What would it take to evolve the Apple TV from a plastic $69 puck into a covetable device worth a premium asking price? A design collaboration between designers Martin Hajek and Andrew Ambrosino provides some compelling answers, borrowing Apple Watch and iPhone 6 design cues to re-imagine the Apple TV as a two-tone, metal-clad box with a matching color touchscreen remote. The remote can be used for basic icon-based navigation of the Apple TV’s apps, or flipped over to reveal a basic game controller....

The Bachelor host Chris Harrison has made it clear that he thinks The Bachelorette star Tyler Cameron is a good guy, but isn’t convinced he is necessarily right for being the next Bachelor. Chris thinks Tyler being spotted with former Bachelorette star Hannah Brown and supermodel Gigi Hadid all in one week might not bode well with his chances of being the star next season. Tyler’s love life has been since Hannah cut him off mid-proposal speech on The Bachelor to let him know she chose Jed over him....

We didn’t get any updates to Apple TV at WWDC this week like some were hoping for, but yesterday Comcast–one of the cable companies that has been rumored to be in discussions with Apple over a new and improved Apple TV service– unveiled its next-generation cable box arriving this fall. On top of a brand new UI and platform dubbed “X2”, the company also gave us a look at its revamped iOS apps & a new controller with voice control features that will let you search by actor, show type, series, etc....

Officially, AirPower was abandoned by Apple in March of last year, but that hasn’t stopped speculation about whether the company might be quietly working away behind the scenes in an attempt to resolve the issues. However, it’s now being suggested that Apple’s Solo Loop band might be confirmation that the company really has given up on AirPower for good. The reason: a closed-loop band wouldn’t be compatible with a lay-flat charger …...

We’ve seen a whole bunch of rumors of late suggesting that while Apple really wants to embed a fingerprint reader into the display of the iPhone 8, it is struggling to do so. The notion that Apple wants to use an embedded fingerprint reader seems abundantly clear. As I’ve mentioned before, we’ve had multiple reports from credible sources like Bloomberg, the WSJ and the New York Times. The claimed schematics and sketches have also all illustrated a design without any space for a Touch ID sensor at the bottom of the screen, and the volume of Apple patents makes it clear the company has been working hard on figuring out how to do it....

In the present time, everyone is addicted to something. Some addictions are good while some are simply not. Many people are struggling to end their unfavorable addictions. The fact couldn’t be denied that smartphones are pretty useful in this matter. They are helping everyone to improve the lifestyles simply by helping them neglecting their bad addictions. It is very much true that in addition to the actual task they perform, smartphones are pretty good in shaping the life of a modern man....

tvOS is missing a lot of tent pole features of the Apple ecosystem. It’s an excellent foundation, but it could use a lot of work. It often feels like tvOS gets left behind when Apple is working on its annual platform updates. It’s time for it to get a chance to shine. The first part of tvOS that you see is the Home Screen. Apple’s kept it fairly simple for a few years now....

Apple tries to improve iPad’s multitasking capabilities every year, making the system more powerful to perform multiple tasks simultaneously. But this has also raised questions about the usability of multitasking on the iPad, which has become increasingly complicated for some users. Features like Split View and Slide Over first appeared on iPad with iOS 9, which allowed users to use two apps on the screen at the same time. It was possible to quickly choose any of the installed apps to use them side by side, but this changed with iOS 11....

What is consent phishing? To understand consent phishing, you need to understand the mechanisms it relies on, namely: The user’s urge to click The OAuth 2.0 protocol The urge to click Cybercriminals put the human factor to great effect in social engineering exercises. We humans (the computer users) are trained to use the internet by clicking links; click the link to get to the next stage of whatever you were trying to do....

Apple is reportedly on the verge of adding another supplier to its tablet-making process. Component supplier Coretronic is said to have won the iPad backlight module contract, industry sources tell. trade publication DigiTimes. Coretronic is a Taiwanese firm whose backlight modules are used in a number of products, including LED TVs. The news suggests Apple is moving aggressively to put an end to those pesky display problems reported by some early iPad 2 adopters…...

