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Eight years after release of the worldwide blockbuster Avatar, James Cameron is officially returning to Pandora. And while the sequels to James Cameron’s epic blockbuster have been delayed time and again, Sigourney Weaver suggests that filming on Avatar 2 is set to begin in the fall of 2017. It’s been a long wait, but Cameron, who has four sequels slated to follow up his Best Picture Oscar nominated film, has been submerged in the planning and development process....

A confusing line from James ‘Rhodey’ Rhodes, aka War Machine (Don Cheadle), to Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) and Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) in Avengers: Endgame makes much more sense thanks to an Avengers: Age of Ultron deleted scene. The second MCU ensemble project marked the final project with director/writer Joss Whedon with the franchise. Following the success of 2012’s The Avengers, its sequel brought together the original six heroes, alongside new allies including the involvement of Tony Stark/Iron Man’s (Robert Downey Jr....

Warning: SPOILERS For Avengers: Endgame! Here are our biggest unanswered questions coming out of Avengers: Endgame. Joe and Anthony Russo’s epic follow-up to Avengers: Infinity War concluded the Infinity Saga of Marvel Phases 1-3 and redefined the MCU going forward. Avengers: Endgame was a truly monumental and emotional adventure for Earth’s Mightiest Heroes. Five years after losing the Infinity War and Thanos destroying the Infinity Stones, the Avengers used the Quantum Realm to travel back to key points of past MCU films to retrieve the Stones so that they could bring back the billions who died from the Decimation....

The writers of Avengers: Endgame have shared their thoughts about bringing Cyclops into the MCU, and specifically how they would treat the character if given the opportunity. It’s been inevitable for a while that the X-Men would eventually be joining the MCU, and the news follows recent comment by Cyclops’ original actor James Marsden stating that he would be open to returning to the role. Although audiences have long been calling for it, Marvel Studios making an X-Men film was previously precluded by the film rights for the property having been retained by 20th Century Fox since the company bought them back in 1994....

Thanos went through several redesigns before his starring appearance in Avengers: Infinity War, but a new piece of concept art has been revealed which shows him wearing a black outfit that never made it into the movie. Thanos was first introduced in one of the post-credits scenes of The Avengers, where he was set up to be the cosmic-level threat that the heroes of Earth would have to face in the future....

It seems like the Coronavirus is dominating the news as of late. Along with major conferences being canceled, there is news about companies asking workers to go remote to prevent the virus from spreading. For large companies like Apple and Google, they likely have a lot of the tools in place for their employees to go remote since they have offices around the world. For smaller organizations, employees may lack the expertise to know which tools will help their employees stay productive and stay in communication with each other....

There isn’t a single character in the ensemble cast of Arrested Development that isn’t hilarious in their own way. Fans of the show would be hard-pressed to pick a favorite, because they’re all hysterical, from Tobias to Lucille to George Michael. However, if those fans had a gun put to their head and were forced to name their favorite character, a lot of them might say Gob, because he’s funny for a few reasons: he only wants what he can’t have, how he describes something is never how it actually happened, and he’s determined to make it as a magician despite being terrible at magic....

Marvel Studios should consider slashing its marketing budget seeing as fans on the internet do a perfect job at hyping their movies. The lead-up to MCU films—especially Avengers films—are flooded with memes from fans who guess what will happen in the movie. Once the film itself is released, we get another wave of memes sent our way, most of which contribute to people going back to the cinema to rewatch the film....

With the future of Guardians of the Galaxy 3 a total mystery, Avengers: Endgame couldn’t have come along at a better time. But the next Avengers movie could actually do more than just bring the MCU’s Guardians back to life. It could also help to unite their newest enemies: a group that calls themselves the Dark Guardians. The villainous alliance is brand new in the world of Marvel Comics, introduced as the first enemies facing the new rebooted Guardians of the Galaxy led by Peter Quill and the newly punk rock Groot....

[slideshow] Check them out: WordPress iOS app gets interface overhaul, new power-user features, performance boost (9to5mac.com) Facebook rebuilds iOS app for speed, runs twice as fast, instant photo loading, out today (9to5mac.com) Apps & updates: The World Ends with You, CNN 2012 U.S. Election Center, Clueful, more (9to5mac.com) WordPress iOS app gets interface overhaul (9to5mac.com) [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNX-dEsf-sk&feature=player_embedded] Bad Piggies for iOS and Mac | Launches Sept. 27 Rovio, the brains behind Angry Birds and Amazing Alex, just teased its next big release: Bad Piggies....

