Chris Pratt might be a big-time movie star, one capable of bringing cloned dinosaur franchises and third-tier comic book heroes to the top of the box-office heap, but he was once just a regular guy like everyone else. Okay not like everyone else, he also starred in the critically lauded sitcom Parks & Recreation. Sure, Pratt’s resume consists of much more than the charming comedy set amongst the “moderately well educated” residents of Pawnee, Indiana, but appearances in movies like Moneyball, Wanted, and The Five-Year Engagement are a far cry from the loveable lummox Andy Dwyer....

Google’s Chrome browser for iPhones and iPads is getting a whole lot faster and more stable today with its latest update. That’s because Chrome is now using Apple’s WKWebView rendering engine on iOS. Google says this update will reduce Chrome’s crash rate by 70% so the browsing experience will see fewer interruptions for various reasons. In the speed department, Google says the new version of Chrome is ‘dramatically faster’ as it should be on par with Safari web browsing now....

LAWeekly reports that a Los Angeles man has filed a class action lawsuit against Apple over the iPhone 4’s glass casing. He claims that his iPhone 4’s glass broke when his daughter dropped the device, three feet above the ground, while sending a text message. He says the iPhone 3GS he owns never had a glass breaking issue when dropped from similar heights. The man even claims that Apple “knows about the design flaw and refuses to warn consumers that “normal” use leads essentially to a broken phone....

We’re less than a week away from one of the biggest Apple events of all-time. Next week, Tim Cook will take the stage at the Steve Jobs Theater to officially unveil Apple’s three new iPhones to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the original iPhone back in 2007. This year’s flagship iPhone 8 will include a host of changes, some being radical departures from how we’ve grown accustomed to using our smartphones over recent years....

For every modern man, there is nothing that matters more than a smartphone. The launch of some cool gadgets in this category has attracted the attention of almost everyone and even those with a limited budget are now happily spending on smartphones. Well, there are several makers that are giving users complete freedom when it comes to their expectations. Nokia is one of them. It gives users an option to consider when it comes to neglecting the Chinese smartphones which are currently ruling several smartphone markets....

A German video editor has created a concept video (below) showing what he describes as ‘a simple and efficient macOS.’ What is depicted is a macOS/iOS hybrid, in which traditional app windows are largely replaced by iPad-style split-screen views. Thomas Weinreich argues that the old desktop metaphor is no longer relevant today … The video shows apps being dragged from the dock to left, right, top or bottom of the screen, and snapping into place....

Disney has unveiled the first-look image for Cruella. The Mouse House has produced several live-action remakes of its animated classics in recent years, with everything from The Lion King to the studio’s 1941 feature Dumbo getting a makeover. However, long before this current trend took off, the studio re-imagined its animated 101 Dalmatians movie as a live-action film. Released in 1996, the retelling starred Glenn Close as the iconic fur-loving villain Cruella de Vil....

Dawson’s Creek was a teen drama that focused on the lives of average teenagers. For the most part, all the main characters did not have a lot of money and lived an ordinary life. However, the show used their everyday existence to its advantage by making almost everything the characters go through relatable. Following Joey, Jen, and Jack out of high school and into college while simultaneously following Dawson at a film internship and Pacey working proved that everyone had their own path....

The first episode of DC Universe’s animated TV series, Harley Quinn will make its televised debut on TBS on Sunday, December 8. This comes on the heels of the show’s streaming premiere on Friday, where it was met with a warm reception from critics and fans alike for its high energy and campy, raunchy tone, both of which set it apart from far grimmer offerings from the long-standing superhero brand in recent years....

Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, the writers of each of the Deadpool and Zombieland movies have suggested a crossover between the two franchises would work perfectly. Zombieland: Double Tap, the decade-awaited sequel to the first movie, is released on Friday, and sees the return of its quartet of heroes as they try to survive the threat of evolving zombies, the aggression of other groups of survivors, and the increasing strain of each other....

