Apple's most powerful desktop, the iMac Pro is available today starting at $6,299

The iMac Pro, which is the most powerful Mac ever made  designed around the needs of professionals in the areas of photography, graphics, music and video production, is now available.

iMac Pro takes the familiarity and simplicity of Apple's iconic iMac yet imbues it with next generation technologies including Xeon processors with up to 18-cores, generating 22 Teraflops of graphics performance mated to a 27-inch 5K Retina Display ideal for splicing and dicing 4K and 8K video, the creation of immersive AR and VR content plus significant speed increases for multi-core and multi-threading processes. iMac Pro is available in Canada starting at $6,299 and is available for purchase online.

“iMac Pro combines the incredible design of the iMac with the most powerful workstation architecture we’ve ever built,” said John Ternus, Apple’s vice president of Hardware Engineering.

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Disney to buy most of 20th Century Fox for $52 billion

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

As far as blockbuster deals go, you can't do better than this. In its efforts to consolidate a roster of properties in order to counter the surging popularity of Netflix, Disney will be buying most of 20th Century Fox for an unprecedented $52 billion dollars.

The Mouse House stands to gain a number of marquee properties from Rupert Murdoch's Fox that it can very well spin off into movies, toys and merchandising and even theme park rides. We're talking huge properties including cable channels FX and National Geographic as well as Fox's stakes in streaming service Hulu, which positions it nicely against Netflix. Fox will retain the mosre serious side of their portfolio of products including Fox News, Fox Sports and Fox Business Networks.

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Now this might be the coolest place to watch ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’

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You might watch Star Wars: The Last Jedi in IMAX or Atmos or whatever high-tech theatre you want to catch it in. But nothing beats this special screening of the movie. NASA has confirmed with io9 that The Last Jedi will be streaming on the International Space Station. The movie will be shown in English as all crew members can speak both English and Russian. Now, when this’ll happen, there isn’t a timetable yet but according to NASA’s Dan Hout, the ISS gets movies as digital files that they can watch on a laptop or a “standard projector” that’s aboard the space station.

Netflix to remake ‘She-Ra’, will come to service in 2018

Netflix teams up with DreamWorks Animation to bring a classic 1980s cartoon to life. The two will be rebooting She-Ra, which will be done under the eye of Eisner Award-winning author and executive producer Noelle Stevenson. The original series debuted in 1985 as an answer for demands of having a strong female hero in a fantasy series. It seems fitting with the way things are going in the world today that we’re getting a 21^st century treatment for the show. She-Ra is Princess Adora, the twin sister of Prince Adam of Eternia, a.k.a. the “defender of the universe” a.k.a. He-Man. To combat evil, He-Man wields the Sword of Power, while She-Ra makes use of the Sword of Protection. You can watch the original She-Ra on Netflix.

On top of remaking She-Ra, a number of other DreamWorks production will be making their debut in 2018, these include DreamWorks Trolls: The Beat Goes On!, The Boss Baby: Back in Business, Harvey Street Kids, The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants, Trollhunters (Part 3), and 3 Below from the Tales of Arcadia trilogy.