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Photography and videography gifts are a great option for anyone who sees their iPhone as a camera first and a phone second. Many of the options are equally useful for those who also shoot with a mirrorless or DSLR camera. Here are some ideas for gifts at all budget levels, from stocking-filler to main present… Tripods A tripod is the first accessory any photographer or videographer should buy. It may not be the most exciting stabilization tool available, but it’s the single most useful one....

Microsoft held a live stream this evening and wound up revealing the future of the Halo franchise. While most thought that the next game in Microsoft’s sci-fi shooter series would be released on Xbox One or PC, it turns out that the next installment will actually be an exclusive to Dave and Buster’s. Titled Halo: Fireteam Raven, the arcade game is a cooperative shooter that will be arriving at the restaurants in summer 2018....

In an amusing mix-up, Google’s blurb for Solo: A Star Wars Story currently displays the description for the forgotten 1996 Mario Van Peebles action film Solo. Released in May, Disney and Lucasfilm’s Solo underwhelmed at the box office with only $319 million in grosses worldwide, making it far and away the least successful movie in the history of the Star Wars franchise. Things went south for Solo early on after original directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller were fired in the middle of shooting and replaced by Ron Howard....

When any show changes its showrunner, changes are bound to take effect. Whether that’s in the style of the writing, the quality of the episodes produced or even changes to the cast itself, the newly appointed person in charge will almost inevitable want to make their mark and remind cast, crew, and viewers alike who is now running the show. These changes are not always welcome; many hold with the age-old addage ‘If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it....

Doctor Who’s new opening titles have delighted viewers with their retro-styled bombast but removing the show’s cold open has harmed its latest episodes. Doctor Who has undergone some major changes over the course of 2018. The world’s longest-running sci-fi TV show has returned with a new showrunner, a new TARDIS interior, and, most importantly, a new Doctor. As the first-ever female in the title role, Jodie Whitaker’s Doctor has charmed fans with her enthusiastic and refreshing take on the centuries-old Time Lord....

Doctor Who’s Timeless Child storyline has huge ramifications for Matt Smith’s Eleventh Doctor. The mystery of the Timeless Child has been on Doctor Who’s chessboard since season 11’s “The Ghost Monument,” where psychic rags called The Remnants reached into Jodie Whittaker’s mind and pulled the phrase out of thin air, leading the mass speculation over Chris Chibnall’s first long-term story arc. While the Timeless Child was, appropriately enough, not given any further time to develop that season, it proved the focal point of Doctor Who’s recently-concluded twelfth run....

Warning! SPOILERS Below For Avengers: Infinity War! - What does the destruction of the Mind Stone in Avengers: Infinity War mean for Scarlet Witch? This may seem like an odd question considering that Wanda Maximoff is among the beings numbering half of all life in the universe killed by Thanos’ finger snap. The Great Titan completed the Infinity Gauntlet when he used the Time Stone to reverse time after Wanda used her powers to destroy the Mind Stone....

A new European Union San Francisco office has been opened, aiming to better liaise with US tech giants on new antitrust laws … It follows an earlier visit by Members of the European Parliament to a number of US tech giants, including Apple, Google, and Meta. European Union San Francisco office opened Silicon Republic reports: Apple at risk from EU antitrust legislation Apple once had less to fear from EU tech legislation, which was initially focused on social networks like Facebook and Twitter....

Fortnite introduced split-screen in the game. Here’s how to get it started with another player. Fortnite is a massively popular online multiplayer game that has taken the world by storm. As online multiplayer has taken over as the preferred way of playing multiplayer games, local multiplayer is a lot less common than back in the day. Before online gaming, the only way to play with friends was to have an extra controller and physically go over to their home....

Now that HBO’s award-winning fantasy epic Game of Thrones has come to an end after eight seasons, fans anxiously anticipate a new prequel series that will focus on new adventures in Westeros. For now, little is known about the series, except that it will take place thousands of years prior to the events of A Song of Ice and Fire and the rest of George R. R. Martin’s novels. Based on excerpts of information from HBO’s website explaining that it will focus on ancient Westeros, White Walkers, and the first members of the Stark family, fans have already started speculating about what other characters, events, and species might come into play....

