iOS 16.1 will be available to the public next week, and the update comes with multiple new features and tweaks across the system, including the Live Activities API that works with Dynamic Island. Ahead of the official release, Apple is now letting developers submit apps supporting the latest software to the App Store. Live Activities and more new APIs coming with iOS 16.1 With iOS 16.1, developers can finally take advantage of the new Live Activities API to show rich content with real-time updates right on the iPhone lock screen; the same API works with Dynamic Island on the iPhone 14 Pro....

After receiving antitrust approval from the U.S. Justice Department, new analysis suggests that Disney could hold as much as 40 percent of the domestic box office should their bid for 21st Century Fox’s movie and TV assets go through. The proposed deal is worth more than $71 billion, and would make the company that already owns Pixar, Marvel, and Star Wars even more dominant than it already is. While Walt Disney Studios has already seen its films take the top three spots of 2018, so far, with Black Panther, Avengers: Infinity War, and Incredibles 2, the addition of Fox’s assets would give the company access to other highly popular franchises like Deadpool, X-Men, Avatar, and Fantastic Four – not to mention the more prestige films of Fox Searchlight, which has won three of the last five Academy Awards for Best Picture....

New aerial photos have been captured of Disney Parks’ newest theme park Star War: Galaxy’s Edge, and they’re by far the best look we’ve gotten at the hotly anticipated project. It will open at the Orlando and Anaheim locations next year, with the latter opening first in the summer of 2019. After the announcement in 2015 that Disney was planning a Star Wars addition to their park family, the news that’s come out surrounding what visitors can expect has exceeded expectations and then some....

10. Gringo (Release Date: March 9) Nash Edgerton made his feature directorial debut a full decade ago with crime thriller The Square. Now he’s back with his second project, Gringo, an action comedy that stands out as one of the only out-and-out comedies arriving in theaters this month. Judging by the genre-twisting setup and the incredible cast Edgerton has assembled, this might be one to watch. Gringo stars David Oyelowo as a businessman who gets in over his head when he gets involved with the criminal underworld....

Since Marvel unleashed Captain America: Civil War last month, it’s performed very well at the box office and earned favorable reviews from critics and comic book fans everywhere. Having opened with $181.7 million in its first three days, it became Marvel’s third-highest movie opening weekend behind The Avengers and Avengers: Age of Ultron. So successful was the reception to the Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) solo movie, it passed the $1 billion mark in two short weeks, making it the top-earning film of 2016 so far....

Apple is planning a major change for how customers buy hardware products, starting as soon as later this year with the iPhone. According to a new report from Bloomberg, Apple is planning to let users buy iPhone and iPad hardware “similar to paying a monthly app fee.” The new program is described as Apple’s “biggest push yet into automatically recurring sales.” Apple currently allows customers to finance nearly any hardware purchase (in the United States) using its Apple Card product....

Welcome to the Screen Rant Box Office Prediction. Every week we put together an informal list of box office picks for the upcoming weekend to offer readers a rough estimate of how new releases (and returning holdovers) will perform in theaters. For a recap of last week’s box office totals, read our box office wrap-up from last weekend, and scroll to the bottom of this post to see how our picks matched up....

As has become the norm every year, Apple is running a wide-range of Apple Pay promotions for Valentine’s Day. The company has teamed up with retailers including 1-800 Flowers and Snapfish to offer exclusive deals when you make Apple Pay purchases… Here are the details on the two promotions Apple is running for Apple Pay purchases this Valentine’s Day, which Apple announced in an email to Apple Pay users today:...

The latest Honest Trailers takes aim at Netflix’s horror hit Bird Box. The horror genre had a great run last year, with the likes of Hereditary, Halloween and many others being critical and commercial hits. Bird Box arrived in December last year, and became an unexpected word of mouth success, quickly becoming one of Netflix’s most-watched original films. The story finds a group of people trying to survive in a world filled with creatures that, if seen by victims, induce suicide....

Blockbuster hits Black Panther and A Quiet Place were listed among the American Film Institute’s 10 best films of 2018. Earlier this year, well before the various awards bodies started weighing in with their selections, the Academy stirred up a considerable amount of controversy by announcing plans to implement a new Best Popular Film category. The decision stemmed from a desire to improve floundering Oscar telecast ratings, and despite the best intentions, it backfired horribly....

