The many lives of Carol Danvers (Brie Larson) are on display in a new Japanese poster for Captain Marvel. It’s been a long time coming for Carol Danvers to get her big screen debut in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Marvel Studios at one point had plans for her to appear in Avengers: Age of Ultron and there was talk of the same for Avengers: Infinity War. But, they decided to give her a solo movie first before she joins the larger storyline....

When Cardhop debuted last fall, it immediately became a must-have app in my Mac’s menu bar. The way it handles adding notes and interacting with recent contacts works great with how I interact with email for example. The latest update to Cardhop out this week includes improvements to the recently introduced printing feature, improvements to drag and drop, and support for Instagram as a social network field. Check out the Cardhop Version 1....

While Apple is set to release its Watch sometime early this year, CES 2015 is already packed with smartwatches with a range of focuses including fitness, fashion, and utility. We already saw Withings show off its colorful and affordable Activité Pop smartwatch with 8 month battery life, and others including Misfit, Garmin, Magellan, First Alert and more also have something for your wrist to show off at the Consumer Electronics Show this year....

2015 was quite the year for Marvel Studios. The second phase of the Marvel Cinematic Universe wrapped up with the little comic movie that could (Ant-Man) and the massive collaborative juggernaut that couldn’t be stopped (Avengers: Age of Ultron). The studio also underwent some major production changes at Disney’s behest. Last September, Disney reshuffled its studio hierarchy, handing executive producer Kevin Feige direct control over the film franchises and shifting Marvel CEO Isaac “Ike” Perlmutter’s primary focus to overseeing the TV and comic book realms....

Competition between carriers will drive iPhone 13 sales with aggressive deals, say industry commentators, but iPhone subsidies will end at some point. Carriers have played a significant role in driving demand for iPhones, thanks to fighting each other for market share … The WSJ reports. Many feel that the cost of these incentives is too high to be sustainable, and that there will come a time when carriers will cut back....

For those not familiar, March 10 is known as Mario Day, because of MAR10, and it’s officially here for 2021. This year, the franchise is also celebrating its 36th anniversary with the Super Nintendo World set to open at Universal Studios in Japan next week. If you love the most famous plumber in the world, there are a few ways to celebrate Mario Day on your iPhone. Super Mario Run...

“We’ve all been hearing the ‘M word’ an awful lot,” Nvidia’s Omniverse VP Richard Kerris said to reporters this week, referring to the so-called metaverse. While the metaverse, as touted by companies like the newly-named Meta, may seem like hype, Kerris said that “virtual worlds are going to be required for the next era of innovation.” Omniverse gives 3D designers a shared virtual world from which they can collaborate across different software applications and from different geographic locations....

Air conditioning firm Carrier has announced its first smart thermostat that works with Apple’s HomeKit feature. Carrier’s Côr thermostat will work with Siri, Apple’s new Home app, and automation in iOS 10. It’s unclear if Carrier will be updating its current line of Côr thermostats through software or if new hardware will be required for HomeKit compatibility. Carrier first introduced its Côr line two years ago. [UPDATE: The HomeKit-enabled Côr thermostat will be new $249 hardware....

Starting in March, cardholders will earn rewards with select merchants near where they live. When it launches, a reward tab will be available in the app where users can see different merchant offerings, the amount of cashback they can earn and monitor how much they’re accumulating. Everything will be handled within the Dayforce Wallet app, and rewards are currently offered with over 100,000 merchants. The rewards are automatically added back into the wallet and can be used with the card....

The Marvel Cinematic Universe has been the closest thing to a genuine experiment the notoriously risk-averse Hollywood film industry has undertaken at least since rolling the dice on Peter Jackson’s original Lord of The Rings trilogy. For all the talk of action movies always having been a provable genre at the box-office and superheroes often even more so, the gamble with this franchise (or collection of franchises) has always been the risk as to whether or not audiences will tire of one or more parts of the ongoing story-continuum and imperil the prospects of the rest....

