Here’s your full-length ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ trailer

The next Star Wars film won’t hit theaters until December 15th, but there’s a new trailer that just aired during Monday Night Football. Star Wars: The Last Jedi brings Luke Skywalker back into the story — along with the final appearance of Carrie Fisher as Leia — and should answer some of the questions that have been eating at us ever since the credits rolled on The Force Awakens two years ago. If you’re trying to come into this flick clean but just can’t resist taking a peek at the trailer, don’t worry — director Rian Johnson feels your pain.

Tickets are already on sale from a number of providers (IMAX, Fandango, Cinemark, AMC, Alamo Drafthouse, Atom Tickets, MovieTickets.com), but check below for the trailer in case you need a little more convincing. Oh, and if you just need more time in the universe, don’t forget that EA just announced an extension to the Star Wars Battlefront II open beta.

I a legitimately torn. If you want to come in clean, absolutely avoid it.

But it’s gooooood….. https://t.co/Y29K5yz8i4

— Rian Johnson (@rianjohnson) October 8, 2017

FWIW: I love that there are folks who want to come into a movie clean, I think that’s awesome. Me, I’m a weak man. I watch ALL THE TRAILERS

— Rian Johnson (@rianjohnson) October 9, 2017

Check out the brand new poster for Star Wars: #TheLastJedi and watch the trailer tonight. pic.twitter.com/A4UGpYqoeW

— Star Wars (@starwars) October 10, 2017

Source: StarWars.com, Star Wars (YouTube)

Microsoft buys 15 years worth of energy from GE’s Irish wind farm

Microsoft announced that it has bought all the energy that will be produced for the next 15 years by GE’s 37-megawatt Tullahennel wind farm in Ireland. But this isn’t just a good marketing move: Both companies will take the opportunity to mine the powerplant’s data to understand how each turbine’s battery can better store energy and potentially redistribute it back into the grid. As Microsoft’s statement notes, it’s the first deployment of battery storage integrated with wind power in all of Europe.

We’re expanding our #renewableenergy purchases to Europe with new 37 MW wind deal in Ireland: https://t.co/SEyoQxm1ew

— Microsoft_Green (@Microsoft_Green) October 9, 2017

At least some of this energy will go to powering the data centers Microsoft has in Ireland, forming a sustainable loop. The purchase brings the company’s total global direct procurement in renewable energy projects to almost 600 megawatts, Microsoft noted in a statement. But at the end of the day, sustainable — and cheaper — energy is entirely in the interest of the big tech corporations which are always looking for ways to make their power-sucking data centers more affordable. And, of course, obtaining cleaner energy sources might keep your company from getting slammed by Greenpeace.

Via: TechCrunch

Source: Microsoft

‘Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare’ has a Halloween bash of its own

Halloween is always a fun time for gamers. This year, Overwatch fans get their second annual seasonal update in a day or so, while Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare players can jump into a month-long event dubbed “Willard Wyler’s Halloween Scream.”

There are four weeks of creepy events scheduled, including free supply drops, themed loot, the “Carnage” multiplayer map with double XP and character skins to add to your fun. Starting October 13th, you can drop into themed boss battles, with new baddies added the following two weeks. Plus, there’s a weird new mode called “gesture warfare” so you can crush your opponents with hand movements.

Players will see new themed loot and giveaways each week of October, starting on the 9th. Boss battles will include Zombies in Spaceland, Rave in the Redwoods, Shaolin Shuffle, Attack of the Radioactive Thing and “The Beast from Beyond” The event, named after the Paul Reubens-voiced antagonist from Infinite Warfare‘s zombies mode, will run through November 1st. To get all the goodness, you’ll have to log into multiplayer and visit the Quartermaster. The supply drops will appear during the week while the cosmetic items will show up only on weekends.

Via: Windows Central

Source: Activision

A ‘new’ version of iTunes brings back apps and ringtones

Still need a way to manage your applications and ringtones in addition to your music, movies and other media on your iPhone? Well, there’s an app for that. Following iTunes’ massive overhaul (version 12.7 if you’re keeping track at home), the company has since released a version of the software that will let you continue to download and install apps to your handset via a desktop computer.

According to reddit though, it isn’t as cut and dried as installing the new version (12.6.3; yes, it’s a little confusing) and downloading apps. “Your iTunes library will still not be compatible after installing iTunes 12.6.3 on top of iTunes 12.7. You either need to revert to a backed up copy of your previous library, or you need to open iTunes while holding down the Option key (or Shift key on a Windows PC) on your keyboard, then choose ‘create a new library.’”

This new-old version of the software should work with any official ringtones you’ve snagged, audiobooks and iTunes U downloads. Now that this is out of the way, maybe Apple can get back to fully debugging iOS 11.

