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In the first week of availability, Avengers: Endgame sold five times as many tickets as Infinity War on Fandango. Anticipation for the culmination of the MCU’s Infinity Saga has reached a fever pitch, as the film is only a couple of weeks away from hitting theaters. Disney, smartly, is running an extremely secretive marketing campaign that reveals the barest bones of the plot and may incorporate footage that’s not in the final film....

Bad Boys For Life ends by having Will Smith’s Mike Lowrey confront his past, while Martin Lawrence’s Marcus Burnett decides about his future - and together, they put an end to an extensive killing spree that sets up a future sequel in Bad Boys 4. Coming 17 years after Michael Bay’s Bad Boys 2 released in theaters, Belgian filmmakers Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah successfully revitalized the long-dormant franchise with Bad Boys For Life, which has already become one of January’s highest-grossing movies....

Warning! SPOILERS for the Batwoman series premiere ahead! Batwoman’s series premiere establishes the character’s origin in the Arrowverse, and there are some notable differences to how Kate Kane becomes Batwoman in the pages of DC Comics. Batwoman is the latest CW series to join the Arrowverse, but Kate Kane and her alter ego were first introduced in the crossover event, Elseworlds. Now, in Batwoman’s pilot episode, audiences will learn how Kate came to become Gotham’s newest protector....

BBEdit from Bare Bones Software has officially returned to the Mac App Store. Apple first teased out that the HTML and text editor software would join the new Mac App Store last summer as part of macOS Mojave’s reveal. Sandboxed BBEdit 12.6 in February introduced support for Sandboxing on the Mac, a major overhaul that secures how the app interacts with the operating system and other apps, which is a requirement for software distributed through the Mac App Store....

Peter Jackson is one of the biggest and most acclaimed filmmakers who are working today, but before he made a name for himself with Lord of the Rings, he was blowing up aliens and zombies in low-budget horror. Peter Jackson has come a long way from his independent roots back in New Zealand. He’s a director that has definitely put in the work and has pulled off an incredible feat by turning fantasy works like Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit into pop culture phenomena....

From 9to5Toys Following yesterday’s Apple event, accessory makers have begun to roll out add-ons for the new MacBook Pro. Belkin has announced the Thunderbolt 3 Express Dock HD that focuses extensively on USB-C connectivity. Its physical footprint has largely gone unchanged from the previous generation. The new MacBook Pro already has up to four Thunderbolt 3 ports but for those looking for extra connectivity, Belkin offers an all-in-one solution. On the front is a traditional USB-A port and alongside a 3....

Apple this evening has started rolling out an update to its Apple Support app on iOS that adds a host of new features. The update brings the app to version 1.1 and introduces new features such as rich notifications, additional country support, and more. First off, the update adds support for scheduling repairs at participating Apple Authorized Service Providers. This includes non-Apple stores that are capable of performing certified repairs. Additionally, the update has added support for making Genius Bar reservations in China, Hong Kong, Macao, Turkey, and United Arab Emirates....

In the era of digital Watches, especially smartwatches, the screen lighting up in the middle of the night, or at a movie theater can become very fatiguing and annoying. Luckily, with Apple Watch, there’s a feature called Theater Mode that disables the raise to wake feature on the Apple Watch, preventing accidental screen awakenings. Follow along as we guide you through how to use Theater Mode on your Apple Watch....

After reviews of the iPhone 7 and AirPods, it’s now the turn of the Apple Watch Series 2. Similar to the iPhone 7, the latest-generation Watch doesn’t look particularly different on the outside, so the question is whether the under-the-hood changes make an upgrade worthwhile? Answering this question is particularly tricky given that watchOS 3 transforms the performance of the existing first-gen Watch, so some of the things being commented on by reviewers are actually more of a function of the new operating system than the new hardware …...

The Apple Watch hasn’t shipped yet, but it’s already showing up on fashion magazine covers, and now it’s even winning design awards. The wearable device picked up the iF Design Gold award from the iF International Forum Design. The organization declared that the Cupertino-designed smartwatch is “already an icon.” It’s not a big surprise that the Apple Watch won this specific award, however. Nearly every Apple product (we couldn’t find the iPhone 4 Bumper on the list) has won one, including most of the iPhone and iPad case the company has produced....

