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We’ve seen OtterBox frequent the headlines lately, most recently for announcing at CTIA that it acquired its competitor LifeProof, and we’ve served up several hands-on reviews of their products. I recently had the opportunity to discuss OtterBox and its vision for the future with President and CEO Brian Thomas, who is a former high school teacher turned company leader. OtterBox, for me, is the defacto hyper-protective case maker and king of their market, but Apple and Jony Ive have increasingly thrilled us with beautiful hardware design of iPhone after iPhone....

Apple store burglaries have become increasingly common over the last several years, with thieves taking incredibly quick approaches to swiping valuable products. Now, Palo Alto Online reports that the Palo Alto Apple store was robbed twice in less than 12 hours over the weekend. According to Palo Alto police, the city’s Apple store was first hit at 7PM on Saturday. In this round, the eight suspects got off with $57,000 worth of demo iPhone models – including the new iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max – and various other products....

After CEO Elias Viglione of Finnish indie game developer Panic Art Studios went on a wildly offensive online rant, the small company released a statement in a questionable attempt at damage control. Viglione and his studio have gone completely dark since his hateful tirade was found, but his words can’t be so easily withdrawn now that they’re out. Panic Art Studios, best known for the pixel art roguelike Hero Siege, is a tiny team comprised of just programmer Jussi Kukkonen, web developer Esko Salonen, and CEO Elias Viglione....

However, although every new account created online requires submitting a strong and unique password, many users still use simplistic password combinations and easily identifiable credentials, thus endangering the protection of their sensitive information. This article will contribute to the fields of personal data protection and information security awareness by exploring generation of secure passwords (Section 2), studying the five most common methods for password cracking (Section 3), discussing personal data breaches related to vulnerable passwords (Section 4), and providing suggestions for efficient protection of personal data (Section 5)....

We like competition, as long as they don’t rip off our IP, and if they do, we’re going to go after anybody that does … We will not stand for having our IP ripped off and we’ll use whatever weapons we have at our disposal [to make sure that doesn’t happen]. I don’t know that I can be more clear than that. Palms stock dropped 6%. Those are mighty big words to the bottom line....

The 2017 Academy Awards will now forever be remembered for one thing; the massive blunder that resulted in the wrong movie being awarded Best Picture. With the world watching, Faye Dunaway declared that La La Land had won the category, and cast and crew took the stage to accept the award. However, problems became apparent during the acceptance speech from producer Mark Platt, and as the gaffe became clear, Platt stopped his speech and his fellow La La Land producer, Jordan Horowitz, announced that the category had actually been won by Moonlight....

Oneplus and Oppo’s merger has resulted in Chinese versions of Oneplus devices running on Oppo’s ColorOS. There is nothing wrong with ColorOS as a UI, but many Oneplus users purchase Oneplus devices for the sole purpose of getting OxygenOS as their UI. So worldwide, Oneplus will continue to release Oxygen OS for their users. Oneplus revealed that Oneplus eight and later devices will get three major Android updates and four-year security updates....

With some in-game camera manipulation, a hacker has discovered that Konami’s Silent Hills demo, P.T., is actually a lot scarier for reasons that players didn’t even know about. P.T. was a playable teaser demo for Konami and Hideo Kojima’s canceled Silent Hills project. While the game has been dead for years now, with all those involved moving on to other projects, fans are still discovering some of the secrets the developers hid throughout the demo....

has announced a partnership with yl that allows you to use your account to buy things anywhere Android y is accepted. ile yl users have long been able to access their accounts in the real world via yl Credit, the new Android y integration will open up mobile contactless payments to a wide array of people, allowing them to use the balances to pay for things at McDonalds or l-Mart....

For the past 15 years, director Paul W.S. Anderson and actor Milla Jovovich have somehow done the impossible: they’ve made a profitable video game movie franchise. All told, the Resident Evil series has grossed over $900 million at the box office, making it the most successful film franchise based on a video game of all time. Later this month, the sixth and final Resident Evil movie, fittingly titled The Final Chapter, will enter theaters and likely push the franchise past the $1 billion mark....

PDFelement 8 brings you useful new features, functional improvements, and performance enhancements you’ll appreciate. You can create and edit, annotate and comment, and sign and secure your PDF documents using this all-inclusive application. Let’s walk through all that’s new with PDFelement 8. PDFelement 8 Features Before we delve into what’s new in the latest version, let’s dive into the basics of what you can do with PDFelement. Create PDFs and Forms With PDFelement 8, you can create a PDF from an existing file, a scanned document, or a blank PDF....

Last Updated: January 13, 2020 Here’s what to expect from Pennyworth season 2. Created by Gotham writers Bruno Heller and Danny Cannon, the Batman prequel series airs on Epix and centers on the origin story of Batman’s butler, Alfred Pennyworth, played by Jack Bannon. The show’s 10-episode first season takes viewers back to 1960’s London with Alfred as a former SAS soldier living with his parents and trying to get his new security firm off the ground....

Pantech doesn’t get a lot of attention in the West, but they’re huge in their home country of South Korea. Phone Arena says they’re number two over there, right behind Samsung. So considering that both LG and Samsung have announced their respective 5 inch 1080p flagship phone with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 600, now it’s Pantech’s turn. According to the Korean site ETNews, Pantech will start selling a 5 inch 1080p phone by the end of this month that has a “bezel-less” display....

There was heavy speculation that Leslie Knope was filthy rich in Parks and Recreation, but she really isn’t. The character, played by Amy Poehler for all seven seasons of the sitcom, lived a somewhat lavish lifestyle and there was evidence that suggested she didn’t worry about money. That said, there weren’t any confirmations regarding the theory that Leslie was secretly wealthy. At the start of Parks and Rec, Leslie was the Deputy Director of the Pawnee City Department of Parks and Recreation, a mid-level position in the public sector....

It’s a bit like watching Sega’s Dreamcast implode in microcosm. But if you’re still looking for a reason to buy an Ouya—or maybe dust off one you already own—the company maybe has a deal for you: y $60 you gain access to 800 different Ouya titles for an entire year, under what Ouya labels the “l-Access ss.” “Go long, Ouya!” shouts some person who I made up for this sports metaphor....

Pandora is a music streaming and discovery service owned by Sirius XM Holdings. It lets users create stations based on the songs, artists, or genres they like, which will then play related songs. It uses the “Music Genome Project” that focuses on recommendations based on individuals listening preferences and musical traits. It uses the user’s listening data, recommends the best songs that the person would enjoy the most, and leaves out the ones they might not....

The OnePlus team has released the first open beta build of OxygenOS based on Android 7.1.1 for the OnePlus 3 and 3T. The open beta builds bring a number of new features and enhancements while also fixing some bugs. The update to Android 7.1.1 itself will only bring about some minor new features like launcher shortcuts and latency improvements. As for other changes introduced in the latest beta build, they are as follows:...

t’s take a quick walkthrough to see what’s next on ‘s mobile browser docket. New gestures are simple, better Chrome’s navigational gestures have been refined, though there weren’t that many to begin with. You can now cycle between tabs by swiping your thumb from side to side without starting all the way at the edge of the screen. You can also swipe down from the URbar to get to the tab interface then easily swipe it away on any open browser screen, or hold down on the menu button to bring up the menu screen rather than simply tapping it....