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It’s not just you: Facebook’s website and apps are down. We’re seeing messages flowing in on social media and the Facebook web app is currently failing to load. Posts, notifications, and groups are not loading in the app. We’ll keep you updated as we learn more. Reports on Twitter suggest that this outage is affecting the Facebook app and website primarily at this time. #FacebookDown is trending on Twitter. Instagram and other Facebook properties also appear to be experiencing scattered outages for some....

If James Gunn gets his way, then the Guardians of the Galaxy might be getting their own Christmas holiday special. The franchise already features a raccoon and sentient tree, while Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 will introduce a living planet into the mix. But can the wacky, cosmic franchise ever make the infamous Star Wars Holiday Special palatable to genre and sci-fi fans? There have been a lot of Star Wars spinoffs that you’ve likely never seen, but the much-maligned TV variety show from 1978 is the most notorious among fans....

Netflix gets into the holiday spirit with Klaus, an animated tale that depicts the origin of Santa. The plot begins with a postman, played by Jason Schwartzman, who meets a carpenter named Klaus while stationed at the Arctic Circle. Schwartzman shared what kind of collaboration he and director Sergio Pablos had when it came to the development of his character, as well as how a selfish motivation led to such a selfless tradition....

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU-eAzNp5Hw] Update (3/24 10:45am): For a limited time, Loopy HD has been discounted to $3.99 (50% off). Jimmy Fallon’s MacBook may have mysteriously lost its illuminated Apple logo but it seems his love for Apple products hasn’t wavered. Last night he teamed up with one of America’s biggest rock legends, Billy Joel, to create a doo-wop song using an iPad Air connected to two Bluetooth microphones. The duo utilized the iOS app, Loopy, to create a continuous background loop of their singing as a foundation for the song....

UPDATE: Lauren Dern humorously responded to Goldblum’s tweet. - Original Jurassic Park stars Sam Neill and Laura Dern reunited in a photo recently, and their co-star Jeff Goldblum was quick to comment. The three actors starred together in the Steven Spielberg film, and they have continued to make appearances sporadically throughout the franchise, from the film’s first sequel to the most recent Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. In the original Jurassic Park, Neill and Dern starred as paleontologist Allen Grant and paleobotanist Ellie Sattler, respectively....

The latest data from Kantar Worldpanel shows that iOS market share is just outgrowing Android across the five largest markets in Europe, growing 1.5% year-on-year against Android’s 1.4%, but dropping 3.3% in the USA. iOS market share now stands at 32.6% in the USA and 15.4% across the top 5 European markets … It’s worth repeating our usual disclaimer here: Apple has never chased absolute market share–which includes a huge range of low-end Android handsets–instead focusing only on the smaller market for premium devices....

Apple’s next-generation iPhone is about a month away from reality and carriers around the globe have begun taking steps towards the device’s launch. We heard a few weeks ago that the fifth-generation iPhone has appeared in carrier databases at couple of high-profile European iPhone carriers, and today we are hearing this once again: from Korea. We cannot absolutely confirm that the new device is in the KT (Korea Telecom) system, but it sounds and looks likely....

AT&T is notifying its customers this evening of a settlement for “Internet Taxes” charged to its loyal customers… If you paid taxes, fees or surcharges (“Internet Taxes”) to AT&T Mobility LLC (“AT&T Mobility”) on internet access through certain services including iPhone data plans, Blackberry data plans, other smart phone data plans, laptop connect cards and pay-per-use data services on bills issued from November 1, 2005 up to and including September 7, 2010, you might be eligible to receive benefits from a class action settlement....

Yesterday we saw case manufacturer Olixar and retailer MobileFun start accepting pre-orders for an iPhone SE 2 screen protector that shows off an iPhone X-style bezel-less display. Today the first case has also been listed for the yet to be announced iPhone with new renders. As we reported yesterday, we’re treating this screen protector with skepticism as it would be unlikely for Apple to add a flagship feature like a bezel-less display and Face ID to its budget iPhone....