Kogan owns and manages a portfolio of domain names, including bitbuy.com. Under the sales agreement, Kogan will receive $1.5 million in cash and a warrant entitling the company to approximately CA$2.8 million in either equity in First Ledger or cash upon exercise of the warrant, which will occur within a year of the domain name being transferred to First Ledger. “The domain sale not only delivers returns for Kogan shareholders but also provides an opportunity to benefit from Bitbuy’s future success in the crypto business abroad and potentially in the Australian market,” Kogan executive director David Shafer said....

1. Email security trends coming in 2022 Organizations are under constant threat of cybercrime. While there are many available attack vectors, email is the most obvious path towards a full network compromise. Read more » 2. Vulnerability in UpdraftPlus plugin exposed millions of WordPress site backups A high-severity vulnerability in the UpdraftPlus WordPress plugin can allow an attacker to obtain website backups that could contain sensitive information. Read more » 3....

(Cross-posted from our sister site 9to5Google.com) The Google I/O 2011 annual developer conference runs today and tomorrow at the San Francisco’s Moscone West. The morning keynote has just wrapped up and we advise you to check out our sister site 9to5Google.com for the complete coverage. Of course, our own Seth Weintraub was at the show. Apart from walking away from the keynote with a free Samsung Galaxy tablet (you get what you pay for), he spotted Jay Freeman, also known as Saurik – the brains behind the Cydia unofficial app store....

One excellent measuring tool regarding security is how well an OS can protect data. This article examines the subject matter in question from three perspectives: Data backup Data encryption Additional data security measures Data backup Before you even proceed to encrypt your data, you should first make a secure copy of it and store it in a safe and trusted place. A clean installation restore point for your Windows 10 can spare you much time....

A lot of mainstream viewers are put off by the films of David Lynch because they don’t play like traditional narratives. Rather, Lynch recontextualizes genre tropes, employs surreal symbolism that takes a lot of analysis to make sense, and edits non-sequitur sequences to play like dreams to unnerve his audience. This has made him one of the most important directors of his time, even if he’s not one of the most famous....

Like a lot of the dramas featuring teen characters in the late ‘90s, Dawson’s Creek changed how television approached teenagers. The show ushered in a wave of television programs aimed at teens instead of families. Without Dawson’s Creek, fans wouldn’t have had shows like Pretty Little Liars, The Vampire Diaries, or One Tree Hill. The teenage characters in the series were a combination of wise beyond their years and naive to the ways of the world....

During a recent interview, the renowned video game designer Hideo Kojima explains why he chose to make Death Stranding’s players feel helpless at the beginning of the game. The enigmatic exploration video game is Kojima’s first creation since he parted ways with Konami after working there for 29 years and designing some of the most popular video games of all time, including the Metal Gear franchise. In 2015, Kojima launched his own game studio and agreed to a partnership with Sony....

In this tutorial, we will show you how to remove bloatware as well as ads from Redmi Note 9S. The device is a rehashed version of the Redmi Note 9 Pro which comes with Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G paired with up to 6GB of RAM. Redmi Note 9S packs a quad rear camera 48 MP main camera accompanied by an 8 MP wide-angle camera with a 119-degree field of view, a 5 MP macro lens, and a 2 MP depth sensor....

Most of the claimed parts leaks to date have been for the iPhone 8, but there are a few photos purporting to be of iPhone 7s components. These include shots of the A11 chip destined for this year’s top-end iPhone, also reported to be used in the 7s. A logic board photo sent to us by a source tallies with one posted earlier … Benjamin Geskin tweeted a logic board photo which is an exact match for separate photos we’ve received, and is also consistent with past models....

Today’s KGI report is just the latest piece of evidence that Apple has serious plans to somehow work with 3D space. Acquisitions, supply chain reports, patents and even comments by Tim Cook all add up to a definite interest in something in the 3D space. The question is: what? There’s a lot of confusion surrounding terminology, so we thought it would be a good idea to start by distinguishing between the various terms being thrown around in this space – Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR) and Mixed Reality (MR) – before discussing Apple’s interest in 3D …...