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It’s a new year, the beginning of a new decade, and many of us are resolving to make 2020 the year we lose that extra weight, finish that project, get that promotion, improve our spiritual lives, and focus on our relationships. I don’t like to call them resolutions, but rather goals. I always take the week between Christmas and the New Year to examine what happened the past year, what I want to change for the next year, what I want to do more of, and how I want it to be different....

Since 1941 Aquaman has been a relatively popular character among superhero fans. Despite him not having quite the same amount of storylines or profit garnered by others like the Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman, the water-breathing hero still kept up quite a large fan base. As the king of the sea, Aquaman has the power to breathe underwater, increased speed, and inhuman strength. He can also speak and command sea creatures....

Despite Zack Snyder’s departure from Justice League and Joss Whedon’s significant alterations, Aquaman didn’t also get changed to match Whedon’s changes. James Wan’s Aquaman is actually more true to Snyder’s original version of Justice League, the “Snyder Cut,“than it is to Joss Whedon’s theatrical cut. After a divisive start to the franchise, the DC Extended Universe has been celebrated by some fans, but hounded by others with a demand for a total reboot, tonal shift, executive changes, and more....

Aquaman director James Wan confirms approximately 90 percent of the finished film will be shown in the full IMAX aspect ratio. Warner Bros. and DC Films are hoping to bounce back from last year’s critical and commercial failure, Justice League, with their latest project. After a couple of appearances in the DC Extended Universe, Jason Momoa’s Arthur Curry finally gets a chance to headline a film of his own, and the project has steadily been building buzz over the past few months....

Warning: Minor SPOILERS for Aquaman Fans may have expected the Aquaman movie to be a fresh start for the hero, and erase the lingering hints of Justice League… but one major Easter Egg connected to Zack Snyder’s film remains. By now most comic book movie enthusiasts will have heard about just how much Aquaman’s story changed in Justice League, once Snyder stepped aside, and Joss Whedon’s extensive reshoots began. Aquaman may have seen much of his Atlantean story erased to leave it for a solo movie, including how Justice League’s ending set up Aquaman....

Warner Bros. is reportedly planning to release the first trailer for the Aquaman movie at Wonder Con in March. The studio is in need of a PR boost after a rough couple of months, and the hope is that Aquaman will deliver. It is set to be the only DC live-action movie to hit theaters in 2018, and WB is waiting all the way until December to release it. Production came and went without any hiccups, giving everyone the sense that director James Wan has things under control....

Apple today released iOS 8 beta 4 to developers. It is now available via Software Update in Settings for those running earlier betas of iOS 8 on the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. The new update likely brings further design enhancements and bug fixes. iOS 8 comes out this fall and adds new features like health tracking, improved messaging, more efficient email management, and bolstered photo editing. We’ll be updating this post (below) as we discover new changes, and you can send us what you find to tips@9to5mac....

After seeding macOS Monterey 12.5 Release Candidate last week, Apple is now making available a second RC version to developers and public beta testers. The company did the same with iOS 15.6, which saw a second RC version a few days after its first Release Candidate version. Today’s build is 21G72. Last week’s was 21G69. As of now, it’s unclear what critical bug Apple found that needed to add a new Release Candidate version....

Today we get our first glimpse at Apple’s plans for that upcoming flagship retail store that we noted earlier this week was in the works for Stockholm, Sweden. The images come from a presentation by Apple (via feber.se) showing off a model and renders of what the new retail location will look like located in Stockholm’s high profile Kungsträdgården area. The images and video show Apple’s plan for a single-floor Apple Store layout that isn’t unlike recent Apple Store designs, featuring floor to ceiling glass walls on at least two sides of the store and the usual wood table/demo area layout for products....

Apple trade-in values – the amount of credit the company will give you for older devices when upgrading to new ones – have been quietly adjusted by the company. You could see up to $40 more when trading in an iPad, but up to $540 less when trading in a Mac … iMore spotted the changes, starting with the good news. Then the not so good. The iPad Pro is now worth up to $525, up from $500....

