UPDATE: Green Book won Best Picture at the 2019 Oscars. Last Updated: February 23, 2019 With the Oscars right around the corner, it’s time to take a look at which films have the best shot of winning Best Picture. This is officially the most unpredictable awards race in recent memory. For the first time in history, no movie won multiple top prizes from the various industry guilds. Two of those victors, Eighth Grade and Can You Ever Forgive Me?...
The Academy’s made a change to the Oscars that would have disallowed a 2017 winner. This year’s award for Best Documentary Feature went to O.J.: Made in America, a 7 1/2-hour work that was produced by ESPN and aired on that network after an initial showing at the Sundance Film Festival. Though it was generally agreed that the film was of high quality and certainly had significant things to say about the state of society and the criminal justice system, some cried foul over the idea of a multi-part limited-run series being given an award normally reserved for one-part, non-series films....
The fraud team is reaching out because they detected some unusual purchasing activity on your account. Can you log into your account to see if anything looks fishy? Conveniently, they’ve also included a link to the login page. After entering your username and password, you close the tab, delete the email and go about your day like usual. Days or weeks later, you check your bank account and realize money is missing....
Announced at WWDC, popular FTP client Transmit is today returning to the Mac App Store. The app was originally pulled from the store due to its design and requirement to work outside of the Mac App Store’s sandboxing guidelines. However, with the release of the new Mac App Store in macOS Mojave, Transmit is now making its grand return. Apple even went so far as to create an App Store story detailing the app’s features....
When you reach the Shroom City, you will encounter a Mini-game for freeing up key-finder Luigi, who has a key to Peach’s Castle that you need to progress in the game. The Mini-game involves a Snifit game run by a merchant who tasks you with guessing their Snifit mood. This is not as easier as it sounds, and if you don’t know the proper way, then it might take you a fair while to even get past this phase of the game....
If you’ve been waiting for another sale on the Kindle Kids Edition, this is back at its lowest price ever. The Kindle has a 6-inch glare-free screen and 4 LED lights built in so kids can read whether they’re on a road trip or reading before bedtime. Kids will read crystal clear words on the screen with 167ppi, and if your kid is still building their reading skills, the Kindle offers many fonts, including an OpenDyslexic font to ensure they can enjoy reading....
Wonder Woman 1984 director, Patty Jenkins jokes that she wishes the sequel was still releasing in 2019 because it’s that good and she can’t wait to share the film with audiences. With the cinematic futures of both Batman and Superman changing, the sequel to 2017’s Wonder Woman is one of the few constants in Warner Bros.’ announced slate of DC Comics films and that makes it a most important movie for the studio....
Genevieve Carlton Genevieve holds a Ph.D. in history from Northwestern University. After earning her doctorate in early modern European history, she worked as an assistant professor of history at the University of Louisville, where she developed new courses on the history of science, Renaissance Italy, and the witch trials. Genevieve has published five peer-reviewed articles in top presses and a monograph with the University of Chicago Press. She also earned tenure with a unanimous vote before relocating to Seattle....
Apple and the FBI are set to start its court battle for the San Bernardino case in a couple of weeks, March 22nd. In support for Apple’s position, over 40 companies, organizations and individuals will file amicus briefs later today to rally against the government order for Apple to compromise its own iPhone security measures. Facebook, Google, Dropbox, Microsoft, Snapchat and more will sign on to briefs in the case, according to sources....
Ahead of the public release of iOS 12 on Monday, Pandora for iOS has been updated with a handful of new features. The update brings Siri Shortcuts support, customizable app icons, and more. First spotted by AllThingsHow, today’s update brings deep Siri integration to Pandora. For instance, you can now use Siri Shortcuts to control your favorite Pandora stations, albums, and playlists. Additionally, Pandora explains that Siri will “learn as you listen” and make suggestions with Pandora stations it thinks you might like....
