Following a six-week pause on its original launch plans, another two-week delay, and a last-minute agreement to halt any launches near airports to alleviate Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) fears over C-Band’s interference with radio altimeters, the service is finally going live. AT&T’s newest 5G technology is now available in a total of eight metro areas: Austin, Chicago, Dallas Ft. Worth, Detroit, Houston, Jacksonville, Orlando, and South Florida. The new technology is expected to improve upon AT&T’s existing mmWave-based 5G by providing “a great combination of ultra-fast speeds and wide geographic coverage....

Atomic Blonde director David Leitch says Atomic Blonde 2 is still being discussed and could be made by a streaming service. Released in 2017, the Cold War-set spy thriller was adapted from Antony Johnston’s graphic novel The Coldest City and starred Charlize Theron as Lorraine Broughton - an MI6 agent on a mission in Berlin to recover a stolen list of double agents. Gritty yet hyper-stylish, Atomic Blonde was one of the best movies of 2017 and boasts some of the most show-stopping fight sequences in recent memory....

Mini-Me actor Verne Troyer has reportedly passed away at the age of 49. Details are scarce as to exactly what happened leading up to this unfortunate incident. The actor’s family released a statement referencing suicide and depression. Troyer had been in several well-known films from the beginning of his career. His credits include Jingle All The Way, Men In Black, and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. But it was his role as Dr....

KGI’s Mingchi Kuo, an analyst with a solid track-record, and the man who came closest (almost) to calling opening weekend sales of the iPhone, now believes Apple shipped ‘just’ 11.4M iPhone 5c handsets in September, rather than the 17M he had earlier forecast, reports Business Insider. This makes some sense of the rampant discounting seen on the 5C (which actually started at Walmart before launch), but doesn’t necessarily mean that iPhone sales as a whole are down … While it seems clear that Apple and other outlets over-estimated early demand for the 5c despite limiting TV advertising to the cheaper of the two models, continuing stock shortages of the 5s suggest that this has been balanced by Apple under-estimating demand for the more expensive handset....

Stephen Amell has always been an extremely interactive actor with his fans via his various social media platforms, but none more so than with Arrow viewers - who speak to and with him on his Facebook page. With the series having recently hit 100 episodes and the latest fall finale right around the corner, Arrow shows no signs of slowing down. Amell decided to celebrate Arrow’s 100th episode by taking part in a special question and answer session on Facebook - where he revealed some exciting information about what’s to come in the superhero TV series’ future....

DC and Marvel currently find themselves in the midst of a heated arms race, with both brands continuing to snatch up actors left and right to increase the already dense populations of their ever-expanding universes (film and/or television alike). However, what are the odds of an actor crossing the demarcation line and working for both comic book-based brands? It’s already happened, with regard to supporting cast members - for example, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje played a role in Marvel Studios’ Thor: The Dark World and he’s now playing Killer Croc in WB/DC’s upcoming Suicide Squad movie....

While solar panels and wind turbines are the two best-known methods of generating renewable energy, they aren’t the only approaches. The day after we learned that Apple has become a power company, we hear that it has just been given the go-ahead to employ a particularly cool method. Landfill gas utilization traps the methane gas given off from landfill sites and either converts it into pipeline-grade gas or uses it to generate electricity....

Whatever you may think of the prospect of video game movies, Hollywood clearly thinks they’re the next big thing to join comic books, classic cartoons and 1980s action figure lines as the go-to material for big-budget blockbusters. Much of the recent glut of gaming green-lights has centered on recent hits from the PC and mobile scene like Angry Birds, Five Nights At Freddy’s and Minecraft; but so-called “Triple-A” console titles are also getting a shot in the form of the Assassin’s Creed adaptation set to hit theaters in December as a star-vehicle for Michael Fassbender....

Warning: SPOILERS for Arrested Development season 5 The Bluth family are back for (possibly) the final time in Arrested Development season 5 part two, which recently arrived on Netflix – here’s your guide to the sprawling cast. Arrested Development season 1 arrived in 2003 and while the show struggled somewhat in the ratings, it was acclaimed for its impeccable comic writing and ensemble cast. When the show ended with Arrested Development season 3 the cast, particularly Jason Bateman, began to pop up in multiple TV series and movies....

