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The Godzilla: King of the Monsters credits could tease the existence of Prometheus, a creature that was conceived as a giant-size version of Frankenstein’s monster. If so, the MonsterVerse could introduce a monster that was almost King Kong’s original enemy. For several years now, Legendary and Warner Bros. have been building up to an epic showdown between the king of the monsters and the king of the primates. Directed by Adam Wingard, Godzilla vs....

One way to track the spread of COVID-19 across a population is through contact tracing. Apple and Google today announced a “joint effort” that leverages Bluetooth on Android and iOS phones to “help governments and health agencies reduce the spread of the virus.” The two companies are launching a “comprehensive solution” for contract tracing that encompasses “application programming interfaces (APIs) and operating system-level technology to assist in enabling contact tracing.”...

Google ads for Pixel phones have been all over the place as of late, and the latest one about the 5a with 5G’s headphone jack parodies old Jony Ive product videos, but seemingly without realizing its own product history. “The Circle Comes Full Circle” is just over two minutes long and a clear parody and/or homage to Apple design videos narrated by Jony Ive to accompany the launch of a new product....

STX Entertainment releases the second The Gentlemen trailer, the latest heist movie from writer-director Guy Ritchie. Last October, the first The Gentlemen movie trailer accentuated the complexities of the premise. For the second clip, however, a main character literally explains the plot. The Gentlemen explores the touchy relationship between London businessmen and American expat Mickey Pearson (Matthew McConaughey), a drug lord who contemplates retiring from criminal underworld activities, like selling lots of marijuana....

iTunes Radio on the Desktop To access iTunes Radio in the iTunes desktop app, you’ll need to upgrade to version 11.1. Which is a rather large download clocking in at over 90MB for the PC version. You can access iTunes radio by clicking the Radio button at the top when you access your Library. Open the iTunes Store and you’ll find iTunes Radio under Quick Links. Create iTunes Radio Stations Established music streaming services like Pandora, Xbox Music, and Spotify allow you to create stations and creating them in iTunes Radio is easy....

Although Lorelai gets all the credit for her hilarious lines of dialogue on the TV drama Gilmore Girls, her mother, Emily, is just as clever and has the same kind of biting wit. In fact, since she has a taste for the finer things in life and is always completely honest, it could be argued that Emily has some even better one-liners and pieces of dialogue than her fast-talking daughter....

Over the last week, the Reddit forum WallStreetBets has helped push stocks like GME (GameStop), AMC, and BB (BlackBerry) to new highs. New data from Appfigures today indicates how this viral retail investing trend has sent apps like Reddit and Robinhood to the top of Apple’s App Store charts. The backstory If you haven’t been keeping up with this story, GameStop (GME) stock has risen by over 1,350% during the last month, driven in large part by the WallStreetBets subreddit....

Deleted scenes for Godzilla: King of the Monsters have been revealed. The cut scenes add a few minutes of content to the movie. The fact that the movie already had a run time of two hours and 12 minutes could explain why the scenes didn’t make it into the theatrical release. Directed by Michael Dougherty, Godzilla: King of the Monsters is the third installment in Warner Bros. and Legendary’s MonsterVerse. The long-awaited sequel to the 2014 Godzilla movie pits Godzilla against his ancient rival King Ghidorah, with classic Toho monsters Rodan and Mothra thrown into the mix as well....

If you don’t have it, download GOM Player. Make sure to uncheck the options to install the Ask Toolbar. You don’t need it. Launch GOM Player and start watching your movie. When you want to bookmark a spot hit [B] on your keyboard. You’ll get a small menu like the one shown below. Click Add to Bookmark and give your bookmark a name if you want. Now, when you want to return to your movie, just open the file in GOM Player....

Google has been working with Adobe to improve battery life drain caused by Flash and today flipped the switch on a new Chrome feature that does exactly that. The new feature aims to detect Flash on a webpage that is actually important to the main content and “intelligently pause content” that isn’t as important. The result is to hopefully make the web experience with Flash more power efficient to improve battery life on your laptop....

