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Downloading Netflix shows for offline viewing is going to get a little easier. The company has announced that an auto-download feature is available for the Android app from today, and will be added to the iOS app later in the year … Buzzfeed reports that if you’re watching a series, the feature automatically deletes watched episodes, then downloads the next one in line. Netflix says the feature is mostly aimed at public transit commuters who may have limited or poor network coverage during their journey....

Netflix users can skip Donald Trump jokes in Seth Meyers’ new stand-up special Lobby Baby. As host of NBC’s Late Night talk show since 2014, Meyers has gradually grown in popularity over the years and gained particular notoriety for his political humor. As host of SNL’s Weekend Update, Meyers spent one year co-anchoring the iconic sketch comedy series’ news segment before becoming the solo anchor for six years. In total, the comedian spent thirteen years at SNL, and it was undoubtedly during this time that he honed his politically-charged comedy....

Medical drama New Amsterdam is currently airing its second season after capturing viewer attention with its great first season, along with a cliffhanger ending. The series stars Ryan Eggold as Dr. Max Goodwin, an unconventional medical director of the New Amsterdam Medical Center who, faced with his own cancer diagnosis, is hell-bent on making the hospital a better place, focused on serving its patients to the best of their abilities, beyond the red tape of bureaucracy....

Curved is out today with a fresh look at what Apple’s alleged high-end, over-ear headphones could look like. With a heavy dose of HomePod inspiration, touchscreen controls, wireless charging, and more, this concept by Martin Hajek goes all out. The concept we saw for Apple’s rumored over-ear headphones last month was a bit clunky and looked like re-branded Beats headphones. However, Curved’s vision (translated) offers a sleeker, HomePod aesthetic with a minute long video....

The rise of streaming music has not been met with praise from some in the music industry. While a handful of artists have continued to resist the platform and push album purchases, a mid-year update from the Recording Industry Association of America shows that streaming music is helping the struggling industry get back on track. All in all, the music subscription industry is on track to surpass $2 billion by the end of this year thanks to services like Apple Music and Spotify....

The updated versions of iPhoto, iMovie, and GarageBand are now making their way onto the Mac App Store. The icon for iPhoto has been updated on the store, but it’s still displaying “iPhoto ’11” at this time. The latest version released today, 9.5, is available though if you press the install or update button. Update: For those with boxed/retail versions of iLife, Apple is slowly rolling out the ability to upgrade for free....

Back in Fall 2010 a patent from Apple detailing a new ‘Smart Bezel’ feature for the iPad emerged. This new bezel is said to be a touch-sensitive gesture area surrounding the iPad’s display. Now, with the iPad being rumored to lose the stationary home button, it would make sense that Apple would implement something similar to what is found in the ‘Smart Bezel’ patent. Adding credence to this Patently Apple has uncovered yet another patent relating to the smart bezel and this patent features a tablet device with the new bezel, but the drawing does not include the home button....

Between glue and solder, there was no easy way to remove the battery or ram. The solid state disk is non-standard dimensions. Opening the case requires a proprietary screwdriver thanks to pentalobe screws. The display assembly is also stuck. Conclusion? For a $2,200 device, don’t expect to be doing any of the repair work yourself. With this iteration of the MacBook Pro, Apple will require you to take it in to them to handle any of the dirty work....

A brand new Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Chinese trailer is released and it features new footage, including the introduction of a space monster. In less than a month, the final installment of the Skywalker saga will grace the big screen, wrapping up the beloved franchise’s nine-film main saga. Directed and written by J.J. Abrams, plot details for The Rise of Skywalker have been tightly under wraps with Disney and Lucasfilm running a measured marketing campaign....

The New York Times has won a Pulitzer Prize for its iEconomy series of exposés of alleged unsavoury practices by major corporations, with Apple a key target. Fortune described the series as a cynical push aimed specifically at winning a Pulitzer by choosing to pick on “high tech’s fattest target”: Whatever the case, the Pulitzer committee found it a winner over other finalists: The Post and Courier of Charleston, S.C., for stories on the insurance industry and Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter Dan Egan reporting on what it would take to protect the Great Lakes from invasive species, including Asian carp....