Gotham’s fifth and final season will begin filming in July, it has been confirmed. The Batman prequel series recently wrapped up its fourth run in typically apocalyptic fashion by taking cues from the ‘No Man’s Land’ comic story, as sort-of Joker, Jeremiah Valeska, succeeded in isolating Gotham City and cutting it off from the outside world. Naturally, the city’s various criminals didn’t take long to establish their own territories, with the likes of Barbara Kean, Penguin and Victor Fries (Mr....

Sesame Street has filed a lawsuit against the R-rated Muppet comedy The Happytime Murders due to copyright infringement; in response, the movie’s creators have issued a statement from a puppet lawyer who represents them. Though the Jim Henson Company has been typically geared at releasing kid-friendly entertainment over the years with movies like Labyrinth and The Muppet Movie, the upcoming The Happytime Murders is being released by one of the studio’s sister companies Henson Alternative, which is aimed at producing entertainment for an older audience....

Evangeline Lily snaps a photo of herself on the set of Avengers 4, teasing another flashback sequence in the film. Not much is known regarding the narrative specifics of the movie, but we know that whatever Thanos was set to do was not entirely completed in Avengers: Infinity War, prompting him to come back for a second round. The epic blockbuster, which is set to wrap-up Marvel Studios’ 22-film arc, will also expand the ensemble cast from Avengers 3 with the addition of upcoming major game players like Brie Larson’s Captain Marvel and Lily’s iteration of the Wasp....

With the return of The Good Place season 3 in “The Book of Dougs,” we finally have an answer to the question of why no one has gotten into the Good Place in more than 500 years: the world - and morality - has simply become too complicated. Actions that might have once been wholly positive, like giving one’s grandmother a bouquet of flowers, now come with a litany of unintended consequences (like accidentally putting money into the pockets of an unscrupulous billionaire CEO), because human civilization is now so enormous, interconnected, and complex....

J.K. Rowling has apparently broken her own continuity with the decision to cast Fiona Glascott as the young Professor McGonagall in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, but could that decision have been made for important story purposes involving Queenie, rather than just for fan-service? Rowling is considered one of the master storytellers of the modern age, and her Harry Potter franchise is estimated to be worth over $25 billion. She’s particularly noted for her attention to detail, carefully weaving together a complex tapestry of myriad plot threads she’s developed over the course of years....

Marvel has released the first Hawkeye merchandise for Avengers: Infinity War. As the marketing machine for Marvel Studios’ event film this year kicks into high gear, we get more tie-in collectibles and fun toys - some of which may or may not have unwarranted spoilers in them. Clint’s brand new bow and arrow set, however, does not seem to contain any possible piece of information. If anything, it could almost pass up as something not associated with the upcoming ensemble film....

Weather Line creator Ryan Jones and his team have released a huge update to their popular flight tracking app, Flighty. The app has just been updated to version 2.0, and it includes a ton of quality of life improvements to make traveling more fun and less stressful. The update includes several new visual enhancements like a 3D globe view and easier one-handed use. There are also all-new features like proximity radar, ground radar, and live-streaming....

For almost a year (longer for book readers) Game of Thrones fans have been fretting over what transpired in the final moments of season 5, wondering whether or not Jon Snow (Kit Harington) was truly dead or if he was not going to meet the same fate as so many before him. Thankfully, early in season 6, all those anxious fans saw their worries subside, at least for now, as the fate of Jon Snow was revealed on the season’s second episode, ‘Home....

It would have been virtually impossible to predict the legacy that a series like Gilmore Girls would go on to have. When the series first aired from 2000 to 2007 across both The WB and The CW, it was a critically beloved cult hit that generated very little in terms of audience numbers or awards enthusiasm. The feel good series followed the lives of three generations of the central Gilmore family, as they navigated life and love and work and school and all things in between....

[This is a review of Gotham season 2, episode 13. There will be SPOILERS.] - Gotham delved deeper into the origin story behind Mr. Freeze (Nathan Darrow) following last week’s return, which set up the collision course that would bring the character in contact with Arkham’s own Hugo Strange (B.D. Wong). In this respect, this second episode of 2016 certainly marked the end of a particularly chilling (pun intended) two-parter and revealed the most blatant hint yet at what viewers can expect in the coming weeks....