What’s on TV: ‘The Walking Dead: A New Frontier,’ ‘Sense8’
The third season of Telltale Games’ The Walking Dead series is here, with the first two epsidoes available on PC, Xbox One and PS4. While most TV shows drop off for a holiday break, we’ll enjoy bowl games including the mighty Ohio Bobcats vs. Troy in the Dollar General Bowl. If that’s not your speed, then just open up Netflix. It’s new miniseries The OA is perfect binge material for a long weekend, plus this weekend it’s dropping a Sense8 holiday special, and a new time travel series, Travelers. On TV, BBC America airs a Doctor Who Christmas special episode Sunday night. 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
- The Magnificent Seven (4K)
- Sully (4K)
- 31
- Storks (4K) (3D)
- F1 2016 Official Review
- ESPN 30 for 30 Season 2
- Oasis: Supersonic
- The Walking Dead: A New Frontier: Episode 1 & 2 (PS4, PC, Xbox One)
- Lethal VR (PS4)
- Wild Guns Reloaded (PS4)
Tuesday
- Gabriel Iglesias: I’m Sorry for What I Said When I Was Hungry, Netflix, 3AM
- Ten Percent (S1), Netflix, 3AM
- The Break (S1), Netflix, 3AM
- WWE Smackdown, USA, 8PM
- Brooklyn Nine-nine, Fox, 8PM
- WWE Smackdown, USA, 8PM
- Terry Crews Saves Christmas, CW, 8PM
- Michael Buble Sings and Swings, NBC, 8PM
- New Girl, Fox, 8:30PM
- Tony Bennett Celebrates 90: The Best is Yet to Come, NBC, 9PM
- Good Behavior, TNT, 9PM
- Teen Wolf, MTV, 9PM
- Inside the NFL, Showtime 9PM
- Scream Queens (season finale), Fox, 9PM
- Shooter, USA, 10PM
- Aftermath (season finale), Syfy, 10PM
- Cyberwar (season finale), Viceland, 10:30PM
- Too Legit, MTV, 11PM
- Desus & Mero, Viceland, 11PM
Wednesday
- The Timeline (season finale), NFL Network, 8PM
- Lip Sync Battle Holiday Special, Spike TV, 8PM
- Terry Crews Saves Christmas, CW, 8PM
- Star, Fox, 9PM
- Poinsettia Bowl: BYU vs. Wyoming, ESPN, 9PM
- NFL Turning Point, NBC Sports Network, 9PM
- Frequency, CW, 9PM
- Vikings, History, 9PM
- Blood & Fury: America’s Civil War, American History Channel, 10PM
- Game Changers with Robin Roberts, ABC, 10PM
- Incorporated, Syfy, 10PM
- Epic Fails of 2016, MTV, 11PM
- Happy Holiday’s Love, MTV, MTV, 11:30PM
- Desus & Mero, Viceland, 11PM
Thursday
- The Grand Tour, Amazon Prime, 7PM
- Potato Bowl: Idaho vs. Colorado State, ESPN, 7PM
- Giants/Eagles football, NBC, 8:25PM
- Nightwatch, A&E, 9PM
- The Great American Baking Show, ABC, 9PM
- Alone, History, 9PM
- Falling Water (season finale), USA, 10PM
- Pure Genius, CBS, 10PM
- Desus & Mero, Viceland, 11PM
- This is Not Happening (season finale), Comedy Central, 12AM
Friday
- Sense8 Christmas Special, Netflix, 3AM
- Travelers (S1), Netflix, 3AM
- Trollhunters (S1), Netflix, 3AM
- Dollar General Bowl: Ohio vs. Troy, ESPN, 7PM
- A Home for the Holidays, CBS, 8PM
- Terry Crews Saves Christmas (season finale), CW, 8PM
Saturday
- Bengals/Texans football, NFL Network, 8:25PM
- Hawaii Bowl: Hawaii vs. Middle Tennessee State, ESPN, 8PM
Sunday
- Broncos/Chiefs Sunday Night Football, NBC, 8:20PM
- 60 Minutes, CBS, 7PM
- The Librarians, TNT, 8PM
- Doctor Who: The Return of Doctor Mysterio, BBC America, 9PM
‘Emoji Movie’ teaser sends an eggplant text to 2017
Listen: Nobody had high hopes for a movie based on language-abbreviating conversational images. In fact, it’s probably against their broad-strokes ambiguity to give them life and personality in a film. But The Emoji Movie is coming in August 2017 and we all have to deal with that by watching the film’s first trailer and queuing up our collective sighs.
