Illustration via profile pictures on IEEE’s Facebook page The IEEE standards body that oversees the development of WiFi technology announced today a next-generation WiFi 802.22 technology designed to facilitate wireless data transfer up to 22Mbps over great distances up to 60 miles, or a hundred kilometers. The interesting thing is, the new technology is utilizing television bands without interfering with reception of existing TV broadcast stations: The technology will be great in rural areas and developing countries with vacant TV channels, IEEE says....

Netflix has ordered a coming-of-age comedy about Mindy Kaling’s life. Kaling made her first big screen appearance in 2005’s The 40-Year-Old Virgin, which also coincided with her first appearance on TV as Kelly in the US version of The Office. Her career as a comedic actor has grown immensely since that time, and to date she’s been nominated for six Emmys. Earlier this year, industry insiders revealed that Netflix may spend $15 billion on content in 2019....

Disney’s The New Mutants release date is pushed to April 2020. Twentieth Century Fox launched their X-Men movie franchise back in 2000, but it has since expanded greatly to include not only mainline films, but spinoff franchises like the Wolverine trilogy and the Deadpool series. One such spinoff is Josh Boone’s The New Mutants, following the titular group of teenage mutants from the Marvel Comics. However, despite The New Mutants trailer debuting in late 2017, the movie has been pushed back a number of times....

A user on the MacX forum [translation] claims to have gotten his hands on a part from the upcoming iPhone 6 that features the data and audio connectors, as well as one of the device’s microphones. The source of these photos? According to the poster: Given the fact that this is from an unknown source, it would be prudent to question the veracity of any claims made regarding these images. That said, there’s also a chance the part could be real....

There’s a new Power Rangers movie in the works at Paramount, and it might be taking place in the 1990s. Jonathan Entwistle, head of Netflix’s The End of the F***ing World and I’m Not Okay With This, is in early negotiations to direct the latest reboot of the popular live-action superhero franchise, and he aims to take the series back to the past. Created by media mogul Haim Saban and first airing in 1993, the Power Rangers series has run on various channels over the course of 26 years....

A new Spider-Man: Far From Home movie poster features Peter Parker (Tom Holland) posed in front of an Iron Man mural. Tony Stark aka. Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) was key to Spider-Man’s introduction to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, discovering the Queens-based amateur hero and bringing him into the big leagues in Captain America: Civil War. Iron Man was a major presence in Spider-Man: Homecoming as well, with Tony taking on a mentor role to Peter as the younger superhero came into his own....

A new trailer has been released showing fans what the remake of Resident Evil 3 - and its popular villain, Nemesis - will look like. The Resident Evil series has grown and changed drastically since its first iteration in 1996 and has pulled influences from several different genres. Resident Evil is sometimes credited with popularizing survival horror videos games and reinvigorating the public’s obsession with zombies. It is also Capcom’s highest selling video game franchise of all time....

You season 2, just like its first season, is a binge-worthy roller-coaster ride. Joe once again is the star, which is how it should be since he is a very well written character. The show does a great job in how his narrative blatantly twists awful actions into acts of love in his mind. He is a monster, but a monster that has convinced himself that he is a prince....

In addition to the upcoming new film adaptation, Frank Herbert’s Dune novels are being developed into video games. The news comes on the heels of a recent waves of casting announcements for the upcoming adaptation being helmed by director Denis Villeneuve, and will join a host of video games being developed for pre-existing franchises. The hunger for all things Dune seems to be reaching its peak right now. In recent months, casting news for Villeneuve’s upcoming new adaptation (the second adaptation following David Lynch’s version from 1984) has come at a frenzied pace....

News site Axios is claiming that Trump’s iPhone is so locked down the only visible app on it is Twitter. Staff are also said to aim to keep him too busy to spend much time watching cable TV and tweeting… Stock apps can be hidden with a configuration profile. MDM tools can also be used to prevent additional apps being downloaded. Given that devices used by the president have to be locked down for security reasons, this seems the most likely approach....

