Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. lives in an oddly unique place among network television series, tasked with operating as an independent entity with its own set of characters and ongoing storylines while also playing a (somewhat thankless) role in the mechanics of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The show not only sets up and pays off tertiary plot threads from the more prominent Marvel Studios movies, but also serves as a semi-weekly reflection of the MCU’s ever-changing status quo - even though the logistics of television means the producers can’t know many of their film counterparts’ long-term plans....

James Gray’s Ad Astra has gotten a final trailer ahead of its premiere at the Venice Film Festival. The Lost City of Z director’s sci-fi adventure is finally ready to hit theaters in September, after being delayed a couple times (first to allow more time for its effects to be finalized, then because of the Disney-Fox deal). It’s one of two potential Oscar contenders in the pipeline for Fox this fall - along with James Mangold’s true story-inspired racing drama Ford v....

Serif, makers of the popular Affinity creative suite has shared that it has “something big” coming on November 9. What it’s calling “the next level creative experience” is set to see the Affinity apps redesigned and refined with hundreds of enhancements and “incredible new features” including something Affinity customers have been asking for. Serif’s managing director Ash Hewson teased the Affinity overhaul today in a YouTube video. “Ever experience true creative freedom?...

[This is a review of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 3, episode 10. There will be SPOILERS.] – In the first part of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 3, Director Phil Coulson and his team have been spread thin on a variety of different missions, dealing with the rising number of Inhumans and the resurgence of Hydra thanks to former agent Ward. Additionally, the ATCU was formed to officially combat the Inhuman problem and act as a rival organization to S....

WARNING: spoilers for Agents of SHIELD season four, episode 13, “BOOM” - The twin major events of this week’s episode of Agents of SHIELD are actually linked: the death of new recurring villain Senator Ellen Nadeer (Parminder Nagra) and the transformation of other minor pain-in-the-neck Terrence Shockley (John Pyper-Ferguson) from low-level thug to high-powered Inhuman. The two developments are, of course, meant to be saturated with not a little dose of irony, given that both individuals were dedicated to hate-mongering and the outright liquidation of a goodly part of the global population; it is precisely that hatred and that violence that ended both of their lives, albeit one ending is literal and the other more figurative....

Agents of SHIELD season 7 has all the makings of being Marvel’s version of DC’s Legends of Tomorrow - and that’s a good thing. The flagship Marvel TV series just wrapped up season 6 with a huge shocker: in order to fight off the takeover of Earth by the alien Chronicoms, SHIELD will have to time travel throughout its own history. This premise for Agents of SHIELD’s final season is one that is definitely familiar to superhero fans since that’s essentially what Legends of Tomorrow is all about....

For those of us who still use a Mac Mini (or other Mac) as a MediaCenter connected to our TVs, today’s hack from Erica Sadun is a blessing. She created a Mac Application that can catch Airplay from iOS devices and output the video on the screen. For all intents, AirPlayer lets your Mac do what an AppleTV does naturally. You can download the Macintosh Application, called AirPlayer.app here. The interesting question is: Does Apple want us doing this?...

Domain Name System, or DNS, is a system that is used in TCP/IP networks for mapping friendly host names to IP addresses. These names can be those of existing computers or network services. When a DNS host name is used in an application, the DNS services on the network are used to resolve the name to the actual IP address of that computer or network service. Windows DNS If you are familiar with managing DNS in Windows Server 2000-2008, you will find that managing DNS in Server 2012 is very similar....

Adobe demoed a new version of Photoshop that works with the MacBook Pro’s new dynamic Touch Bar back at Apple’s event in October, and starting today customers can update to gain the new feature. Project Felix which was shown off at Adobe Max last month is also now available in beta. As for Touch Bar support on the new MacBook Pros, Adobe shares in great detail how the new design tool works with this documentation....

If you own a Google Pixel phone, then you will be the first one to be served with any major OS update. Well, that seems obvious because you are running a Google phone after all. The development of Android 11 began way back and the first Developer Preview of Android 11 arrived in February this year. And after months of testing and under the beta phase, the Android 11 stable update arrived on the Google Pixel phones, last month....