Via: 9to5Mac

Source: Reddit

SpiderMAV drone shoots ‘webs’ at walls to perch in place

Consumer drones have more or less conquered hovering, but are there easier ways to stay in place? Researchers from Imperial College London have a possible answer: The SpiderMAV, a UAV that shoots ropes that magnetically cling to surfaces to anchor itself in place.

Imperial College London’s Aerial Robotics Lab presented the SpiderMAV at the Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) conference in Vancouver last week. The UAV concept is a DJI Matrice 100 drone modified with two anchor-firing systems: A “perching’ emitter on top that uses compressed gas to shoot magnet-threads upward that reel in until taut, spider-style, and a “stabilizing” pod on the bottom that fires three anchors outward to keep the SpiderMAV in place.

The SpiderMAV isn’t fully operational: Once its anchors are deployed, it doesn’t have mechanisms to detach them. But the drone concept illustrates supplemental mechanisms that could help future drones perch in place to save power or stabilize for jostle-free camera shots, for example. But given the pace of drone tech (which is still struggling to implement ‘follow me’ features), it might be awhile before we see commercial UAVs do more than hover and fly.

Via: TechCrunch

Source: IEEE Spectrum

Microsoft’s Cortana finds answers inside your Skype chats

You can already count on a dash of AI assistance in some mobile messaging apps, whether it’s Google Assistant in Allo or the smart replies you find across iOS. But what if Skype is your chat app of choice? You’re covered: as of today, Microsoft is rolling out its Cortana assistant to the Skype apps for Android and iOS. You can talk directly to Cortana if you want to ask about directions, flights or the weather, but it promises to be the biggest help inside your normal conversations.

Skype now has smart replies that pop up based on what your contacts are saying as well as event-related activity. There are the usual canned responses, but Cortana will also recommend setting reminders, suggest restaurant options and provide movie reviews. The additions won’t exactly add a personal touch to your chats, but they could be a big help if you’re struggling to plan a night out or just don’t want to switch apps to get some helpful info.

Source: Skype Blog

What’s on TV: ‘Mr. Robot,’ ‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’ and ‘Lore’

This week Mr. Robot returns for its third season on USA, however on streaming we’re keeping an eye out for podcast-turned-TV show Lore, which will debuts its first full season Friday on Amazon Prime. Dynasty is back on TV for some reason, and Engadget favorite Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is also returning for a third season this week. Movie fans will want to snag Edward Wright’s Baby Driver on 4K Blu-ray, while gamers can dive into the latest LOTR game, Middle-earth: Shadow of War. Look after the break to check out each day’s highlights, including trailers and let us know what you think (or what we missed).

Blu-ray & Games & Streaming

• War for the Planet of the Apes (VOD)
• Baby Driver (4K)
• Baseketball
• Bowfinger
• A Fish Called Wanda
• Othello (Criterion)
• Kick-Ass (4K)
• Planes, Trains & Automobiles (30th Anniversary Edition)
• Peanuts: Holiday Collection (4K)
• Middle-earth: Shadow of War (PS4, Xbox One, PC)
• The Evil Within 2 (Xbox One, PS4)
• Alteric (PS4)
• Always Sometimes Monsters (PS4)
• The Invisible Hours (PSVR)
• Radial-G: Racing Revolved (PSVR)
• Raid: World War II (PS4, Xbox One)
• Raiden V: Director’s Cut (PS4)
• Revolve (PSVR)

Monday

• Vikings/Bears, ESPN, 8:15 PM
• Lucifer, Fox, 8 PM
• The Big Bang Theory, CBS, 8 PM
• The Voice, NBC, 8 PM
• 9jkl, CBS, 8:30 PM
• Dancing with the Stars, ABC, 8 PM
• WWE Raw, USA, 8 PM
• Supergirl (season premiere), CW, 8 PM
• 3 Hikers, Starz, 9 PM
• Valor (series premiere), CW, 9 PM
• The Gifted, Fox, 9 PM
• Kevin Can Wait, CBS, 9 PM
• Me, Myself & I, CBS, 9:30 PM
• Scorpion, CBS, 10 PM
• The Brave, NBC, 10 PM
• The Good Doctor, ABC, 10 PM