Discover the secret 🌎 inside your📱. Only on your 📲. Watch the new #EmojiMovie 😄🎬 teaser trailer now! (best viewed on your phone) pic.twitter.com/8C062Br969
— The Emoji Movie (@EmojiMovie) December 20, 2016
Like any youthspeak, emojis have been the subject of countless thinkpieces dissecting the era’s new symbolic patois, from how-did-we-get-here to the dilemma of consciously diversifying emoji skin tone to our inevitable societal conversion into thinking exclusively in emoji. I’ve frontloaded these existential excursions out of the assumption that The Emoji Movie won’t go near any of them. But maybe, as you rewatch the trailer for the third time scraping meaning from less-than-a-minute of talking blobs, you’ll scare up some hope, any hope, that 2017 will rebound so hard that this film pulls a Lego Movie and shocks us all.
Source: The Emoji Movie (Twitter)
Apple Releases Firmware Update 7.7.8 and 7.6.8 for AirPort Base Stations With Back to My Mac Bug Fix
Apple today released new firmware updates for its Wi-Fi base stations, including the AirPort Express, AirPort Extreme, and AirPort Time Capsule. The 7.7.8 update is available for 802.11ac base stations, while the 7.6.8 update is available for 802.11n base stations.
According to Apple’s release notes, the update fixes an issue that caused AirPort base stations from appearing in the AirPort Utility when Back to My Mac is enabled. The firmware updates can be installed using the AirPort Utility app for iOS or OS X.
Apple has reportedly stopped development on its AirPort wireless routers, with no new AirPort products planned for release, but the company will continue to offer bug fixes and updates in the near future.
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First LG UltraFine 5K Display Orders Shipping Out Soon
The first U.S. customers who placed orders for an UltraFine 5K Display from LG will begin receiving their shipments over the next few days, with Apple starting to send out pre-shipment notifications this afternoon.
MacRumors reader Jesse, who placed an order for an UltraFine 5K Display order when orders were briefly accepted in late November, has got a notice that his order will ship out soon with an expected delivery date of December 28 to December 29.
Apple first took LG 5K Display orders on November 28 with six to eight week shipping estimates, but supplies sold out quickly and no more were available for order. Those orders placed in November will be arriving to customers ahead of schedule and before the end of the year.
The display became available for sale again just this morning, with initial shipment estimates of three to five business days. Shipping estimates quickly slipped to two to four weeks, but the first customers who ordered new displays this morning may also get them in late December.
The LG 5K UltraFine Display was created in partnership with Apple for the new MacBook Pro. The display connects to the MacBook Pro over Thunderbolt 3 and include features like built-in USB-C ports for charging, stereo speakers, P3 wide color gamut support, a camera, and a microphone.
Apple has extended its discounted pricing for the LG 5K Display until March, making it available for $974 instead of $1,299.
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LG UltraFine 5K Display Works at Lower Resolution With Older Macs Using Adapter
There has been some confusion as to whether the LG UltraFine 5K Display works with older Macs, but a new support document published today answers that question and makes it clear exactly which Macs can be used with the display and at what resolution.
At its full 5120 x 2880 resolution, the LG 5K display can only be used with Apple’s latest 2016 MacBooks, which have Thunderbolt 3 support. That includes the 15-inch MacBook Pro, the 13-inch MacBook Pro with Touch Bar, and the 13-inch MacBook Pro with no Touch Bar.
Using an Apple Thunderbolt 3 to Thunderbolt 2 Adapter and a Thunderbolt cable, the LG 5K Display can be used at 4K resolution with older iMac, MacBook Pro, Mac Pro, MacBook Air, and Mac mini models. A full list is below:
3840 x 2160 at 60Hz
– Mac Pro (Late 2013)
– MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014) and later
– MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2014) and later
– iMac (Retina, 27-inch, Late 2014) and later
– iMac (Retina, 21.5-inch, Late 2015)
– iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2015)
– MacBook Air (13-inch, Early 2015)
– MacBook Air (11-inch, Early 2015)
3200 x 1800 at 60Hz
– Mac mini (Late 2014)
For the Mac mini and the Mac Pro, Apple recommends using the LG UltraFine 5K display as a second monitor as it might not turn on until the machines are booted into macOS. Features like Boot Picker and macOS Recovery may not work on the display when used with those machines.
Power delivery features are only available for Macs equipped with Thunderbolt 3, which means only the three newest MacBook Pro models will be able to charge through the display. Power is not delivered when connecting the display to a Mac using the Thunderbolt 3 to Thunderbolt 2 adapter, so on older Macs, a separate power supply will need to be used.
Apple started selling the LG 5K UltraFine Display this morning. While the first orders placed offered shipping estimates of three to five days, supplies were quickly exhausted. Orders placed now will ship out in two to four weeks.