We all know that iPhoto and Aperture for Mac are on borrowed time: Apple has already announced that the Mac app is going away in favor of a new iCloud-infused Photos app next year and iOS 8 doesn’t even allow users to launch the old iPhoto app. However, that’s not stopping Apple from giving iPhoto for Mac and Aperture for Mac final farewells. The Mac App Store was updated this evening with updates for iPhoto and Aperture that “addresses compatibility with OS X Yosemite and stability improvements....

Iron Harvest is one of the classic real-time strategy games that offer both the single & multiplayer mode. It’s a newly released game on September 1, 2020, developed by KING Art and published by Deep Silver. Although the game is quite new and the reviews are mostly positive on Steam (Windows users), some of the PC users are still encountering a couple of common issues with the game like performance issues, crashes, stuttering, etc....

Should parents be concerned about their children watching His Dark Materials? Based on Philip Pullman’s trilogy of fantasy-themed novels, a series adaptation will premiere on both BBC One and HBO in November 2019. The show is rated TV-14 in the United States due to its content and themes, and while the books have been widely read by all ages, some aspects of His Dark Materials may be upsetting for younger children....

At this point, it’s hard not to feel for fans of Green Lantern. Sure, not every comic book superhero gets a big budget movie. And yes, seeing playful nods on The CW’s Arrow is better than nothing. But as the footage and marketing for Justice League continues to spread, the rumors and whispers of a new Green Lantern are hard to enjoy knowing that, officially, the emerald hero is nowhere to be found....

There are lots of people in the film and television world that can be considered A-listers at this point, but clearly Jack Nicholson is one of the last of the true Hollywood superstars. Nicholson’s superstardom has been well earned; his acting abilities are truly unparalleled and his body of work is the kind of resume that every actor and actress on earth could look at and be green with envy....

James Bond always completes his mission and gets his target but in the pre-Daniel Craig era, there was one villain 007 failed to kill: Irma Bunt (Ilse Steppat) in 1969’s On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. The 25th Bond film, No Time To Die, will conclude Daniel Craig’s incredibly successful run as James Bond - although, in 2015’s Spectre, Craig’s secret agent also failed to kill his greatest enemy, Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Christoph Waltz)....

A Higher Loyalty, the memoir/exposé written by former FBI director James Comey, is now available for pre-order on iPhone and iPad, ahead of its official publication date tomorrow. In the book –subtitled Truth, lies and leadership – Comey likens President Trump to a ‘mob boss’ who is ‘untethered to the truth’ and morally unfit to be president. But he also doesn’t hold back about Apple’s decision not to help the FBI in the San Bernardino shooting, describing it as ‘appalling’ …...

At age 72, Patterson shows no signs of slowing down, and to date, the acclaimed series boasts twenty-nine instalments, with the most recent novel having arrived in 2019. As with most long-running or wildly popular book series, film adaptations are often a likely prospect. The mystery/thriller genre seems to work particularly well in this regard, with the likes of Jason Bourne and even James Bond having got their starts as well-received novels....

Jessica Jones season 2 promises to be another dark and heavy outing for the superhero detective, according to her one of her key costars. Filming on Jessica Jones season 2 continues, although no release date has been set just yet. Netflix is amassing a growing slate of Marvel shows, and, after two seasons of Daredevil, plus single seasons of Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist, the four main Marvel/Netfrlix superheroes will come together on screen for The Defenders, set to arrive on the streaming service this summer....

Sir John Falstaff. Friend and mentor of Hal, the man would eventually become King Henry V. The famed character created by William Shakespeare. In the film, The King, the filmmakers take a a different approach to the classic character. Screen Rant got to speak to actor/writer Joel Edgerton, who plays Falstaff in the new Netflix film. We talk about the genesis of the project and why they wanted to write this new take on Falstaff....

Attention for the “Snyder Cut” of Justice League continues to grow exponentially, with Zack Snyder releasing a new image of Darkseid from his version of the superhero ensemble. After Snyder’s departure from the movie due to a family tragedy, the extensive reshoots implemented on Justice League diverged the film massively from what he had intended. In recent weeks, the grassroots campaign for the release of Snyder’s original cut of the movie has seen a veritable explosion in public attention....