Tuesday

• The Mindy Project, Hulu, 3 AM
• Christina P: Mother Inferior, Netflix, 3 AM
• The Flash (season premiere), CW, 8 PM
• 2017 Hip-Hop Awards, BET, 8 PM
• Finding Your Roots, PBS, 8 PM
• The Voice, NBC, 8 PM
• Lethal Weapon, Fox, 8 PM
• NCIS, CBS, 8 PM
• WWE Smackdown, USA, 8 PM
• The Middle, ABC, 8 PM
• Fresh Off the Boat, ABC, 8:30 PM
• DC’s Legends of Tomorrow (season premiere), CW, 9 PM
• Black-ish, ABC, 9 PM
• Bull, CBS, 9 PM
• The Mick, Fox, 9 PM
• This is Us, NBC, 9 PM
• Inside the NFL, Showtime, 9 PM
• Fantomworks, Velocity, 9 PM
• The Mayor, ABC, 9:30 PM
• Brooklyn Nine-nine, Fox, 9:30 PM
• Tales (season premiere), BET, 10 PM
• Undercover High (series premiere), A&E, 10 PM
• Cyberwar, Viceland, 10 PM
• Kevin (Probably) Saves the World, ABC, 10 PM
• Law & Order: True Crime, NBC, 10 PM
• NCIS: NO, CBS, 10 PM
• American Horror Story, FX, 10 PM
• The Challenge, MTV, 10 PM
• Tosh.0, Comedy Central, 10 PM
• The Therapist (season finale), Viceland, 10:30 PM
• 90s House, MTV, 11 PM

Wednesday

• Chance (season premiere), Hulu, 3 AM
• The Blacklist, NBC, 8 PM
• Empire, Fox, 8 PM
• The Goldbergs, ABC, 8 PM
• Survivor, CBS, 8 PM
• Lucha Underground, El Rey, 8 PM
• Riverdale (season premiere), CW, 8 PM
• Speechless, ABC, 8:30 PM
• Dynasty (series premiere), CW, 9 PM
• Modern Family, ABC, 9 PM
• Law & Order: SVU, NBC, 9 PM
• Seal Team, CBS, 9 PM
• Star, Fox, 9 PM
• American Housewife, ABC, 9:30 PM
• Mr. Robot (season premiere), USA, 10 PM
• Shannara Chronicles (season premiere), Spike TV, 10 PM
• Criminal Minds, CBS, 10 PM
• Chicago PD, NBC, 10 PM
• Designated Survivor, ABC, 10 PM
• Liar, Sundance, 10 PM
• Are You the One, MTV, 10 PM
• Channel Zero, Syfy, 10 PM
• You’re the Worst, FXX, 10 PM
• Garage Squad, Velocity, 10 PM
• South Park, Comedy Central, 10 PM
• Broad City, Comedy Central, 10:30 PM
• Rosehaven, Sundance, 11 PM

Thursday

• Bomb Scared, Netflix, 3 AM
• I Love You America (series premiere), Hulu, 3 AM
• Grey’s Anatomy, ABC, 8 PM
• Superstore, NBC, 8 PM
• Gotham, Fox, 8 PM
• Supernatural (season premiere), CW, 8 PM
• Bears/Packers, NFL Network, 8:30 PM
• The Good Place, NBC, 8:30 PM
• Arrow (season premiere), CW, 9 PM
• Scandal, ABC, 9 PM
• Van Helsing, Syfy, 9 PM
• The Orville, Fox, 9 PM
• Will & Grace, NBC, 9 PM
• Great News, NBC, 9:30 PM
• Chicago Fire, NBC, 10 PM
• Better Things, FX, 10 PM
• The Mist, Spike TV, 10 PM
• Bong Appetit, Viceland, 10:30 PM
• The Rundown with Robin Thede, BET, 11 PM
• The Timeline, NFL Network, 11 PM
• Desus & Mero, Viceland, 11 PM

Friday

• Mindhunter (S1), Netflix, 3 AM
• Lore (S1), Amazon Prime, 3 AM
• Super Monsters (S1), Netflix, 3 AM
• The Babysitter, Netflix, 3 AM
• El Especial de Alex Fernandez, Netflix, 3 AM
• Sigmund and the Sea Monsters, Amazon Prime, 3 AM
• Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (season premiere), CW, 8 PM
• Macgyver, CBS, 8 PM
• Once Upon a Time, ABC, 8 PM
• Tackle My Ride, NFL Network, 8 PM
• Jane the Virgin (season premiere), CW, 9 PM
• Marvel’s Inhumans, ABC, 9 PM
• Active Shooter, Showtime, 9 PM
• Z Nation, Syfy, 9 PM
• The Exorcist, Fox, 9 PM
• A Football Life: Sam Mills, NFL Network, 9 PM
• Tough Guys, Showtime, 9 PM
• Mike Judge Presents: Tales from the Tour Bus, Cinemax, 10 PM
• Superstition, Syfy, 10 PM
• Room 104 (season finale), HBO, 11:30 PM
• Comedy Central Stand-Up Presents, Comedy Central, 12 AM

Saturday

• Premier Boxing Champions, Fox, 8 PM
• Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, BBC America, 9 PM
• Halt and Catch Fire, AMC, 9 PM
• Tokyo Project, HBO, 10 PM
• Saturday Night Live: Kumail Nanjiani/P!nk, NBC, 11:30 PM

