Where’s the bad guy in Rings of Power? Everybody knows the big bad in Middle-earth, at least after The First Age, is Sauron. So when you’re watching a new show exploring Middle-earth in The Second Age, and there’s only one episode left, it’s time to start asking questions. Where is Sauron, and why haven’t we seen him yet? Or have we seen him, but in disguise as another character?

Here’s a quick look at everything we know so far, and some fun speculation about what may be in store for The Rings of Power.

Who is Sauron in The Rings of Power?

At the moment, we have no idea who Sauron is in The Rings of Power. There is no credit for Sauron, no actor who has been announced as playing Sauron, and the only time we’ve seen Sauron on screen was the beginning of the first episode in a look at the past. According to JRR Tolkien, Sauron is more or less in hiding at this point as he builds up strength and hatches a plan to take over the world.

We don’t know where Sauron is right this second, but we know where he’s been. In episode 6, the Uruk known as Adar confirms Galadriel’s suspicion that Sauron had originally escaped to the far north so he could experiment on accessing a place called The Unseen World but was unsuccessful. Adar claims to have attacked Sauron and escaped, but we know he’s still alive somewhere.

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Apple’s new iPad has been officially unveiled, and it’s the biggest update to the entry-level device since its inception. With a design overhaul to match the iPad Air and iPad Pro models that came before it, the new iPad has an edge-to-edge display, flat sides and USB-C port.

Inside, it is powered by the Apple A14 Bionic chip and features a larger 10.9-inch Liquid Retina display. The move to a flat-sided design does not, however, mean compatibility with the Apple Pencil 2. Rather, the device maintains support for the original Apple Pencil. Like the iPad Air and iPad Mini, the new 10th-generation iPad supports Touch ID via the top button.

Apple’s 10th-generation iPad starts at $449 and begins shipping on Oct. 26.

What colors does the iPad (10th Generation) come in?

Apple has brought some colorful hues to the entry-level iPad for the first time. The new colors include:

iPad (10th Generation) pricing

There are a few configuration options for the 10th-generation iPad. Here’s how US pricing breaks down in full:

• 64GB iPad (10th Generation): $449
• 256GB iPad (10th Generation): $599
• 64GB iPad (10th Generation, Wi-Fi + Cellular): $599
• 256GB iPad (10th Generation, Wi-Fi + Cellular): $749

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Preorders for the 10th-generation iPad are now live at Apple. Devices will begin shipping on Oct. 26.

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Amazon is now listing the 10th generation iPad for preorder in all of its various colors and configurations. Release day shipping is still available.

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Aqara just lifted the veil on its smart home roadmap at the Matter launch event in Amsterdam. It starts with a free software update in December for the Hub M2 to make many of Aqara’s existing Zigbee devices Matter compatible. That will be followed by the release of Aqara’s first two Matter-over-Thread devices in early 2023 and a new multi-protocol hub coming sometime in the future.

Starting in December, the maker of low-cost smart home devices will issue an over-the-air update to the Aqara Hub M2 to make over 40 of Aqara’s existing Zigbee devices Matter compatible when attached to the hub. That list will eventually expand to support more than 160 of the company’s Zigbee devices. Aqara’s other hubs, including the Hub M1S/M1S Gen 2, Hub E1, Camera Hub G3, and Camera Hub G2H Pro, will be made Matter compatible in “the following months,” according to Aqara.

Once the hub is updated, any Aqara Zigbee device attached to the M2 can be used in any Matter ecosystem. It’s the same approach Ikea is taking to make its existing smart home devices Matter compliant with an update to the new Dirigera hub coming early next year. Frankly, it’s the fastest way to Matter compatibility for most companies and means that hubs will still be required on Matter networks for anyone already invested in lots of Zigbee devices.

In addition to making old devices Matter compatible, Aqara’s also announcing more details on its first Matter-over-Thread devices teased at CES back in

You might expect a comic book series featuring art generated entirely by artificial intelligence technology to be full of surreal images that have you tilting your head trying to grasp what kind of sense-shifting madness you’re looking at.

Not so with the images in The Bestiary Chronicles, a free, three-part comics series from Campfire Entertainment, an award-winning New York-based production house focused on creative storytelling.

The visuals in the trilogy — believed to be the first comics series made with AI-assisted art — are stunning. They’re also stunningly precise, as if they’ve come straight from the hand of a seasoned digital artist with a very specific story and style in mind.

“Deep underground, the last remnants of humanity gather to learn about the monsters that have destroyed their planet,” reads a description of The Lesson, the visually rich retro-futuristic third comic in the trilogy. All three are available to download now on Campfire’s siteand also come in softcover and hardcover printed anthologies.

Though AI-generated visual art can tend toward the wildly absurd, the photorealistic humans in The Bestiary Chronicles don’t have rearranged facial features, or limbs protruding at odd angles. The monsters — with their glowing eyes

If Gone Girl were given the recut-trailer treatment in the style of a Woody Allen film, it’d probably look a lot like Fleishman Is In Trouble. The smartnew upstream limited series, based on Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s novel of the same name, premieres Nov. 17. It’s got the failed marriage, the sad sack of 40-something white man and, most importantly, the missing wife. But it’s also filled with anxious, neurotic New York Jews, philosophical walk-and-talks, money and sex. Lots of sex.

Toby Fleishman (Jesse Eisenberg) is a newly divorced liver doctor with two kids who kinda hate him and a bachelor pad that’s fairly realistic in its coldness (complete with a broken set of vertical blinds). Despite his sad-sackery, Toby’s status is on the rise. on”the apps“at least.

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Formerly unlucky in love, with an undiagnosed eating disorder and a chip on his shoulder that both predate his marriage, Toby can’t believe his newfound social capital as a middle-aged divorcee within the likes of Tinder, a universe that doesn’t exist last time he was on the market. Suddenly he’s drowning in sexts from available single women who send photos of “their side boob, or their underboob, or their just plain regular boob,” says the show’s very opinionated narrator.

The identity of the narrator, at least to those who haven’t read the book, is a bit of a