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Facebook Live Audio elbows in on radio and podcasting
Facebook spent much of 2016 tricking out its Live video broadcasting feature, most recently opening it up to footage shot with 360-degree cameras. But it seems they’ve been busy bringing another streaming option to professional organizations and amateur users alike. Today, the social titan is launching Live Audio for a select group of publishers, with plans to open it up to everyone next year.
The sound-only service could bring content like podcasts into News Feeds just like Live does for video. As Facebook’s announcement post points out, this could be useful for folks in low-connectivity areas to broadcast more data-efficient media. Should their signal get low, hosts could theoretically switch to audio for a seamless stream.
Facebook envisions that Live Audio will be used as a semi-professional stage for esteemed events like book readings and interviews with its Live service’s viewer interaction bolted-in. Currently, the first organizations cleared to use it are: BBC World Service, talk radio broadcaster Leading Britain’s Conversation (LBC), book publisher Harper Collins and authors Adam Grant and Britt Bennett.
Currently, Android users can keep listening to a Live Audio broadcast while using other services, while iOS users must stay within Facebook’s app to continue hearing it. The social platform plans to open the service up to other publishers and users next year, though it didn’t specify the rate it would be expanding broadcasting privileges.
Via: TechCrunch
Source: Facebook
Apple Stops Signing iOS 10.1 and iOS 10.1.1
Now that iOS 10.2 has been available for over a week, Apple has stopped signing earlier versions of iOS 10, including iOS 10.1 and iOS 10.1.1.
Customers who have upgraded to iOS 10.2 will no longer be able to downgrade their iOS devices to iOS 10.1.1, the previous version of iOS.
Apple routinely stops signing older versions of software updates after new releases come out to encourage customers to stay up to date. iOS 10.2 is the only version of iOS 10 that can be installed on iOS devices, though developers and public beta testers can download iOS 10.2.1, a future update that is currently in a beta testing phase.
Released to the public on December 12, iOS 10.2 introduced major new features like the dedicated TV app, new emoji, and a range of bug fixes. Apple has also stopped signing tvOS 10.0.1 for the fourth-generation Apple TV.
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Grab a Nextbit Robin for just $145 — yes, really
This is easily the best deal we’ve seen on the Nextbit Robin.
After hovering around in the mid-$200 range for a while, and regularly receiving small price drops, you can now pick up the exceptionally solid Nextbit Robin for just $145 on Amazon. It’s available in both Mint and Midnight color options, in the standard configuration of 32GB of storage with the addition of 100GB of cloud storage.
Looking at the Amazon page you’ll also see that the Robin is available for shipping directly from Amazon, meaning if you have Prime you can get it in time for Christmas if you order soon. So not only is this a great deal for the phone, it’s also available as a last-minute gift (even if it’s just for yourself).
We’re not sure how long the reduced price will last, but you can check it out at the link below.
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Nextbit Robin
- Nextbit Robin review
- Nextbit Robin unboxing
- Nextbit Robin specs
- Join the Nextbit Robin forums
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Porsche Design Huawei Mate 9: The $1500 phone unboxing
The Porsche Design Huawei Mate 9 is a smaller, curvier version of the new Huawei flagship. It’s based on the Mate 9 Pro, which is sold in Huawei’s home market of China, and is supercharged with a whopping 6GB of RAM and 256GB of storage to augment the already high-end specs of the regular Mate 9. Oh, and it’ll sell for €1395 in Europe when it launches in January — that’s around $1500 at the current exchange rate.
So what do you get for such a hefty investment? Check out our unboxing video to find out, and be sure to hit up our Mate 9 written review for more on the new Huawei flagship and its insanely pricey sibling!
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- Our Huawei Mate 9 written review
- Huawei Mate 9 video review
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Google Store offering free expedited shipping for Christmas orders
Get those Google gifts under the tree in time for Christmas morning!
Hey all you last-minute shoppers! The Google Store is offering free expedited shipping on all orders, ensuring everything will arrive ahead of Christmas Day. But you’ll have to act fast, as the delivery window closes December 21 at 3 p.m. ET, though you won’t want to cut it too close to that deadline.
This is great news if you’ve got some people left to hit on your list, as Google’s got some of the hottest tech available this holiday season. As always, a Google Chromecast makes a great gift for just about anyone, with the newer Chromecast Ultra an ideal gift for someone with a new 4K TV. If you’re buying for someone with a Google Pixel, get a Daydream View and give the gift of VR. Get your loved one a Google Home and make them the envy of everyone on the block. Or be the greatest Santa of all time and put a Google Pixel under the tree.
Google’s shipping page says you can get expedited shipping before Christmas for order placed before December 21 at 3 p.m. ET, but also includes a note about orders about shipments placed after 11am local time counting from the day after you place your order.
The Google Store is packed with a ton of great stuff, and it’s your last chance to get your order order in before Christmas, so don’t be left out in the cold!
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