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Update: Apple’s Black Friday deals are now live in Australia and New Zealand. While many great Mac deals for Black Friday have already hit, we’ve yet to receive official word on Apple’s deals for tomorrow. Earlier this week, Apple was teasing its Black Friday promotion on its Australian website, and both the Australian and New Zealand stores are now down ahead of tomorrow’s sale. Australian and New Zealand customers, as usual, will be first with access to the deals, so we’ll update this post once the stores go back online with the official details....

WARNING: The following article contains spoilers for the Black Lightning episode ‘The Book Of Little Black Lies’ - ‘The Book of Little Black Lies’ - the latest episode of the popular CW series Black Lighting - stunned viewers by dropping the name of another prominent black superhero from The Arrowverse - the shared universe in which Arrow, The Flash and Legends of Tomorrow are set. What makes this so shocking is the fact that the world of Black Lightning was said to exist apart from The Arrowverse....

In 2015 when we visited the set of Captain America: Civil War it was becoming clear that Marvel Studios was beginning to plan long-term for its villains and secondary characters. The Disney-owned production house had already set precedents with the Marvel Cinematic Universe with its long-term franchise plans, crossovers, and team-ups featuring its headliner heroes but now villains and supporting characters were getting the same. Civil War introduced CIA operative Everett K....

Warning: SPOILERS for Blade Runner 2049 ahead - Like Blade Runner before it, most of Blade Runner 2049’s characters inhabit a motivational grey area. Some of them do unambiguously make things difficult for our protagonists, but their actual role as someone “evil” is more a matter of perspective and how one defines “evil.” In an extension of the base themes of the film, most are only doing their job and fulfilling their base programming – they aren’t necessarily bad, just caught up in a system that deems their actions as such....

According to a new report by Bloomberg, Apple is investing heavily in its smart home division in an attempt to grow the company’s presence in the smart home market. Today’s report from Bloomberg suggests there is a much bigger company initiative to try and get Apple to capture a bigger portion of the smart home market. The new effort is reportedly headed by Andreas Gal, who Apple hired as part of an acquisition of Silk Labs in late 2018....

The CW has established itself as the go-to network for comic book-based television, now boasting four Arrowverse TV shows (in the forms of Arrow, The Flash, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow and Supergirl), as well as non-superhero comic book adaptations iZombie and Riverdale to its name. Arrowverse co-creator and Riverdale producer, Greg Berlanti is now lending his name to another DC Comics TV adaptation set to call The CW its home; namely, Black Lightning, a small screen take on the superhero of the same name, who was one of DC’s first African-American superheroes when he debuted on the comic book page in 1977....

Shuri, everyone’s favorite technogenius from Wakanda, lets her brother T’Challa know exactly what she thinks of his new plans in Marvel’s upcoming release of Black Panther #19 by Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ryan Bodenheim. Black Panther #19 starts the final arc in Coates’ Intergalactic Empire of Wakanda storyline, entitled “Wakanda Unbound.” The new issue reveals T’Challa ready to take the fight to his enemies while his sister is more ready to remind him of his place....

Blizzard announced some big news today at its yearly Blizzcon show: the next installment in the Diablo series will be made for iOS and Android. The news about Diablo Immortal follows Epic Games seeing massive success with its hit Fortnite on mobile devices over the last year. Blizzard announced that its highly popular Diablo franchise will be coming to both iOS and Android with Diablo Immortal. Set between Diablo II and III, here’s how the developer describes the new installment:...

Blizzard has finally decided to ban three college Hearthstone players after they held up a “Free Hong Kong, Boycott Blizz” sign during an official livestream of competitive play - but the decision comes after days of silence, despite the fact that the players, representing American University, even suggesting they should have been banned in the same manner that blitzchung was. For those unfamiliar, blitzchung is the Hearthstone pro who found himself at the center of a community-wide controversy after he was banned from play and stripped of his prize winnings for giving a post-victory interview where he expressed support for the Hong Kong protests currently on-going in China....

There is a lot of adrenaline-fueled action to be experienced and valuable treasure to be won in the new Bounty of Blood DLC in 2K Games’ epic roleplaying game, Borderlands 3. Even amid that, the final bosses in the DLC appear to drop, as they should, the best quality loot in the game. This usually holds true even if the loot drops throughout the bulk of the missions are rather abysmal....

