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‘Tis the season to sift through the neglected corner of your DVD collection containing Christmas movies. Whether they tell the story of a man among elves searching for his biological father in New York City or a little boy who sadistically fends off burglars that want to murder him, Christmas movies are a staple of the holidays. There have been plenty of great ones (and a lot more not-so-great ones, thanks to Hallmark and Netflix), but arguably, National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation is still the gold standard for this curious, commercially-driven genre....

With the iPhone 4S launch nearly two years ago, Apple introduced the Siri voice control system to its customers. At launch, Siri was a gimmicky feature at best, being released with bugs, a highly-computerized voice, sluggish content loading, and unreliable servers. In addition, Siri of 2011 was short on user compatibility, only launching with knowledge of English, French, and German. Apple certainly did not deny the early issues with Siri: the company launched the product in “beta,” a tag that has remained on the software ever since....

It’s that time again. Every month, Netflix changes things up, adding and subtracting content, usually to our simultaneous delight and chagrin. While it’s always amazing to get our hands on oodles of new TV shows and movies (we’re dying to binge Iron Fist ! Get here already!), it’s always a bummer to say goodbye to old favorites, or, worse, to shows we never even got the chance to get to know....

What is NetLimiter? NetLimiter is the ultimate internet traffic control and monitoring tool for data coming from your router. It allows you to set download and upload transfer rate limits for both apps and connections. The software comes in two flavors, NetLimiter 4 Lite, and NetLimiter 4 Pro. Two Versions The $20 Lite version, offers real-time traffic monitoring, and the ability to prioritize selected apps over others. This version also lets you set the maximum transfer speed of any application running on your machine....

Be one of the first to check out an exclusive clip from Zombieland: Double Tap. Double Tap, which was first released this past October, is a sequel to the highly successful Zombieland (2009). Zombieland is a comedy taking place in a zombie post-apocalypse, following the story of four survivors who end up becoming a family as they shoot and slash their way through the former United States. Double Tap continues to follow the story of these characters, with all the laughs, gore, and pop culture references from its predecessor....

A new promo spot for Dark Phoenix sees the X-Men go to space to rescue trapped astronauts. In two and a half weeks, the final film from the main X-Men saga rolls out. Directed by Simon Kinberg, a long-time X-Men film producer, the film’s narrative is based on Chris Claremont’s The Dark Phoenix saga, and will feature Sophie Turner’s Jean Grey fully transforming into the Dark Phoenix teased at the end of X-Men: Apocalypse....

The Unicode Consortium has announced today that it is delaying the release of Emoji 14.0 due to COVID-19. The news was announced in a blog post, with the delay being attributed to the “lead time for developers to incorporate emoji into mobile phones.” As explained by Jeremy Burge on Twitter, what this means is that the new emoji introduced in version 14 won’t come to major platforms until 2022, as opposed to 2021....

Guys, meet the new Santoku Linux! Santoku is a general purpose kitchen knife which originated from Japan. Santoku means “three virtues” or “three uses” (Wikipedia). This distribution is not from Japan, but the name was suggested by Thomas Cannon of viaForensics (who happens to be the project leader of Santoku Linux) because the distribution was crafted specifically for Mobile Forensics, Mobile Malware Analysis, and Mobile Security Testing. The current alpha release is based on a fork of the OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) MobiSec Ubuntu distro thus making this alpha release an OWASP MobiSec Remix (released under GPL) with added tools from viaForensics and some of its contributors or supporters....

Fears have been raised about the prospect of a new US trade war with several different countries over their decision to impose taxes on tech giants. Background Apple, for example, funnelled through to Ireland all the sales revenue from Apple Stores and online sales across Europe, thereby avoiding corporation tax in each of those individual countries. It then paid an extremely low rate of tax in Ireland. To address this, a number of countries put in place measures to ensure that at least some corporation tax was paid locally....