Neil DeGrasse Tyson has weighed in on that infamous Avengers: Endgame theory concerning Thanos and Ant-Man. Earth’s Mightiest Heroes experienced their first true loss in Avengers: Infinity War when Thanos succeeded in his quest to acquire all of the Infinity Stones, using them to wipe out half of all life in the universe. Some recently released posters served to highlight the extent of the team’s devastating loss. For months now, theories have abounded as to how the remaining heroes could avenge the fallen and undo Thanos’ actions....

So far, the anticipation surrounding Disney’s upcoming live-action adaptation of Beauty and the Beast - the latest in a growing line of “reimaginings” from the studio - has been nothing short of palpable. Starring Emma Watson (Harry Potter) and Dan Stevens (Legion) in its two titular roles, and coming from Director Bill Condon (Mr. Holmes), not only will the film be a live-action interpretation of the beloved 1990s animated film, but it’ll also be the first live-action adaptation to come from Disney over the past few years, that is also a full-blown musical like the animated film that inspired it....

The Fox X-Men franchise may be headed for a reboot before mutants join the MCU, but its last installment, New Mutants will come first. The movie is finally coming to theaters in April after a two-year delay from its initial release date, although the wait has been especially long for Maisie Williams, who was working with director Josh Boone a year and a half before the movie even got a green light....

The future is filled with uncertainty for Fox’s The New Mutants after numerous delays in the film’s release date. Originally intended to debut on April 13, 2018, the film has seen its release pushed back several times. Coupled with Disney’s recent acquisition of 21st Century Fox, New Mutants is now scheduled to arrive on April 3, 2020, nearly two full years after its originally intended debut in theaters. What makes The New Mutants situation especially unique is how much the film seemed to be on schedule from the outset....

Your Nest smart thermostat should get a little smarter at some point over the next week as the company rolls out version 4.3 of the software, providing improved auto-scheduling and faster access to info at-a-glance. A single push of the ring displays the information shown above, which includes weather, outdoor temperature and humidity. This has, says Nest, been the biggest customer request, allowing them to check what they should wear before heading out in the morning....

I purchased the Netatmo Weather Station a few weeks back, and it’s been a great addition to my HomeKit environment. As I mentioned in my HomeKit Weekly article, I love being able to track hyper-local temperature, rain, and humidity. Today, Netatmo has shipped an update to its iOS app that adds iOS 14 widgets so you can monitor your local weather from your home screen. In the new update, Netatmo offers multiple options for viewing data from your weather station from your Home Screen....

This weekend, Netflix is – surprisingly – not adding much content for Valentine’s Day, though it is bringing a highly anticipated rom-com sequel, along with an animated movie and the second season of a crime series. Netflix tends to add content to its catalogue according to the biggest holidays and celebrations that approach: for example, it dropped a lot of Christmas content since November. Weirdly enough, that’s not the case for Valentine’s Day, with only one original romance movie arriving this week....

Network addressing works at a couple of different layers of the OSI model. At Layer 2, computers have a hardware or MAC address. At Layer 3, they have an IP address. Most high-level addressing uses IP addresses; however, network hardware needs the MAC address to send a packet to the appropriate machine within a subnet. ARP is designed to bridge the gap between the two address layers. It is a simple call-and-response protocol....

We’re learning more about the iPad Pro after the 2020 refresh debuted today, like its new Magic Keyboard with trackpad being backward compatible. Another neat tidbit is that the 2020 iPad Pro includes Wi-Fi 6 support. Wi-Fi 6 routers are becoming more common and coming down in price a bit. But up until now, the only Apple devices with Wi-Fi 6 chips that could take advantage of the latest routers were the iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro....

Apple has shared a pair of new iPhone ads this week, with one touting the iPhone XR’s battery life and the other focusing on privacy. The new privacy ad is a continuation of Apple’s relatable “Privacy on iPhone” video series. In the new iPhone XR ad, which is entitled “Up Late,” Apple touts that the iPhone XR has the longest battery life in an iPhone ever. The new iPhone XR battery life ad debuts just a week after a consumer watchdog group in the UK accused Apple of overstating iPhone battery life by as much as 51 percent....