AirPods were originally released in December of 2016, which means it has been over 2 years since they first hit the market. The truly wireless earbuds from Apple have proven to be incredibly popular, and supply has remained constrained through much of their lifespan. Now, reports of AirPods 2 are starting to gain traction. Read on as we recap the rumors and expectations for AirPods 2… Updated with new design and launch date rumors, as well as new wireless charging case speculation....

After the whole noise made about Flash being present on Android and unavailable on the iPhone and iPad, it would seem that things are going in the HTML5 direction. According to a post on the Adobe blog, Flash Player will not be developed for Android’s next version, 4.1 (or, as many already know it, Jelly Bean), and starting August 15, you won’t be able to install it from the Google Play store....

Chloe Bennet has taken to social media to reveal Quake’s new look in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 6. Although the next season isn’t due to launch until next July, it began production this past July. ABC hopes that the summer release, where live-same-day ratings are less important, will allow the series to flourish. They seem extremely confident that this strategy will pay off - earlier today they confirmed that Agents of S....

Is Apple buying 1Password? BGR thinks they might be, maybe! The source of this rumor is a headline from the site that includes “acquisition talks underway” in a story about Apple employees receiving 1Password memberships as a work perk. I worked in Apple Retail in 2011 and had access to lots of similar perks so that alone doesn’t spell acquisition, but it is a nice benefit. The meat of the story is this bit:...

Apple’s AirPods Pro were first released in October of 2019, and it appears we are finally nearing the release of a second-generation update. Reliable Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo reports today that AirPods Pro 2 are expected to enter mass production during the second half of the year, but he also has bad news for those who were hoping for a change to the charging case… In a new thread on Twitter, Kuo explains that he expects AirPods Pro 2 mass production will begin during the second half of this year....

City Skylines is one of the most popular and critically acclaimed city-building simulation game. Just a couple of weeks ago, the devs announced the Sunset Harbor DLC, which added a ton of features to the game. The new features include the fishing industry, new transportation options, and a lot more. While the Sunset Harbor update has got an amazing response from the community, some of the players have been facing certain issues with the game....

Adam Sandler has gone from Saturday Night Live performer to one of the most bankable stars in the world. His comedies have rarely been critically-acclaimed but audiences always turned out for them and seemed to love the wacky characters he would come up with. Not all of Sandler’s characters are beloved classics, but he usually seems to go pretty big when creating them, for better or worse. Some can be laugh-out-loud hilarious while others can be downright obnoxious....

Following the platform’s recent 10-year anniversary, Adobe is today announcing significant updates to the Behance iOS app and web experience. If you’re not familiar, Behance is a service designed to help discover and share creative work. The platform is often used to showcase in-depth design concepts, case studies, and works in progress. Adobe acquired Behance in late 2012. According to Will Allen, Adobe’s Senior Director of Community Products, today’s announcement focuses on four areas, and is the largest update to the platform yet....

Microsoft always releases Windows updates on a regular basis to fix all the bugs and errors. Sometimes these regular updates fix the existing bugs and errors but create some new errors and bugs. Some of these bugs cause screen glitches, video not showing, or audio not working on Windows 10 PC. This happens because updates break some of the system functionality or some of the software functionality like an audio module, some drivers, etc....

The sudden announcement Joss Whedon is set to helm a solo Batgirl movie has been met with equal amounts of shock and excitement. The idea of a filmmaker who’s so closely tied with the Marvel Cinematic Universe walking across the street to DC is a shocker, but it’s difficult to think of a writer/director better suited to bringing Barbara Gordon to life. From Buffy to Black Widow, Whedon has demonstrated his ability to create and develop strong female heroes time and time again....

James Gray’s Ad Astra has been widely praised by critics, but general audiences seem unimpressed - what’s going on? Featuring a minimalist performance by Brad Pitt, Ad Astra is an intense sci-fi story in which Pitt’s character, Roy McBride, heads into space to reconnect with the father whom he believed died decades ago (played by Tommy Lee Jones). The film is intense and cerebral, using the trip to space as a metaphor for Roy’s loneliness and isolation, and his unresolved issues with his father leaving him....

The world of Batman suffered a tragic loss with the passing of Adam West, but Adam’s longtime costar Burt Ward is teasing that fans may not have heard the last of the Bright Knight in the role of Bruce Wayne just yet. Best known for playing Batman, West’s 51-year career as the Caped Crusader took him from the campy TV series to his own movie, and more recently, animated Batman features....

Ahead of this year’s Adobe MAX conference in Los Angeles, Adobe has announced the 2019 releases of its Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements applications. Today’s updates focus on streamlining the process of creating new projects, enhancing feature discoverability, improving performance, and expanding features powered by Adobe Sensei. Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements are applications that distill popular and essential features from Adobe’s Creative Cloud applications into easy-to-use, more affordable software. Last year, Adobe adapted tools from its mobile apps and intelligent time-saving features to boost the capabilities of the Elements applications....

The Marvel Cinematic Universe at this point extends across multiple mediums, with theatrical films, Netflix original series and network TV offerings like Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. all existing in the same shared continuity with characters able to move back and forth between all three. However, one barrier yet to be crossed is the one between animated and live-action offerings, with both films like Big Hero 6 and cartoons like Ultimate Spider-Man thus far maintaining a distinct separation from the MCU-proper....

Ad-tracking in Safari has been one of the trickier issues for Apple to address. On the one hand, Apple wants to protect the privacy of its customers. On the other, it recognizes that many of the websites they visit are funded by ads, and preventing tracking altogether makes free websites less viable. The company does, though, think it has come up with a win-win for consumers and advertisers alike. Indeed, Apple thinks its solution is so good that it wants the World Wide Web Consortium to make it a new standard for all browsers …...

Photos on OS X includes eight photo filters as standard to jazz up images with some creative and nostalgic effects. Macphun is today releasing a free Photos Extension app that adds an additional 30 photo filters. It’s a really simple app that can be launched standalone or as an extension natively integrated in the Photos app Edit panels. By default, the Macphun extension gives 15 free filters. Sign up to the email newsletter to unlock an additional 15....

A new fan-made trailer for a film called Ahsoka: A Star Wars Story has been released online. Disney has been busy the past few years with the Star Wars sequel trilogy, but they also tried their hand at spin-off films subtitled A Star Wars Story. Disney released two of these films, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and Solo: A Star Wars Story, but after the disappointing turnout for the latter, Disney canceled plans for future Star Wars spin-offs....

Less than three weeks ago, Adobe released a critical security update for its Flash Player plug-in fixing an exploit that allowed machines to be accessed remotely by attackers. Yet another security update is out today (and strongly recommended). The new build (Version 12.0.0.70) intends to address a vulnerability that allowed attackers to target at least three nonprofit websites according to security firm FireEye and reported by ArsTechnica… From FireEye: This threat actor clearly seeks out and compromises websites of organizations related to international security policy, defense topics, and other non-profit sociocultural issues....

Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 6 takes place one year after the events of the season 5 finale, which ended with the deaths of Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg) and Leo Fitz (Iain De Caestecker). Since the show’s future was uncertain, season 5 provided an end to Coulson’s journey by having the character die after spending his final days with May (Ming-Na Wen) in Tahiti. Shortly before the finale was aired, ABC renewed Agents of S....

It is late in the UK, I’ve put stuff together here and here. There’s a few facts which might be of interest to some readers, so I thought I’d take a moment to put them down. The Apple TV runs an A4 processor OK, as I expected international audiences lucked out on the Apple TV. We have no on device purchases (so no random podcasts, either), and without access to $0....