Relive the best and worst years of your life with Big Mouth, the adult cartoon about kids grappling with puberty. It’s an awkward, lewd, and totally hilarious look at the challenges of growing up including first zits, first boners, and yes, first loves. The relationships between the main characters are at the heart of the show, and in typical teenage fashion, there are many of them. There to help the main characters navigate first dates, school dances, and strange hormonal urges are their trusty Hormone Monsters, the impish creatures that provide guidance for puberty’s rigors....

Blizzard is working busily away behind the scenes on Diablo, confirming that there are multiple projects in the series currently under development. This will come as good news for fans of the franchise, as it’s now been six years since the last entry in the series, Diablo 3, saw release. Some players had been expecting Blizzard to make some kind of announcement about the future of Diablo some time soon. The franchise’s status as one of the most popular action-based RPGs with some of the best boss battles around always meant that it was unlikely that Diablo was going to be retired, while a job listing for a dungeon artist to work on an “unannounced Diablo project” earlier this year confirmed that the developer was creating something for the series....

Following Apple’s steady release of new content and features for its existing Apple TV platform in recent months, this week it adds yet another as Bloomberg becomes the first channel to live stream business news 24/7 to Apple TV customers. We spoke with Bloomberg’s head of mobile Oke Okaro who told us all about the new Apple TV app. The majority of the content you’ll find in the new app is the same Bloomberg TV content you’ll find on its website and in its mobile apps but specifically optimized for the larger screen....

A Breaking Bad movie starring Aaron Paul as Jesse Pinkman is now in the works, but could it also connect to spin-off Better Call Saul? The movie’s brief logline is that it’ll follow “the escape of a kidnapped man and his quest for freedom”, or in other words, we’re going to be seeing exactly what happened to Jesse Pinkman in the aftermath of Breaking Bad’s series finale, Felina. There are a number of characters who could feasibly appear, but there’s only one who we’ve actually seen on screen in a post-Breaking Bad world: Gene....

Update: According to a new report by WSJ, the Foxconn assembly plant in Zhengzhou was hit by flooding on Wednesday. Power went out and water seeped into the site, employees say, but the damage appears limited. After the torrential rain in Zhengzhou in China this Tuesday, Taiwan electronics manufacturer Foxconn said that its factory hasn’t been impacted by major flooding in the city. As reported by CNBC, Foxconn said that it had “activated an emergency response plan for flood control measures in that location....

Avengers: Endgame has quite a few major plot holes. The culmination of 11 years’ worth of Marvel blockbusters, Avengers: Endgame broke practically every box office record going. But that doesn’t mean Avengers: Endgame is faultless; it has a significant number of plot holes. There’s a sense that this was probably inevitable, given how much the film had to achieve. Avengers: Endgame was something of a victory lap for Marvel, using time travel to revisit key moments in the MCU’s history, undo Thanos’ victory in Avengers: Infinity War, and ultimately feature every superhero ever seen in the MCU....

Netflix’s Black Mirror season 5 boasts an impressive cast that you’ll recognize from movies, TV and even the world of music. Here’s who they play and how you know them. Black Mirror season 5 consists of three new episodes about society, pop culture, and technology, all written by creator Charlie Brooker. “Striking Vipers” explores the complicated friendship of two men who form a sexual relationship within a virtual reality as video game characters....

Just in time for the release of Black Panther in theaters worldwide, Marvel has brought back three of T’Challa’s key writers and two familiar characters on the comics front. Black Panther is currently breaking box office records left and right in theaters. The latest numbers have Black Panther beating The Avengers for Tuesday earnings and it could be well on its way to topping the 2012 film overall. We’ll have to wait a bit longer to know if that’s the case, but Marvel has wisely been preempting the film’s success with a number of new comic book projects....

Natasha Romanoff (Scarlett Johansson) didn’t get a funeral in Avengers: Endgame because audiences will see her again in her solo Black Widow movie. After the casualties of Avengers: Infinity War and the expiring contracts for actors, many fans braced for more deaths in Avengers: Endgame. As most expected, the film served as the final chapters to Tony Stark aka Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) and Steve Rogers aka Captain America (Chris Evans)....

Pro-unionization is a long-held policy position for Joe Biden, and today the president extended his support to Apple retail employees who voted to form a union over the weekend. “I am proud of them,” said Biden when asked about the development. “Workers have a right to determine under what condition they are going to work or not work.” “Everybody is better off, including the final product is always better off,” the president added....