[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=PTY–FKgUFQ] Two of the big names in slick, Mac-compatible audio interfaces have announced new products that OS X gearheads will want to take note of. While these two interfaces from Apogee and Focusrite include different feature sets and price points, both feature a polished, Apple design aesthetic and introduce features not currently available in the companies’ current audio interface lineups. Starting with the Quartet desktop interface by Apogee (which is widely considered to be the industry leader in digital audio interface technology), this new interface and control center for Mac is the company’s first to feature a USB MIDI connection....

If you’re in Australia, you’ll have a difficult time buying a new MacBook Air right now from Apple’s official online store. Apple has thrown up the “currently unavailable” label on the MacBook Air line, and it’s unclear when the machines will be available again for sale from the Australian store. Readers have informed us the Airs have been temporarily pulled because of a pricing glitch in the online store that allowed customers to purchase a MacBook Air with unlimited built-to-order customizations for the price of each corresponding base model....

A new mod finally added The Legend of Zelda’s Ganondorf to Super Smash Bros. 64 almost 20 years after the fighting game’s original release. Super Smash Bros. as a franchise has always delivered a smorgasbord of crossovers from across the gaming landscape, with the latest example of this being Persona 5’s Joker joining Smash as a DLC character. It’s been an exciting time to be a fan of the series, and there’s still a ton of mystery surrounding the next combatants that will be joining the series’ latest installment, Ultimate....

Brand availability—the cornerstone of an effective social customer care strategy—is often severely out of sync with people’s expectation. Twitter recently released a number of features that are primed to close this gap by enabling brands to more accurately demonstrate their availability and provide clearer options for people to directly reach them with questions. A number of leading brands who trust Sprout Social to power their Twitter customer care programs—including SoulCycle (@soulcycle), prAna (@prAna) and Evernote (@evernote & @evernotehelps)—are already benefiting from these new tools and, in turn, are providing more exceptional service to their Twitter community....

If you’re a parent wondering how you get your kids to read books when they’d far rather be using Instagram, the New York Public Library thinks it may have the answer … The WSJ reports that the library is, somewhat bizarrely, turning the Instagram app into an ebook reader. The library isn’t exactly rushing the project. Right now, it’s limited to one book – Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – and so far has plans for only two more....

The NFL is set to bring all of the musical performances from Super Bowl LIV, including the halftime show featuring Jennifer Lopez and Shakira to Apple Music and other services in a first of its kind “visual album.” Reported by Billboard, the release of the Super Bowl LIV performances will include the National Anthem by Demi Lovato and America the Beautiful by Yolanda Adams in addition to the halftime show....

The NFL will be launching a new NFL Now service later this month, and it will be coming to the Apple TV with a dedicated application, according to an image of the app in testing taken by an NFL employee. NFL Now was introduced in January, and it is a personalized NFL content application with on-demand highlights, extensive archives, and news broadcasts. Here’s the NFL’s official list of content coming to the NFL Now app:...

A former Apple Store employee has been charged with grand larceny and other crimes after allegedly using fraudulent credit and debit card details to purchase an incredible $997,000 worth of Apple gift cards in just three months. 24-year-old Ruben Profit is accused of carrying out the fraudulent purchases while working at the Apple Store in the Queens Center Mall in Elmhurst, the company’s first retail store in Queens. All of the purchases were made between August and October, reports NBC New York … Profit reportedly overwrote the data on the magnetic strip of the cards to emulate other cards – it’s not yet known how he obtained the card details to do so....

In this tutorial, we will help you to flash the stock firmware on Motorola Moto G31 XT2173-2. If you are someone who wants to restore the device back to factory firmware, then this guide is for you. By using this guide, you can fix certain software-related issues such as hard brick, soft brick, WiFi, or Bluetooth issue, fix lag or stutter or even you can downgrade the device anytime. The Need to Flash Stock Firmware on Motorola Moto G31 One common query that would come to your mind is why to manually flash the firmware when the device would be getting the OTA updates....

