The Killing Joke is a 30-year-old Batman graphic novel that goes to ugly places, especially in what it does Batgirl. And when folks expressed anger at Barbara Gordon’s portrayal in a new, controversial scene in the upcoming film adaptation during a DC panel, things got ugly in real life.
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Apple has been mum about it so far, but it appears that iOS 10 will provide iPhone and iPad users with a warning when their device is connected to an unsecured Wi-Fi network. Don’t expect to see a flashing screen with a siren, or a Dennis Nedry type pop-up saying “Ah ah ah. You didn’t say the magic word.” Instead, the warning will appear when you head to Settings > Wi-Fi.
Under the Wi-Fi network’s SSID, you will find the words Security Recommendation. Tap the ‘i’ button and you will be warned that the Wi-Fi network you are using is unsecured. The actual warning reads, “Open networks … – Source
It sounds like something out of a children’s animated film: the whale and the seal, at first put off by their differences, team up and become best friends. It’s like The Fox and the Hound but maybe less depressing?
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According to new research from Kaspersky Lab, consumers – including holiday makers and business travellers – conduct a lot of financial operations online when abroad, putting themselves at risk when they are not properly protected. – Source
Friday was the last day at the office for about 30 people at Cyanogen Inc. The company has laid off about a fifth of its workforce, mostly the open source division. US offices in Palo Alto and Seattle have been heavily affected by the cuts, while the Lisbon and India branches have been pretty much entirely shut down.
Additionally, the company will reportedly be making a shift towards app development.
How all that will affect the future of CyanogenMod is yet unclear, but with no one at Cyanogen Inc. actually working on it, it’s not looking bright. The Android ROM debuted on the…
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As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton struggled to fax, send emails from a computer or find Showtime on her television. Welcome to my world. – Source
Up until now, rumors have suggested a 3,600mAh or 4,000mAh battery for the upcoming Samsung Galaxy Note7. However, according to a new leak, the phone will pack in a 3,500mAh battery. The leak comes in the form of a Note7 information page published by South Korea Telecom.
The page in question also reveals that the device weighs in at 169g (meaning it’s lighter than its predecessor Note5, which weighed 171g), and measures 73.9(W) x 153.5(L) x 7.9(H)(mm). Other information revealed by the leak, including QHD display is in line with what rumors/leaks have revealed so far.
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The FCC has certified two new Huawei models, the H1622 and H710VL. Both are different variants of the same phone with the H710VL’s FCC label including the name of prepaid carrier Tracfone. Considering that the Huawei manufactured Nexus 6P carries the H1511 and H1512 model numbers, the H1622/H710VL could be a new 2016 Nexus model. HTC is reportedly producing two Nexus handsets this year, a 5-inch model code named Sailfish (S-1), and a 5.5-inch handset code named Marlin (M-1).
Back in December, we told you that Huawei was eager to follow the success of the Nexus 6P by manufacturing the Nexus … – Source
Microsoft has started rolling out a new update to Surface Pro 3 devices. The update bring along several changes, including improvements related to battery life, keyboard, and fingerprint sensor.
Here’s the official change-log for the update:
Surface Pro System Aggregator Firmware
v3.9.850.0 increases battery life during sleep mode and improves keyboard stability.
Surface Pro UEFI
v3.11.1450.0 improves system sleep and hibernation behavior when battery level is low.
Surface Fingerprint Sensor
v2.2.10.8 increases finger print touch stability coming out of…
Yes, yes they will. If you absolutely have to get movies and books for free, make sure you’re doing it responsibly.
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Trey Parker and Matt Stone are certainly no strangers to video games (See: The Stick of Truth).
But the South Park creators are particularly excited about their new game The Fractured but Whole — think about it — out this December.
The duo stopped by Comic-Con Friday evening for a wide-ranging chat about everything from how the show has changed over the years (Season 20 premieres in September) to the angriest reaction they’ve ever gotten from a celebrity (it was Sean Penn, over just the trailer to Team America).
They also shed some light on why the video game is happening now.
“We wanted it to look like you were in an episode of South Park, and the technology just wasn’t there until Xbox 360 generation,” Stone said, noting the junky games from the ’90s. “We just hated that. So when it looked like the show we got excited.” …
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The gaffe-ridden Republican convention came to a triumphant end Thursday night with a flurry of balloons, fireworks and the unmistakable riff of Free’s classic “All Right Now.”
As the party danced the night away and others celebrated the end of the longest nominee acceptance speech in the last four decades, a pinned tweet on Free singer Paul Rodgers’ Twitter page made his feelings about the use of the song abundantly clear.
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“Permission to use ‘All Right Now’ was never sought for or granted by me. My lawyer is dealing with this matter,” he wrote. …
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SAN DIEGO — Winter has come, but it’s going to be a while before we actually see it.
At Comic-Con 2016, showrunners Dan Weiss and David Benioff explained that the seven episodes of the upcoming Season 7 of the show won’t even start filming until the end of the year — because it is apparently mostly set in a wintry landscape, and nature isn’t cooperating.
“We don’t finish shooting until February [2017],” Benioff explained. “We have to wait for the leaves to fall off the trees.”
Though shooting hasn’t started, the production itself is in full swing — as shown in a video screened after the panel: …
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Although it is not a done deal and could still fall apart, those in the know say that Verizon has won the bidding for Yahoo and will make the announcement in a couple of days. The rumored price of the purchase is $5 billion, although the transaction does not include intellectual property. Yahoo’s core patents are being sold separately in a transaction that could bring the company hundreds of millions of dollars.
Verizon, which purchased AOL last year for $4.4 billion, is looking to position itself as one of the top players in mobile advertising alongside other big names in this space like … – Source
Let’s start with the obvious: Star Trek Beyond a pretty good movie, but it doesn’t quite make it into the top tier of Trek films like The Wrath of Khan and The Undiscovered Country. Beyond, which opens today, starts with the crew of the Enterprise in the middle of its five-year, deep space mission. This is exactly what Captain James T. Kirk (played by Chris Pine) asked for at the… Read More
