German publication Frankfurter Allgemeine is reporting that Apple may be planning to use Austrian-based automotive contract manufacturer Magna to manufacture the Apple Car. The publication also says that Apple has created a ‘secret lab’ in Berlin where it has head-hunted a small cross-disciplinary team of 15-20 upcoming engineers from a number of German car companies. Magna specialises in making limited-edition models for major car manufacturers, having made the Mini Paceman and Clubman for BMW, as well as the BMW X3....

There are characters we love, there are characters we love to hate, and then there are characters we just hate. For most people, Rachel Berry tends to fall within the latter category. Yes, she was one of the greatest driving forces of Glee, but that doesn’t mean she was a great character. Characters don’t have to be likable to be interesting, but Rachel was none. More often than not, she got under the skin of the fans of the show with her spoiled attitude and entitled selfish tirades....

Gartner predicted last month that global smartphone sales would return to growth next year, and its latest numbers show that this was actually achieved sooner than expected, in Q3 this year. Apple’s growth in Q3 was of course constrained by those awaiting the launch of the iPhone X in Q4, limiting year-on-year sales growth to 5.7%. Gartner said that Apple also returned to growth in China, and saw strong sales in India and other emerging markets....

Easily switch between accounts If you use more than one account with G+, switching between accounts is much easier now with this latest update. All it takes is a simple tab on the left side logo to get an option to switch between accounts. Very hand if for instance for managing pages as well. Just hit Select Google+ page and you can access the pages managed by the respective account....

Last month, Google started letting new MVNO subscribers with iPhones set-up cellular service over eSIM. Google Fi is now starting to roll out eSIM support to existing members using iOS devices. Similar to the experience offered on Pixel devices, existing Fi subscribers with iPhones can replace their physical nano-SIM card with a downloadable eSIM. This capability is tied to version 2.5 of the Google Fi companion app, which rolled out yesterday....

A financial calculator is a total game-changer. It helps you save for college, vacation, retirement and even day-to-day budgeting. Finding the right one is the hard part. Researching online financial calculators will turn up a few expensive programs. But if you know where to look, there are also some great free calculators. Here are some of our favorite free online finance calculators brought to you by our sponsor, NetSuite....

GolfLogix has announced a major update to its iPhone and Apple Watch app that gives golfers an even better experience. GolfLogix now offers exact yardages, 3D green images, score tracking, and more for Apple Watch Series 3 and 4 users. The iOS and Apple Watch app was previously updated, with GolfLogix announcing the news today in a press release. Here are the specific enhancements with the latest update: GolfLogix has an average rating of 4....

Google today has started rolling out an update to its iOS app for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. The update, the first significant update to come to the app in some amount of time, bumps it to version 7.0 and includes a handful of notable new features. First off, you can now say “Ok Google” while on any webpage to get detailed answers about whatever topic your researching. For instance, you could say “Ok Google, where was he born?...

Google today has announced an update to its Google Play Books app on Android and iOS that brings with it a new feature called “Night Light.” The update will rollout soon to users via the App Store for free. Night Light is a feature that Google says will significantly improve the comfort of reading late at night in darker environments. Google says it has noticed that reading activity peaks between 8PM and 10PM local time, meaning that a lot of people are reading right before they go to bed and it’s not good for your eyes to stare at a bright white screen right before going to sleep....

Anticipation for writer/director Paul Feig’s impending reboot of the Ghostbusters franchise has many fans of the original films of the 1980s in a state of fevered anticipation and cautious excitement. Many viewers are undoubtedly curious as to how well Feig’s take on the classic comedy series will fare (as led by a cast of all-star comediennes), though by the looks of things the production is in good hands and should be something to watch out for when the movie hits theaters....

When it came to the Glee club, the New Directioners had a habit of dating each other. If Finn wasn’t with Rachel, he was with Quinn; if Quinn wasn’t with Finn, she was with Sam. If Sam wasn’t with Quinn, then he was with Mercedes or Rachel. No one could really keep up after season 3. However, do you ever think about what characters should have been put together? What if Mercedes had started dating Mike post-graduation?...

