According to BloombergMark Gurman, next year’s iPhone could usher in a change to Apple’s naming convention. It could call its biggest and most expensive device in 2023 the iPhone 15 Ultra instead of the iPhone 15 Pro Max. Gurman expects the iPhone 15, among other “bigger changes,” which he didn’t elaborate on at this time.
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Interestingly, Gurman thinks Apple may not hold another event this fall. He says the company will announce new Mac mini, MacBook Pro and iPad Pro models before the end of the year, but they will likely be iterative and arrive without the fanfare of the Apple event.
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James Earl Jones has said goodbye to Darth Vader. At 91, the actor recently told Disney that he was “looking to kill off this particular character.” That forced the company to wonder how Jones is replaced. The answer that Disney ultimately resolved, with the actor’s consent, involved an AI program. Respeecher can use archive recordings and a “proprietary AI algorithm” to create new dialogue with the voices of “performers from long ago”.
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Meanwhile, the third season of ‘The Witcher’ arrives next summer.
The Witcher: Origin of Blood, a prequel to Netflix’s live-action adaptation of Andrzej Sapkowski’s series of fantasy novels, will premiere on December 25. Set thousands of years before the story of the witcher Geralt and Ciri, origin of blood will focus on the moment in the Witcher universe when humans, elves, and monsters come to inhabit the series’ fantasy world. Actress Michelle Yeoh plays Scian, the female elf protagonist. Originally scheduled to run six episodes, origin of blood instead, it will be four episodes long.
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Night School Studio needs more time to make the sequel “really special”.
The 2016 sequel free oxen it won’t arrive until next year, the developer announced on Saturday. “To make Oxen Free II really special and we add more locations we are moving our release window to 2023,” the studio posted on Twitter. News of the delay came shortly after Netflix announced that subscribers could download the original game for free. Yes, more than six years after its debut on PC, Netflix is making free oxen freely available to those with a subscription to its streaming service.
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The 17-year-old may also have been responsible for an Uber cybersecurity incident.
UK police have arrested a suspected 17-year-old hacker, with reports connecting him to the Rockstar Games hack that led to a major . The individual may also have been involved in a break-in at Uber. The arrest is the result of an investigation involving the City of London Police, the UK’s National Cyber Crime Unit and the FBI. He was reportedly arrested earlier this year for hacking into Microsoft and NVIDIA.
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The holiday shopping season will start earlier than ever this year.
Amazon plans to hold a second sales event this fall, exclusively for Prime members. The second Prime Day of the year, dubbed the Prime Early Access Sale, will be October 11-12 in the US, UK, Canada and 12 other countries, following the same two-day format as the original event. That said, we don’t know what kind of discounts this event will include. However, there will probably be a Kindle or two.
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Square Enix’s gender-swapping RPG, NieR Automata was a cult hit in 2017. Now an anime adaptation is almost here. Noble NieR: Automata Version 1.1awill debut in January 2023. nier creator Yoko Taro shared the release window, adding that the anime’s story would differ from its source material.
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