The Mac Observer just benchmarked Parallels Desktop 8 against its main Mac Desktop virtualization competitor, VMware Fusion 5. Both applications were configured to virtualize Windows on a 2011 27-inch iMac running on OS X 10.8.1 at 3.4 GHz with 16 GB of RAM for this showdown. The comparison specifically measured their ability to handle the 64-bit versions of Windows 7 Professional and Windows 8 Pro. Check out the results below: The conclusion:...
The attacks, which distribute two forms of seemingly undocumented custom-developed malware, have been detailed by cybersecurity researchers at Cisco Talos who’ve named the campaign ‘magnat’. It appears the campaign has been operating in some capacity since 2018 and the malware has been in continuous development. Over half of the victims are in Canada, but there have also been victims around the world, including in the United States, Europe, Australia and Nigeria....
Here is a bad news coming from Linux Mint. Today Clem, member of Linux Mint community posted that ISOs of Linux Mint 17.3 were hacked on 20th of February, 2016. Yes! You heard that right. It’s something that teaches lesson to all those who don’t check MD5 hash to confirm that the image they downloaded are original and not hacked one. Well if you downloaded Linux Mint 17.3 then you should immediately do the following things to be safe....
Apple and other tech giants will in future be required to pay tax in each country in which they sell products and services. Apple, for example, will no longer be able to funnel profits from all European Apple Stores through Ireland as a means of avoiding tax in the countries where the products are actually sold. The plans were announced by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), following more than 130 countries agreeing on the need for global tax reform…...
Last update: February 3, 2020 Now that the 92nd Oscar nominations have been announced, we’re looking at Best Actress and seeing who has the best chance of winning. Anyone who’s been paying close attention to awards season so far knows that there is one clear, definite favorite who seems poised to run away with the Academy Award, but as we saw last year, there’s always the potential for surprises. Just about everyone had Glenn Close finally winning her first Oscar for The Wife, but she lost to The Favourite’s Olivia Colman....
Outsiders season 2 episode 13 “Unbroken Chain” ended the show on several big cliffhangers. Outsiders was an original drama series from WGN America, who also produced Salem, and followed the clash of cultures between a group of outsiders and a small Kentucky town. This clan has lived outside of society for generations, but drama comes in the form of a coal company looking to evict them from the mountain they live on, and the return of a family member after a decade away....
Pacific Rim: Uprising, the sequel to Guillermo del Toro’s 2013 kaiju movie, has had a a rough road to production. For a brief time the project was shelved entirely until suddenly pre-production had begun with del Toro serving as producer, not director. Uprising stars Star Wars: the Force Awakens’ favorite Stormtrooper John Boyega as the son of Idris Elba’s character Striker Pentecost. Bogeya leads the cast alongside Scott Eastwood (Suicide Squad, Snowden)....
OWC has unveiled the latest addition to its lineup of expansion docks for MacBooks with the new USB-C Travel Dock. Pocket-sized and priced affordably, USB-C Travel Dock adds two traditional USB-A ports, an HDMI port, and an SD Card reader over a single USB-C connection. USB-C Travel Dock also features a USB-C passthrough for power that delivers up to 60W, making it ideal for MacBooks and most MacBook Pros aside from the more power-hungry 15-inch models....
Paradox Interactive has finally revealed more details about Surviving the Aftermath, a strategy game that’s now available in Early Access on the Epic Games Store and Xbox Game Preview at an early-bird discount of $19.99 / £15.49 / €19.99. Paradox Interactive is known for developing or publishing amazing strategy games, like the excellent Age of Wonders: Planetfall, and we were given the chance to experience Surviving the Aftermath during a press event at PDXCON 2019....
Following Parasite’s Best Picture win at the 2020 Oscars, HBO is reportedly eyeing Mark Ruffalo to star in the network’s upcoming series based on the movie. Bong Joon Ho’s critically acclaimed film made Oscar history last night, becoming the first non-english feature to ever be crowned Best Picture at the annual Academy Awards ceremony. The genre-blending title took home additional wins for Bong’s direction and original screenplay (which he co-wrote with Jin Won Han), on top of snagging the prize for Best International Feature Film....
