Star Wars has long been a multi-media franchise, as books, comics, and video games based on the popular films have been released over the last few decades. But now, with Lucasfilm under the Disney umbrella, all of this content is part of one large, overarching series canon. This means that, in Marvel Cinematic Universe tradition, #ItsAllConnected, giving fans extra incentive to pick up anything they can find. The Lucasfilm story group has done an excellent job of making sure the novels and comics aren’t just supplementary sideshows....

“We have to do better. Keep pressuring us and keep telling your story,” Taylor told a room of women at a Western Sydney Women International Women’s Day STEM event on Wednesday. Taylor continued saying that while government can “do lots of things” such as provide grants, establish programs, and talk about STEM, the “most powerful thing” that can be done is addressing the gender issue at grassroots level by women, who are already in the STEM field, voicing their concerns....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kusQK7PCXTM If Nuance gets its way with the just announced ‘Voice Ads’ mobile advertising platform, soon every mobile ad could include Siri-like functionality that lets you communicate with and ask questions about the product being advertised. Nuance, the company behind the voice recognition module now used in Apple’s Siri, today announced a new project to bring its voice recognition technology to the mobile advertising world. The basic concept of the new platform, which Nuance made available through an SDK for advertising companies, is to bring a two-way, interactive conversation to mobile ads....

The Obi-Wan Kenobi Disney+ series was originally going to be a movie, Ewan McGregor reveals. After years of rumors, Lucasfilm finally confirmed that the fan-favorite Jedi Master will be headlining his own project during this year’s D23 Expo. However, the actor shares that his Star Wars comeback project was supposed to play out on the big screen. Plot details for the Obi-Wan Kenobi project are still tightly kept under wraps, but it will take place eight years after the events of Revenge of the Sith....

In conjunction with the public release of macOS 10.14 Mojave, The Omni Group has today released a major update to its popular task management system, OmniFocus. As part of OmniFocus 3, the application gains tag support, a new Forecast view, and more. Headlining today’s update is support for multiple tags. Within OmniFocus 3, tags are relatively versatile and can be used to assign people, energy levels, priorities, locations, and more. Tags can also be given additional options: Active, On Hold, or Dropped....

Dubbed the “Swiss-army knife for QuickTime,” open source QuickTime component Perian is finally closing down shop. The team of the six-year-old project announced the news today on their website and said the project will retire 90 days after Perian’s final release. The team also said the final release is coming soon and “may or may not work” in the upcoming Mountain Lion, and it will feature a ton of fixes. Luckily, it does not look like Perian’s technology will be hung out to dry, because the Perian team plans to put the source code on Google Code or Github when the time comes....

HomeKit doorbells are like unicorns. Mythical and make-believe, yet they still hold a place in our imagination. But what if they were real? HomeKit doorbells, not unicorns, that is. Turns out they do exist, and they’re as magical as any HomeKit enthusiast would expect. Especially if you’ve been waiting for years to get your hands on one. Yobi B3 is the star of the HomeKit doorbell category. With an affordable price tag and a consumer-friendly design, Yobi is made to fill the massive gap left by Ring and other popular smart doorbells....

Remember MoviePass? The subscription service that initially let you watch unlimited standard movies every month and then crashed because it couldn’t afford to pay for all the movies? Well, it’s apparently making a comeback in a big way (maybe). After limiting its customers to three movies a month, MoviePass is today launching three new plans to hopefully earn your business back, according to TechCrunch. For those who want to pay $9....

Just after the new iPad Pro started arriving to customers last week, Zoom is ready to take advantage of the updated hardware. The popular video call platform has launched support for the handy new Center Stage feature that follows users as they move, a new Gallery view for all iPads, new developer support resources, and more. Zoom adopts Center Stage Zoom announced support for the all-new iPad Pro Center Stage feature in a blog post this morning:...

New MacBook Airs are right around the corner and just about everyone is expecting to see a Thunderbolt port, FaceTimeHD and Sandy Bridge processors. Apple could even update storage and RAM pricing. But what else could these new Airs have under the hood? Put your answers below and any additional items in the comments. New MacBook Airs with OS X Lion, Thunderbolt and Sandy Bridge in mid-July (9to5mac.com) All new Mac Pros and upgraded Mac minis with Sandy Bridge and Thunderbolt in early August?...

