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Today at Apple’s collaboration with top Apple Music artists is returning with new creative music events at Apple Stores across the world. The first for 2020 is a Music Lab: Remix session featuring Khalid. Beginning January 29, Apple Store visitors can register to get hands-on with Khalid X Disclosure’s upcoming single “Know Your Worth,” and learn how to create their own remix using GarageBand on iPhone. Like all Today at Apple events, Music Lab: Remix Khalid is free to attend....

The Skull Crawlers made for unique and horrifying enemies in Kong: Skull Island, but what are the origins of these nasty creatures? Kong: Skull Island is the second installment of the MonsterVerse cinematic universe, following Gareth Edward’s Godzilla in 2014. Jordan Vogt-Roberts’ film set itself apart from Godzilla by taking place in 1973 and featuring a much brighter color palette and variety of monsters. Kong: Skull Island featured a great ensemble cast, including Tom Hiddleston, Samuel L....

TF International’s Ming-Chi Kuo has cut his estimates for iPhone XR shipments significantly, from 100 million to 70 million, through September 2019. Kuo blames negative consumer confidence due to the ongoing trade war, competition from Huawei Mate 20 particularly in emerging markets, and customers coveting features like dual-camera. Kuo has not lowered his total fourth quarter iPhone estimates of around 80 million units, as he believes the fall in XR shipments will be offset by higher sales of the XS series and legacy models like iPhone 8 and iPhone 7....

Johnny Depp has had a pretty remarkable career in Hollywood. Though his movie-star looks made him an easy choice to be the next big heartthrob, Depp steered away from those roles early in his career, taking on more unusual projects. That penchant for daring choices surprisingly made him one of the biggest movie stars in the world. Though behind-the scenes-drama has led to Depp’s career faltering in recent years, he has created many fun and eccentric characters over the years through unusual costumes, voices, and mannerisms....

Director of Joker Todd Phillips was inspired to upload pictures of himself and lead actor Joaquin Phoenix after watching Phoenix accept his Oscar for the role. Joker stirred up a lot of controversy and mixed reactions. Some viewers were put off by the gun violence that shook them to their core in a much more realistic way than superpower-based violence. Others applauded the movie for tackling the serious issues around guns and what happens when they end up in the wrong hands....

We’ve been posting images of various items designed by Apple’s Senior Vice President of Design Jony Ive and designer & friend Marc Newson for an upcoming (Product) RED charity auction scheduled for November 23 at Sotheby’s New York. The latest was an aluminium Leica M camera designed by the pair, and today we get a look at a one-of-a-kind red next-generation Mac Pro listed on the Sotheby’s website. The red Mac Pro is expected to bring in 40,000 — 60,000 USD at the auction....

Kanye West disses Dancing with the Stars in his new album’s song lyrics. This controversy is especially humorous considering his wife Kim and her brother have competed on the show in past seasons. West has never shied away from controversy, but his new comments have attracted the ire of one community that seemed impervious to rap beef: the ballroom dancing crowd. The 42-year-old rapper, who has performed to sold-out audiences at the Coachella Music and Arts Festival, is a staunch supporter of his wife and in-laws....

On his blog today, Kevin Rose claimed on good authority that Apple’s second generation iPad will debut in “3-4 weeks” and will feature a Retina Display in addition to dual cameras. An iPad 2 announcement within a month would not fit Apple’s typical yearly product cycle (for devices of iPad’s class: iPhone, iPod etc.) as the first iPad went on sale early April 2010. The iPad 2 also having a Retina Display seems unlikely as the term “Retina” (in Apple’s case) means the doubling of pixels....

. An analyst note from a usually reliable Ming-Chi Kuo (郭明錤) seemingly confirms our expectation that Apple will not announce new iPads on September 10th, but at a separate event later in the year. The note makes supply chain forecasts suggesting that assembly production of the iPad 5 and iPad Mini 2 will start with low-volume production this month, and enter mass-production in the final quarter. If the tablets were to be announced on September 10th, we would expect them to be much further along the production cycle by now....

Kim Kardashian West will work to reform prisoners in her new documentary, Kim Kardashian West: The Justice Project. The Keeping Up With the Kardashians star also serves as an executive producer on the project while running her successful businesses and raising four children. After pioneering the one-time uncharted landscape of social media, Kardashian West has reinvented herself by following in the footsteps of her late father, Robert Kardashian. He was a highly regarded attorney who served as a member of O....

