Here are today’s Nerd News! headlines:

    Wonderful Woman: The reviews are in for Wonder Woman 1984, which will begin streaming on HBO Max on Christmas Day. The reviews are mostly positive, with some saying that the nostalgic look back to the 80’s is a nice escape from 2020 feelings, but that the film does follow classic superhero formulas, so don’t expect any big surprises. Overall, we should expect an improvement over the first one. Source

    Return of the Kang: There’s gonna be a new big-bad villain the Marvel Cinematic Universe who will debut in Loki. Nathaniel Richards, better known as Kang the Conqueror will be making his presence known. Kang is time traveling terrorist bent on taking over the universe. He comes from hundreds of years in the MCU future. Source

    And in Tech News:  Apparently iPhones are stronger than we thought. There is video of an iPhone 6 with the camera running, falling from a plane, and it surprisingly survives the fall.  A guy named Ernesto Galiotto is a documentary filmmaker who was shooting footage from a pane when he lost his grip on the phone. Luckily, it landed on a beach where no people were present, so nobody was injured, including the phone, which was fully functional after the fall. See the video here. (Source website not in English, but the video is there.)

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