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“Our 2020 monitoring report includes the first COVID-19 lockdown period and it shows that changes in the way Kiwis worked, learned, and played led to significant growth in fixed broadband usage,” said Telecommunications commissioner Tristan Gilbertson. Mobile data usage also increased by 22% year-on-year to 3.3GB per month during that same period. The data usage trends were released by New Zealand’s Commerce Commission (ComCom) as part of its annual telecommunications monitoring report [PDF], which also unveiled total industry and connection metrics....

In June, Ming-Chi Kuo said that Apple would launch three new iPhones in 2020, two of which would feature 5G connectivity. In a followup to the same report today, Kuo now says that all three iPhone models will support fast 5G cellular data. The 2020 iPhones are expected to feature significant redesigns compared to the current lineup, coming in new 6.7-inch, 5.4-inch, and 6.1-inch screen sizes. Kuo said that the Intel modem business acquisition means Apple now has more resources to support 5G on more models sooner....

Apple today announced its latest Apple Pay promo, this time targeted towards getting you in the Halloween spirit. If you use Apple Pay, you can get free bonus credits through the TouchTunes jukebox app… Announced in an email to iPhone users, Apple says that if you use Apple Pay to make a purchase of $10 or more in the TouchTunes jukebox app, you’ll receive three free bonus credits for additional song picks....

Contrast has today updated its popular Launch Center Pro utility with all-new features for its Icon Composer feature. With today’s update, you can use Launch Center Pro to create custom Home screen icons that can be used with Shortcuts in iOS 13. To do this, open Launch Center Pro and tap the edit button in the upper-right corner. From there, you can create a new action and access the Icon Composer....

Kingdom Hearts 3’s final boss can be tricky. The Kingdom Hearts series has been building up to this moment for over 19 years. Kingdom Hearts 3 is the conclusion of the Xehanort saga and the moment fans have been waiting for. The series has always kept the bar high thematically when it came to the conclusions of its main numerical titles. In the original Kingdom Hearts, the final boss Ansem transformed into a giant monstrous ship while wielding a dual-ended blade that belonged to the child he possessed (these are things only the minds behind the Final Fantasy series can come up with)....

The Kingdom Of Heaven: Director’s Cut dramatically improved Ridley Scott’s 2005 historical epic – here’s why the new cut is better. Ridley Scott had long wanted to make an epic exploring the Crusades and Kingdom Of Heaven follows Balian (Orlando Bloom) as he travels with knight father to the kingdom of Jerusalem. Balian hopes to gain redemption for the spirit of his wife, who recently committed suicide, and for his own sins....

Ming-Chi Kuo had already predicted that the first ARM Mac will arrive as soon as the fourth quarter of this year. Unsurprisingly, Kuo says that even more Macs will transition to ARM in 2021 and beyond, including desktop machines, with Apple adopting an “aggressive processor-replacement strategy”. Presumably, Apple will start with a lower-end laptop form factor and slowly work its way up the line. Kuo says that replacing Intel with ARM CPUs of Apple’s own design will bring significant cost savings as well as the expected performance and battery life gains....

Earlier today, reliable Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo published a new investor note outlining Apple’s plans for AR and VR products over the next several. The note also included one tidbit about Apple’s long-term plans: augmented reality contact lenses potentially coming within the next decade. Kuo outlined two near-term predictions for Apple: an AR/VR headset in 2022 and AR glasses in 2025. Then, between 2030 and 2040, Kuo says Apple could release contact lenses with augmented reality features....

Keeping Up with the Kardashian star and makeup mogul Kylie Jenner and her rapper boyfriend Travis Scott are reportedly taking a break months after alleged infidelity after two years together. The two, who share a 19-month-old daughter - Stormi Webster - have confirmed their split. Kylie, who found fame with her family’s reality TV show Keeping Up with the Kardashians back when she was only 10-years-old, now as a 22-year-old woman has made quite the name for herself....

Developers use bView in apps like Feedly or Facebook to let you read an article within the app, without kicking you out to the browser. By creating a Beta version, developers can check out new features sooner optimize performance for a better experience with their Android apps. Until Android llipop, bView was baked into the operating system, was only updated when the whole OS was. That changes in llipop; bView can be updated directly from the ay Store....

