A patent application spotted by Patently Apple suggests that the Apple Watch turning on its display as you raise your wrist could be just the first of many supported gestures. Pointing, waving and even extending pinky and thumb in a ‘phone me’ gesture could all be used to initiate actions on either the Watch itself or a paired iPhone. Apple gives a number of illustrative examples of such gestures …...
Valve has released the latest data on Steam gameplay for 2019, reporting that Steam users played for more than an astounding 20 billion hours in the year. The popular PC gaming platform has long been a place to easily buy and try new games, but 2019 appears to be a particularly successful year for Steam. Part of Steam’s annual Year in Review, the reported playtime was the capstone to Valve’s announcement of all the many ways that people can experience Steam, including SteamVR, Steam Play for Linux, Steam Remote Play, and other methods that Valve released throughout 2019....
[This interview contains SPOILERS for Peaky Blinders season 5.] - Steven Knight talks with Screen Rant about his hit series Peaky Blinders, and how season 5 confronts fascim and puts Tommy Shelby in a place he’s never been before. Since it launched in 2013, the early 20th century crime saga has been a stylish and captivating series that capitalized not only on its distinct look and sound - often incorporating modern music and guitar riffs into its soundtrack to amplify the action - but also on its terrific cast, headed up by a beguilingly chilly Cillian Murphy as crime boss Tommy Shelby....
In addition to these providers, there are plenty of other excellent sites that offer unique content that may catch your attention such as Philo, Sling TV and Fubo TV, but those require subscriptions. If you are not interested in paying for streaming services, check out these lesser-known sites that offer quality content for free, although they are supported by ads. How to stream classic TV series Sony Crackle, owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, is a free streaming service that features a library of TV shows including classics such as “Seinfeld,” “Heroes” and “The Shield....
lie Uhrman, Ouya’s CEO, confirmed to Engadget that the $100 Android-based game console will be replaced by new hardware on an annual basis. “’ll take advantage of faster, better processors, take advantage of prices falling. So if we can get more than 8GB of Flash in our box, we will,” Uhrman said. The first-generation Ouya, which will arrive in stores in ne, has an Nvidia Tegra 3 processor inside. Uhrman didn’t talk specifics for future hardware, but Nvidia’s Tegra 4 chip would be an obvious cidate for the next version....
From Seeing Through the Illusion: Understanding Apple’s Mastery of the Media, a profile examining Apple’s PR strategy: Two Heads In Place Of One Months after announcing her departure, Katie Cotton has moved on from Apple, according to a person close to the former executive. She is no longer involved in the media strategy that she led for 18 years, and is not participating in recruiting a replacement. A source told us that “Cotton does not believe in searching for her own successor....
TLA Systems has brought is popular calculator app to the Apple Watch today through the latest version of PCalc for iPhone. The PCalc Apple Watch app features a fully functional calculator for quickly crunching numbers from your watch — 1985 Casio-style like the similar Calcbot app — and similarly features a clever tip calculator that makes splitting the bill a cinch. PCalc for Apple Watch also includes an app Glance that displays the most recent result from PCalc and serves as a shortcut to the calculator app from the watch face....
Cyber security researchers and professionals perform penetration testing to find vulnerabilities in a system before an attacker exploit it. Penetration testing (Pentesting) is an attack on a computer system that looks for security weaknesses, potentially gaining access to the computer’s features and data. There are many Operating Systems that cyber security researchers used for penetration testing purpose. In which, Kali Linux, Pentoo, Whax are the most popular. Such distributions typically contain a pre-packaged and pre-configured set of tools....
WordCrasher on the Mac App Store Ahead of Mac OS X’s Lion’s official launch, Apple has begun approving apps that take advantage of the next-generation operating system into their Mac App Store. The move, first noted by OS X Daily, comes just days after Apple opened the door to developers to submit their Lion apps for inclusion on the App Store. Apple, of course, recommends that these apps are first tested against the Golden Master version of the operating system....
