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Ashton Kutcher, the star of the upcoming jOBS biopic, a film about the late Steve Jobs and his life before the launch of the iPod, sat down with The Verge’s Joshua Topolsky to talk about all things tech. In their 20 minute conversation, the two talk about Kutcher’s physical and intellectual investment in technology and tech culture. Topolsky starts off the interview asking Kutcher about how his interest in tech originated, to which Kutcher admits that he was tasked with programing Fortran in college, but wasn’t even sure how to use his email....

On an ASUS router, the Parental Controls settings let you enable or disable internet access for each client based on the time of day and the day of the week. This is particularly helpful if your kid has a laptop or tablet that they keep in their rooms, away from your watchful eyes. Setting it up these controls for you or your children is easy. Here’s what you do:...

The Federal Trade Commission has today announced in a blog post that AT&T will soon start refunding more than $88 million to customers affected by unauthorized charges on their monthly bills. Back in 2014, AT&T reached a settlement with the FTC to pay out more than $80 million to affected subscribers, but only now are the carrier and government getting the ball rolling on those refunds. According to the announcement, some 2....

Avengers: Endgame has officially surpassed James Cameron’s Titanic at the worldwide box office, and the director offers congratulations to the MCU. After the massive success of 2018’s Avengers: Infinity War, it didn’t take a genius to predict that its follow-up, Avengers: Endgame, would prove an even bigger hit. After all, Marvel fans spent an entire year wondering exactly how Thanos’ fateful snap would be undone, and all the dead heroes with films already in development would manage to come back and appear in them....

Google may have let it slip that Baldur’s Gate 3 is arriving in 2020, in a recent report about the Google Stadia. The blog post, meant to reveal forthcoming games for Google’s streaming console alternative, included a mention of Baldur’s Gate 3, indicating that the long-anticipated RPG would arrive sometime this year. It’s the first hint of release date information for the game. Baldur’s Gate 3 is the third installment in a series directly inspired by the table-top roleplaying game Dungeons & Dragons....

While the Bat-family is no stranger to magical beings, a dragon attack is a rare occurrence even in Gotham. But in Batgirl #44 by Cecil Castellucci, Cain Tormey, and Chris Sotomayor that is exactly what Barbara Gordon is up against—a fire-breathing, metal-scaled beast fueled by the fear of new love. Taking up where the previous issue left off, Barbara is facing off against the Maker, a mildly successful high fantasy writer named Ernest Hinton....

Agile is the need of the hour as demand for agile professionals has increased in the IT industry and picking up in other areas of engineering as well. This demand triggers the need for Agile certifications. Agile certification helps you to accelerated software delivery, improve delivery predictability. It helps you to reduce the overall cost of a project. Moreover, this certification course also gives you global recognition and make you stand out of the crowd....

From 9to5Toys.com: BestBuy and Sprint are offering a truly rare deal for students leading into the holidays this year. Starting today, students in the US that purchase a smartphone from BestBuy will be able to get 12 months of free talk, text, and data for 12 months. You’ll have to pick up an eligible Student Activated Price device in-store with an Unlimited, My Way plan, but that won’t require a contract and there are plenty of great phones to choose from....

It is a signature style for Paladins, one of the Warrior’s advanced classes, to combine heavy armor, holy magic, and melee attacks, The Paladin is one of only two classes in Lost Ark dedicated to support, making him a popular choice for groups of players in this massively multiplayer online role-playing game. Due to Paladin’s ability to both take damage and defeat large groups of enemies, he is an excellent choice for solo players looking for a class that uses shields to negate a large amount of damage while still engaging opponents....

Apple just released the latest software update for both the second-generation and third-generation of the Apple TV, version 5.0.1 (9B206f). As of now, we are not sure if there is anything in this update past bug fixes, but we will be sure to let you know the moment we find something (update below). You can find the download links for your respective version below, or you can just hit the update version on your Apple TV—whatever works best....

Just (barely) in time for the holidays, Walmart.com now carries the Apple Watch Sport in a variety of colors –as long as it is either space gray or silver. The US’s largest retailer won’t carry the Watch in stores and currently the price for the Sport is the non-discounted $349-399 retail which is $100 more than Best Buy and bestbuy.com where it starts at just $249. Best Buy, Target, B&H and others have been offering steep discounts on the Apple Watch sparking speculation that Apple is aggressively trying to move inventory for the holidays....

