Time Warner Cable today announced a new smartphone app that will let its customers use their home phone service on mobile devices for no additional fees. That means that users with a Time Warner Cable home phone service, which starts at $10/month, can now text and call through the new Phone 2 Go app on smartphones and tablets. The service requires a Wi-Fi or cellular data connection and will also work for international calling and texting:...

The PlayStation 5 has appeared on the horizon, and the president of Sony is personally overseeing the games that he believes will either make or break the system. There have been rumors circulating about the PlayStation 5 and how fast it is for a year now, along with leaked designs and patent documents that hint at it being a powerful piece of hardware. Sony officially announced the PlayStation 5 with a Holiday 2020 release window as part of a statement that revealed a lot of information about the hardware within the new console....

A new survey by research organization Pew Internet & American Life Project depicts how Apple’s iPad slid from 81 percent in 2011 to 52 percent in 2012, in terms of U.S. adult tablet ownership, due to lower-priced Android slates steadily gaining traction. Pew’s Journalism website elaborated: Android-based devices are now at 48 percent overall: approximately 21 percent own the Android-forked Kindle Fire, 8 percent own the Samsung Galaxy, and the remaining is a mix....

Star Wars fans don’t have to worry about not getting content from their favorite franchise for the rest of 2019, as its dominating the final weeks of the year. Star Wars began its run in 1977 with Star Wars: A New Hope, followed by Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back and Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, forming what’s collectively known as the “original trilogy”. The franchise continued expanding and a prequel trilogy was released between 1999 and 2005, with the sequel trilogy beginning in 2015 with Star Wars: The Force Awakens....

Planet Terror presented an apocalypse triggered by the leak of a biochemical weapon that turned people into deformed, disgusting zombies, but what exactly is DC2? Planet Terror is Robert Rodriguez’s contribution to the horror double feature Grindhouse, with Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof being the other half of the project. The purpose of Grindhouse was to bring back the experience of watching exploitation film double features, which were characterized by poor print quality visuals and the use of themes that messed with viewers’ sensitivity....

For those unfamiliar, there are two key components to Plex. First and foremost, the service allows users to host their own libraries of TV shows and movies, and access those libraries remotely. Plex has also been expanding and debuted its own streaming service in 2019, offering users a variety of free TV shows and movies. It’s the latter component of Plex that is now available in the TV app and via Siri....

Plugable’s latest release is a Thunderbolt 3 NVMe SSD that uses a PCIe connection. The external drive features an aluminum design, speeds up to 2400 MB/s, an integrated Thunderbolt 3 cable, and more. The company is also doing a launch special, taking up to $100 off the new SSDs. The Thunderbolt 3 NVMe External SSD was announced in a press release today: Plugable Thunderbolt 3 NVMe External SSD highlights: Portable aluminum design Thunderbolt 3 interface with integrated 7-inch/18 cm 40Gbps Thunderbolt 3 cable 1TB/2TB NVMe Solid State storage with PCIe Gen3 x4 link Sequential transfer speeds of 2400+ MB/s read and 1800+ MB/s write 36-month warranty Read more about the new Thunderbolt 3 NVMe External SSDs on Plugable’s website and the video below....

Niantic, the developers of the highly popular augmented reality (AR) game Pokémon Go have been making efforts to allow fans to enjoy the game even indoors during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. For example, there is the much-acclaimed Battle League in Pokémon Go. Once designed to enable local players and friends to face off against each other, it now allows everybody across the globe to participate in edge-of-the-seat competitive matches against each other....

Working alongside cybersecurity company Responders.NU, the Dutch National Police obtained 150 decryption keys from ransomware group Deadbolt. With the decryption keys now in the hands of law enforcement, some victims of Deadbolt ransomware attacks can retrieve encrypted files and servers without the need to pay cyber-criminal extortionists. According to the Dutch Police, Deadbolt ransomware attacks focus on networked-attached-storage (NAS) and have encrypted more than 20,000 QNAP and Asustor devices around the world, with at least a thousand of those in the Netherlands....