Macs may be safer than Windows machines (for now) but as evidenced by reports of external hacking peripherals like the PCILeech, backdoor trojans like Eleanor, webcam hijackers and even cross-platform threats like Mokes, they are certainly not completely immune from malicious software attacks. New Mac malware hijacks your DNS A discovery from Mac OS security blog Objective-See has revealed a new macOS DNS hijacker called OSX/Mami. Aside from doing the usual malware-y routines, like stealing your information and using your computer for generally shady stuff, OSX/Mami is still undetectable by security software....

For example, if you had logic for numeric operations, you would normally want to have that functionality defined in one separate file. That separate file could then be re-used across multiple applications by just including that file. This is normally the concept of Include statements which are available in programming languages such as .Net and Java. This tutorial looks at other ways files (files which contain external HTML code) can be included in the main HTML file....

WWDC kicks off next Monday in San Jose, and Apple is busy preparing the McEnery Convention Center for a week of events. One of the most fun traditions — the raising of artwork and decorations — began Tuesday night and has been ongoing since. Since moving back to San Jose in 2017, Apple has found a new palette for art. This year’s banners and signage downtown are themed with similar neon elements first seen on the WWDC website and later in keynote invitations and the updated WWDC app....

With its horror-movie-inspired world and relentless action, the Castlevania game series always seemed like a prime contender to one day be adapted into a film. Despite attempts to get a Castlevania movie going, the traction has just never been there and it seems now that we will never see the game adapted for the big screen. However, thanks to Netflix, Castlevania will be coming to the small screen as an animated series from the producer of 2012’s Dredd (which could one day get its own animated sequel)....

Netflix’s The Stranger is an incredibly thrilling television show that has proven to be popular with viewers. The show is action-packed and full of twists and turns that take audiences on a wild journey. With several storylines being explored simultaneously, the characters within the show do some incredibly dark things. There are secrets, blood, and a lot of lies, bringing out the worst in many of the characters. While everyone involved is just an ordinary person, many of them make catastrophic decisions that cost lives and destroy others....

Delays in production could be affecting the iPhone 8 units as well as the iPhone 7S and iPhone 7S Plus, thus preventing the tech giant Apple from starting sending iPhones to the different markets on September 22nd as it has already been advanced. According to Wall Street Journal analysts, the tech giant Apple brand has faced tough challenges because of the design that was chosen for what is expected to be the best iPhone ever launched by the brand, of course, the tech giant Apple....

Nokia 5310: Design and Display To start with, the all-new Nokia 5310 takes a fresh approach with the design elements but still builds upon the old aesthetics. The phone has a rounded design and a curved edge around the display. There is a numeric pad along with a five-way navigation key giving the old-Nokia vibes. Moreover, it also includes dedicated music buttons, something found on the original Xpress music, to offer quick and easy controls while playing music....

A set of new renderings of the proposed Union Square Apple retail location was presented to the San Francisco Planning Department this week that show an updated design for the store’s entrance. The new renders depict the store with massive 23-foot wide sliding glass doors (which measure nearly 45 feet tall each) that a large section of the storefront to open to the street. Regular-sized doors on either side of the larger ones will allow customers to come and go if the main doors are closed....

The folks over at SamMobile have managed to once again their hands on a new Android 5.0 Lollipop firmware for the Galaxy S5 that is leaps and bounds better than the one that leaked earlier this month. The latest firmware is based on a new build of Lollipop — LRX02E — and comes with a plethora of changes. Check out the video below to see the new leaked Android 5....

As we move into post-pandemic and universally strive towards the next normal, Salesforce is sharing best practices in a playbook to help take incremental steps to reopen. We’ve learned from nonprofit leaders, that technology solutions and strategy are helping to knit together conversation across teams, from compliance to client services, talent development, donors and volunteers, to business and legal operations. New York Blood Center New York Blood Center (NYBCe), located in the epicenter of the pandemic, share their response to reopening, as well as reflections and advice for delivering on a mission today....

Yennefer is one of the star characters in Netflix’s The Witcher, one of the most powerful sorceresses on the continent — if not the most powerful. Her conventional, unarguable beauty came at a price though, when she had to give up the ability to create life. Although she chose to do so, determined for beauty so she could enchant people and work her way to the top in politics and through social networks, she later came to regret this choice and did everything to claw back her ability to make a baby....