The shipping time estimate for Apple’s AirPods have dropped to the lowest we’ve seen yet with an updated 2-3 week window. Strangely enough, even though they are still tough to get directly from Apple, Best Buy and others have stock of the fully wireless earphones ready to ship. During Apple’s Q3 earnings call, Tim Cook said, “We have increased production capacity for AirPods and are working very hard to get them to customers as quickly as we can, but we are still not able to meet the strong level of demand....

Consumer Reports has a history of making questionable claims and recommendations when it comes to Apple products. That now extends to AirPods, as Consumer Reports has published a new comparison between Apple’s latest AirPods and Samsung’s Galaxy Buds – with a surprising winner. Consumer Reports says that its “sound quality testing” revealed a clear winner between the two truly wireless offerings, crowning the Galaxy Buds as the landslide winners. The comparison says that while AirPods do a “decent job” of reproducing music and movie dialog, there are some “obvious shortcomings....

According to THR, British character actor Tim Pigott-Smith passed away today at age 70. The cause of his death has not been revealed at this time. Pigott-Smith was born on May 13, 1946 in Rugby, Warwickshire. He attended the University of Bristol, and occasionally lectured there throughout his life. Pigott-Smith’s career began on the stage, and he made numerous appearances both on the West End and on Broadway. Several times during his career Pigott-Smith played the same roles both on stage and screen, including in the Shakespeare classics Measure for Measure and Henry IV Part I....

The ad industry is accusing Apple of lack of clarity about the anti ad-tracking rules due to come into force next year. There are various proposals for workarounds, but commenters say that it’s not clear which of them will be permitted by the Cupertino company … Background We’ve explained previously the issue at stake: ad revenue is higher when personalized ads are shown. You’ve always been able to opt out of IDFA, but as of next year, you’ll instead be opted out by default, and apps will have to ask permission to opt you in on an app-by-app basis....

Tim Rose, who portrayed Admiral Ackbar in multiple Star Wars films, says he was disappointed by the character’s death in The Last Jedi. As many people know by now, Rian Johnson’s entry in the Skywalker saga proved to be one of the most divisive studio tentpoles in recent memory when it premiered in December 2017. Viewers continue to debate the film’s merits to this day, feeling that it was either the breath of fresh air the franchise needed or the film that effectively ruined the saga....

Sometimes it can be difficult to innovate a tried and tested action-platformer like the Trine series, but based on a gameplay presentation of Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince at E3 2019, it certainly looks like developer Frozenbyte is on the right track. When Trine 4 was first announced, fans of the series were skeptical, especially after enduring the lackluster third game, which failed to harness the studio’s ambition, thus leaving a sour taste in fans’ mouths....

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. has continued to improve with each season. Characters have evolved well past where they were at the start of the show. Moving into season 4, the series has tackled the introduction of Inhumans, taking down Hydra, and more, which brought them to Ghost Rider and Life Model Decoys (LMDs). The first episodes of season 4 focused primarily on Gabriel Luna’s fiery anti-hero, but also introduced Aida (Mallory Jansen)....

Ghost Rider’s presence will be felt in episode 100 of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., but the character himself won’t be making an appearance. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. has had some shocking moments across its last 100 episodes, from the reveal of how Coulson came back to life to Yo-Yo’s dramatic fate last episode. But with the show hitting its milestone 100th episode tomorrow night, some even big surprises are in store for viewers—and Coulson is likely to be at the center of things again....

Apple’s safety measures around its AirTag item tracker continue to work as intended. A new report out of Iowa says that a man was arrested after attempting to stalk a person he claimed to be married to. The victim, however, told investigators that “the two never had a relationship” and the man had been blocked from calling and messaging them. AirTag safety features kick in to protect victim Carl Steven Shawver, 63, attempted to stalk the victim on three separate occasions, according to a report from local news outlet Keloland....

Every season Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. takes bigger and better risks with storylines. Season six expanded beyond Earth. Not only did a team search for a lost agent in space, but a threat from outside the planet came to Earth with one very big plan. Though the scope of the show was bigger, a lot of the character moments reigned the story in. There were plenty of lighthearted moments to give fans a breather during the action-heavy season....