The OG Arrowverse show, Arrow is an impressive example of a what superhero TV series looks like done right. Easily the darkest and grittiest series in the Arrowverse, Arrow follows the exploits of Oliver Queen as he strives to atone for his past sins while defeating the criminals of Star City with help from Team Arrow. Due to the size of the main cast on the show (and the constantly revolving door of characters), Arrow has featured many relationships throughout its eight seasons....

Arrow star Stephen Amell has admitted that he once thought the show should end with season 7 - at least until he heard the idea for season 8. Amell has played Oliver Queen (aka the Green Arrow) since the show premiered in 2012. Arrow has gone through many changes since season 1, with several characters exiting the series. The seventh season introduced viewers to Star City in the year 2040 and with it, Oliver’s grown children, Mia and William....

The Bing Search app has been updated to include the translation feature first demoed at WWDC, as part of the initial unveiling of iOS 8 extensions. Very simply, downloading the update adds a Bing Translate action to your Activities list in Safari. Enable the action and then visit a website in a foreign language. Pressing the Translate action in the share sheet will machine translate the webpage’s text to the system language, by default....

Actor Ashton Kutcher has joined Lenovo as a product engineer. Kutcher’s experience in engineering includes… basically nothing, although he did play Steve Jobs in the 2013 biopic Jobs, so that has to count for something, right? Right? Kutcher’s first job at Lenovo will be using his celebrity status to market the company’s new “Yoga” tablet—an obvious first step for any aspiring product engineer (or, you know, celebrity endorser). The tablet, which Kutcher presumably had some “engineering” input on, is a flat aluminum enclosure with a rounded base that houses the power button....

U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon has approved the AT&T-Time Warner merger, giving the $85.4 billion deal the go-ahead over objections from the Justice Department. The Justice Department’s decision to sue to prevent the AT&T-Time Warner deal was unprecedented, and sent shockwaves through the business community. A populist antitrust agenda was a core part of President Donald Trump’s campaign, and this was the first time it reared its head. It’s generally believed many other companies have held off on mergers and acquisitions, watching this lawsuit with concern....

AT&T is offering the first refurbished iPhone 5 units for resale that we have seen since the product launched just two months ago. It is unclear whether this is a temporary promotion for Black Friday or if these will be offered on a regular basis. Both black and white versions are available in 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB. You can only purchase with a two-year contract, and pricing is $99, $199, and $299 respectively....

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPuYWwBDHHQ] AT&T just issued a press release saying they activated one million iPhone 4S units, or one-quarter of the four million devices Apple sold during the launch weekend. It’s the most successful launch in AT&T’s history, the company wrote in the release: About those “4G speeds”… AT&T is reportedly pushing Apple to put a “4G” cellular icon on iPhone 4S to represent its faster Internet connection, which theoretically hits 3G HSPA 14....

Good ol’ AT&T has got their PR machine in high gear today. CEO Randall Stephenson told Businessweek that the T-Mobile deal would instantly bring more bandwidth to users in constrained cities: Other things that would have helped: Adding capacity at the same rate you were adding customers. It isn’t like iPhones will suddenly be able to use T-Mobile’s 3G network radios. Sprint officially opposing AT&T/T-Mobile deal, urges government to intervene (9to5mac....

Australian Survivor’s first All-Star season has finished its first week and through its already tragic vote offs and excellent cast as a whole, the main takeaway is that in merely 3 episodes, David Genat has pushed ahead of everyone to prove once and for all that he is nearly flawless casting. Originally competing in the 2019 season, David filled a role not at all unique to that year of the show....

If you’re wondering why Apple Pay is as yet only available for Amex cards in Australia, it’s not because Apple isn’t working hard enough to introduce it there: it’s because Australian banks are refusing to sign up for it. The opposition Labor Party spokesman on digital innovation is now suggesting that this refusal may constitute anti-competitive behavior, reports the Sydney Morning Herald. As we reported back in August, one big sticking point is fees … The Reserve Bank has been urged to examine potential anti-competitive behaviour in the emerging card-free payments market amid claims the banks have frozen out newcomer Apple Pay […]...

Update: Apple later confirmed that all iOS devices were affected, and that the problem had been patched in iOS 11.2. Following clarification that what was initially reported as an Intel chip bug also affects AMD processors and ARM-based chips, Intel’s CEO has said that ‘phones and everything’ will be impacted. A security update by ARM suggests that a number of iPhones, iPads, iPods and Apple TVs may be affected …...