And here we thought that official confirmation of Matt Reeves signing on to direct The Batman was going to be the reward holding Dark Knight fans over as a sign the DCEU - and the corner in which Bruce Wayne resides - was moving in the right direction. But now, word has arrived that Batman’s former sidekick, Dick Grayson, is bound for the spotlight in a movie all his own....

Gaming continues to become ever more immersive and innovative with new advances like 3D gaming and VR. The industry continues to push the envelope due to ever-evolving customer interests and competition. The advances have been mind-blowing over the past decade turning Pong into a billion-dollar industry. The latest advances have taken gamers from the living room to the street with the ability to unplug and play on the go. The Nintendo Switch, which debuted this month, is the latest mobile console to hit the market....

Angela Ahrendts has told Apple Store staff that the Apple Watch is unlikely to be available for in-store purchases before June – but they should expect the usual ‘blockbuster launches’ in retail stores for future products. In a memo to retail store staff, Apple’s retail head thanked staff for making the try-ons “unforgettable,” told them customer feedback had been “overwhelmingly positive” and that the online-only ordering period was likely to continue throughout May....

Nokia is one of the top OEMs today after it merged with the HMD global. This year we saw some cool flagships coming from the Finnish OEM’s camp. Now, it seems Nokia is yet to bring out two more premium devices. These may be the Nokia 9 and Nokia X7. A few weeks ago we saw a Nokia device by the model number TA-1094 with 5 cameras on the rear panel....

From Lion System Preferences Apple and Nuance’s rumored partnership is all but official at this point: Apple’s upcoming Mac OS X Lion uses Nuance’s speech technology. A quick look in Lion’s system preferences application reveals several new voice options (shown above) with accents ranging from French to Romanian to Thai. This might seem like some fancy new voice technology that Apple decided to craft up for Lion but it’s actually something that Nuance created for their RealSpeak text-to-speech software....

Lenovo Zuk Edge (codename: z2x) was launched in the year December 2016. The handset came with Android 7.0 Nougat. Recently this device has received the official TWRP recovery support. So, on this page, we will guide you to install the TWRP Recovery on Zuk Edge. 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 Zuk Edge....

“I was an instructor for six or seven years,” Ross said. “Then I was assigned to the special forces teaching survival evasion resistance and escape for four of five years.” When his 20-year military career came to an end, Ross started a new career in cybersecurity, but he continued to do what came naturally — teaching. Over the past year he’s taught popular Infosec Flex boot camps such as Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP), NIST Cybersecurity Framework and DoD Risk Management Framework....

The developers behind the award-winning action survival game The Last of Us has spent a year and a half teasing fans with an impending sequel - and now, less than five months out from its release, we have a full demo and developer commentary on some of the title’s exciting new features. Naughty Dog developers Neil Druckmann, Anthony Newman, Kurt Margenau, and Halley Gross took ten minutes to talk shop about The Last of Us Part II, now officially slated for a February 21st, 2020 launch....

Netflix has been preparing the ability for users to control the playback speed of TV shows and movies for a while, but never rolled it out widely. Today, the company has confirmed that Android users are first in line to get access to the new feature. Speaking to the Verge, Netflix confirmed that playback speed controls are coming to the platform with the rollout starting on Android. We’ve spotted the feature rolling out as far back as early this week, too, though at the time it wasn’t functional....

Apple has updated its developer app review guidelines for the iPhone and iPad App Store this week with new clauses addressing the appropriate usage of Face ID, ARKit and more. Apple says that ARKit apps must provide a rich experience; they don’t want the store flooded with simple apps displaying single objects. There are also limits on how developers can use Face ID and a new crackdown on scammy iOS apps like so-called virus scanners …...