A new clip from Robot Chicken’s upcoming The Walking Dead special features the return of Glenn. As one might expect from a show set during the zombie apocalypse, TWD has never been shy about killing off characters, whether they be heroes or villains. Still, perhaps no character’s demise earned more upset reactions from fans than that of Glenn Rhee (Steven Yeun). A regular since the beginning, Glenn was in some ways the moral backbone of Rick’s group, especially during times where Rick himself seemed to be losing his way....

Warning: SPOILERS ahead for GLOW Season 2 - In GLOW season 2, the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling must wrestle their hearts out and put on an unforgettable show to keep from being canceled. This leads to a set up for season 3 that will spark excitement for longtime fans of the original GLOW from the 1980s. In short, the GLOW girls are headed to Las Vegas - the birthplace and home base of the real-life GLOW!...

Warner Bros. Pictures is reported to be actively doubling-down on its intellectual property (IP)-based movies, after having released a number of expensive standalone films that under-performed at the box office in 2015 (see Jupiter Ascending, Pan, In the Heart of the Sea). Among the franchises that the studio is banking on are the DC Extended Universe that kicked off with Man of Steel in 2013 and continued with Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice this year, as well as the rebooted Godzilla franchise that was started by director Gareth Edwards’ Godzilla (released in 2014)....

So if Apple is really doing this Gold/Champagne iPhone 5S, it could look a lot like the above from Japanese magazine ASCII.jp (via Nowhereelse/Sonny Dickson). Some additional photos from AppAdvice above. Also from Sonny/BestTechInfo, “Every color of the iPhone 5C”, below. Note there is no black there. He says that isn’t happening… Thinner font on the 5S matches iOS 7. “@9to5mac: Gold/Champagne iPhone 5S shell compared to white and black iPhones http://t....

Google updated its Google Maps app for iPhone and iPad today with a few new features as the app moves to version 2.3.4. Google says the updated app includes “Faster access to navigation,” which includes new overviews for traffic and routes. The updated app also includes a new Tips and Tricks section available from the side menu and support for new languages, including: Arabic and Hebrew. Google also notes that the new supported languages will offer voice guidance “where available....

These are Netgear’s latest addition to its Business Essentials family of products and combine high performance and professional-grade features with ease of use and a low price tag. Both the WAX202 and WAX206 leverage the latest WiFi 6 wireless standard, which means that you get better coverage and fewer dead spots, all of which translates into a better, faster internet experience. Also: Internet slow? Here are 7 possible reasons why and how to fix them Both the WAX202 and WAX206 have been designed with ease of setting up and configuring in mind, and feature an intuitive web-based interface that provides step-by-step instructions for system configuration....

The dashboard gives you all of your Google account data and history in one place. Anything from Google history of searches to Youtube history of videos watched, all of it is now easily available to you as a user. Regardless, even now that Google is willing to show you what they are collecting they still are not showing how they use the data that they harvest. Upon further investigation, Dashboard’s information is still very modest and doesn’t show you all of the information that Google really is storing....

Third-party keyboards have been supported on iOS since version 8 shipped last year, but even today they’re still often plagued by poor performance and other issues related to Apple’s implementation. Today, Google has released a Chrome for iOS update that disables support for third-party keyboards entirely because of such issues. It’s not clear which issues exactly were behind this decision, as the company only lists a very broad description of the problem: “Third-party keyboards have been disabled due to crashes caused by a bug in iOS 9....

Google’s companion app for Google Glass was updated this afternoon on iOS with a few minor changes. The update to MyGlass bumps the app to version 0.8.0 and brings it closer to the generally more capable and more powerful MyGlass Android app. With this evening’s update, MyGlass on iOS now allows users to sync photos from Glass to the app for easier viewing and sharing. This means that any photos you take with Glass will appear in the MyGlass app almost immediately....