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Apple is gearing up to launch two larger iPhone sizes this fall: a 4.7-inch version and a 5.5-inch model. While the 4.7-inch version has been leaked extensively with a thinner body design, the 5.5-inch model only saw its first significant leak in the form of a dummy model last week. Today, Sonny Dickson has exclusively shared with us a pair of photos claimed to be showing the LCD display component for that larger iPhone with 5....

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The Harry Potter series spent years building up to one huge fight. In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, we finally got to see it as the good guys took on the Death Eaters and the rest of Voldemort’s followers. This war was dubbed the Battle of Hogwarts. Everyone recalls the huge moments and the fact that Harry Potter and his friends came out on top. As with any battle like this, there were plenty of casualties on both sides....

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is the longest book in the series. Because of this, it’s no wonder that there are many details from the book that weren’t able to make it into the movie. This is one of the Harry Potter movies where there are a lot of obvious differences between the book and the film. While the movie does a good job at focusing on the most important plot points and characters, there are still some things that won’t make a lot of sense for people who have only seen the movies....

While he was born Tom Riddle, the most powerful Dark Wizard in the history of magic is better known by the name of Lord Voldemort, although he was so feared that he was mostly known as He Who Must Not Be Named. Trained at Hogwarts under the watchful eye of Albus Dumbledore, he learned much about the Dark Arts and soon set off on his own to build his own army of followers....

Long before the Fantastic Beasts, there was Harry Potter, the franchise where young children enchanted and dreaming of the prospect of becoming witches or wizards attended a castle of a school. The final installment of the series entitled Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, was released a staggering nine years ago and brought JK Rowling’s epic story to a satisfying and action-packed conclusion. The movie does a brilliant job of bringing the book to life but, despite that, Warner Bros were unable to cram in every little detail and individual....

“We created Thync to help people better access the power of their mind. We believe that when you conquer your mind, you can conquer your day.” The company has been founded by engineering and neuroscience experts from ASU, Stanford, Harvard, and MIT but is yet to unveil their first device to sport the innovative technology. Khosla partner Samir Kaul said: “We share Thync’s belief that unlocking the power of the mind will be a great advancement and a frontier that consumers should have access to....

Heart Analyzer is a powerful app that taps into the heart rate data tracked by your Apple Watch. A new update to Heart Analyzer today brings a revamped interface, Dark Mode support, new data options, and much more. Following a massive update to the Apple Watch app last November, today’s update to Heart Analyzer focuses on revamping the iPhone version of the app. The main new feature here is a completely revamped Dashboard, which presents itself every time you open the Heart Analyzer application....

Apple released iOS 15.1 and iPadOS 15.1 today with support for the new SharePlay feature that allows users to interact with content together over FaceTime. Apple offers their own apps for SharePlay like TV and Fitness, but there are a plethora of third-party apps with SharePlay support available to download right now. LookUp The latest version of the LookUp dictionary app includes a cool new SharePlay feature that lets you do learning sessions together over FaceTime....

After launching updated MacBook Air and MacBook Pro notebooks yesterday, Apple also pared down its lineup by discontinuing the 12-inch MacBook and previous-generation MacBook Air. Whether you’re looking to pick up a new Mac for school, work, or general use, read on for a detailed look at how the new MacBook lineup compares. Apple’s shakeup of the MacBook line came as the company kicked off its Back to School promotion for education customers (free Beats headphones in addition to the standard education discount pricing)....

For those who don’t know me very well, I am an unapologetic Nintendo fanboy. Almost everything they produce is a masterpiece to me. I was even a fan of the poorly-received Wii U and Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild might be the best video game I’ve ever played. So what’s my take on Nintendo’s newly released Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp for iOS so far? It’s only been out for a few hours (one day sooner than expected) and it’s already great although there are a few key downsides to expect....

In the wizarding world of Harry Potter, the Dark Mark is the dreadful tattoo bestowed upon Voldemort’s closest soldiers, as well as the mark that appears in the sky as a summons. The serpent entering the mouth of a skull is considered one of the most terrifying sights a witch or wizard could ever see… but is it really? The Dark Mark doesn’t make sense in a lot of ways, from who is allowed to wear it to who isn’t, what it’s used for and what it even looks like....

Many Harry Potter fans will likely confess to you that they have, at least once or twice, made an imaginary school schedule as if they were going to Hogwarts. They go through the process of selecting professors mentioned in the book and sort out which of these Hogwarts professors are worth listening to. In fact, many of these fans likely judge their excitement for a “class” based on the professor’s strength....

There are a great many villains in the Harry Potter series. When you think of antagonists Harry must face, your mind most likely drifts to Dolores Umbridge, Bellatrix Lestrange, or Lord Voldemort. But we can’t forget about the Dursleys. Despite being Muggles, they were responsible for a great deal of pain and misfortune in Harry’s life before he was eventually allowed to go to Hogwarts. All three Dudleys, Petunia, Vernon, and Dudley executed their unique brand of misery on Harry but perhaps the worst of all was Vernon....

With the release of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, it is clear that author and screenwriter J.K. Rowling is at risk of becoming the George Lucas of the Harry Potter franchise. Set fifty years before the events of the Harry Potter saga, The Crimes of Grindelwald depicts a troubled wizarding society, where the power of sinister revolutionary Gellert Grindelwald is growing. The foregrounding of this somewhat fateful affair in Fantastic Beasts mimics the core story of Lucas’s Star Wars prequel trilogy....

The Harry Potter movie actors Matthew Lewis and Tom Felton continue to joke in-character on social media, even after all these years. The pair co-starred in the Boy Wizard’s adventures as his fellow Griffyndor Neville Longbottom - who loves plants, but is timid and often bullied by others - and Draco Malfoy, a Slytherin student and Harry’s nemesis. Of course, it’s been almost a decade since the last time Lewis and Felton brought their Wizarding World characters to life in 2011’s Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2....

A detailed performance test of a prototype Core i7 Haswell chip by tom’s Hardware suggests that it will offer a 7 percent to 13 percent performance gain over equivalent Ivy Bridge CPUs—a similar gain to that experienced with the move from Sandy Bridge to Ivy Bridge. The integrated HD 4600 GPU experiences an impressive speed boost of almost 30 percent, but the website noted that this still won’t allow for comfortable gaming on HD monitors, so gamers will need discrete graphics chips....

There was apparent good news for iPhone owners last week when it turned out that you could get unlimited free storage of full-res HEIC photo backups in Google Photos. This was causing some consternation because the same wasn’t true of Google’s own Pixel 4 smartphones. However, Google now says this is a bug, so don’t expect it to last for long… The unexpected bonus for iPhone owners arose because the HEIC format is a lot more efficient than JPEG, so if Google attempted to compress the photos, they would actually end up larger than the originals....