UPDATE: Read our breakdown of the Captain Marvel trailer. Marvel Studios releases the Captain Marvel movie full trailer, after teasing its debut with a new Captain Marvel poster yesterday. Following a blockbuster 10th anniversary year for the Marvel Cinematic Universe in 2018, the studio is returning in 2019 with three highly anticipated movies. While Avengers 4 and Spider-Man: Far From Home will conclude Phase 3 and kick off Phase 4, respectively, Captain Marvel is an equally noteworthy installment of the MCU....

Designer and developer Doney den Ouden has today released a brand new take on the task of managing contacts through iOS. The goal of the app, called Cardbox, is to remove a lot of the painstaking details of contact management by reimagining the address book as a social network. On the surface, Cardbox for iOS features a gorgeous and intuitive interface. You can create groups to manage contacts between family, work, friends, and more....

ChangeWave Research is out this morning with the newest survey based on a poll of 4,163 consumers in June, eleven percent of which were outside the US. The research focused on planned and past purchases of smartphones, showing that Apple’s handset is still the preferred device in spite of Android becoming the top-selling smartphone platform as millions of feature phone consumers in the United States and elsewhere upgrade to their first smartphone, usually a cheap Android handset....

Chaos Walking’s initial cut apparently lived up to its name, as Lionsgate and director Doug Liman’s movie was reportedly deemed “unreleasable” prior to its reshoots. An adaptation of Patrick Ness’ sci-fi novels of the same name, Chaos Walking takes place in a dystopian future world where all women are believed to have been wiped out and a virus allows people the ability to hear other humans and animals’ thoughts. It’s a pretty tricky concept to translate into a film right off the bat, so it’s little wonder that Lionsgate’s struggled to get their movie version off the ground since landing the rights in 2011....

New concept art from Captain Marvel reveals an alternate look for Starforce, the Kree special ops team. For Marvel Studios’ first female led movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, they put Carol Danvers (Brie Larson) back in the 1990s. This decision not only largely freed up the movie from most MCU canon, but it also allowed for Captain Marvel to be one of the earliest known heroes. While Carol eventually learned of her life on Earth and protected her real home planet against a Kree invasion led by Ronan the Accuser (Lee Pace), that is not how her story begins in Captain Marvel....

Focus Features’ second trailer for Captive State dives deeper into the state of life in post-extraterrestrial invasion Chicago in Rupert Wyatt’s sci-fi drama-thriller. The film picks up ten years after aliens have begun their occupation of earth, giving rise to a world where some humans continue to rebel against the planet’s occupants - even as others collaborate with humanity’s new overlords. The film’s cast includes big names like John Goodman and Vera Farmiga, as well as Moonlight and The Equalizer 2 actor Ashton Sanders....

Chadwick Boseman will play Yasuke, the first African samurai warrior. After his rousing success as Black Panther in the 2018 Oscar-winning film of the same name, it’s safe to say that Boseman’s career has entered a period of heightened activity. The last two years alone have seen the actor star in two major blockbusters, with a future that’s increasingly becoming stacked with new opportunities. Most recently, Boseman has started work on Da 5 Bloods, director Spike Lee’s follow up to last year’s BlacKkKlansman....

The HomeKit ecosystem is losing one of its most useful and most reliable accessories. Chamberlain has announced today that it is discontinuing the myQ Home Bridge Hub, which allowed you to control your garage door with HomeKit and Siri. For those unfamiliar, myQ is Chamberlain’s platform for controlling your garage door using your smartphone. The technology is built into some of Chamberlain’s more modern garage door openers, but the company also sells a retrofit version that adds the technology to older garage door openers....

Marvel Studios’ highly-anticipated Phase Three of its Marvel Cinematic Universe will begin this year with Captain America: Civil War, and with the release date fast approaching, the cast and crew are busy promoting the film. Civil War will bring the big battle between Captain America (Chris Evans) and Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) to the big screen, accompanied by almost every other Avenger who’s already part of the MCU - and some newcomers too....

What can we expect from Captain Marvel 2, now officially named The Marvels? Carol Danvers swooped into theaters, helmet-mohawk and all, in 2019’s Captain Marvel, making it the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s first feature with a female lead. And while she made her big return in Avengers: Endgame, there is a lot of excitement for the character’s return in the direct sequel. Directed by Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden, Captain Marvel served as an origin story for the MCU’s most powerful superhero yet....