An Apple patent for a hi-tech car seat describes how the technology could solve a problem created by existing hi-tech car seats … We may or may not ever see an actual Apple Car, but the company is certainly developing some interesting technology which might someday make it into cars made by other manufacturers. One possibility is a solution to a problem created by the number of different motors in some high-end car seats....
The wizarding world of Harry Potter is one of the most inventive and richly realized fictional universes in the history of fiction. There are hundreds of little details in the wizarding world that are just waiting to be discovered by Harry Potter lovers and fans. It’s no big surprise that one of the most popular elements of the wizarding world is the magical community’s favorite sport, Quidditch. Quidditch makes a lot of brief appearances in the Harry Potter film and book series, but this unique game actually has an extremely rich and detailed history....
Many smartwatches have built-in sleep trackers to help identify problems and improve sleep habits. They’re made to be worn to bed. This may not be the best practice, as one Samsung Galaxy smartwatch owner woke up with burns on his wrist. Tap or click here for the full story and tips on preventing incidents like this. Do you trade in your old smartphone when purchasing a new one? It’s a common enough practice today, but you didn’t always have that option....
While macOS Big Sur has been available to the public since last week, some users have reported that they were unable to install the latest version of Apple’s desktop operating system on their Mac computers. More specifically, macOS Big Sur is having compatibility issues with some older MacBooks, and if you’re facing this issue, Apple today shared some ways to fix that. The company published a new support article on its official website confirming that some users are unable to install macOS Big Sur on 13-inch MacBook Pro models launched in 2013 and 2014....
Yep. Links to Quicktime movies. Full 480×320. Full stereo sound and amazing video clarity. They also start up right away and play fully without having to catch up if you are on relatively speedy Wifi enabled Internet connection. So what is stopping us from taking our incredibly diverse .mp4 movie collection and putting it on the web? Not much really. Just point your Web Server directory to the folder that has your media files....
Hideo Kojima addressed the Death Stranding walking simulator criticisms that have been making the rounds on social media ever since the lengthy Death Stranding TGS 2019 trailer, and the game’s creator believes those comparisons are unfounded and born out of misunderstanding what the title is trying to do. Death Stranding has been misunderstood for virtually its entire existence thanks to its cryptic environment, storytelling, and gameplay designs - and Kojima has been happy to lean into those mysteries when it comes to defining the game, often characterizing it as its own “stranding” genre that will change the gaming industry....
Fresh off the heels of Death Stranding, Hideo Kojima recently announced on Twitter he is looking to dip back into the horror genre for his next project. This would not be Kojima’s first venture within the world of horror, as he was also responsible for one of the most highly regarded horror game concept pieces of all time. That game was the iconic P.T., which wasn’t even a full-length title but instead simply a demo experience which could take players anywhere from one to four hours to complete....
All Superheroes must be brave and chivalrous, right? Gryffindors for sure. That’s not how it always ends up. Tony Stark is far more of a Slytherin or Ravenclaw than a Gryffindor. Well, the characters on HBO’s Watchmen are just as diverse as the Hogwarts houses themselves. Many of the Watchmen characters aren’t heroes, but even the ones who are would not all end up housemates at Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry....
Legendary actress Helen Mirren has spoken out against Netflix. Mirren’s slam of Netflix is yet another event shining a spotlight on the streaming service. The fixated attention on Netflix has been a mixed bag of positive and negative topics, between cutting ties with Marvel, an increase in subscription prices, and renewals of beloved original series. In 2007, Netflix evolved from a red envelope in the mailbox into a streaming service that would dominate the TV set of millions....
A solution that is taking root is to hire a virtual executive — someone who works for a managed service provider or executive services firm and who is contracted by an organization to provide X hours per week of C-level services (alternatively, it might be on a retainer with no specified number of hours). Where to find virtual CISOs Companies such as Fortium Partners, Ntiva and IT Support Guys provide C-level and other personnel....
