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Today’s the day: Apple is holding its “Spring Forward” event at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, California. This article contains the latest updates from the event in live blog style; all of our detailed individual stories from the event are now summarized at this link. The event officially began at 10 AM Pacific/ 1PM Eastern time, and our live coverage is below. – Anyone interested in MacBooks besides me or it is 100% Apple Watch day?...

A Newsweek magazine signed by Steve Jobs fetched far more than initial expectations at an auction this week. According to a report from CNET, the 1988 magazine was originally expected to go for between $10,000 and $15,000, but ultimately brought in $50,587. Meanwhile, Jobs’ BMW Z8 is predicted to fetch between $300,00 and $400,000 at auction in December… What’s arguably more interesting than the auction price itself is the story behind the magazine....

Over the weekend we reported that developer Niantic had put its Apple Watch app development on hold and therefore likely wouldn’t be making its previously promised end of the year deadline. Niantic attempted to shoot the story down with a vague tweet saying the app is coming soon, but it wouldn’t confirm its promised end of year release date. While many were quick to take the tweet at face value, we’re actually able to provide much deeper context…...

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvbRqpik2A0] Need for Speed Most Wanted: EA is out with the iOS version of its latest Need for Speed title today. It previously released Most Wanted for consoles and teased the iOS version, but now the app is officially on the App Store for $6.99. The game features over 35 customizable cars, touch and tilt steering, and EA Origin support to check leaderboards across platforms. Nike+ Kinect Training: Nike already has a few different iOS apps tied to its Nike+ gear....

A design competition from Netflix, Next in Fashion, challenged 18 fashion designers to consistently create quality clothing in a race to win $250,000. The prize was impressive, and so were the high levels of competitive spirit emanating from the contestants. Everyone on the show came to present what they could do, what they have already done, and qualities that they possess as a designer that would help them win. Although everyone wanted the grand prize, some that were more obvious in their approach....

As consumers, we rarely take note of where our products are coming from. However, sometimes we are made aware of issues in the production of our products. For instance, the use of sweatshops by clothing brands and technology manufacturers has led to a demand for a fairer work environment for those workers and greater pay. Additionally, recent climate activism has led some companies, such as Apple, to consider the recyclability of their products, causing them to include more recycled materials in their products....

Netflix’s Royal family-focused drama The Crown has cast Emma Corrin to play Princess Diana in season 4. The news comes not long after the announcement that Gillian Anderson of The X-Files fame will be playing none other than former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher aka. the ‘Iron Lady’ in season 4 of The Crown. Though season 3 of the historical drama has still yet to air, the two seasons are apparently shooting back-to-back, so the casting confirmations aren’t as premature as they might seem....

The world has been given its first glimpse of a new Pokémon, as CoroCoro has revealed the outline of the next Mythical monster that will appear in the upcoming pocket monster movie and in the expansions for Pokémon Sword & Shield. Game Freak announced that Pokémon Sword & Shield will have DLC, which will add two-hundred Pokémon to the game, including a mixture of returning Pokémon and brand-new ones. Amongst the creatures, the two expansions for Pokémon Sword & Shield (Isle of Armor and The Crown Tundra) will be adding new Legendary Pokémon....

To vanquish this conundrum, CloudMagic came up with an entirely new emailing platform. But it didn’t catch our eyes until recently when the app received a major facelift and was rebranded as Newton Mail. After spending a healthy amount of time with Newton Mail, I can safely say it’s possibly the most proficient email service out there but it comes at a price. Before delving into whether you should spend your dough on it, here’s what I think about the app....

Nest Mini The Nest Mini, apart from being a home assistant, is a speaker at its core and that’s exactly what Google has worked on and improved in this iteration. Google claims that original Google Home users have listened to billions of hours of music on the smart speaker and that is the primary use case in several houses. Hence, the emphasis on improving sound quality. The Nest Mini can output bass that’s twice as strong when compared to the last-gen Home Mini....

