Insteon, Lutron, iHome, Elgato and Ecobee have all just announced that their HomeKit products are now officially available and/or shipping to customers. The announcements come on the heels of our report that Apple partners planned this week to launch the first products using the company’s new Siri-controlled HomeKit home automation platform, first introduced alongside iOS 8 last year. Insteon’s product is a hub that comes with a new app that will let customers control connected Insteon products, as well as other HomeKit-enabled products from other companies, including lights, door locks, color-changing bulbs, garage door openers, thermostats, and more....

Audiences have been captivated by the story of The Trojan War for thousands of years. Adaptations and retellings of Homer’s epic poem The Iliad are certainly not exclusive to Hollywood in our modern age, but these newer versions of events are often filtered by very modern ideas. There are several inaccuracies in the 2004 film Troy, directed by Wolfgang Peterson and starring Brad Pitt and Eric Bana. Many of them seem purposely carried out to appeal to audiences in the 21stcentury....

The only problem? It’s not an easy process to get verified on TikTok. But if you’re up for the challenge, here’s everything you need to know about getting TikTok’s blue tick on your profile. What is the TikTok Verified Badge? The TikTok verification badge is a blue checkmark that tells the world your account is the real deal. Generally, it’s reserved for public figures like celebrities, personalities, brands, and content creators with a large audience....

If you’re starting a building project, you should consider taking out Owner-Builder insurance. There’s no better way to protect your home in case of fire and water damage, theft, vandalism, and any other accident that may occur. So, how much does Owner-Builder insurance cost, and what are the different types of this insurance? Let’s find out! How Much Does Owner-Builder Insurance Cost? The cost of Owner-Builder insurance is not predetermined, and it needs to be calculated on an individual basis....

Hellraiser’s Pinhead is seemingly eternal in the movies, but in Clive Barker’s 2015 novel The Scarlet Gospels, the iconic villain was killed off. Amusingly enough, it was never the plan for Pinhead to become such a pop culture presence, or for him to even be called that. In Clive Barker’s script for Hellraiser, Pinhead is referred to simply as Lead Cenobite, and in Barker’s original novella The Hellbound Heart, the character closest to Pinhead appears to possibly be gender fluid....

Stephen King made a fun cameo appearance in the 1997 TV miniseries remake of The Shining, which pays tribute to fellow King story Pet Sematary. King has penned over 60 full-length novels and over 200 short stories in his prolific career, but it’s safe to say that The Shining remains one of his most cherished works. The story of the haunted Overlook Hotel and the negative effects it has on the Torrance family is a legendary one, and some would hold it up as King’s best book....

Audiobooks from Google Head to the Books section of the play store and if you try it before March, you should see a banner like the one below offering 50% off your first audiobook purchase. Then you can browse through the list of available audiobooks like you would from any online store. You can search by author or title, browse categories, and listen to samples before buying a book. Tap the button to purchase the book and it will be added to your Audiobook Library and you can start listening right away....

In this guide, we will show you the steps to bypass FRP and unlock Google Accounts on Vivo V20 2021 devices. Recently in India, Vivo’s rumored Vivo V20 2021 has quietly gone official with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 730G processor coupled with 8GB of RAM. The device runs on Android 11 out of the box. The likes of Pattern, PIN, Password, Fingerprint Unlock, and FRP are all present there. However, it is with the last one that users are having a tough time....

We know Tinder is the notorious app that is the go-to platform for online dating. Tinder often suggests the users go for the premium subscription. The reason is to make your profile reach out widely over the app. This paid membership segregates into Tinder Gold and Tinder Plus. When you pay, you get perks in exchange for that. Tinder Gold subscription lets you know who is stalking your profile. Also, you can swipe with profiles all around the globe, rewind your action, and swipe right someone you swiped left by mistake....

The first time you use one of the apps in the Microsoft 365 suite and go to save a document, you’ll be asked for the default location. Microsoft’s recommendation is to save files to your OneDrive location. That’s fine, and for anyone who wants to save files in one central location (online), it’s a great suggestion. However, you might want to save all of your Microsoft 365 files to your local drive....