Kingdom Hearts 3 brings back classic Disney characters through summons, now renamed “Links”. This guide will teach you how each one works. Summons have been a staple of the Kingdom Hearts series. Even back in the original Kingdom Hearts in 2002. Sora has used his abilities to call out for Disney and original characters from various worlds to assist him in combat. In previous entries, he’s summoned characters like Tinker Bell from Peter Pan, with her ability to bring Sora back to life after his health has reached zero, or Mushi from Mulan using his fiery breath to take down the Heartless....

Here’s L.A. Confidential’s Rollo Tomassi twist explained. Noir movies weren’t really in vogue in Hollywood during the 1990s, though the genre did offer up some selections. Chinatown sequel The Two Jakes arrived in 1990 but despite Jack Nicholson both starring and directing it failed to reach the acclaim of the original. Miller’s Crossing from the same year was much better received, with the Coen brothers gangster movie still considered one of their finest....

One year after their zombie comedy Shaun of the Dead achieved success, Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright made a memorable cameo in Land of the Dead. Edgar Wright is now a highly respected writer/director, having helmed films like Hot Fuzz, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, and Baby Driver. Simon Pegg has become a Hollywood staple and multi-threat, acting in, writing, and producing films and TV shows, and carving out roles in big franchises like Star Trek and Mission: Impossible....

Earlier this year, Google launched the Pixel 4a and, during the launch event, gave us a glimpse at Pixel 5. The company confirmed a fall launch and showed off side profile on Pixel 5. The upcoming Pixel 5 has been leaked extensively, and the latest leaked image comes with a unique Pixel 5s badging. Jose Ponton tweeted the leaked image, and it features a prototype Pixel device. The leaked device looks similar to the one that had been leaked before....

Today, Ming-Chi Kuo reiterated that he expects the next-generation of AirPods Pro to arrive next year and feature ‘innovative’ health tracking functionality. This lines up with an earlier report from Bloomberg. However, in the near term, Kuo is cutting his estimates for Apple’s headphones shipments, mainly because of increasing competition and lack of new AirPods models. However, the recent release of the Beats-branded Studio Buds will offset some of that decline....

Previously, we covered Apple’s announcement that it had won a large contract to supply iPads to LA Unified School District. The program will equip students across the nation’s second biggest school district with iPads that include the Pearson Common Core System of Courses delivered via a new app as part of the integrated solution. Additionally, each iPad will come preloaded with Apple’s iWork (Pages, Keynote, Numbers) and iLife (iMovie, iPhoto, GarageBand) suites in addition to a range of educational third-party apps....

“I think it’s going to be a lot bigger than that,” Ellison said before outlining his vision for the business. The ramped-up growth will rely on partnerships with key industries, he said – namely, logistics and financial services. Working in concert with banking and logistics, he said Oracle could add features like delivery tracking, invoicing, payments, and more directly into cloud ERP systems. Oracle, he said, will “soon bring an entirely new level of automation to B2B commerce,” creating new B2B procurement flows that resemble the ease of B2C digital transactions....

It seems that the latest iOS 15 update on iPhones is causing Spotify Background Playback issues like crashing, playback pause randomly, etc while the lock screen is turned off. Well, it’s quite rare for iOS users to experience such issues after having the official stable release from Apple. Spotify is one of the best-in-class music streaming services across all platforms and regions. The free plan of Spotify offers a lot of features while the premium plan includes ad-free music playback, downloading music for offline streaming, listen to music in groups, and more....

Sources say Keeping Up with the Kardashians star Kylie Jenner and Grammy-nominated rapper Travis Scott have been “very close” despite announcing their split last month. The beauty mogul was recently romantically linked to rapper Drake, but it appears Kylie is shutting those rumors down after she was recently spotted at Travis Scott’s Astroworld Festival in Houston, TX. The mother of one announced her split from the “Goosebumps” rapper last month after the couple dated for almost three years - which included the birth of their 1-year-old daughter Stormi Webster....

Yoda has a stick that’s better than bacon in a hilarious Star Wars: The Last Jedi Bad Lip Reading video. Star Wars is of course back in the fore of pop culture consciousness thanks to The Rise of Skywalker, the final movie in the saga that began with 1977’s A New Hope. Disney+ has also added to the Star Wars content surge with the streaming series The Mandalorian and its breakout character Baby Yoda....