The internet took to analyzing the clues one last time with some final guesses as to the identities of The Masked Singer’s three finalists. This week had a double reveal and the last clue packets before next week’s 2-hour finale. The competition this year has been fierce, and the semi-finals were no exception. Fans were on edge to see if their favorite would be the one revealed. In a surprise turn, the show revealed not one, but two of the remaining five anonymous contestants....

But now, as part of its initiative to utilize open banking solutions – using advanced data analytics and machine learning tools – Mastercard today announced the introduction of two Smart Payment Decisioning tools under its Finicity open banking division, that will help facilitate payment transactions more seamlessly and securely: Payment Success Indicator and Payment Routing Optimizer. “It’s all about consumer convenience, providing consumer choice and really listening to consumers’ desires to have access to different security types and ease of use – that’s at the center of these news tools,” says Silvana Hernandez, senior vice president of Digital Payments for Mastercard in an interview with ZDNet....

Insatiable is a Netflix series that is based on the 2014 New York Times article “The Pageant King of Alabama”. It stars Debby Ryan as Patty Bladell, a teenager who was bullied for being overweight, who goes on a liquid diet due to a freak accident and who then loses weight and enters beauty pageants, thanks to a disgraced civil lawyer and obsessed beauty pageant coach named Bob Armstrong. Bob and Patty are very entertaining characters, but there are many more on this show, too!...

The MCU’s Spider-Man 3 will reportedly start filming this summer, shooting in locations that include Iceland, which may hint at the movie’s villain. Tom Holland’s Peter Parker aka Spider-Man joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe in 2016 and has since become a key superhero of the franchise. Not only has he appeared in three team-up movies, he’s lead two solo films of his own - Spider-Man: Homecoming and Spider-Man: Far From Home....

The Information reports that plans to “effectively reduce the level of involvement of hardware partners that make the phones with ” that it will go directly to its partners to source components for its future devices, as it did with devices like the xel C. This means shutting out manufacturers like Samsung, Motorola, , Huawei, HTC, all of whom have worked with in the past on Nexus devices. In addition to sourcing its own hardware, wants to work more directly with carriers to compete directly with Apple’s ione, The Information says....

In an interview with CNBC today, the Mayo Clinic’s chair of cardiovascular medicine, Dr. Paul Friedman shared that they have seen promising results using AI to detect an often symptom-less heart defect. It’s called asymptomatic left ventricular dysfunction, which means a weak heart pump. In Mayo Clinic’s studies, they are using AI to read ECGs and finding impressive results identifying weak heart pumps and even predicting individuals who will be at risk in the future....

Robert Downey Jr. and Chris Evans were very explicit in naming Avengers: Endgame as their final movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and the film itself made that clear by giving both of their characters definitive endings. Gwyneth Paltrow also said she was done with MCU appearances, having been playing Pepper Potts in the franchise since it all began with 2008’s Iron Man, but her character never got an ending like theirs....

The Marvel Cinematic Universe may have been a phenomenal success - but it’s had a lot of problems with directors over the years. A quick look at the box office will indicate the sheer scale of Marvel’s success; the MCU has grossed over $22 billion in the global box office. Incredibly, Marvel added over $5 billion to that cumulative total just in 2019. Behind the scenes, though, Marvel has had more than its fair share of problems....

It’s hard to believe that the first Deadpool movie changed the game in just 2016–so hard to believe, someone at Marvel Comics completely forgot about it, too. Luckily, the error was caught in time before printing Marvel Comics #1000 (but not without evidence). With somebody making the false assumption that the first Deadpool movie was released all the way back in 2013, the mistaken history of Ryan Reynolds’s superhero career made some major waves for Marvel’s 8th years celebration....

Battles in the highly anticipated Marvel’s Avengers, like their movie counterparts, are intense and dangerous. And not even Thor, the god of thunder, is immune to lethal damage in them. You will definitely have to aid your heroes sooner or later when they encounter a particularly damaging attack. Now the fans of Avengers are a bit confused regarding the heal algorithm in the game. They are unable to understand what they need to do in order to heal their health....

