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The Chinese technology media site Commercial Times is claiming that Quanta will begin initial production runs of Apple Watch 2 in January, later in the month. This would match current expectations that the next-generation Apple Watch 2 will be launched about a year after the first Apple Watch, around April. A 4-inch ‘iPhone 6c’ is also on the cards for a March/April debut. Parts and components leaks for Apple Watch 2 have yet to appear in the wild, although there are also rumors that the second-generation Watch will feature a thinner overall design....

The Aspen-M, available in a private beta, is the culmination of Rigetti’s particular take on large-scale quantum computers. The firm is pursuing multi-chip quantum processors and announced plans earlier this year to offer it to customers through its Quantum Cloud Services platform. SEE: Status Report: Is quantum computing worth the leaps of faith? Instead of scaling up a single quantum processor, it’s been linking smaller chips to create a modular processor with a larger number of qubits – the quantum version of bits in classical computers, characterized by 1s and 0s, which can achieve superposition where a bit can be both 1 and 0 or any combination inbetween those states....

Rambo V: Last Blood has officially gotten a September 2019 release date. The first Rambo movie titled First Blood was released in 1982, starring Sylvester Stallone as a Vietnam War veteran being hunted down by a corrupt sheriff and his deputies. Ever since then, John Rambo has become an action movie icon, appearing in a number of films over the years. Stallone has starred in each Rambo sequel since 1982, but he has also acted as a writer for the original film and each of its sequels....

While there are plenty of horror films that come and go without making much of an impact, there are also those that audiences want more and more of. A special horror movie can come along and change the genre in exciting new ways or introduce a terrifying villain that helps kick off a brand-new franchise. Some franchises are even lucky enough to make it past a few sequels. These rare horror series continue to live on for decades with sequels, remakes, and reboots, and sometimes even TV shows — and they are still scaring fans to this very day....

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXzMN9pbxCE&feature=youtu.be] News 1. Angry Birds Star Wars After releasing a string of teasers for its title landing on iOS Nov. 8, Rovio posted the first official full-length gameplay trailer today for its new Star Wars edition of Angry Birds. 2. Instagram | Free Hurricane Sandy barreled through the East Coast last week, and those in its stormy path made sure to document all of the havoc in real-time with the help of Instagram....

In their new documenary Harry & Meghan: An African Journey, Meghan Markle and Prince Harry open up about the pressures the media has put on her since joining the Royal Family. The royals revealed that moving to Africa with Archie would be “amazing.” The couple has made the tabloids thanks to Meghan’s rather colorful start as a royal. The talk of the couple’s relocation does not surprise Anglophiles as they two have not had a warm welcome back in Great Britain....

Cash-strapped display maker Proview that sued Apple over the iPad moniker in China feels it has the Cupertino, Calif.-headquartered gadget giant right where it wants them, cornered against the wall. Just as the Intermediate People’s Court in Huizhou ruled last Friday that local distributors should stop selling iPads in China, Proview now told The Times of India it us ready to sit at the negotiating table, apparently telling Apple it has “peaceful intentions....

While we’re seeing AMD dominate Intel lately, several Radeon RX 5700 XT user reports are now surfacing detailing regular crashes and a black screen issue. The issue seems to be appearing at random without any specific trigger. Of course, bugs and glitches aren’t specific to the Radeon RX 5700 XT and can happen with all graphic cards out there. However, the case of the Radeon RX 57000 XT graphic card black screen is occurring on a larger scale....

Asymmetric and symmetric ciphers have similar roles, but they have their own pros and cons. In contrast, hash functions work differently and can be used for various purposes, but they are still cryptographic algorithms. Most ciphers have libraries that make implementation easy; however, this doesn’t offer much benefit if relevant ciphers aren’t secure. Principles that define a secure cipher Ciphers can only be secure if cryptography principles used to define them are followed and implemented properly....

Michael Sheen will soon be playing a serial killer on Fox’s Prodigal Son, which makes the upcoming series the second notable (and likely sizeable) television role Sheen has secured in as many years. Little is known about the upcoming series, but what is known has many convinced that Sheen’s casting in the project is perfect. According to Variety, Sheen will be playing Martin Whitly, who’s described as an intelligent, witty and charismatic man who formerly lived with his family in New York City....

