Year: 2024

Season four of acclaimed Apple TV+ series ‘Slow Horses’ premieres September 4th, 2024

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The fourth season of the acclaimed Apple TV+ series “Slow Horses” will premiere on September 4, 2024. The season follows the dysfunctional team of British intelligence agents in Slough House as they face personal secrets and unstable foundations. The series has received critical acclaim, including nine Emmy Award nominations for its third season.

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Apple TV+ earlier this month unveiled the trailer for season four of its globally celebrated, Emmy Award-nominated and BAFTA Award-winning series “Slow Horses,” starring Academy Award winner Gary Oldman. Adapted from “Spook Street,” the fourth novel in Mick Herron’s CWA Gold Dagger Award-winning spy series “Slough House,” the six-episode fourth season of “Slow Horses” will premiere globally on Wednesday, September 4, with the first episode, followed by one new episode weekly every Wednesday through October 9 on Apple TV+.

“Slow Horses” is a darkly humorous espionage drama that follows a dysfunctional team of British intelligence agents who serve in a dumping ground department of MI5 known un-affectionately as Slough House. Season four opens with a bombing that detonates personal secrets, rocking the already unstable foundations of Slough House.

The show continues to receive praise and accolades heading into its fourth season. “Slow Horses” recently scored nine Emmy Award nominations for its widely acclaimed third season, including Outstanding Drama Series and acting nominations for Oldman (Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series), Jack Lowden (Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series) and Jonathan Pryce (Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series). The series also earned nominations in the following categories: Outstanding Casting for a Drama Series, Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series, Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series, Outstanding Picture Editing for a Drama Series, and Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Original Dramatic Score).

Oldman stars as Jackson Lamb, the brilliant but misanthropic leader of the spies who end up in Slough House due to their career-ending mistakes and who frequently find themselves blundering around the smoke and mirrors of the espionage world. The returning ensemble cast also includes Academy Award nominee Kristin Scott Thomas, BAFTA Scotland Award winner Lowden, Saskia Reeves, Rosalind Eleazar, Christopher Chung, Aimee-Ffion Edwards, Kadiff Kirwan and Academy Award nominee Pryce. Screen Actors Guild Award winner Hugo Weaving, BAFTA Award winner Joanna Scanlan, Irish Film & Television Award winner Ruth Bradley, Tom Brooke and James Callis join “Slow Horses” in season four.

“Slow Horses” is produced for Apple TV+ by See-Saw Films and adapted for television by Will Smith (“Veep”). Jamie Laurenson, Hakan Kousetta, Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Jane Robertson, Julian Stevens, Douglas Urbanski, Gail Mutrux, Graham Yost and Smith serve as executive producers on the series. Season four is directed by Adam Randall.

Since its premiere in 2022, “Slow Horses” has won two BAFTA Television Awards while earning nine additional nominations. The 2024 wins were for Best Editing: Fiction (Sam Williams) and Best Sound: Fiction (Sound Team), and the nominations across 2023 and 2024 included Best Drama Series; Oldman’s first for Best Lead Actor; Lowden’s for Best Supporting Actor; Best Editing: Fiction (Zsófia Tálas); Best Editing: Fiction (Katie Weiland); Best Original Music: Fiction (Daniel Pemberton and Mick Jagger); Best Sound: Fiction (Martin Jensen, Joe Beal, Duncan Price, Craig Butters, Sarah Elias and Andrew Sissons); and Best Hair and Makeup Design (Lucy Sibbick). The series also landed the award for Best English-Language Drama Series at the 2022 C21 International Drama Awards.

Fans can catch up on the first three seasons of “Slow Horses,” which all hold a Certified Fresh score on Rotten Tomatoes, on Apple TV+. Additionally, Apple TV+ previously announced a fifth season set to be adapted from the fifth novel, “London Rules.”
Apple TV+ offers premium, compelling drama and comedy series, feature films, groundbreaking documentaries, and kids and family entertainment, and is available to watch across all your favorite screens. After its launch on November 1, 2019, Apple TV+ became the first all-original streaming service to launch around the world, and has premiered more original hits and received more award recognitions faster than any other streaming service in its debut. To date, Apple Original films, documentaries, and series have been honored with 501 wins and 2,286 award nominations and counting, including multi-Emmy Award-winning comedy “Ted Lasso” and Oscar Best Picture winner “CODA.”

Apple TV+ is available on the Apple TV app in over 100 countries and regions, on over 1 billion screens, including iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Apple Vision Pro, Mac, popular smart TVs from Samsung, LG, Sony, VIZIO, TCL and others, Roku and Amazon Fire TV devices, Chromecast with Google TV, PlayStation and Xbox gaming consoles, and at tv.apple.com, for $9.99 per month with a seven-day trial. For a limited time, customers who purchase and activate a new iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Mac or iPod touch can enjoy three months of Apple TV+ for free.

Via: Apple TV+

How to use X.com in Brazil

Now that the Government in Brazil has blocked access to social media company X.com, you maybe wondering how or even if you could ever use X again.  The good news is YES, if you know how to do it properly.

Persons would have to use what is known as a VPN (Virtual Private Network) that would be installed on the computer you wish to access X.com from.  After installing such software, the VPN will ask which server you wish to use.  Select the server that would be outside of the country of Brazil.

Where would I get this VPN?

There are several companies that sell VPN Software.  Just do a search on DuckDuckGo.com to find them.  :-)

But, before you do:

Read this article from Mashable.com first.

Opinion: Why does Apple continue to make the Mac mini, the least popular Mac?

As the rumor mill expects an updated Mac mini with M4 and M4 Pro chip is in the works, CIRP is out with its latest report on Apple’s most affordable personal computer. With Mac mini market share as low as <1% of total Mac sales, CIRP’s new data looks to answer the question, “Who buys a Mac mini?”

We’ve long wondered why Apple continues to make this thing. Apple introduced the Mac mini in 2005, before iPhone and iPad, when Apple competed hard against Windows/Intel PCs…

Almost twenty years later, Apple continues to produce and even upgrade Mac mini. The base model costs $599, much less than other Apple desktops and competitive with Windows-based PCs. Apple continues to promote it as an easy point of entry to the Apple operating system.

It remains a slow seller compared to other models, however, with under 1% of total Mac sales. What do we know about this tiny group of customers?

As it turns out, the very youngest and oldest buy Mac mini more… It seems Mac mini’s original purpose continues to work: offer a cheaper way into Apple computing, especially for younger buyers who can’t afford much, or older ones looking for an economical Mac desktop option.

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Apple’s digital driver’s licenses come to Hawaii

Apple is rolling out support for digital IDs in Apple Wallet to iPhone users in Hawaii. When Hawaiian driver’s license holders tap on the option in their Apple Wallet app, they might see an option to join a waitlist: “Thank you for your interest in adding your driver’s license to Wallet. Due to high volume, the service is currently busy at the time of this writing.

With the addition of Hawaii, Apple’s Ids in Wallet feature is now available or rolling out in seven states:

 Ohio
• Maryland
• Arizona
• Georgia
• Colorado
• California (coming soon)
• Hawaii (gradually rolling out)

Via: 9to5Mac.com

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