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Parcl is an online service that lets you buy products online that don’t ship to your country. Described as a “community of online shoppers and trusted forwarders,” the service claims to be working with world leading carriers, thus ensuring a safe and timely delivery. However, it needs to be mentioned that the service is currently in beta and that we haven’t tried it for yourselves, so take this article as a general presentation of how it claims to be working....

As part of its WWDC announcements last week, Apple tightened guidelines around privacy in kids’ apps in the App Store. Speaking at the Recode Code Conference yesterday, PBS president and CEO Paula Kerger said that these new guidelines from Apple mean that it will have to remove several of its apps from the App Store. Apple revised its developer guidelines last week to note that apps in the kids category can’t include any third-party advertising or analytics software....

There is often a need to conduct full-fledged black box penetration testing. This is a form of testing in which security professionals have to deal with such things as firewalls other mechanisms of restriction on the customer’s side. This is an interference while pentesters execute checks and periodically block them by, for example, IP address or user-agent. If we didn’t agree on a gray- or white-box model and our IPs were not whitelisted, what can we do to bypass those limitations which are regulated by the customer and their firewall?...

The Wrap is reporting that David Fincher is eyeing Christian Bale as his ‘first choice’ to play Steve Jobs. The Sony movie, written by Aaron Sorkin, is aiming to start filming by the end of the year. While Steve Jobs is a long way from Batman, Bale has been considered a prime contender to play the tech superhero since the project was first announced due to his physical resemblance to the Apple co-founder....

Your car may have a severe issue you’re not even aware of. We’ll show you how to find out if your vehicle is subject to a recall and get email notifications of future recalls. Tap or click here to check if your model is affected. While EVs won’t get recalled for something like a faulty fuel pump, it doesn’t mean they’re immune. More than a million Teslas are being recalled for violating federal safety standards for power windows....

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen isn’t sparing anyone to promote his autobiography, Idea Man. After describing his uneasy business relationship with Bill Gates that at times was on the verge of break up due to high tension, he then praised Apple’s “unbelievable” success and noted Steve Jobs’ hat trick (the iPod, iPhone and iPad). It didn’t take him long to change his mind, however, and lash out at both Apple and Google....

However, with the increased adoption of multi-factor authentication, login credentials alone may not be enough for scammers to gain the access or information they’re after. Plus, if you don’t recognize the signs of a spoofed login page, there’s a good chance you won’t see the red flags when the page requests even more information. For these reasons, credential phishing is evolving into something even more dangerous. Is your organization susceptible to phishing attacks?...

2009’s surprisingly creepy horror film Orphan was a huge hit at the box office, and is now set to receive a prequel titled simply Esther. Movies about evil kids are a tried and true sub-genre of horror, with the most famous being The Exorcist, which featured Linda Blair as demon-possessed girl Regan MacNeil. The film to first firmly establish the killer kid trope in cinema was 1954’s The Bad Seed, starring Patty McCormack as budding serial killer Rhoda Penmark....

Last month creators of the popular Paper by FiftyThree iPad app announced that it would soon be shipping a $60 Bluetooth stylus for the drawing app called “Pencil”. With the first preorders for the device expected to start shipping this week according to the company’s Twitter account, today it has also updated the official Paper by FiftyThree app with features specifically for Pencil. The app now supports new palm rejection, erase, and blend features for Pencil:...

Here’s a cast and character guide for 1991 action thriller Out For Justice. Prior to his first movie Above The Law, Steven Seagal had worked as a stunt coordinator and choreographer on several productions like James Bond adventures A View To A Kill and Never Say Never Again; he broke the wrist of star Sean Connery on the latter during rehearsals. Above The Law from director Andrew Davis (The Fugitive) cast him as a cop and was not only his big screen debut, he also co-wrote the script....

One of the most complex characters that you either love to love or love to hate would be Frank Randall in Outlander. He was ironically looked at as the “other man” in the fantasy romance series, even though the heroine of the tale, Claire, was his wife first. But once she went through the stones at Craigh Na Dun and met Jamie Fraser not long after, it seemed to be pure destiny that they fall in love....

Updated February 7th, 2020 by Alyssa Avina. It may seem like a long time has passed since we originally witnessed the dramatic and emotional love triangle between Claire, Jamie, and Frank – both of whom were Claire’s husbands – on Outlander, but it was only two short seasons ago. Now, we are coming up on the season 5 premiere on February 16th and we can’t help but reminisce about Claire’s two favorite men....

Overcast 2.0 is out today and adds several nice updates to the popular podcast client. The app now includes streaming, so you don’t have to download episodes to listen to them: just stream the file contents as you go. This comes in handy for people with low-storage phones but also just helps everyone listen to shows faster, without having to wait for a 50-100MB episode to finishing downloading. Overcast 2 also includes support for podcast chapter marks....

Parasite was universally touted as the best film of 2019. This intricate black comedy by visionary director Bong Joon-Ho portrayed a subtle clash of classes that is native to South Korea but is universal in thematic revelation. It is hard to enumerate the numerous praises for this masterpiece that it really earns its status as one of the decade’s best. And with this much love for a groundbreaking Korean import, there will be a time for film enthusiasts to spot flaws on the film....

Parks & Recreation was a mostly cheerful series, but it had its dose of darkness disguised as comedy every time the Parks group was mean to Jerry. Created by Greg Daniels and Michael Schur, Parks & Recreation debuted on NBC in 2009 and came to an end in 2015 after seven seasons. The series followed the always optimistic Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler) and her friends and coworkers from the Parks Department in the fictional town of Pawnee, Indiana....

The TOLA Act, passed three years ago, was criticised heavily when it first became law as it gave intelligence and law enforcement agencies powers to request or demand assistance from communications providers to access encrypted communications. Since its passing, the most public display of these powers has been Operation Ironside, which AFP commissioner Reece Kershaw last year labelled as the Australian Federal Police’s (AFP) “most significant operation in policing history”....

The Academy is still considering not having a host for the 2020 Oscars. This past ceremony, which took place in February, was supposed to feature Kevin Hart as emcee, but he stepped down due to controversy regarding homophobic comments he made. In lieu of finding a replacement, the Academy opted to go host-less, which at the time seemed like a recipe for disaster. That announcement when it appeared the Oscars couldn’t do anything right, on the heels of the infamous Best Popular Film debacle and the (later reversed) decision to remove a handful of technical categories from the broadcast....

The card normally earns 2.5% cashback for: Health and wellness purchases, including fitness apparel, equipment, and gym membershipsGroceries at Trader Joes and Whole FoodsDrug store and pharmacy purchases The card earns 1.5% cashback for all other purchases. To double the rewards, users will need to log 150 minutes of elevated heart rate each week on a smartwatch to reach the Paceline Streak. The Paceline Visa Signature card has an annual fee of $60....

Remember the Panasonic Lumix CM1 with its gigantic 1-inch 20MP rear camera sensor? Well, for some reason Panasonic has now released a new variant of the smartphone dubbed DMC-CM10. The handset features almost the same design as its predecessor, except that the rear of the phone is now completely black. The biggest change, however, is that the CM10 is now less of a phone and more of a smart camera....

Fans of Brian K. Vaughan’s Paper Girls comics may be excited to know that a TV series featuring your favorite Midwestern newsies of the late 1980s is in development. The comic series just wrapped up in July of 2019, making it ripe for an adaptation with an end game in sight. Given that Vaughan has joked about how we’ll never see a Saga adaptation unless it’s got Lin Manuel Miranda on board (and how many fans would beg them to take their money to do that?...