Google today has rolled out an update to Google Maps on iOS, bringing the app to version 4.16 and introducing a pair of new features. The update adds detour/pit stop support to the app, as well as adds support for 3D Touch on the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus. First off, detour/pit stop support means that users can now easily add points of interest to their routes. In this case, detours refer to things like gas stations, restaurants, grocery stores, and other various stops that are made while driving....

Though we try to find the good in most people and fictional characters, there are just some characters that go too far, grind our gears, and leave a bit of a sour taste in our mouths. And with a cast as large and diverse of the one that makes up the Netflix show GLOW, fans are bound to find one or two members of the cast that they simply cannot stand....

Over the past year, Google Workspace app Docs has gained new collaboration features like @mentions that aim to modernize productivity software. But as ZDNet’s Jonathan Greig noted in January, hackers were exploiting the feature by adding @mentions in Docs that trigger an email to the target’s inbox. In that attack, the commenter mentions the target with an @ and then an email is automatically sent to the target’s inbox. The email arrives from Google with the full comment as well as potentially malicious links and text....

I’ve worked in Information Security at the Corporate level for a number of years and what I’ve found is people tend to say some very inappropriate things in chat vs. email. Normally this is because many employees view email as being very formal and chat as transitory, kind of like a phone call. After all, no one is listening to those chat conversation right? Wrong. As I’ve explained, Google Chat records those IM chat conversations by default which makes them all easily discoverable should your company be served with a data discovery subpoena....

Good news for all the photo freaks out there with LG G5, G6, V20, V30, and V35. Now you can also relish the low-light photography on your devices. Recently Google launched their new Pixel 3 devices which brings both the HDR+ and Night Sight feature. Well, The Night feature allows the user to click a picture in a pitch dark environment and the camera software will turn the picture into a bright and noiseless picture without making use of LED flash....

Long before he was an A-lister, and even before he joined ER, George Clooney was starting his career in the horror/comedy Return to Horror High. Today, Clooney is one of the most famous people on Earth, a certified Hollywood superstar, and a two-time Oscar winner. Clooney stars in, directs, and produces all kinds of films, and has earned acclaim for his work in all three jobs. Clooney is a pop culture icon, and has often been used as shorthand for the phrase “sex symbol....

Get 2 GB of Free Google Drive Storage The option to run a Security Checkup for your Google account has been included in your Google account settings for a few years already. But to entice users to actually do it, this week the company is offering its users 2 GB of free storage that you can keep forever. The check is simple and only takes a couple of minutes. You’ll need to double check your recovery information, connected devices, apps that have account permissions, app passwords, and verify you have 2-Step Verification (2FA) set up correctly....

Personally, I find it limiting especially predictive words. Although, you can turn that off by going to Settings > General > Keyboard and flip the Predictive switch to Off. For more on that, check out our article: How to Turn Off Predictive Text On your iPhone or iPad. With the introduction of iOS 8, Apple added support for third-party keyboards, a luxury that Android users have enjoyed for years. In early 2016, Microsoft acquired SwiftKey, developers of the popular third-party keyboards for mobile platforms....

Goliath season 1 revolved around Billy becoming involved in a case against his old firm and eventually emerging victorious by the end of the series. The show received great reviews for being a legal drama that injected a little freshness into the well-travelled subgenre, and for Thorton’s lead performance. Billy may have scored a hard-won victory, but the first season was still a dark ride, and season 2 would dial that up a few notches....

That total means user numbers have more than doubled from the 24 million it had at the end of 2020. To put Brave’s milestone in perspective, Google has billions of active users on Chrome, Android, iOS and Windows. Nonetheless, Brave has grown from a user base of 1.2 million in 2017 after launching in 2016: version 1.0 of the browser was released in November 2019. Its main pitch to people is that doesn’t sell targeted ads but rather trades attention via cryptocurrency....