Apple has officially released iOS 9 and watchOS 2 to the public and today we’re getting into a rundown and our first impressions of the new features that come along with these updates. If you’d like to find out more about the top features in iOS 9 you can check out our full rundown here. The Happy Hour podcast is available for download on iTunes and through our dedicated RSS feed....
This week Benjamin and Zac discuss the new Beats Studio3 Wireless headphones, iOS 11.0.2 for iPhone 8 and watchOS 4.0.1 for Apple Watch Series 3, Apple Pay Cash testing, Nike+ Run Club’s watchOS app update, running with streaming music on watchOS 4.1, HomeKit updates including Philips Hue and Chamberlain products, the Sonos One event and AirPlay 2 support, HomePod’s latest competition, and more. New episodes of Happy Hour are available every week....
Harry Potter is one of the most wildly successful franchises in existence. The story of the boy who lived captivated millions, first as a book series and then later over the course of eight films. While most fans appreciate the books and the movies for their respective merits, there are plenty of book fans who think the movies did a fairly poor job of representing the intricacy and beauty of Rowling’s world....
In the fictional world of Harry Potter, there has never been nor will there probably ever be another evil, existential threat like Lord Voldemort. This boy who came from even more humble beginnings than Harry went on to become the most powerful and dangerous dark wizard in the history of the wizarding world, and he nearly destroyed everything in order to take all of the power for himself. While Voldemort is the villain to end all villains in the Harry Potter film series and absolutely one of the most powerful baddies of all time, there are still other movie villains who have Lord Voldemort’s number....
Slytherins are often thought to be evil in the Harry Potter series, but that’s an oversimplification of the truth. More importantly, individuals sorted into Slytherin need to exhibit qualities such as cunning, resourcefulness, and ambition. These traits were highly valued by Salazar Slytherin, the founder of Slytherin house and one of the four founders of Hogwarts. Such qualities led students like Tom Riddle down dark paths, where he eventually became the wicked Lord Voldemort....
The final list for Emoji 11.0 has been finalized and it features 157 new emoji. The Unicode Consortium has announced that among the latest emoji will be superheroes, redheads, partying face, hot face, cold face, infinity, and much more. As reported by Emojipedia, the Emoji 11.0 update will likely arrive to users in the second half of 2018. Apple typically updates its emoji in the fall after new iOS releases, last year we saw the 10....
Early adopters of Apple’s HomeKit home automation framework tend to notice one thing early on: there’s no real UI beyond Siri. HomeKit helps bridge functionality between various smart home accessories which tend to each have their own connected apps using Siri, but Apple hasn’t released a Home app in the same way it made Health for HealthKit. Instead, users rely on a folder full of third-party apps from accessory makers, some of which are better than others, or a highly functional but somewhat pricey third-party app called Home to give HomeKit the UI it needs....
Hannibal season 1 episode 2 introduced a new take on the ultimate nightmare journalist Freddie Lounds. While he’s a good deal more sophisticated than A Nightmare On Elm Street’s Freddy Krueger and way chattier than Halloween’s Michael Myers, Hannibal Lecter is still a horror icon. Despite making his screen debut in 1986’s Manhunter - played by Brian Cox - it wasn’t until Anthony Hopkins played Hannibal in The Silence Of The Lambs that he became a pop culture sensation....
Birds of Prey has wowed critics, but it probably hasn’t gone down too well with fans of Oracle. Currently sitting pretty as one of the DCEU’s best-reviewed efforts, Birds of Prey centers around Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn following her breakup with The Joker, while also introducing other DC heroines such as Huntress and Black Canary. The basic premise sees the titular superhero group forced to come together after each being individually targeted by Ewan McGregor’s Black Mask, and what follows is a colorful and crazy thrill ride that charts the origins of the DCEU’s Birds of Prey....
Sybil Trelawney spent most of her witchy career as the much derided Professor of Divination at Hogwarts, and it certainly seemed like her particular brand of prophesying was about as accurate and useful as the fortunes in fortune cookies. But little to anyone’s knowledge, Professor Trelawney actually did have the ability to see into the future. Sybil seems to have only had one moment of true future sight, and Albus Dumbledore was the only one who witnessed it....