Sunday

• The Toy Box, ABC, 7 PM
• Outlander, Starz, 8 PM
• Shark Tank, ABC, 8 PM
• The Simpsons, Fox, 8 PM
• Giants/Broncos, NBC 8:20 PM
• Star Trek: Discovery, CBS All Access, 8:30 PM
• Ghosted, Fox, 8:30 PM
• Wisdom of the Crowd, CBS, 8 PM
• Family Guy, Fox, 9 PM
• Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown, CNN, 9 PM
• Poldark, PBS, 9 PM
• Ray Donovan, Showtime, 9 PM
• The Deuce, HBO, 9 PM
• Fear the Walking Dead (season finale), AMC, 9 PM
• The Last Man on Earth, Fox, 9:30 PM
• NCIS: LA, CBS, 9 PM
• Good Behavior (season premiere), TNT, 10 PM
• Madam Secretary, CBS, 10 PM
• Curb Your Enthusiasm, HBO, 10 PM
• Ten Days in the Valley, ABC, 10 PM
• This is Life with Lisa Ling, CNN, 10 PM
• Unsung Hollywood, TV One, 10 PM
• Survivor’s Remorse (season finale), Starz, 10 PM
• Vice Principals, HBO, 10:30 PM
• Talking Dead: Fear Edition (season finale), AMC, 11 PM
• Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, HBO, 11:05 PM

[All times listed are in ET]

Netflix’s ‘Wheelman’ film is a claustrophobic driving thriller

‘Man and his car’ films occasionally become genre classics, like Bullitt, Drive and Baby Driver, but even farther-ranging flicks like Death Proof and Speed use vehicles as brilliant settings for novel drama. Judging by the trailer that just dropped, Netflix’s original film Wheelman fits this niche like (excuse me) a glove: A driver’s next job sends him down a chaotic path that puts his loved ones in danger, threatened by a manipulative person on the other end of the phone.

The trailer shows the driver, played by Frank Grillo (The Grey, Purge: Anarchy & Election Year, Captain America: Winter Soldier), desperately trying to figure out who’s pulling the strings of the deadly game he’s stuck in. Most of the footage is from claustrophobic angles within the car, effectively framing the tension between the driver and the voice on the other end of the call. The film is a tight, breathless thriller that makes the most of its modest budget, according to Slashfilm’s Jacob Hall. It certainly looks filled with the grimy lethality that’s coming in Netflix’s eventual Punisher series, but you can watch Wheelman long before when it lands on October 20th.

Via: SlashFilm

Source: ‘Wheelman’ trailer (YouTube)

Twitter Working on ‘Save for Later’ Feature for Bookmarking Tweets

Twitter is developing a new Save for Later feature that will allow users to bookmark tweets for later reference, a Twitter product manager announced today.

On Twitter, product manager Jesar Shah said Twitter began working on a Save for Later feature during a recent Hack Week. An accompanying video demoed the new bookmarking option, which offers an “Add to Bookmarks” tool for preserving tweets.

For Hack Week @Twitter we started developing #SaveForLater. Here’s the early prototype that we put together in a week, which is likely to change. pic.twitter.com/c5LekvVF3l

— jesar 💭 (@jesarshah) October 9, 2017

Shah says Twitter is aiming to build the bookmarking option with input from Twitter users, with Twitter planning to ask users for feedback as the company designs and experiments with the feature. Twitter users can offer feedback and comments using the hashtag #SaveForLater.

We want to build this WITH you all! So we need your help. We’ll be Tweeting to ask for feedback, and share our thinking as we compare designs, experiment, do research, and more.

— jesar 💭 (@jesarshah) October 9, 2017

At the current time, Twitter has no official feature for keeping tweets to revisit. Twitter users use liking, retweeting, and self DMing as tweet saving methods right now, but a bookmarking option will make saving tweets for later reference much easier.

More information on the feature will be coming soon.
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Apple Pay in New Zealand to Expand to BNZ Soon

BNZ, aka Bank of New Zealand, plans to begin offering Apple Pay in the near future, reports New Zealand site Stuff. When Apple Pay support is implemented, BNZ customers will be able to use the Apple Pay service with their BNZ Advantage Visa credit cards and BNZ Flexi Debit Visa cards.

BNZ director of products and technology David Bullock said BNZ is planning to offer support for Apple Pay following feedback from customers. “More and more retailers are accepting it,” he told Stuff. “There’s a fairly high acceptance rate in New Zealand.

Apple Pay launched in New Zealand in October of 2016 in partnership with ANZ, and at the current time, Apple Pay is only available to ANZ customers.

Apple Pay has been slow to roll out in New Zealand because of the wide adoption of eftpos, which already offers New Zealanders a contactless payment solution that carries no fees for retailers.

BNZ does not have a set date for the release of Apple Pay, but expects the feature to become available later in the month of October.

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