SwiftKey, the popular alternative keyboard for iPhone and iPad, is out today with a big update that adds a ton of new emoji characters and other improvements. SwiftKey version 1.3.3 includes support for choosing the skin tone of human emoji characters, adds new flag and family emoji, and even features the Vulcan Salute emoji without needing it add it yourself. Apple first brought these new emoji characters to the iPhone and iPad through iOS 8....

Apple has systematically removed many time-tracking / parental control over the last year, leading to a bevy of upset developers whose businesses have been crippled, and even an antitrust lawsuit. In an email to a MacRumors reader, Apple’s Phil Schiller explains that Apple is pulling third-party screen time apps that abused the MDM (mobile device management) system to track all data and activity on a children’s device to be able to present that information to parents who have downloaded these apps....

Best Reviews, a site that guides consumers on best products (including best password management apps) and services, points out that fake password reset emails are actually one of the oldest internet scams. The scheme is actually effective as it bets on the fact that users are very often asked to update their passwords periodically; therefore, these requests can seem legitimate. There are, however, ways for users to recognize the scam and defend their system....

Pokémon fan? Here is some good news for you then. Pokémon GO, the much-anticipated augmented reality game developed by Niantic and backed by Nintendo, is making its way to the Google Play Store right now. With the game, you can relive your days of playing and watching Charizard, Pikachu, and other Pokémon that you used to adore back then. Your aim in the game is pretty simple: discover all the Pokémon around you, join one of the three teams, and battle it out for prestige and ownership of Gyms....

A few more Pokemon Sword and Shield monsters officially have plushies on the way, and they would make for some super effective gifts this holiday season. It’s been a weird time to be a fan of the Pokemon franchise, with massive controversy surrounding the titles ahead of their release. The initial problem some gamers had with the games was the confirmation that Sword and Shield would cut the National Dex, meaning that not every pocket monster would be returning....

Past versions of tvOS have suggested that Apple is planning a new version of the Apple TV. For instance, tvOS 13.4 includes references to a new Apple TV model with Apple’s A12 or A13 processor. For comparison’s sake, the current Apple TV is powered by the A10 Fusion chip. Previous reporting also indicated that the new Apple TV will include HDMI 2.1 input, which makes improves specifically targeting latency and fast-moving content for gamers....

Popular to-do list application Clear today has been updated to finally add support for the iPhone X display. The update also brings new ‘teaser themes’ and removes support for the Clear Apple Watch app. Despite the iPhone X launching some 10 months ago, only today has Clear been updated to support the device’s 5.8-inch OLED display. With today’s update, Clear now takes full advantage of the display, as opposed to letterboxing around the top and bottom....

A new We the People petition has been created urging the White House to “halt efforts that compel Apple and other device makers to create a “backdoor” for the Government to access citizens data” (via MacReports). The petition comes as Apple CEO Tim Cook this week penned an open letter detailing why the company is resisting a demand from the FBI to unlock a device belonging to a suspect in the high profile San Bernardino shooter case....

The Tech Block on Thursday shared an email exchange between Apple marketing chief Phil Schiller and the website’s founder Abdel Ibrahim that pokes fun at Google Glass for its perception of being an unstylish device. The emails from 2012 surfaced just days after Google announced that it will be ending its Glass Explorer program on Monday as it works on a new version under the leadership of Tony Faddell. After being sent a picture of actor Steve Martin wearing obnoxious looking glasses in the film “The Jerk,” mocking Google co-founder Sergey Brin wearing Glass, Schiller responds to Ibrahim saying “that is very funny” and that he “can’t believe they think anyone (normal) will ever wear these things....

As mentioned by the research team, the malicious file — a Windows DLL — called oci.dll is dropped into the Windows system folder via other malicious vectors explored early by criminals or even by another malicious process running on the target machine. In this case, the DLL is not loaded into the memory using the rundll32.exe utility but using DLL sideloading / DLL hijacking technique. This technique is very popular in the malware landscape, and several types of malware, such as Javali trojan, are using it to perform its operations....

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