If you’re still hanging on to an old Apple TV model, iOS 16 breaks one of the most useful features. With this update, you are no longer able to cast most content using AirPlay from your iPhone to your Apple TV. This only affects the second-generation and third-generation Apple TV models, which were released in 2010 and 2012, respectively. As pointed out by iCreate, this seems to primarily affect content that is DRM-restricted....

As expected, Apple today brought Intel’s latest Broadwell Core i5 and Core i7 processors to the MacBook Air and Retina MacBook Pro families, beefing up both laptops with additional CPU and graphics power. Apple’s updated 11″ and 13″ MacBook Airs are shipping today with up to 2.2GHz CPUs, plus Intel’s HD Graphics 6000 GPUs, which are smaller, markedly faster, and capable of superior shading/texturing than the 5000-series GPUs they replace. They have Thunderbolt 2 ports, doubling the bandwidth of prior-generation Thunderbolt....

When we heard late last month that Samsung planned to open Apple-style ‘store-in-store’ locations within Best Buy retail stores it was still only rumor. Today Samsung and Best Buy have made things official for its plans to roll out 1,400 “Samsung Experience Shops” in Best Buy retail stores across the United States. Best Buy plans to have the store within a store Samsung shops up and running by the summer with 900 scheduled to open by May:...

Earlier this week, FingerprintJS revealed a serious bug in Apple’s Safari web browser that lets anyone extract a user’s browsing history and even Google User IDs. As expected, Apple is now working on a fix for this bug, which is expected to be released to users very soon. Based on a WebKit commit on GitHub, Apple engineers are already preparing a fix for the Safari bug that leaks user data. For those unfamiliar, WebKit is Apple’s browser engine that powers Safari and other web browsers....

Last year, Apple rolled out the option to pay monthly for some of its two (in some cases three) year AppleCare+ plans for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. Today, Apple quietly changed how it works so customers can buy an indefinite monthly AppleCare+ subscription. This sounds like customers can choose to continue the monthly AppleCare+ coverage as long as they’d like or until Apple can’t service the device anymore. The monthly subscription is available for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch....

Apple’s apparent trend of expanding its R&D efforts beyond Cupertino continues with the announcement of a “large research and development facility” in Japan. While few details were given in local media reports (via Reuters), the source of the information appears rather reliable – a statement by Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo … Abe Shinzo said that the facility “will be on par with Apple’s biggest R&D centres in Asia.” After many years of restricting almost all R&D work to Cupertino, Apple has in the past couple of years opened development offices elsewhere, both within the US and globally....

Business Insider highlighted Cook’s celebration of Apple’s success in the enterprise market in the analyst call following its quarterly earnings report. Cook noted a recent IDC report on market share in smartphone and tablet in the U.S. enterprise market, putting the iPhone at 59 percent and iPad at 78 percent. Apple is believed to have made significant gains in iPhone adoption as a result of the implosion of Blackberry, once the default choice of corporate smartphone, and has been actively pushing the iPad as a business tool....

So, if you’re planning to attend this year’s edition, you should know that it will take place between 8 and 12 June, as Apple informs on its official website. Just like it happens every year, Apple is expected to showcase its next big updates for the iPhone, iPad, and Mac software. Apple informs that this year’s WWDC edition will feature more than 100 technical sessions, over 1,000 Apple engineers, hands-on labs, and the Apple Design Awards....

Apple today has shared a new ad for the recently released iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus. The ad focuses on arguably the standout new feature of the device: 3D Touch. In the ad, Apple highlights a variety of the use cases of 3D Touch and offers a brief explanation as to how it works. Apple describes the new “Peek and Pop” method of using iOS that the devices feature. The ad showcases using 3D Touch to quickly access navigation directions, music playlists, messages, Instagram profiles, and more....

Last week, Apple released iOS 13.5.1 to the public, patching the vulnerability used by the unc0ver jailbreak. Following that release, Apple has now stopped signing iOS 13.5. This means users can no longer downgrade from iOS 13.5.1 to iOS 13.5. Shortly after the release of iOS 13.5.1, Apple’s official security page was updated to say that the update fixed a vulnerability that allowed applications “to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges....