Ryan Serhant foresees a major luxury housing market shift in New York Citys near future. The star of Netflixs Owning Manhattan told Bloomberg that he believes the city will be the pied--terre capital of the United States by 2030largely because of hybrid and remote work.In the interview, Serhant acknowledged that many employers have mandated that their workforce return to the office, but many people are not commuting in five days a week. Our strongest markets aren't urban markets, he said. Urban markets are coming back, but theyre becoming pied--terre markets.Related StoriesApart from New York City, Serhant added, Everywhere else, people are moving. Theyre willing to commute if they don't have to be in the city on, let's say, Mondays or Fridays.Serhant went on to reveal that his New York City-based luxury real estate brokerage just opened an office in Georgia and plans to expand west. He didnt expect to grow his company, which he started in 2020, so quickly. Theres strong demand for property everywhere as people diversify assets and youre seeing interest rates come down, he said.The thought of New York City becoming continually filled with secondary residences didnt sit well with folks who saw the interview on TikTok. So hes excited about an entire city of empty apartments instead of actual New Yorkers inhabiting them, one person commented.Another wrote, Bro sells real estate to the richest individuals in the world. There will always be demand from them to acquire more assets. His opinion completely disregards those living paycheck to paycheck.Others already thought New York City was the pied--terre capital of the U.S. and are seeing that growth themselves. Hes right, one person wrote. Most people arent in the city full time anymore.Beyond the prediction itself, many people were simply not pleased with Serhants use of the term pied--terre because they werent aware of the definition or thought saying second home would suffice.Follow House Beautiful on Instagram and TikTok.

Apple just updated its base iPad this month after a very long, 2+ year wait. But curiously, the new iPad got a worse chip than we expected and missed out on Apple Intelligence. A new chart by CIRP, however, seems to explain why.Apples iPad lineup has been getting a lot of love from the company over the past year.We got a major new M4 iPad Pro with a gorgeous display, excellent Magic Keyboard, and moreThe new iPad mini got an A17 Pro chip to enable Apple Intelligence, and supports Apple Pencil ProThere have been not one, but two iPad Air updates that importantly added a new 13-inch sizeTheres one model that hasnt been so lucky, however.The base iPad got an underwhelming spec bump after a longer-than-usual wait. And it also gained the honor of being the first product in an AI-supported platform that doesnt actually support Apple Intelligence.So what gives?CIRPs new report on iPad model sales over the years seems to have a great answer.Sales trends made it necessary to hold back the base iPadTake a look at this CIRP chart showing the past five years of iPad sales:Looking at the left side of the chart, its pretty clear why Apple needed to hold back its latest iPad.The base iPad has been steadily taking more of the marketshare away from Apples other models.The cheap iPad went from:15% of iPad sales in 2021to 21% in 202230% in 2023all the way up to 38% last yearWhile all sales are good sales, Apple would undoubtedly prefer customers splurge for more expensive models.But it seems that in recent years, an increasing number of shoppers felt that was unnecessary. The base iPad was good enough for them.So Apple decided to do something about that. First, it waited longer than usual to give the base iPad an update. And when that update did arrive, it changed very little and most notably held the iPad back from supporting Apple Intelligence.And now, I totally understand why.What are your takeaways from this iPad sales chart? Let us know in the comments.Add 9to5Mac to your Google News feed. FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. More.Youre reading 9to5Mac experts who break news about Apple and its surrounding ecosystem, day after day. Be sure to check out our homepage for all the latest news, and follow 9to5Mac on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn to stay in the loop. Dont know where to start? Check out our exclusive stories, reviews, how-tos, and subscribe to our YouTube channel

Apple recently launched a new campaign to promote AirPods 4 with a short film starring Pedro Pascal. Now the company has also shared a behind-the-scenes video with director Spike Jonze, who was behind the movie Someday.Behind-the-scenes video of AirPods 4 short filmWith the short film, Apple shows the benefits of the Active Noise Cancellation feature in AirPods 4 in a fun and creative way. In the behind-the-scenes video, Pascal and Jonze detail that the movie is about someone on a breakup and how music combined with the ANC feature on AirPods can transform the world around you.Its illustrating this idea that when you put on your AirPods and you put on Active Noise Cancellation, your whole world transforms with the music that you choose to put on to the mood that youre in, said producer Jorie Feldman.Costume designer Kym Barret, who also worked on the clip, details how they made two-tone costumes to match the scenery change. Interesting part of show is that you see people in a full costume of winter or summer and a particular color and then, in the middle of the scene you get in camera, an illusion.This is not the first time that Apple has worked with Spike Jonze on an advertisement for its products. In 2018, the filmmaker directed a short film promoting the HomePod. Starring dancer FKA Twigs,the ad entitled Welcome Homewon in the Advertising Excellence/Single Commercial category at the AICP Awards.You can watch the behind-the-scenes video below, or on YouTube:AirPods 4 with ANC cost $179, you can find them for less on Amazon.Gadgets I recommend:Add 9to5Mac to your Google News feed. FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. More.Youre reading 9to5Mac experts who break news about Apple and its surrounding ecosystem, day after day. Be sure to check out our homepage for all the latest news, and follow 9to5Mac on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn to stay in the loop. Dont know where to start? Check out our exclusive stories, reviews, how-tos, and subscribe to our YouTube channel

For all his faults, Elon Musk sure knows how to keep things interesting.Yesterday, skies around the world lit up with what seems to be returning debris courtesy of Musk's private space travel company SpaceX. Specifically, the Dragon Freedom-2 Deb, a module that launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida in September of 2024 as part of a NASA mission to bring two astronauts to the International Space Station.Last week, the crew module of the Dragon returned to earth, bringing back four astronauts, including Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, both of whom became stuck on the ISS in June of 2024 after technical difficulties with Boeing's Starliner turned their eight-day stay into a months-long ordeal.But yesterday, the unmanned portion of the Dragon assumed to be the unpressurized cargo trunk,due to publicly-tracked Dragon reentry datawhich closelymatches reported locations of the fireballs rained down on skies as far apart as California, Nevada, Morocco, and Australia. That caused some wild lightshows to illuminate the sky, driving curious observers to social media to speculate on the cause.Though the exact point of reentry is uncertain, we know that the Dragon whipped across the Pacific ocean, appearing over central California and western Nevada as it screamed toward north-eastern Canada, leading to fireball sightings from Portland, Oregon to Phoenix, Arizona. From there it arched over the northern Atlantic on a trajectory roughly on a path toward Morocco, reaching mid-reentry over Cameroon, finally completing its rapid global loop somewherearound the Indian Ocean and southeastern Australia.SpaceX and NASA have yet to release a statement on the trunk's reentry, and no debris has been found on the ground. That might have something to do with the nature of its return: as the crew modulereentered, the Dragon trunk was jettisoned and left to dawdle in orbit uncontrolled. That's not unheard of for SpaceX, according to Harvard astronomer Jonathan McDowell, who wrote that "this is the last Dragon trunk to be intentionally left in orbit for uncontrolled reentry."The fiery return is driving some discourse around the near limitless freedom SpaceX has been given to rain down debris on the earth without oversight."Would it be fair to say that 'most' if not all of this trunk section will burn up in the atmosphere on reentering?" one incredulous user asked McDowell on X-formerly-Twitter. "Anything left will not contain toxic fuels or materials that could cause major harm to kids and animals?"Earlier in February, people took to X to report random chunks of of debris from SpaceX's Falcon 2 launch falling willy-nilly across Poland. In January 2025 alone, over 125 of Musk's Starlink satellites fell out of the sky, prompting concerns about the consequences the equipment causes on reentry, like scattering dangerous chemical waste into the ozone layer and falling in unpredictable locations.As Starlink becomes the dominant provider of internet access to rural populations around the globe, questions of the network's costly upkeep necessitating a nearly constant stream of satellite launches to keep stable and of the man holding the reins are growing louder and louder.Though space travel holds exciting possibilities, it goes without saying that the health and wellbeing of those of us still on the ground shouldn't be taken for granted to make it possible.Share This Article

Keep your eyes peeled, because a dim star is about to quite literally go nuclear. And guess what? Its outburst will be visible to the naked eye, providing a once in a lifetime opportunity to witness a rare stellar explosion known as a nova.The star, T Coronae Borealis, is believed to erupt roughly every 80 years. After closely monitoring its activity, astronomer Jean Schneider at the Paris Observatory has calculated that it'll erupt again this Thursday, March 27, according to a paper he published with the American Astronomical Society last year.Prepare to give our scientific minds some leeway, however. T Coronae Borealis was predicted to go nova last year, after it exhibited dips in brightness, a telltale sign of an impending explosion,but the blast never came.Now, armed with more data, Schneider has narrowed the several-month window of previous predictions by others in the field down to a single day. If this week's a no-show, the next possible date this year will be November 10, 2025.Astronomers are excited, but stress that it's not guaranteed."Since last September, detailed observations of the star have revealed variations that suggest the imminent arrival of this long-awaited explosion," Franck Marchis, a SETI Institute astronomer who was not involved in the work, recently . "However, as the study is still theoretical, its conclusions remain uncertain."T Coronae Borealis, which is located just 3,000 light years away, is a binary star system comprising a white dwarf star and a red giant star. In the night sky, though, they appear as one.Tragically, they make for a toxic pairing. White dwarfs are the dense remnants of a massive star, while red giants are the slowly bloating forms of a more average Sun-like star long past its prime, having burned through all its fuel.Things get heated when they orbit too close to each other. Over time, the powerful gravitational pull of the white dwarf siphons huge amounts of mass from its stellar companion. Once enough of this stellar material, chiefly hydrogen, accumulates on the white dwarf's surface, it erupts in an epic thermonuclear explosion a nova. The cosmic hydrogen bomb doesn't destroy the stars, however. They sustain the tensions in a cycle of eruptions.In T Coronae Borealis's case, the explosion will be powerful enough to elevate the star system from a measly magnitude +10 in brightness, at which it's invisible to the naked eye, to magnitude +2, according to NASA. That's bright enough to rival the North Star, Polaris.If you want to actually watch this nova in action, here's what you should know. After sunset, it'll appear as a new star in the constellation Corona Borealis, wedged between the constellations Hercules and Botes.And don't fret if Thursday doesn't pan out. The nova should be visible to the unaided eye for several days, and over a week with binoculars. Happy hunting.Share This Article

The Chinese threat actor known as FamousSparrow has been linked to a cyber attack targeting a trade group in the United States and a research institute in Mexico to deliver its flagship backdoor SparrowDoor and ShadowPad.The activity, observed in July 2024, marks the first time the hacking crew has deployed ShadowPad, a malware widely shared by Chinese state-sponsored actors."FamousSparrow deployed two previously undocumented versions of the SparrowDoor backdoor, one of them modular," ESET said in a report shared with The Hacker News. "Both versions constitute considerable progress over previous ones and implement parallelization of commands."FamousSparrow was first documented by the Slovak cybersecurity company in September 2021 in connection with a series of cyber attacks aimed at hotels, governments, engineering companies, and law firms with SparrowDoor, an implant exclusively used by the group.Since then, there have been reports of the adversarial collective's tactical overlaps with clusters tracked as Earth Estries, GhostEmperor, and most notably, Salt Typhoon, which has been attributed to intrusions aimed at the telecom sector.However, ESET noted that it's treating FamousSparrow as a distinct threat group with some loose links to Earth Estries stemming from parallels with Crowdoor and HemiGate.The attack chain involves the threat actor deploying a web shell on an Internet Information Services (IIS) server, although the precise mechanism used to achieve this is unknown as yet. Both the victims are said to have been running outdated versions of Windows Server and Microsoft Exchange Server.The web shell acts as a conduit to drop a batch script from a remote server, which, in turn, launches a Base64-encoded .NET web shell embedded within it. This web shell ultimately is responsible for deploying SparrowDoor and ShadowPad.ESET said one of the SparrowDoor versions resembles Crowdoor, although both variants feature significant improvements over their predecessor. This includes the ability to simultaneously execute time-consuming commands, such as file I/O and the interactive shell, thereby allowing the backdoor to process incoming instructions while they are being run."When the backdoor receives one of these commands, it creates a thread that initiates a new connection to the C&C server," security researcher Alexandre Ct Cyr said. "The unique victim ID is then sent over the new connection along with a command ID indicating the command that led to this new connection.""This allows the C&C server to keep track of which connections are related to the same victim and what their purposes are. Each of these threads can then handle a specific set of sub-commands."SparrowDoor sports a wide range of commands that allow it to start a proxy, launch interactive shell sessions, perform file operations, enumerate the file system, gather host information, and even uninstall itself.In contrast, the second version of the backdoor is modular and markedly different from other artifacts, adopting a plugin-based approach to realize its goals. It supports as many as nine different modules -Cmd - Run a single commandCFile - Perform file system operationsCKeylogPlug - Log keystrokesCSocket - Launch a TCP proxyCShell - Start an interactive shell sessionCTransf - Initiate file transfer between the compromised Windows host and the C&C serverCRdp - Take screenshotsCPro - List running processes and kill specific onesCFileMoniter - Monitor file system changes for specified directories"This newly found activity indicates that not only is the group still operating, but it was also actively developing new versions of SparrowDoor during this time," ESET said.Found this article interesting? Follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn to read more exclusive content we post.

Marvel is making abig spectacle of announcing the full cast of the nextAvengers movie live on YouTube and social media. Most of the names arepredictable: Chris Hemsworth, Anthony Mackie, Florence Pugh, Paul Rudd, and variousstars of Marvels upcomingThe Fantastic Four: First Steps. But one name is definitely a surprise: Kelsey Grammer who has to be playing some version the X-Men character Beast.READ MORE: Is Marvel Hiding a Secret X-Men Movie?Grammer first played Beast in the Fox filmX-Men: The Last Stand way back in 2006. He then reprised the role (in CGI form, rather than the prosthetic makeup he wore inThe Last Stand) two years ago in a brief post-credits cameo inThe Marvels.It feels safe to assume this is the version of the character Grammer will play inAvengers: Doomsday.And if this Beastis in the film, it would be shocking if there werent at least a couple more X-Men characters joining him.Marvel acquired the rights to make X-Men movies when it purchased the 20th Century Fox film studio a few years ago. To date, they have made just one X-Men-centric film: Last summersDeadpool & Wolverine.They have also included a few other teases and hints about the X-Men in other films and shows, like Patrick StewartscameoinDoctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and an allusion to mutants inMs. Marvel.As to which other X-Men may join Grammer, that remains to be seen. So far the confirmedstars ofAvengers: Doomsdayinclude Chris Hemsworth as Thor, Vanessa Kirby as the new Invisible Woman from the upcomingThe Fantastic Four: First Steps, Anthony Mackie as Captain America, Sebastian Stan as Winter Soldier, Letitia Wright as theBlack Panther, Shuri, Paul Rudd as Ant-Man, Wyatt Russell as U.S. Agent, Tenoch Huerta Mejia as Namor, Ebon Moss-Bachrach as the Thing, Simu Liu as Shang-Chi, and Florence Pugh as Black Widow.Avengers: Doomsdayis scheduled to open in theaters on May 1, 2026. The film is now officially in production. You can follow along with the continuing cast announcements below.Get our free mobile appEvery Marvel Cinematic Universe Movie, Ranked From Worst to BestIt started with Iron Man and its continued and expanded ever since. Its the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with 35 movies and counting. But whats the best and the worst? We ranked them all.

Marvel has made it very clear who will be the villain ofAvengers: Doomsday, Robert Downey Jr.s Doctor Doom. But who are the Avengers of thisAvengers sequel? The Marvel Cinematic Universe movies and shows of late have given us almost no clue who will be the next iteration of Earths Mightiest Heroes.Today the company decided to make things a little clearer, revealing on social media and YouTube the cast members who will appear inDoomsday one by one. So far the confirmedstars of the film are Chris Hemsworth as Thor, Vanessa Kirby as the new Invisible Woman from the upcomingThe Fantastic Four: First Steps, Anthony Mackie as Captain America, Sebastian Stan as Winter Soldier, Letitia Wright as theBlack Panther, Shuri, Paul Rudd as Ant-Man, Wyatt Russell as U.S. Agent, Tenoch Huerta Mejia as Namor, Ebon Moss-Bachrach as the Thing, Simu Liu as Shang-Chi, Florence Pugh as Black Widow, Kelsey Grammer (presumably) as the Beast, Lewis Pullman as the Sentry, Danny Ramirez as the Falcon, Joseph Quinn as the Human Torch, David Harbour as Red Guardian, and Winston Duke as MBaku.(Note: This list will be updated as more names are announced.)READ MORE: The Best Marvel Movies Not Made By Marvel StudiosMostof these names are not especially surprising.Captain America: Brave New Worldinvolved Mackies Sam Wilson debating whether to restart the Avengers; given this movie is calledAvengers: Doomsday, you had to assume he would be involved. Hemsworth is one of the most senior members of the MCU whos character hasnt been been killed or retired (yet). Wright became the new Black Panther inBlack Panther: Wakanda Forever.Stan appeared in the last two Avengers films and will soon appear inThunderbolts.Rudds Ant-Man managed to survive his battle with Kang inQuantumania. (Also: Very nice touch giving him a smaller directors chair.) Russell is another member of the Thunderbolts, and a former Captain America himself. Kirby, Moss-Bachrach, and Quinn arepart of the new Fantastic Four, and this is a movie about Doctor Doom, the FFs top villain. One assumes all four members of that team will be announced forDoomsdaybefore all is said and done.One name thatisa bit of a surprise so far is Tenoch Huerta Mejia as Namor, just because he was depicted as more of a villain than a potential Avenger in his one previous MCU appearance,Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. But if you know Marvel Comics history, you know that Namor does have a history with the team (as both an adversary and a member) and with Doctor Doom as well. Plus, if the film will involve a massivethreat to the entire planet, the king of the oceans is the sort of guy whod get involved in that sort of thing.As for Simu Liu, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Ringsdidvery well in theaters despite opening during the middle of the pandemic. He still hasnt gotten a sequel, though, and his movie ended on a cliffhanger involving some sort of interplanetary beacon that could be continued inAvengers: Doomsday.(It also felt like one of the reasons they gave the MCUs Shang-Chi super powers when the Marvel Comics version of the character is just an elite martial artist was so that the character could become a member of a heavy-hitter group like the Avengers.)Pughs Black Widow has been one of the busiest Marvel heroes in recent years, appearing inBlack Widow,Hawkeye, and the upcomingThunderbolts.The biggest shock (so far) was the announcement that Kelsey Grammer was joining the film, presumably as Beast, the X-Man hero that he previously played in 2006sX-Men: The Last Stand, and then in a cameo role in 2023sThe Marvels.Grammers involvement is the first confirmation that the X-Men (or at least some mutant characters) will be a part of the film.Avengers: Doomsdayis scheduled to open in theaters on May 1, 2026. The film is now officially in production. You can follow along with the continuing cast announcements below.Get our free mobile appEvery Marvel Cinematic Universe Movie, Ranked From Worst to BestIt started with Iron Man and its continued and expanded ever since. Its the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with 35 movies and counting. But whats the best and the worst? We ranked them all.

From hanging out the back of a speeding car to tackling freezing conditions, here's how I shot a photo feature in wintry northern Sweden.

Some devices, including Samsung TVs, will benefit from the format, which is a rival to Dolby Vision.