Ryan Murphy sets a September premiere date for The Politician. The comedy series marks the showrunner’s first original project with Netflix. The Politician will star Ben Platt, Zoey Deutch, Lucy Boynton, Jessica Lange, and Gwyneth Paltrow. Over the past 20 years, Murphy has created, produced, and directed numerous acclaimed TV series. From 1999 to 2001, Murphy’s teenage dramedy Popular aired for two seasons on The WB, and has since been recognized as a cult TV classic....

Netflix has confirmed that The Kissing Booth 2 is on its way, complete with the original cast. The 2018 adaptation of the YA novel by Beth Reekles was a big hit for Netflix, with Netflix CCO Ted Sarandos once commenting that the popular teen rom-com was one of the most watched films in the United States, if not the world. With that kind of hype behind it, it’s hardly surprising that a sequel was quick to follow....

A network discovery tool is a tool’s or software which is used to scan a network to discover all the devices on a specific network. These tool’s scan’s a range of IP addresses to show the live devices in a given network. You can also find the devices which are turned off subject to an IP address assigned to it. These tools can fetch details of wired as well as wireless connections....

SSH is assigned port 22 in both TCP and UDP. However, the protocol primarily runs over TCP due to its need for reliable communications, proper packet ordering and so on. A number of different SSH implementations exist, but the primary ones are OpenSSH (on *nix systems) and PuTTY and WinSCP on Windows Systems. The SSH protocol in Wireshark The main difference between SSH and Telnet is that SSH provides a fully encrypted and authenticated session....

Batman is a franchise that has been adapted into a variety of different games. Both video games and tabletops have been set in Gotham City, celebrating the Dark Knight along with his impressive rogue gallery and allies. Cryptozoic Games alone has five games (mostly deck building), that are explicitly Batman-inspired and a handful of others set in the larger DC Comics Universe, in which Batman and his associated characters feature heavily....

The latest build of its pre-release browser adds new power saving mode that can extend a laptop’s battery life by 50% or even more. The company claims that Opera 39 is better than today’s popular browsers. However, you can use this trick only when you activate new power saving mode which you can use when you run it on battery power. The company recently announced the addition of free and unlimited VPN to the developer preview version of its desktop web browser, and now Opera is back with a new announcement....

Windows 10 Redstone In our Understanding Windows 10 Editions, Architectures and Builds article, we discussed how versioning is now handled under Windows 10. The kernel version made a significant jump from Windows 8.1’s version 6.3 to 10, but the build numbers increased rapidly. Most recently, with the November Update, Microsoft changed to a build slicing methodology for how it has incremented the build number. If you check the Windows 10 About Dialog in the latest update, it is now described as OS version (1511) 10586....

The video streaming service has said that these games are available across the globe for Android devices. However, you can play it only if you are a Netflix subscriber, as there is no additional charge for playing games. Netflix Games Start Rolling Out on the Netflix Mobile App The company has posted a tweet saying the Netflix games for Android are now rolling out, while games for iOS will be coming soon....

Netflix’s Good Sam uses a good samaritan premise for a societal commentary about honesty and lies. In New York City, four people each receive a bag that contains $100,000. As news reporters seek out more details, different character motivations are revealed. Good Sam is mostly a feel-good story, but it doesn’t shy away from addressing dark societal truths. In Good Sam, Tiya Sircar stars as journalist Kate Bradley. She prefers covering the “bummer beat” rather than spending time on fluffy stories that aren’t necessarily “news....

Netflix’s I Am Not Okay with This cast brings to life the streaming service’s latest coming-of-age dramedy, and it’s led by an impressive set of young stars. The series by Jonathan Entwistle (The End of the F***ing World) and produced from the team behind Stranger Things is based on Charles Forsman’s graphic novel of the same name. The breakout star from 2017’s It, Sophia Lillis, serves as the show’s lead....