Apple has plans to announce at least 30 new Apple stores this year to add to the 400 or so it already has up and running, and today we get tips that it has also started advertising jobs for new locations in Germany and the United Kingdom. First off is a new U.K. Apple Store located in Trinity Leeds shopping center in Leeds. TechnoDaily pointed us to an announcement from Apple that the new store will open March 21 at 10 a....

Earlier this month Apple launched the new iPad in South Korea and 11 other countries, and today the company continues its international launch of the device with an additional nine countries. At Apple’s Q2 2012 earnings call this week, the company reported iPad sales of 11.8 million for the quarter and $6.6 billion in revenue from iPad and accessories. It also reported tremendous growth for iPhone in China, which is one country that is not included in today’s international rollout:...

Following its annual tradition, Seagate has announced a new collection of stylish, premium-priced drives in time for the 2016 CES, most now featuring USB-C and USB 3.1 connectors. Three of the drives carry Seagate’s LaCie branding; one is a handsome but Seagate-branded model. The apparent flagship in the series is the LaCie Chromé ($1,100, shown above left), a 1TB SSD featuring a 10GB USB 3.1 interface with “up to 940MB/second speeds for intensive applications....

Steve Troughton-Smith yesterday helped us learn more about the likely iPhone 8 screen layout, and he’s since shown one possible approach to restoring the symmetry of the screen. He’s produced a mockup (above) showing how the Home button could be presented as a ‘notch,’ matching the physical one at the top of the screen. He’s quick to point out this is not something he’s found in the code, but rather just an idea he thought it would be fun to play with …...

Netflix removed a number of show episodes and movies over the years to comply with foreign governments. There are many reasons why a particular title leaves a service, but these ones were the subject of a takedown demand. Netflix is no stranger to seeing titles come and go and especially as licensing terms come to an end. This was most famously seen recently when Friends left Netflix en route back to the WarnerMedia vault....

The best part of any zombie story — film, television, book, etc. — is always the early days of a breakout. When the world is caught in that chaotic space between normalcy and its eventual end. It’s often terrifying in its familiarity and the ease with which it demonstrates the apparent fragility of human existence. Whether it’s Night of the Living Dead, The Walking Dead, or Shaun of the Dead, the escalation from bizarre occurrence to dreadful realization to total pandemonium is paramount to what makes the horror of these stories universal; it capitalizes on the understanding that everything could end horribly in a moment’s notice....

Frozen 2 director Jennifer Lee has revealed more details about Lieutenant Mattias, the character voiced by Sterling K. Brown in the sequel. Mattias is one of a handful of brand-new players in the Disney animated film, which picks up about three years after the events of the original Frozen and follows heroes Elsa, Anna, Kristoff, Olaf, and Sven on an adventure that takes them beyond Arendelle into the Enchanted Forest....

Japanese Apple blog Macotakara is making some unorthodox claims this morning regarding the 2019 iPhone lineup. Previous rumors had indicated that the 2019 lineup would be direct successors to the 2018 iPhone XR, iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max. Today’s report, citing reliable Chinese supply chain sources, suggests that in addition to spec bumps to the XR and XS, there will be two new 2019 iPhone models with 6.1-inch and 6....

Last week it was revealed that Apple Watch would be launching in New Zealand on July 31st, but without any sort of pricing information. Today, however, Apple has updated its New Zealand online store with more details regarding the launch. The entry-level 38mm Apple Watch Sport starts at NZ$599 and increases to NZ$699 for the 42mm model. The stainless steel Apple Watch starts at NZ$949 and again increases by NZ$100 to NZ$1,049 for the 42mm model....

Leroy Jethro Gibbs, played by Mark Harmon, is one of the two characters who have been on the crime drama NCIS the longest, the other character being Ducky who is played by David McCallum. At the beginning of the series, Gibbs’s character was somewhat of an enigma to his team and to the audience. His team pretty much only knows about his tenure at NCIS, the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. The audience initially knows even less and primarily learns about Gibbs’s past from his team and other agents at NCIS....

Although Netflix has only been in the original content game for a few years, the streaming service has absolutely made its mark when it comes to producing some extraordinary and unusual film and television content. And you really don’t get anything more extraordinary and unusual than its recently canceled mystery drama The OA. The OA is the story of a blind girl who goes missing for years, and then suddenly returns with the ability to see....

I’ve been thinking a lot about new Apple Music features that I hope are coming in iOS 13 and macOS 10.14. Earlier this year, I wrote up an Apple Music vs. Spotify comparison that summed up exactly how I feel about both services. Both are really good. New Apple Music Features Since Apple Music was released back in 2015 (to a lot of frustration from former Beats Music users), Apple has continued to tinker and tweak the overall Apple Music design....

Apple and Google have always been the biggest competitors when it comes to smartphone operating system. The war between iPhones and Android devices have been in place for a long time now. Both the companies have been successful in keeping the competition running by improving themselves time to time. But Android has been successful in providing surprising Easter eggs with a lot of features on devices running them. The Easter eggs are those surprises developers hide within apps and services....

New Girl is a former FOX sitcom that ran for seven seasons and came to an end last year. The series followed the hijinks and hilarious antics of Jessica Day and her roommates at a loft in Los Angeles. The show evolved into more of an ensemble comedy after its first season with Schmidt, Nick, Winston, Cece, and Coach, playing bigger roles. But Jess was always the heart and soul of New Girl....

As the days go by leading up to next week’s September 9th event, the part leaks for Apple’s next flagship handsets keep streaming in. The 5.5-inch model in particular has been getting a lot of attention lately, with multiple sources leaking photos of its casing and supposed components. Today’s offering, courtesy of French site Nowhereelse.fr, is another look at the shell of what the publication is calling the “iPhone Air.”...

A sketchy new rumor from the sometimes-unreliable Digitimes claims that Apple will be releasing three new iPhone models this year. While many Apple watchers are expecting to see the release of two new “S” models—the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus—the new report also says the company will release a third model this year. We’ve previously heard rumors that the “C” iPhone lineup would be disappearing after the launch of the iPhone 6....

This partnership is a major step in Nexo’s plan to create a comprehensive, institutional-grade platform to help bring in traditional finance companies into the digital assets space. “Our client base will now have full use of our industry-leading credit and trading products with reliance on Fidelity Digital Assets’ bespoke custody and security solutions,” said Nexo co-founder and managing partner Kalin Metodiev. Through its partnership with Fidelity Digital Assets – which will act as custodian and collateral agent – Nexo said it will broaden its ability to service and enhance its expanding portfolio of assets under management, providing additional custody to its military-grade security infrastructure....

In the company’s last report, they pegged the figure at around $350 million, but increased the figure “due to both underreporting by ransomware victims and our continuing identification of ransomware addresses that have received previous victim payments.” Right now, the latest figures show more than $692 million was spent on ransomware payments in 2020. For 2021, they have already tracked over $602 million worth of ransomware payments but noted that like 2020, it is an underestimate....