Update: The app has now been updated to add HomeKit support. If you’ve been waiting for a HomeKit-compatible air purifier, the good news is that there’s now one on the way. The Vocolinc PureFlow Air Purifier is already available for pre-order in some European and Scandinavian countries, with shipping shown as 11-12 days. You can’t yet order them in the US, but the company says that US distributors have already placed orders …...

Although I do generally have a rule that smart home tech has to be HomeKit-compatible, there have been a few exceptions here and there. HomeKit-compatible window blinds were one of these, because the only option available at the time was just crazy money for the number we needed. We did still get iPhone-controlled blinds, with HomeKit support promised down the line. Alexa support arrived first, which gave me an interesting insight into how the two ecosystems compared – but then HomeKit support finally landed for Hunter Douglas blinds …...

Matthias Hochgatterer has been developing the best HomeKit app for power users since before Apple ever shipped their own Home app. The latest version of the third-party HomeKit management app called Home+ 5 brings a redesign and new ways to customize and organize complex smart home configurations. Home+ for iPhone and iPad has a brand-new look that will be familiar to HomeKit users coming from the built-in Home app. Here’s Hochgatterer’s approach to design in version 5....

If you have been playing Lost Ark for a while now, completing all the missions, and everything, you must be wondering when would you reach the max level 60 in the Lost Ark game. Well, Lost Ark is a pretty big game and it might take you a very long time to finish it. It reaches up to a max level of 60, although that doesn’t sound massive, the twist and turns in the game eventually make things much slower as you level up....

Alan B. McElroy’s Wrong Turn franchise has seen a great amount of success for movies that have mostly gone straight to DVD, and that’s partially because it subverts many of the stale slasher tropes that have bogged the sub-genre down in the past. Starting in 2003 with Wrong Turn, the only theatrical release, the franchise adopted a style that blended slasher movies with exploitation films in a unique way, employing many of the traditional formulas that work for both....

If you’re looking to give your Home app a personalized makeover, HomePaper is a new app designed to help. Apple includes a handful of rather boring default wallpapers in the Home app, but HomePaper lets you take things to the next level by combining your own pictures with custom gradients. For those unfamiliar, in the Home app, you can choose wallpapers for the “Favorites” tab as well as the pages for each individual room....

Walt Disney Pictures is reportedly developing a reboot of the Rick Moranis family classic Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, with Josh Gad possibly to star. Released in 1989, the original Honey, I Shrunk the Kids starred Ghostbusters’ Moranis as a mad scientist working on a top secret shrinking machine who accidentally zaps his own kids, reducing them to miniature size. The movie’s family-oriented fantasy action proved a hit with audiences, as the film went on to gross $130 million domestically (or $296 million adjusted for inflation)....

How I Met Your Mother was a hit series, and one that most fans are still highly obsessed with. While some fans may understandably not been pleased with the way the series ended, we’ve still dedicated so much time to learn as much as possible about the cast and characters. Lily Aldrin Erikson is one of the leading characters of the show. She’s married to Marshall, Ted’s best friend, and she lends a vital perspective to the show....

SEE: Hiring Kit: Python developer (TechRepublic Premium) Still, I could happily control my Hue lights from Cortana, though support for my Netatmo thermostats and Ikea Tradfri lights had to be through maker tools like IFTTT and workflow automation with webhook APIs like Power Automate or Zapier. But then Microsoft refocused Cortana on its commercial customers and announced that its Invoke Cortana integrations were due to be turned off early in 2021....

The 29-year-old cult hit only grows in popularity with each passing year, and with it being one of the best films based on the Salem witch trials, there’s a lot to unravel. Hocus Pocus features a lot of great talent, but with the movie being about three witches, the mortal characters don’t get as much attention as they should. Dani and Allison are two of the best characters in terms of likability, but they are also two of the most well-rounded characters in the movie with bold personalities....