Motorola One Fusion is the latest launched device from Lenovo which was launched in the year 2020. The device came with Android 9.0 Pie out-of-the-box. The device recently received the Android 10 update. In this tutorial, we will help you to flash the stock firmware on Motorola One Fusion XT2073-2. If you are someone who wants to restore the device back to factory firmware, then this guide is for you. By using this guide, you can fix certain software-related issues such as hard brick, soft brick, WiFi, or Bluetooth issue, fix lag or stutter or even you can downgrade the device anytime....

The Motorola Razr 2019 model is a foldable smartphone that comes with pretty good hardware specifications. It brings the old signature Razr design into the light again after so many years. The device came with Android 9.0 Pie out of the box. The device recently received the Android 10 update. In this tutorial, we will help you to flash the stock firmware on Motorola Razr XT2000-2. If you are someone who wants to restore the device back to factory firmware, then this guide is for you....

Warning: SPOILERS for Incoming #1! Marvel’s next generation of mutants are being created by Mr. Sinister. Jonathan Hickman’s X-Men relaunch has seen the mutant race gather on the living island of Krakoa. They’re using a combination of Cerebro technology and mutant powers to resurrect every mutant who’s died in the past. So, how will Mister Sinister’s plan affect Krakoa’s growth? Naturally, Mr. Sinister is heavily involved in the process, and Charles Xavier has placed very specific restrictions upon his activities....

Fox Searchlight has officially scheduled Natalie Portman’s Lucy in the Sky for an October release date. In the wake of Disney finalizing its purchase of Fox’s entertainment assets in March, there was a whole lot of uncertainty about which upcoming Fox films would eventually see the light of day. After all, the studio and its subsidiaries had recently finished production on a number of movies, ranging from James Gray’s space adventure Ad Astra to Blue Sky’s animated feature, Spies in Disguise....

Netflix’s Dracula insinuates that the devious Count Dracula (Claes Bang) turned Mozart into a vampire - a shocking turn of events regarding how the legendary composer died. Created by the masterminds behind Sherlock, Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, Dracula aired on BBC One in the UK before streaming internationally on Netflix. Similar to Sherlock, Dracula season 1 is comprised of three 90-minute episodes loosely adapting the classic novel by Bram Stoker....

Ever since Netflix’s The Witcher, about a monster hunter, a princess, and a mage premiered, the memes have been as bountiful as the amount of times Geralt goes “Hmm.” The eight-part fantasy series, which has been described as a cross between Game of Thrones and the 90s show Hercules: The Legendary Journeys has proven to be a winner among both fans of the video games and novels surrounding the famous witcher....

Routers and Firewalls As we can see in the definition, routers are used to route the traffic from one network to another. It is the most common device to have in enterprise networks and it often contains many features that are of interest to a security professional. Stateful packet filtering is one of them. Home routers are often used a firewall too on the network level as most routers come with basic firewall features....

A new YouTube video (embedded below) showing the first browser designed for the new Apple TV has been published. The app uses a private API to render web content, so it’s not likely you’ll be seeing it on the App Store any time soon, but the project is open source and can be downloaded by anyone. The browser takes advantage of the Siri Remote bundled with the new Apple TV hardware to navigate websites....

Apple won’t announce a new piece of Apple TV hardware next week (as had been previously rumored), but AllThingsD says that Apple will debut some new software for the existing device. Of course, an Apple TV software update is already expected, but ATD says that there could be some neat new AirPlay-related functionality: The new Apple TV software update will also unlock iTunes Radio, the ability to setup an Apple TV over Bluetooth 4....

Instagram Version 8 for iOS Before I decided to download the latest Instagram update, I took one last look at the app in its previous iteration and said goodbye. The update, as always, is small at about 24 MBs. The immediate change is the new logo which has kicked off a storm of polarizing comments on social media. Some like it, some don’t, some say it reminds them of the Microsoft Zune logo....

Patricia Arquette’s film debut was in A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, in a role that was as important as Heather Langenkamp’s Nancy Thompson. Wes Craven’s A Nightmare on Elm Street was released in 1984 and quickly became a franchise with a total of nine films (so far), including a crossover with Friday the 13th’s Jason Voorhees and a remake in 2010. The franchise focuses on slasher Freddy Krueger, a child killer who was burned alive by the parents of his victims and returned from the grave to terrorize (and kill) teenagers in their dreams....