Warning: SPOILERS for Weapon Plus: World War IV No matter how obscure or short-lived a superhero property is, fans of that property exist, and someone with the right to use them will eventually use them to create new stories. Case in point: Marvel has revived Brute Force, a team of intelligent animals wearing powered armor deployed to fight companies that threaten the environment. The zoological super-soldiers star in a backup story of the newly-released Weapon Plus: World War IV, written by Ryan Cady and illustrated by David Baldeon....

Surviving life back in the wild west is hard enough, but when you’re with a band of outlaws constantly on the run from the law or running towards the next big score, there’s not much time to think of anything else. So whether you’re like the outspoken, garbage person, Micah Bell, the amiable and corrosive Dutch Van Der Linde, or the talented Mr. Morgan, there’s bound to be some method of survival suitable to your preferences and skills....

Following this year’s Comic-Con and Disney’s D23 Expo, the full slate for the MCU’s Phase 4 has been announced. There have been plenty of delightful surprises, like the casting of Kit Harington as the Black Knight or the Disney+ series confirmed for Ms. Marvel, She-Hulk, and Moon Knight. In addition to all the new characters being added to the franchise, some that we thought had been forgotten by Marvel Studios have been confirmed to be returning… in some form or another....

Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story is one of the most acclaimed films of the year, as the Netflix exclusive takes on the gut-wrenching topic of divorce. In a year jam-packed with potential Oscar winners, from Joker to Once Upon a Time in Hollywood to Parasite and much more, it’s Netflix’s personal drama Marriage Story that has emerged as the frontrunner as well as the film most universally adored by critics. According to Metacritic, Baumbach’s film is the second most-mentioned title in critics’ top ten lists for 2019, right behind Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman....

Marvel Comics’ mystery SHIELD replacement has its eye on the Ravencroft Institute for the Criminally Insane. Founded by Silas Ravencroft, the Ravencroft Institute is basically Marvel’s equivalent of Arkham Asylum. It’s particularly well known for housing Carnage and was destroyed during the recent Absolute Carnage event. But there’s still a need for a place like Ravencroft, and as a result, it’s been rebuilt. During the process, a group of mixed heroes and villains - including Mr....

Apple first unveiled its Health application and associated HealthKit framework during WWDC earlier this year with a quote from Dr. John H. Noseworthy, CEO of the Mayo Clinic, a development partner for the iOS Health platform. Now a new report from the Star Tribune claims that the Mayo Clinic will have a role in revealing the next-generation health capabilities of an upcoming device at tomorrow’s event. It’s not yet clear whether this will happen during a look at iOS 8 or during the preview of Apple’s first wearable device and its health-tracking capabilities....

We’ve cautioned many times that Apple patents a huge number of inventions that will never see the light of day. Last year alone, the company was awarded 2,566 ‘utility’ patents–those covering actual technologies, rather than mere designs. The fact that Apple has patented something tells us absolutely nothing about its future product line. But that didn’t stop traders going crazy yesterday over a patent awarded for a GoPro-like action camera: GoPro shares fell as much as 15% as panicking traders dumped the stock....

Warning: SPOILERS for Savage Avengers #10 Marvel Comics’ most dangerous doctors - Doctor Strange and Doctor Doom - are teaming up to save the world. Doctor Doom may be Marvel’s premiere supervillain, but at heart he considers himself an altruist. Doom believes in one man, one vote - he is the man, and he gets the vote. The key to understanding Doom is to realize that he truly believes his own spin, that he is the only one truly qualified to rule the planet....

Popular audio company Master & Dynamic has today introduced a new Lightning to 3.5mm cable that it hopes will make life easier for those who want to use traditional headphones with their iPhone… Essentially, this new Lightning to 3.5mm cable allows users to use traditional wired headphones with their iPhone, without the need for an adapter. You can plug the cable directly into the headphones on one end and your iPhone on the other....

Dario Agger, the Minotaur who runs Roxxon, could be the real buyer of Stark Tower - setting him up to be a major villain in the MCU. The sale of Stark Tower was a major sub-plot in Spider-Man: Homecoming, and Marvel was careful to not avoid revealing just who’d bought the Avengers’ old HQ. That reticence looked deliberate, as though Marvel had purposefully left a loose end that they’d tie up at a later date....