Dating apps are always quite tricky to use. Though these apps claim to have a lot of features, very few users implement those to their advantage. Mostly, there are users who just randomly install a dating app and just check profiles for time pass. However, some serious users are pretty good at connecting with the opposite gender. Bumble is one such app notable for making matches for online dating. Often the aforementioned serious Bumble user wonders if there is any feature to check active users on the forum....

Apple rates the Apple Watch has having an “18-hour all day battery life”. However, sometimes, you end up using Apple Watch more than anticipated. This means you need to start micromanaging battery life on Apple Watch. Follow along to learn how to check battery usage stats on Apple Watch.. How to check Apple Watch battery usage stats On iPhone, open the Watch app. Tap General > Usage. Scroll to the bottom....

The runtime for Neil Marshall’s Hellboy reboot, starring David Harbour as the demonic superhero, has been revealed to be exactly two hours. First introduced by creator Mike Mignola in 1993, the Dark Horse comics character Hellboy first made the leap to the big screen in 2004 with Guillermo Del Toro in the director’s chair and Ron Perlman portraying Hellboy himself. Del Toro and Perlman returned for a sequel, 2008’s Hellboy II: The Golden Army....

“An unidentified actor gained unauthorized access to our internal network, collected certain data belonging to CD Projekt capital group, and left a ransom note the content of which we release to the public. Although some devices in our network have been encrypted, our backups remain intact. We have already secured our IT infrastructure and begun restoring the data,” the company said in a statement it released. Figure 1: Official statement from CD Projekt Red on Twitter....

A report earlier this week indicated that Microsoft’s new Xbox app would come to iOS with support for streaming Xbox games to your iPhone. The app is now available in beta, and The Verge has a hands-on look at how it works. First and foremost, what’s important to note here is that the new Xbox app is not the same as Microsoft’s xCloud streaming game service. Here’s how the two compare:...

Apple today introduced Apple Watch Series 6 and also Apple Watch SE with a variety of new watch faces. However, the company did not specify whether these new themes would be available for previous Apple Watch models as well. We can now confirm that the new watch faces are also coming for Series 4 and Series 5 users with watchOS 7. There are seven new watch face styles in watchOS 7, including the Chronograph Pro introduced with the beta version earlier this year....

The iPhone accessory market is crowded with overpriced and heavy-duty cases. One company, however, has spent the last couple of years specifically going against the grain. This week’s sponsor, totallee, an iPhone accessory startup based in Southern California, has been shaking up the industry by producing thin and affordable iPhone cases. For years, iPhone accessory makers have charged people upwards of $40 for a phone case. Totallee decided to make high-quality cases more affordable by cutting out the middleman and selling directly to consumers....

The story of the brutal and black-clad Good Night returns in Deadpool #11, asking readers to wonder would have happened if Bruce Wayne’s parents weren’t killed by Joe Chill… but Wade Wilson, instead? The answer is still a version of Batman, but putting the so-called ‘hero’ in the part of the criminal. Now this is Deadpool we’re talking about, so few fans truly expect for Skottie Young’s first arc on the series to truly make a ‘villain’ out of its lead....

Evernote, Adobe, even Apple … just a few of the companies who have found their user data compromised by hackers in recent times. The possibility of a hacker being able to access one of your web accounts is worrying enough – but if you use the same email address and password for almost all the websites you use, the risk becomes huge. The first thing a hacker does when they get hold of a list of usernames and passwords is to use automated software to fire them at a whole bunch of popular websites....

Everyone loves taking pictures. And with iOS 7, Apple has attempted to improve the picture and video taking experience with a completely redesigned Camera app. First, let’s discuss the different ways to open up the Camera app, as it is the only app in iOS that has four different methods to launch it. Tap on the home screen. This should be very simple, as this was the original method to open up the camera....