It’s the worst kind of fault, intermittent and prone to happen when we’re on a call or trying to download software. We’ve changed the router, even had engineers out to check the connection. Our ISP has changed our wholesale provider (as much as they can), the cabling provider has changed the cable we’re using and the port in the fiber cabinet, but nothing seems to work. SEE: Internet slow? Here are the possible reasons why and how to fix them All the various diagnostics seem to point to one thing: the aluminium cabling under the street put in sometime in the 1960s or 70s is reaching end of life....
The Guardian reports that Paul McCartney has released five of his classic albums as iPad apps, offering remastered audio tracks, videos, interviews, photos, and artwork from both albums and singles. Surprisingly, despite the additional content, the cost of the apps is lower than buying just the albums alone… Five of his classic albums – Band on the Run, McCartney, McCartney II, RAM and Wings over America – have been turned into iPad apps by label Concord Music Group, and released through Apple’s App Store....
From Lion’s Install notes: This is a pretty interesting addition to the OS. When you install Lion, it puts a little partition on the boot drive with some of the OS utilities. If something goes wrong with your Lion build, you restart with the option key pressed and you boot into this new partition. For me this worked a bit different. I installed Lion on a Firewire hard drive. The recovery partition was installed on my Snow Leopard internal disk(!...
All that fun, though, comes with a price. Everything becomes public when we live our lives on social media, and maintaining any semblance of privacy becomes impossible. Tap or click here for 10 Facebook privacy and security settings you need to change right now. Until you get your settings exactly right, there’s a chance that just about anyone can see your activity online, even if it’s embarrassing. So watch out....
Due to the open-source nature of Android, there are a lot of customization options available to the developers and users. It requires the device bootloader to be unlocked first and then you’ll be able to flash custom firmware, mods, and rooting via Magisk too. So, installing Magisk can be done via TWRP recovery or flashing Magisk Patched Boot Image via Fastboot. Here we’ve shared steps to Patch Stock Boot Image via Magisk and Flash it using Fastboot....
Apple’s new expensive line of Mac Pro computers seem to be causing a headache for a tiny fraction of the Mac userbase. According to several professional video editors who have contacted us or posted information to various online forums, the recent OS X 10.9.3 update is breaking compatibility between some Mac Pro graphics cards and video editing applications such as Adobe Premiere Pro and Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve… Reported issues range from videos stalling during the export process, pink and green lines appearing in exported video, and overall application crashing and freezing....
It’s frustrating when you can’t find an email someone sent you several moths ago. By default, Outlook will only search the Current Folder you’re in. Here you can see in the Search box Outlook is only searching my Inbox. After doing a search, if there are no results or not the one you want, click Try Searching Again in All Mail Items. This helps to find the email you’re looking for....
OnePlus 7 Pro was released just a week ago, and a new OTA update has been rolled out by OnePlus with some new features and optimisations. The update is being rolled via OTA and is already available for download. The phone comes with OxygenOS 9.5.0 pre-installed, and the new update installs OxygenOS 9.5.2 on the phone. UI is one of the main reasons why people love OnePlus mobiles. It not only comes with great features and speed but also gets updated regularly....
Palo Alto Network’s Unit 42 released a report examining 200,000 infusion pumps on the networks of hospitals and clinics that use their security program for IoT devices. “An alarming 75% of infusion pumps scanned had known security gaps that put them at heightened risk of being compromised by attackers,” the researchers said. “These shortcomings included exposure to one or more of some 40 known cybersecurity vulnerabilities and/or alerts that they had one or more of some 70 other types of known security shortcomings for IoT devices....
Pandora is a popular online music streaming service that allows users to listen to their favourite songs and radio stations. Unfortunately, sometimes Pandora can experience issues and stop working correctly. If you’re having trouble with your Pandora sound not working, this article will provide some helpful tips and solutions to help you get back on track. We’ll cover some common issues that can cause your sound to stop working and provide troubleshooting tips and solutions....
This Oscars 2020 Best Picture Nominees Honest Trailer is here. The Academy Awards are taking place earlier than usual this year, resulting in a shorter (and, many would agree, better-paced) race to Oscar night. In that time, some clear front-runners have emerged in most of the major Oscar categories ahead of the ceremony. Both Brad Pitt and Joaquin Phoenix are heavily favored to win for their acting in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and Joker, with Sam Mendes equally favored to win Best Director and potentially Picture for his WWI thriller 1917....