The tech giant published revisions to the advisory on February 17. Adobe originally issued an out-of-band patch on February 13 to resolve CVE-2022-24086, a critical pre-auth vulnerability that can be exploited by attackers to remotely execute arbitrary code. CVE-2022-24086 has been issued a CVSS severity score of 9.8. Adobe said the security flaw was being actively exploited “in very limited attacks targeting Adobe Commerce merchants.” Now, Adobe has added a further vulnerability to the advisory, CVE-2022-24087....

Apple is expected to release a variety of new Apple Silicon-powered Macs this year, including new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros. A new supply chain report from Digitimes today backs expectations that the new 14-inch MacBook Pro will use mini-LED backlighting and be released in the second half of the year. Today’s supply chain report focuses widely on Radiant Opto-Electronics, the supplier of the backlight units to various technology companies and automakers....

Toys “R” Us could be set for a comeback in the United States if the chain store’s new owners get their way. For many children of the ’80s and ’90s, visiting Toys “R” Us was an integral part of childhood and visiting the store itself was as vital to the overall experience as buying the item you wanted in the first place. A series of memorable TV advertisements and the popularity of mascot Geoffrey the Giraffe only served to embed the Toys “R” Us brand further into the social consciousness of the pre-internet era....

The start of a new year may be an arbitrary point in our planet’s orbit of the sun, but it can be a handy reminder to pick up some new good habits or drop some bad ones. A few years ago, I suggested a few tech-related new year’s resolutions, and I thought it would be timely to revisit these and make some additional suggestions … The suggestions I made before remain valid:...

Ok. Apparently there actually ARE Corporations? People? out there still running Windows 2000, because this week Microsoft released a new script to help migrate users and their data from Windows 2000 to Windows 7. It’s called the w2KMigUser script. Wow. Upgrade? Really? How do you expect to run Windows 7 on a 7-to-10-year-old machine? Now granted, perhaps the people Microsoft wrote this ‘upgrade’ for are using new(er) machines which can handle Windows 7....

Some cynics were claiming that Apple would delay the approval of Here Maps, but not to be. HERE Maps is available today for free download from the iTunes Store for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. What features do HERE Maps offer iOS users It seems that Nokia wants to create a much better than what we were used to have, and so, HERE Maps has quite a lot to offer to its users....

Data from the NPD group indicates that MacBook sales grew 16 percent year-on-year during the 10-week back-to-school period, measured from 4th July to Labor Day week. The most significant sales were seen during the last three weeks of the period, where sales were up 27 percent. Overall Mac back-to-school market share climbed from 24.2% last year to 26.8% this year, while Windows fell from 72.3% to 64.8%. The most dramatic growth, though, was seen in low-cost Chrome OS devices, up from 0....

BQ Aquaris X (codename: bardock) was launched in the year April 2017. The handset came with Android 7.1.1 Nougat. Are you looking to install the stable version of Android 8.1 Oreo. Recently this device has received the official TWRP recovery support. So, on this page, we will guide you to install the TWRP Recovery on BQ Aquaris X. This guide contains both written instructions and video tutorials to help you install it quickly....

Lenovo Yoga Tablet 10 HD+ (codename: b8080f) was launched in the year February 2014. The smartphone came out of the box with Android 4.3 Jelly Bean. Recently this device has received the official TWRP recovery support. So, on this page, we will guide you to install the TWRP Recovery on Lenovo Yoga 10 HD+. This guide contains both the written instruction and video tutorial to help you install it quickly. Make sure to download the files required and then jump straight into instruction on how to install TWRP Recovery and Root your Lenovo Yoga 10 HD+....

After the return of Arrow last night, next week will see some calm before the storm of the final few episodes as the relationships of our heroes are explored. All season long, Oliver and his new team have been grappling with the threat of Prometheus. Even after the reveal that he was Adrian Chase the whole time, things haven’t become any easier. Chase continued to play Oliver for a while, and last night’s episode proved that even with the public now aware of Chase’s alter-ego, hunting him down and fighting him isn’t an easy task....