A report yesterday from The Guardian placed Apple and Siri in the middle of privacy concerns over voice activated assistants. The report claimed that Apple contractors listen to Siri audio as part of its efforts to improve performance, and oftentimes hear sensitive conversations. Apple defended the efforts in a statement, saying that “less than 1% of daily Siri activations” are used for grading. What do you think of this revelation?...

The Arrow season 8 premiere rewrote season 1 by killing off a key original character - Thea Queen (Willa Holland) - resulting in a major ripple effect for the timeline of Earth-2’s Starling City. The CW’s flagship superhero series kicked off its final season by building towards this year’s mega-crossover, Crisis On Infinite Earths. At the end of Arrow season 7, Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) left his family and friends behind to join the Monitor (LaMonica Garrett) on a mysterious quest involving the imminent Crisis....

The iPhone 5s launch was initially plagued by constrained supply and lagging shipping times, but in the past few weeks those issues have been alleviated as shipping times dropped significantly. The shipping times have dropped yet again, this time to only 3-5 days. This is down quite a bit from the previous 2-3 weeks required to ship. This is an especially welcome update for those buying iPhones as gifts this holiday season, although shipping times of 24 hours, which iPhone 5c buyers have enjoyed since the phone launched, would be ideal for last-minute shoppers....

Asus ROG Phone 5 is the successor of Rog Phone 3 which came out of the box with Android 11. The device gets powerful hardware and also promised to receive regular security patch update and bug fixes. However, it’s not a new case when some of the users haven’t received the latest firmware OTA update notification. Meanwhile, some of the ROG Phone 5 owners also look for the stock ROM to install mostly....

Wireless data hogs who jam the airwaves by watching video on their iPhones will be put on tighter leashes, …[AT&T] will also give high-bandwidth users incentives to “reduce or modify their usage.” Just 3 percent of “smart” phone users are consuming 40 percent of the network capacity, de la Vega said, adding that the most high-bandwidth activity is video and audio streaming. Several applications on the iPhone provide nonstop Internet radio....

Avast has been accused of harvesting data from those who use the company’s free antivirus and protection software, then using a subsidiary to sell the data on to third-parties, including some of the biggest names in tech, such as Google and Microsoft. Avast had already been accused of using its various browser extensions to collect and sell data resulting in many of the browsers opting to remove support for the extensions....

Disney is gunning for a possible Best Supporting Actor nomination for this year’s Academy Awards for Robert Downey Jr.’s performance as Tony Stark/Iron Man in Avengers: Endgame. The actor’s name wasn’t initially on the list of the House of Mouse’s “For Your Consideration” list despite garnering buzz after the release of the Joe and Anthony Russo-directed flick back in April. This bummed many of his supporters as getting acknowledged by the organization would’ve been a great way to cap off his run as the MCU’s poster boy....

[slideshow] On top of a few great game deals, including savings on Shift 2 Unleashed for iPad and the Mass Effect Infiltrator iOS app, there are a number of noteworthy apps and updates hitting the App Store today. We will update the list, as always, throughout the day. Things 2.0: One of the leading iOS and Mac productivity apps was updated today to version 2.0 with a ton of new features....

Arrow brought several DC Comics characters to life during its 8-year run as it helped flesh out the larger Arrowverse with big and obscure heroes and villains joining the small-screen. One of the heroes that joined the rooster was a re-imagined version of Mister Terrific as Echo Kellum joined the franchise as Curtis Holt, loosely based on Michael Holt who was one of the people to go by the superhero title....

Update: a new gameplay trailer for Ary and the Secret of Seasons has been released and the game now has a July 28, 2020 release date. See below for the video. Ary and the Secret of Seasons is shaping up to be a Zelda-inspired action/adventure which can actually hold a candle to its obvious inspiration thanks to strong mechanics, stunning visual design, and innovative gameplay systems. There are no shortage of games inspired by the iconic Legend of Zelda franchise, but a new title from Belgian indie studio eXlin looks like it might have what it takes to truly stand peer-to-peer with classics like Ocarina of Time....