Kingdom Hearts is renowned for having a supremely convoluted storyline, and the ReMind DLC only makes everything even more confusing for fans. ReMind takes you back through the final battles of Kingdom Hearts 3, with a new story that helps flesh out events. On top of that, though, there’s a secret ending to unlock which really throws things for a loop. The ending hours of Kingdom Hearts 3 have Sora and the Guardians of light finally doing battle with Xehanort and his cohorts....

Game of Thrones veteran Kit Harington is reportedly making a deal to star in a Marvel Cinematic Universe project. Nowadays, it’s less a question of if a big name actor will appear in the MCU and more a matter of when they will. Those who’ve signed on to play MCU roles over the last few years alone range from Oscar-winner Brie Larson (who made her debut as Carol Danvers in March’s Captain Marvel) to fellow Oscar-winner Cate Blanchett and seasoned stars like Jude Law, Jeff Goldblum, and Ben Mendelsohn....

Reliable Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo is out with a new investor note today in which he focuses on Apple’s planned transition to mini LED display technology, as well as the possibility that Apple will release “2 or 3 new chargers in 2021.” Kuo reports today that the mini LED transition will happen faster than initially expected. First, Kuo significantly revises his forecast for shipments of Apple devices with mini LED display technology....

For Batman Day, writer/director Kevin Smith has shared a collection of photos he’s taken over the years with six different Batman actors. Batman Day is an annual celebration of the Dark Knight organized by DC Comics to commemorate the very first appearance of Batman in the pages of Detective Comics #27. The day is celebrated on a Saturday in mid-September (though why is a mystery only the World’s Greatest Detective could solve since Batman made his debut in May 1939) and will typically see comic book stores and other retailers hold events in honor of the Caped Crusader....

KGI is forecasting that iPhone shipments have now peaked for the year and that suppliers will see orders decline by anything from 5% to 15% in November and December. Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo is basing this on a mixture of reduced shipments seen in the supply chain and greater stock availability as supply catches up with demand. KGI says that it had already factored in declining supply chain orders to its estimate of 70-75M iPhone sales in the final two months of the year, well below consensus estimates ranging from 75-85M....

National Geographic photographer and explorer Ronan Donovan talks with Screen Rant about his journey to the arctic for the three-part event series Kingdom of the White Wolf. The series provides an unprecedented look into the lives of some extraordinary animals, as Donovan gets up close and personal with a species integral to the Arctic’s complex eco system, and also one that is misunderstood, or perhaps not understood enough. The result is a series that turns its subjects into real characters and their survival into one of the most compelling narratives on TV....

According to the latest report from analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, Apple may not include the wired EarPods headphones in the box of the iPhone 12. This would naturally drive sales of Apple’s second-generation AirPods, as customers would no longer be getting free headphones with their new phones. Kuo suggests that Apple may heavily promote or discount the AirPods this holiday season, with no new models of AirPods or AirPods Pro expected until 2021....

Kaleidoscope is a popular app that lets users easily compare the differences between folders, documents, images, and other files. Today the Mac version of the app is getting a major update with Xcode Debugger integration and other usability improvements. After a long period without major updates, Kaleidoscope has been acquired by Letter Opener GmbH, which is now committed to providing regular updates to the app with new features. Following the release of an update last month to reduce memory usage, Kaleidoscope 2....

Just like when The Avengers first hit theaters in 2012, it’s hard to fathom that the Justice League will finally be uniting on the big screen later this year. While the DCEU has had a rocky road so far, many fans are eager to see six of its titans brought to life and working together. Though we’ve spent a varying amount of time with each character, the movie will give us our longest look at The Flash, Cyborg, and Aquaman ahead of their solo movies....

The CW has dropped trailers for its upcoming shows Katy Keene and Nancy Drew. As well-known as the network is for its DC superhero series (especially those in the Arrowverse), The CW’s original programming extends well beyond shows about costumed crime-fighters. In recent years, they’re aired everything from musical comedies (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) to telenovela parodies (Jane the Virgin) and even zombie shows (iZombie), among other series with a YA bend. They also have Riverdale, the popular re-imagining of the Archie Comics as a stylishly campy noir crime drama....