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I'm sure I don't need to remind anyone of who Tom Hanks is. The man who gave us things like Philadelphia, Forrest Gump, Saving Private Ryan, Cast Away, Captain Phillips and Sully, just to name a few. Now Hanks has a new movie and this release will be unique, but also a sign of the times we’re living in. With theaters closed Sony
Twitter announced that it is testing new conversations settings. These settings give the person who posts a tweet more control over who can reply to it. Individual users will have the ability to choose who can reply to their tweet and who can join that conversation. Before you Tweet, you'll be able to choose who can reply with three options:
Certain states are seeing massive employment fraud with millions of dollars being stolen giving the FBI a lot of work to do to chase down those involved. Often leading to those that have been talked into letting them use bank accounts of those in romance schemes. Your show support at this time is doubly appreciated as we had a pretty
Apple announced its approach to reopening Apple Stores. They have created a Find a Store search tool that people can use to find out if the Apple Store near them has reopened. Apple is making changes in an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19. In every store, we're focused on limiting occupancy and giving everybody lots of room, and
It has been a while since Amazon updated its tablets, but that’s about to change. The company sort of snuck this by with no post to the official blog. They have, however, come up with an update to the Fire 8 tablets. In an announcement sent to us the company says it will be releasing new Fire tablets soon. The next generation of its Fire HD 8 tablet
Facebook has acquired GIPHY to be part of the Instagram team. GIPHY was created in 2013 with the goal of making communication more fun. GIPHY announced that it will be joining the team at Instagram. This makes sense, considering that GIPHY's stickers had already been added to Instagram stories, and their GIF search is accessible in Instagram direct messages. Facebook
The U.S. Department of Commerce unveiled a new rule that expands U.S. authority to require licenses for sales to Huawei Technologies of semiconductors made abroad with U.S. technology, according to Reuters, who was the first to report this. The new rule will enable the United States to vastly expand its ability to halt exports to Huawei Technologies. Part of the
Apple Inc. confirmed to Bloomberg that it has acquired NextVR. Bloomberg reported that NextVR is a Newport Beach, California, startup. 9to5Mac reported that NextVR provides VR experiences with headsets from PlayStation, Oculus, HTC, Microsoft, and Lenovo headsets. It also holds patented technology that that it uses to support high quality video streams of music and sporting events to VR headsets.
Congress has failed to curve and of the spying as it relates to any foreign and intelligence that is collected against American citizens. They talk a big game but as soon as the public is not looking they continue on with the status quo. Big shout out to my brothers and sisters from the Navy that have been joining the
Xiaomi have certainly been busy in the past few weeks, releasing updated versions across its product line - Redmi, Mi and now Poco, with the release of the F2 Pro. It's a replacement for the Pocophone F1 and is now just branded Poco, which is a definite improvement over something that sounds like Pokemon. Having said that, this is not
Elon Musk is going to open his factories against the Alameda County health official and told employees willing to report to work. If Walmart can be open why cannot other businesses be open within reason is what I say. Time to get the country rolling again while we have a country left to go back to work to. Your show
DEF CON 28 announced their in-person event that was scheduled to take place August 6-9, 2020, has been cancelled. Black Hat also announced that it has cancelled its in-person event, which would have taken place August 1-6, 2020. This is likely not a surprise to most people, considering the number of events that have either cancelled, or postponed, due to
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