Ryan Reynolds’ titular Deadpool antihero is the only character from Fox’s X-Men franchise not expected to get rebooted by Disney now that the deal is closed. Twentieth Century Fox first launched their X-Men film series back in 2000. In the nearly two decades since, the studio completed the original X-Men trilogy, kicked off a spinoff trilogy starring Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine and rebooted the franchise with its own prequel series. Further, in 2016 Fox released the first Deadpool movie, which was well received by fans and critics alike, becoming one of the most financially successful X-Men movies ever....

When errors show up, the next step is to figure out why. And although it might be tempting to seek help, it’s much better and easier to perform debugging. What is debugging? Debugging is a method that is used to change part of a previously written code in order to eliminate errors that were not caught at the time of syntax checking. It allows developers and authors to see the execution of each line of the code and stop at any of the lines to analyze the input, the variables and the values those variables carry at the time when the execution was terminated....

It’s only been a few years since Marvel and Netflix announced their historic deal to bring a number of the comic company’s street-level heroes to life in the MCU. Since then, we’ve been treated to two seasons of Daredevil, and one each from Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist. This summer, the core heroes and their supporting characters will all join forces for The Defenders, marking an effort nearly as impressive as when Marvel first brought The Avengers to the big screen....

Hackers of NY founder Dani Grant has discovered (via Engadget) a security flaw that enables Delta passengers to access the boarding passes of others, even those flying with different airlines like Southwest. Grant realized that she could share a link allowing anyone to download her boarding pass, and then change one digit in the URL and be presented with a completely different boarding pass belonging to someone else. But in case you were planning on ditching your family party in Maine to lay on the beach in Malibu these holidays, don’t get too excited....

In Destiny 2, there are many activities that are quite straight forward, and some that are nearly impossible to figure out alone. Guardians who have completed tasks on Dreaming City might have earned items called “A Small Gift” with a description that reads, “Smells faintly of mint.” These mysterious drops are earned randomly by completing activities and defeating enemies in this location. However, the game doesn’t explain their purpose at all....

Christopher Nolan’s mysterious event film casts BlacKkKlansman star John David Washington. Earlier this year, Warner Bros. slated the director’s next project for July 2020, but the general public has been kept in the dark about it ever since. Plot details are virtually nonexistent, with rumors about it potentially being a romantic thriller that mixes North by Northwest with Inception seemingly debunked. Still, Nolan’s involvement guarantees the movie will remain a point of interest amongst cinephiles as they patiently await official information....

Voice searching is all the rage on Android devices (and your Chrome desktop with this nifty extension) and at the same time we’re being promised new forms of software interactions stemming from the advancements in the natural language processing science. Our operating systems have basic speech-to-text capabilities, but it doesn’t work that great and we rarely use the feature in everyday computing. With Chrome 11, Google is taking a different approach, leveraging their vast computing power to deliver cloud-drive speech-to-text to HTML5 web apps, explains a blog post:...

Star Wars: The Clone Wars season 7 brings back the series’ true first villain: Admiral Trench. The spotlight has been on the more mainstream characters in the lead up to the grand finale of the show. Much further down the totem pole, below the likes of Ahsoka Tano and Darth Maul, lie less popular individuals that will make their return to the small screen in some capacity. One of the more notable characters is Admiral Trench, who, when taking into account the broken chronology of Clone Wars, is actually the show’s first antagonist....

I wrote a feature request back in 2015 calling on Apple to give Siri access to third-party apps. Six months later, Apple gave me part of what I’d asked for in the form of limited Siri support for six app categories. We’re now hearing that Apple plans to announce that it is expanding Siri support to more app categories, and there’s one of these that’s right at the top of my wish-list …...

Smartphones are the devices that play a different role in the life of different people. This is the reason different users across the globe have different choices. Some pay attention to a specific feature while choosing this gadget while for others every feature a smartphone is loaded with matters. Honor is one of the manufacturers of these gadgets that can be trusted if you are looking for something that is having multiple features with a perfect price range....