Every so often, a bug in iOS emerges where a certain string of text will cause your iPhone or iPad to crash. This week, another such string of text is going viral, and a fix from Apple is not yet publicly available. The string of text, which we aren’t going to share here, includes the Italian flag emoji and characters in the Sindhi language. When an iPhone, iPad, Mac, or Apple Watch receives a notification with this text string, things get wonky....

AgileBits has promised to beef up the security of 1Password after a Microsoft software engineer discovered that details of which websites you visit are unencrypted and indexed by Google if you use the 1PasswordAnywhere feature. Dale Myers said that he discovered this by chance after a sync problem led him to investigate the files used to store the metadata. While passwords remain secure, privacy is placed at risk and the data obtained could, says Myers, be used in a phishing attempt....

Amid their recent decision to part ways with the Royal family, close sources say Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were “shocked” to learn the Youth Ambassador titles would also be revoked. It appears the Duke and Duchess had to drop their roles within the Commonwealth as part of their Megxit agreement with Queen Elizabeth. The current royal crisis comes after Prince Harry and his wife, Duchess Meghan Markle decided to step down as senior royal members and move to Canada....

The PlayStation 5 is the latest gaming console from Sony Interactive Entertainment. Released in November 2020, the PlayStation 5 (PS5) is the successor to the PlayStation 4. The PS5 is the most powerful console Sony has ever produced, offering more realistic and detailed graphics, faster loading times, and advanced features such as ray-tracing technology. The PS5 also supports various games, from classic titles to modern blockbusters, and features PlayStation exclusives like Horizon Zero Dawn and Spider-Man: Miles Morales....

If there’s one element Breaking Bad is known for, its the rich, interesting array of menacing villains, brought to life by a tremendous cast of actors. Really, most of the major players in the show can at least be somewhat viewed as villains or at least “antiheroes.” Let’s face it, being involved in the meth game will likely mean getting your hands dirty - and possibly bloody. Thus, there’s no shortage of sadistic, cold, and sociopathic villains to draw from....

Cannibalism. It’s one of the oldest taboos imaginable, and has unsurprisingly served as the basis for multiple horror and thriller films over the years, even more if one includes zombie movies under the cannibal heading. From the backwoods psychos in movies like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Wrong Turn, to more erudite flesh-eaters like Dr. Hannibal “The Cannibal” Lecter, the fear of being eaten alive by another person is a pretty universal one, and is unlikely to stop being a popular premise in fiction anytime soon....

Ubisoft has finally announced a new Prince of Persia game today, but it will be a location-based virtual reality escape room. There have been two other location-based escape rooms created by Ubisoft in the past, both of which were set in the world of Assassin’s Creed. The storied Prince of Persia series has been through a few reboots and retellings since it was first acquired by Ubisoft. Ubisoft Montreal’s The Sands of Time was a fantastic game that was rightly adored after its release in 2003 and spawned its own series of sequels....

Managing alerts on Cultured Code’s Things task management app across multiple devices is about to become a whole lot more effective. Things already uses its own robust syncing solution called Things Cloud since iCloud syncing has been rocky at times in the past, and today Cultured Code is unveiling a major upgrade to Things Cloud. Built on an all-new architecture, the Things Cloud “Nimbus” upgrade delivers a push sync feature that allows Things for iPhone, iPad, and Mac to stay up-to-date without having to actively open it on each device....

Earlier this month we noted that Apple has new interactive HomeKit displays rolling out to select stores, namely those that include its new Avenue video screen area introduced for some stores as part of its latest retail refresh over the last year. There isn’t any official way for the public to easily find out which specific stores have the new displays, so we’ve put together a full list below… The interactive displays allow customers to try out the Home app on iOS devices for various accessories the store sells and see the changes update live in a virtual home environment visualized on large displays (as pictured above)....

. Apple and Qualcomm were denied, according to Bloomberg, when they tried to obtain exclusive chip production rights from Taiwanese Semiconductor Manufacturing Company. Both put forward more than $1 billion in investments so TSMC would pledge production capacity to them, but the manufacturer rebuffed the bid to keep versatile in chip yielding. Bloomberg explained: One read of the story is that Apple wants to bail on Samsung and its new Texas foundry for CPU production....