How did the same actor get cast as Charles Manson in both Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and Mindhunter? Australian performer Damon Herriman portrays the infamous American criminal in Quentin Tarantino’s latest film and in season 2 of Netflix’s acclaimed crime series about the FBI’s relationship with serial killers. Previously, Herriman was best known as Dewey Crowe from the FX series Justified. In 1968, Manson pursued a music career in Los Angeles....

Almost everyone in the Arrowverse’s Earth Prime is unaware that Crisis On Infinite Earths remade the Multiverse, but DC’s Legends of Tomorrow unexpectedly got around this conundrum thanks to one of history’s greatest villains: Grigori Rasputin (Michael Eklund). The Arrowverse’s weirdest superhero show kicked off its post-Crisis season 5 with a zany caper in 1919 Imperial Russia where Rasputin, who was resurrected from Hell, tried to kill the Romanovs and take over the country....

I have been eyeing the OneLink Safe and Sound for a few months now, and I decided to pull the trigger a few weeks ago and see what it’s like in day to day use. My house is seven years old, so I’ll be looking to replace all of the smoke detectors in the next few years, so if I wanted to go for a smart home route, I wanted to have time to spread out the purchases....

HomeRun’s goal is to make it as easy as possible to launch HomeKit scenes from your Apple Watch using complications. For instance, earlier this year, the app added support for creating HomeKit complications that change based on the time of day. Today’s update to HomeRun 1.3 adds support for the full set of Simpaticon icons, which is a popular collection of iOS style icons. There is also support for the full set of SF Symbols, as well as support for emoji on the grid layout....

[Warning: Minor spoilers for Alien: Covenant ahead] - The Alien franchise has been going strong since 1979. Four movies followed the ordeal of Ellen Ripley as she fought numerous xenomorphs, moved forward in time, lost virtually everyone she cared about, and was even cloned after her death. Following that were two spinoff films – Alien vs. Predator and its sequel – where both franchises combined and brought the fight to Earth....

Last January I went from being a burned out 32-year-old who recently and randomly quit her social media specialist job at a major brand, to a woman empowered to change the social media culture of an entire company as a team of one. The result of this shift was a positive transformation of both the company and myself. I decided to give social media another chance and see where my experience, passion, and skill set would take me after two years working for a well-oiled social media machine that leveraged a big budget and plenty of resources....

TikTok regularly takes down user videos for violating their community guidelines and sometimes even removes accounts! Thankfully there is an option to appeal that. Given that the app deals with millions of videos each day, you must be wondering how long the appeal process takes and if there’s any way to make this process faster? To get to that, we must first understand the kinds of videos taken down and the appeal process....

Along with the announcement of upgraded IP68 dust and water protection on the iPhone XS and XS Max, Phil Schiller described a variety of other liquids that Apple tested the device in during the keynote. Now, iFixit is having some fun with those claims with some iPhone beer testing! Earlier today, we got the detailed teardown from iFixit on the iPhone XS and XS Max. Now, the repair experts are having some light-hearted fun with by testing some of Apple’s claims to the limit....

The laws also introduced a cyber-incident reporting regime for critical infrastructure assets. Those laws were originally drafted to be wider in scope, with Home Affairs proposing other obligations for organisations within critical infrastructure sectors. Provisions seeking to enshrine those obligations were eventually excluded from the Critical Infrastructure Bill, however, after the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS) recommended for these “less urgent” aspects to be legislated in another Bill down the road....

The HomeKit-compatible air-purifier from Vocolinc will go on sale in the US from June 15. The Vocolinc PureFlow Air Purifier had previously been put up for pre-order in Europe. The company says it’s also compatible with Alexa and Google Assistant … HomeKit air-purifier Vocolinc made the announcement in a Facebook post There’s still no word yet on US pricing, but European pricing suggests it will sell for around $500. Yes, it works with Apple HomeKit, Alexa, and the Google Assistant, meaning you can control and know its status using voice commands....