There may be hope for Brooklyn Nine-Nine after all. FOX made the shocking decision to suddenly cancel Brooklyn Nine-Nine, a decision that caused an almost immediate outpouring of shock and hatred on social media. The audience for Brooklyn Nine-Nine clearly exists. That’s why buzz is already circulating that the comedy might get picked up for another season. This isn’t just idle chatter that follows the cancellation of nearly every beloved show in recent memory....

Shortly after Captain America: Civil War was officially announced, the leak of internal Sony Pictures emails late last year confirmed rumors that Marvel and Sony had discussed partnering up to share the rights to Spider-Man - a central character in the Marvel Comics Civil War crossover event. That leak may have helped propel speculation into reality and Marvel and Sony eventually announced together that they’d co-produce a Spider-Man reboot, but not before introducing their new Peter Parker in another Marvel movie....

Daybreak Games’ DC Universe Online will be getting an Aquaman update later this year. The MMO was developed by Sony Online Entertainment and initially launched in early 2011 on PC and PlayStation 3, and then it went free-to-play later that year, thereby amassing a substantial player base. That following only increased when the game released on the PlayStation 4 in 2014 and Xbox One in 2016 - a result of the studio going independent the year before and taking up the name Daybreak Games....

Bungie is preparing to release Destiny 2’s Season of the Worthy and players should prepare themselves for a lot of new content and the largest in-game threat yet: stopping The Almighty from destroying The Last City. Players will be tasked with bringing the Guardians of Light together as well as working with Rasputin to save the world. This new season will begin on March 10th. There have been several announcements for new changes to Destiny 2 in the last several months....

Diablo Immortal, a massive multiplayer online action roleplay game, is now available for both iOS and Android. Some regions got early access, but the game is now available in most parts of the world. The bad news is that it’s a freemium title, but Blizzard says that the “core game experience” will always be free … The game has been a very long time coming, Blizzard first announcing it back in 2018....

Warning: SPOILERS For Hunt For Wolverine: Claws of a Killer #3 The Hunt For Wolverine continues in the Marvel Universe, and while there have been a couple of glimpses of Logan (or someone who looks like him!), the teams that set out to discover what left his grave empty have found themselves in all kinds of trouble. In Madripoor, an all-female X-Men team are divided and captured by a surprising foe (Hunt For Wolverine: Mystery In Madripoor), while Iron Man’s team up with Spider-Man, Luke Cage and Jessica Jones has led to the discovery that Mr Sinister has a new evil plot a-brewing… but not to Wolverine himself (Hunt For Wolverine: Adamantium Agenda)....

Walt Disney Studios’ deal to acquire certain 21st Century Fox assets is expected to close in early March of this year. When reports of Fox’s TV and film divisions being up for sale first emerged, it didn’t take long for Disney to be viewed as the frontrunner to buy these resources. The two studios originally agreed on a $54 billion price tag, but negotiations with Comcast drove up Disney’s final winning bid to $71 billion....

Last week, an alleged benchmark test of Apple’s unreleased M2 Max chip was shared on the Geekbench website, and it revealed discrete performance improvements compared to the current M1 Max chip. Now another supposed M2 Max benchmark test has also surfaced on the web, but this one shows better performance results. Apple M2 Max chip This new test also comes from a machine identified as “Mac14.6” just like the previous one....

Technology use in education has come a long way in recent years, and it’s really helped my workflow. If you told me ten years ago that I’d be checking my email on my watch or asking my phone the square root of four, I wouldn’t believe you. Last week, I mentioned my top five favorite apps that I use frequently as a student. This week, let me share with you my favorite features I use across my iPhone 12 and Apple Watch SE that help me with my university work....

Cyber Monday is upon us as now that Black Friday has come and gone, with a collection of the latest from Apple already going on sale. While you’ll find discounts on AirPods, iPhone 13 accessories, and much more, we’re also seeing a number of Cyber Monday Mac deals, too. With price cuts on the more affordable wearables in Apple’s stable kicking off the festivities this year, you can head below for all of the best Mac Cyber Monday deals....