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We first heard about NBCUniversal’s upcoming streaming service, Peacock, back in September. We learned some initial details from The Hollywood Reporter but there wasn’t any information about pricing. Now it seems that NBC is considering making the service free for all with ads that could help as it’s set to compete with Apple TV+ and Disney+. The previous report from THR detailed that Peacock will include over 15,000 hours of NBC content including The Office and may launch in April 2020....

One of the most common criticisms and complaints about Netflix’s The Witcher has been the timelines. The show — at least, for the first season — made the controversial decision not to follow a linear narrative and instead explored the idea of converging timelines that are each set in different periods, meaning that people who expected a more cohesive story were lost and confused. Although many reviewers complained, the simple reality is that the show isn’t a “background watch” — it’s one that demands attention so you can follow where everyone is, catch the hints that the show drops to keep you clued in....

The new Xcode 9.1 beta has also been released by Apple today with support for the new operating system updates: iOS 11.1, watchOS 4.1 and tvOS 11.1. It also includes a more fully-fledged iPhone X simulator, which demonstrates the new lock screen and home screen experiences. There are also some onboarding videos, for things like activating Siri or revealing Control Center, which will be shown to iPhone X users upon setup …...

If you enjoy reviewing your cycle rides, runs or hikes in Strava, a new app lets you do this in augmented reality. Fitness AR projects a 3D terrain map of your path onto a table-top, and allows you to walk around it, viewing it from different angles, as well as move in close to check out details … You can also use the app to check out other people’s maps....

We learned yesterday that the 2018 MacBook Pros include Apple’s True Tone technology. What we didn’t know was that apparently this will also extend to Apple’s Thunderbolt Display, and the LG UltraFine 4K and 5K displays when plugged into the notebooks as well. According to a support document from Apple, all three displays will work with True Tone, just like the internal display. While the support document is fairly vague, it’s safe to assume that the notebook’s display will have to be open in order for this to work....

Nmap is well known for port scanning, port discovery, and port mapping. But we can do many more things by the Nmap NSE script. We can do email fingerprinting, retrieve a Whois record, use UDP services, etc. Discovering Geographical Location Gorjan Petrovski submitted Nmap NSE scripts that help us geo locate a remote IP address: ip-geolocation-maxmind, ip-geolocation-ipinfodb, and ipgeolocation-geobytes. This will show us how to set up and use the geo location scripts included with Nmap NSE....

No Time To Die is bringing Daniel Craig back as James Bond for the franchise’s 25th outing, and with it introducing a new Bond villain, played by Rami Malek. Set for release in April 2020, No Time To Die marks Craig’s final appearance as Bond. There are also a number of familiar faces, including Léa Seydoux’s Dr Madeline Swann, Jeffrey Wright’s Felix Leiter, Ralph Fiennes’ M, Ben Whishaw’s Q, and Naomie Harris’ Eve Moneypenny....

The Evleaks Twitter account, the same that posted the first pictures of the device last week, has a picture of the Lumia 920, together with the Lumia 820 and a wireless charging pad. The red device is the 820 and the yellow phone is the 920. Both will be running Windows Phone 8. Both smartphones will include the ability to be charged wirelessly, and not only with Nokia’s charging pad....

The Obi-Wan Kenobi series on Disney+ will take place eight years after Revenge of the Sith. After a plethora of rumors and reports detailing Ewan McGregor’s return to the Star Wars franchise, it was finally confirmed during last week’s D23 Expo the actor was coming back to the galaxy far, far away. Instead of a spinoff movie, as originally believed, McGregor will headline a TV show for the Disney+ streaming service....

What is Click-to-Run? Click-to-Run is a Microsoft application streaming and virtualization technology (App-V) which they acquired from a company named SoftGrid several years back. App-V allows system administrators to package an application in a virtual “bubble” and then deploy it in large quantities to their desktops. A great thing about App-V is the streaming technology allows users to begin the install and then almost immediately launch it while it’s still being streamed/installed on the desktop....

Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite (codename: daisy) was launched in the year July 2018. The phone came out of the box with 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 Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite. 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 installing TWRP Recovery and Root your Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite....

In this tutorial, we will show you the steps to unlock the bootloader on your OnePlus 10 Pro and relock it later on. OnePlus finally launched their new flagship device called OnePlus 10 Pro with Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 SoC equipped with a 120Hz AMOLED display. The device comes with triple rear cameras that house a 48 MP Sony IMX789 primary sensor with an f/1.8 lens OIS and a hole-punch display design....

But having recently bought a new mattress, I found myself musing on ‘free as in mattress’, which I find a particularly pungent metaphor for open source. I’ve always thought about it in terms of vetting the projects, libraries and dependencies you use in your code. Like a mattress you find on the side of the road, an open-source project with unknown provenance might be just what you need, or it might have some bugs that you don’t find out about until after you’ve brought it home and made it part of your infrastructure....

In ABAP/4 programming language, there are two types of SQL being used. NATIVE SQL OPEN SQL. Open SQL allows you to access the database tables declared in the ABAP dictionary regardless of the database platform that the R/3 system is using. Native SQL allows you to use database-specific SQL statements in an ABAP/4 program. This means that you can use database tables that are not administered by ABAP dictionary, and therefore integrate data that is not part of the R/3 system....

Writing on his .Net Addict’s Blog, a leading global .Net expert, Kevin Hoffman, wrote: “There is one thing that I can confirm without breaking any NDA: the iPhone is hands down, without a doubt, the single most powerful mobile development platform EVER.” His statement follows publication of the details of a .Net and iPhone comparative seminar Hoffman delivered at WWDC. Hoffman has written a series of books on Microsoft’s ....

Want to install the stock firmware on your Motorola One Fusion? then you are in the right place. In this guide, we will help you in installing the official stock firmware on Motorola One Fusion (codenamed astro) variant XT2073-1. Stock firmware comes in handy when you mess up your device to root it or install a mod or custom ROM. To be on the safe side, we always ask our users to download the official firmware on their PC and save it....

I’ve lost count of how many business models MoviePass has tried in an attempt to offer unlimited movie-going for a fixed monthly fee. Let’s see (I hope I have enough fingers for this) … There was $10/month for unlimited movies. Part of that model was selling location data on subscribers after they left the theater, but the company soon had to backtrack on that one. Then unlimited became four movies per month....

The myChevrolet app for iPhone gets a big update today that brings a handful of new features to drivers with supported vehicles, including a new ‘Energy Awareness’ feature for Bolt EV owners and support for Apple Watch. With the new Apple Watch support, OnStar customers will now be able to use the device to initiate remote commands for things like locks, remote engine start and stop, and horn and lights (as pictured below)....

A powerful pitch, regardless of the circumstances, requires preparation, proof of concept and a plan for execution. In this article we’ll walkthrough: Content themes that have potential for 2021 Using social data to prepare your pitch Showing how your idea supports business goals Packaging and presenting your pitch to get your team on board What’s the big idea? Inspiration for your social media marketing pitch In 2021, brands may be a bit more cautious with their content due to the pandemic and growing concerns around appearing out of touch or insensitive to consumers’ needs....

Earlier this year, 440,000 Nest Protect smoke and carbon monoxide detectors were recalled following the discovery of a critical safety flaw that could accidentally deactive the system. Today, Nest has put the Protect back on sale at a reduced price of $99—previously $129. However, the “wave” feature that allowed the user to disable the alarm with a hand gesture has been removed. In the blog post announcing the return of the Protect, the company boasted some of its safety statistics and recounted the story of one Nest Protect user who was alerted to the presence of carbon monoxide in his home by the device, which saved his life....