Xiaomi has recently launched its flagship smartphones- the Redmi K20 and K20 Pro. As per a teaser, Xiaomi particularly called the K20 Pro, “the world’s fastest phone.” It sports a blazing-fast octa-core Snapdragon 855 along with 8 GB RAM. If this wasn’t enough, then the K20 Pro also rivals the One Plus 7 Pro with an in-display fingerprint sensor. However, is it waterproof? Let us find out by the Xiaomi K20 Pro waterproof test....

After a successful first season, The CW had another superhero hit in Arrow following Smallville’s conclusion in 2011. For the second season, the Green Arrow drama wasn’t holding back as it had big plans for not just Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell), but also the beginning of a shared superhero TV universe. The summer leading up to the season two premiere, the creators behind Arrow revealed that they were developing their first spin-off series: The Flash....

Good news for Asus Zenfone 3s Max users. Asus Zenfone 3s Max will receive the latest Android 8.0 Oreo version. When it comes to smart phones, there are more android users in this world than smartphones controlled by other operating systems. This is the reason whenever a fresh version of Android arrives, the first question that comes in the mind of users is when they will get the copy of same on their phone....

Way back in 1993, AT&T predictions about the future formed the basis of an ad campaign called You Will. Almost everything it showed subsequently came true over the course of 25 years. AT&T’s predictions included eBooks, GPS navigation, on-demand video streaming and the ability to make and receive phone calls from your watch. And now it thinks it knows what we can expect over the next 25 years … Of course, the company wasn’t the first to predict any of those things....

From AirPower to the Samsung Galaxy Fold, it’s been a tough year for hardware and it’s only April. Now smart home company August is the latest firm to face an unexpected hardware challenge. Sales of the $230 wire-free August View video doorbell are being halted and some customers are receiving refunds less than three weeks since the smart doorbell started shipping. The Verge notes that August cites early reliability issues for some customers as the reason for the sudden halt:...

Avengers: Infinity War promises to be a culmination of everything the Marvel Cinematic Universe has built up towards since its inception and as such, will involve more superheroes than any previous installment in the franchise. This includes characters that have previously been relatively isolated, such as those in Guardians of the Galaxy - who have thus far been off in their own adventures in space, with only the ongoing threat of Thanos and the Infinity Stones tying them to events in the MCU version of Earth....

Blake Horstmann is in trouble again, as his Bachelor in Paradise’s co-star Dean Unglert called him out for slut-shaming Caelynn Miller-Keyes. Blake, who is quickly becoming the bad guy on the show, has tried to clear his name by releasing private text messages between himself and Caelynn all over the internet. Just a few episodes into the Bachelor in Paradise, a dating show that offers former The Bachelor and The Bachelorette alumni who left without love a second chance at it on the beaches of Mexico....

Bachelor Nation stars are rooting for Derek Peth to be the next Bachelor. He’s currently the front-runner on a long list of potential new stars of the next season of The Bachelor, premiering next year. Peth is a former contestant on The Bachelorette, who appeared on JoJo Fletcher’s season in 2016, and again on two seasons of the spinoff Bachelor in Paradise, where members of Bachelor Nation stay in a Mexican resort for several weeks in an attempt to make a genuine connection....

As I alluded to in my initial Mac Pro top features overview, I don’t need a Mac Pro to get my day-to-day work done, but the benefit I receive from its expandability makes it a very appealing machine for me. In this latest episode of Back to the Mac I discuss why I purchased the Mac Pro, my Mac Pro setup, how I currently use it, and talk about some of the upgrades: a 24TB SSD and 384GB of RAM....

Comic books frequently flirt with larger-than-life concepts and conspiracy theories, some of which revolve around secret societies that pull the strings from the shadows. Gotham City has its own ultra-secretive group in the form of the Court of Owls, a group that has gained more prominence over the last few years in TV shows like Gotham, not to mention the Batman comic books at large. Gotham Knights is launching on consoles and a brand-new audience will be diving into the narratives surrounding the Court of Owls for the first time....