shaping up to offer a more usable interface than ever before, at least according to my time so far with the beta version. The premiumApple Watch Ultra 2 offers a brighter screen (3,000 nits!) and, according to Apple, will top out at 36 hours of battery life on one charge.
Assassin’s Creed Mirage is blessedly billed as a return to the series’ leaner early days, when Ubisoft was restricted by PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 hardware. After a few hours of hands-on time across three sections of the new game, it feels like that’s the case. Mirage largely takes place in ninth-century Baghdad, a couple of centuries before the Holy Land setting of the original Assassin’s Creed, but around the same time as AC Valhalla (Mirage protagonist Basim made his first appearance in that game). Assassin’s Creed Mirage will arrive on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S and PC on October 5.
The latest iPhone software update will be available next week, on Monday, September 18. The public preview for iOS 17 has been available since June and has already shown off a number of design refinements, which Apple recapped during its keynote. Those include user-definable outgoing call screens, so you can pick what people see when you call them, and an option to send incoming calls to voicemail and read a transcription of them instead. Users will also be able to send quick voice or video messages if someone doesn’t pick up their FaceTime calls. You can see our in-depthiOS 17 preview right here.
Up to three times the bandwidth of Thunderbolt 4. Support for multiple 8K displays, as well as gaming monitors running at up to 540Hz. And 240 watts of charging power. These are key features of Thunderbolt 5, Intel’s latest stab at creating the ultimate PC cable. Great, so my iPhone USB-C cable is already going to be defunct in a year or two…
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/the-morning-after-everything-announced-at-apples-iphone-15-event-111544573.html?src=rss
After September 29th, Netflix will no longer rent DVDs by mail and will be winding down that part of its business altogether. Most people might be surprised that the streaming giant is still even renting DVDs, but if you’re one of its subscribers who’ll be sad to see the service go, there’s now another rent-by-mail option you can use anywhere you are in the US. Scarecrow, the largest independent video store in the US, has launched its own rent-by-mail service that will send DVDs and Blu-ray discs straight to your door.
The store first piloted the service back in 2019 before it started working on making its library available to people across the country during the pandemic. As The Seattle Times reports, it launched a campaign in 2021 to raise funds for an overhaul of its aging website, making it more searchable and giving it a more modern look. Now, Scarecrow’s rent-by-mail website is live, with step-by-step instructions on how to avail of the service and a searchable library divided by genres.
To be able to rent from Scarecrow, you’ll need to sign up for an account, which will have to be verified and approved by a staff member. After that, you can start adding DVDs to your cart. Titles are priced individually, but shipping will cost you $12 for up to six discs. That’s discs, not titles, which means if one movie has six discs, you can’t add more to the same shipment. The rental window is 14 days, including shipping, after that you can either renew by phone or pay late fees.
Scarecrow has 140,000 titles in its collection — comparably, Netflix has around 5,000 titles in its US catalog, according to CordCutting — most of which you can rent by mail. There are exceptions, however, including rare and out of print videos that require a security deposit, newly released movies and adult titles. It also doesn’t mail VHS tapes and laser discs, so you’ll have to go elsewhere for those formats.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/americas-largest-independent-video-store-is-taking-its-dvd-by-mail-service-nationwide-094751920.html?src=rss
Bluesky, one of the most notable alternatives to the platform formerly known as Twitter, has just hit a million users. That’s admittedly tiny compared to the number of users on major social networks, but it’s a big deal for a service that remains inaccessible to most people until today. Bluesky team member Rose Wang, who has announced the milestone on X, told TechCrunch that the service’s app reached a million downloads in July. However, those interested in getting in on the action at Bluesky will have to secure invite codes to log in, and it’s only now that enough people were able to create accounts for the social network to be able to announce that it has reached 1 million users.
1M users!!! 🦋 pic.twitter.com/VxivCC25P8
— @rose.bsky.team 🌹🦋 (@iamrosewang) September 12, 2023
Bluesky first burst into the scene as a decentralized social network (previously) funded by Twitter and backed by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey. Shortly after it launched in closed beta, it rolled out the ability for users to choose their own algorithms so that they can customize their timelines. And in its bid to remain ad-free, it started offering a paid domain service as a way for users to verify their identity. It’s unclear when the app will open to the public, and, upon checking, some codes are still being sold on eBay for hundreds of dollars.
Meta, on the other hand, chose to make Threads available to everyone from the get-go, even though it was still lacking a number of critical features. Threads reached 100 million users merely a week after it became available in July, but keyword search only started rolling out earlier this month.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/twitter-spinoff-bluesky-hits-1-million-users-063355343.html?src=rss
The singer was spotted with her alleged new beau for the first time in late Aug. Find out more about him here.
The singer was spotted with her alleged new beau for the first time in late Aug. Find out more about him here.
As the MTV VMAs ramped up, Britney did a pole dance from the comfort of her own home!
As the MTV VMAs ramped up, Britney did a pole dance from the comfort of her own home!
The ‘Lizzie McGuire’ alum took to Instagram to share a series of loved-up photos from her romantic getaway in Mexico with her hubby on Sept. 11.
The ‘Lizzie McGuire’ alum took to Instagram to share a series of loved-up photos from her romantic getaway in Mexico with her hubby on Sept. 11.
Taylor Swift has a mountain of MTV Video Music Award Moon People to her name. Learn about all of her wins here, from her first in 2009 to her latest in 2023.
Taylor Swift has a mountain of MTV Video Music Award Moon People to her name. Learn about all of her wins here, from her first in 2009 to her latest in 2023.
The Columbian songstress sizzled in a sparkly dress while accepting the Video Vanguard Award at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sept. 12.
The Columbian songstress sizzled in a sparkly dress while accepting the Video Vanguard Award at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sept. 12.
The rapper seemingly snubbed the NSYNC singer in a viral video.
The rapper seemingly snubbed the NSYNC singer in a viral video.