UPDATE: Apple’s site has reverted to the current icons present in iOS 7 beta. Apple has quietly changed some of the icons on its official iOS 7 website, making notable changes to the Weather, Passbook, and Reminders apps. iOS 7’s icons, which have been subject to much scrutiny and disapproval from various designers, have been one of the largest complaints about iOS 7 so far. The icons, which can currently only be viewed on Apple’s site using a mobile device, most notably show a completely redesigned weather app icon, ditching the clouds and sun found in the current iOS 7 beta, in favor of the live temperature, something users have been waiting for for years....

Some of us have been convinced for years now that ARM Macs are on the way, and there have been increasing indications that 2021 could be the year when it happens. If yesterday’s Bloomberg report is correct, those years of speculation will soon be at an end: Apple is reportedly set to make it official later this month. I argued yesterday that we probably won’t learn all that much about the actual hardware we can expect …...

While Apple Stores across the United States are expected to have significant supplies of the iPad Air, some Apple Stores have been told to allocate a smaller number of devices for purchases handled in the early morning. For example, depending on the store and market size, a few dozen to several dozen units of each model in every color and internet-connectivity option will be allocated for purchases before 12 noon....

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-fU-knxT0U&t=1h1m55s&start=3720] American politicians are in a hullabaloo over the 500,000 Foxconn low-wage jobs in China that they claim could be stationed in the United States, but no one seems to pay attention to the booming “App Economy” that created roughly the same amount of decent jobs stateside. Both sides of the aisle have made public statements on how the Cupertino, Calif.-based Company should bring its grueling $0.31-an-hour factory occupations home....

Chris Hemsworth’s Thor and Tessa Thompson’s Valkyrie nearly kissed at the end of Avengers: Endgame. The Marvel Cinematic Universe has seen some characters become instant hits over the years, but has also had a tougher time figuring out other characters. Even though Thor has been around since 2011, he actually fell into the latter category. Hemsworth did what was asked of him to start and eventually grew a bit bored with the character, but then he found a second life through the comedic approach of director Taika Waititi....

Avengers: Endgame has enjoyed even more success than predicted, pushing the worldwide gross of the Marvel Cinematic Universe past the $20 billion mark. The eagerly-awaited superhero movie picks up in the wake of last year’s Infinity War, which saw Thanos turn half of the universe - and half of the franchise’s star-studded cast - into dust. Leaving audiences on that sombre note, the year-long wait for Endgame created an unparalleled sense of anticipation, as MCU fans speculated feverishly as to how the likes of Spider-Man, Black Panther and Doctor Strange could be brought back to a life, and how the purple villain who killed them could be stopped....

The award-winning iOS game Alto’s Adventure has finally made its debut on the Mac. Available for $9.99 on the Mac App Store, fans of the endless runner game on mobile can now play on their laptops and desktops too … If you haven’t heard of Alto’s Adventure before, you play as Alto the snowboarder, in an endless side-scrolling adventure traversing the hilly snow-capped landscapes with jumps and mid-air tricks. On the iOS App Store, the game has received both Editor’s Choice and Best of 2015 awards from Apple....

For Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Zack Snyder took inspiration from all parts of the two titular heroes past, recreating famous graphic novels in various ways - from individual shots to entire arcs. The most notable was The Dark Knight Returns, Frank Miller’s 1986 take on an aged Batman taking on the Man of Steel in a gritty mission of vengeance. The other major story the film lifted from was The Death of Superman, the 1992 mega-event that saw DC (temporarily) kill off the Last Son of Krypton....

Warning: SPOILERS for Tales from the Dark Multiverse: The Death of Superman #1 The Knightmare sequence of Batman v Superman ruffled plenty of feathers among fans of the big blue boy scout, depicting the dark, angry, and compassion-less god he would become if Lois Lane was taken from him. But the same case is now being made in the pages of DC Comics, showing that if Superman was the one unfairly murdered… Lois Lane would become the same tormented monster as a result....