If you’ve recently made some Apple purchases and are eagerly awaiting their arrival, the status shown on the Apple Store app or Apple’s website might be a bit confusing or even alarming in some cases. Notably, if UPS or FedEx is having trouble with your delivery, Apple is also sending out address confirmation emails. Update: Big picture, logistics are tough. Today a report from India Today noted a delivery person running off with 14 iPhone 12 Pro Max devices and was caught shortly after....

Earlier today, Apple finally made its truly wireless AirPods available via its online store, but as expected, shipping times started slip nearly instantly. Now, Best Buy this evening has started selling AirPods via its website, but unfortunately with the same four-week shipping window… On its website, Best Buy lists the AirPods as available for purchase, but notes that they are “temporarily” out of stock and won’t ship until the second week of January....

If you’re having some trouble accessing Twitter, you’re not alone. The social network has been facing a major outage this Thursday night as users around the world are reporting that Twitter is inaccessible. While some users are not able to access specific content on Twitter, such as Direct Messages and media, others are unable to access Twitter at all. According to DownDetector, the Twitter outage started around 6 p.m. EST and is still affecting users around the world....

Queer Eye is one of the most beloved reality shows on television right now. Celebrated for its authenticity, the show takes viewers on a unique heart-warming journey with each episode, as the show’s hosts help to change the lives of those that need it most. Undoubtedly, the show wouldn’t be the success that it is without these awe-inspiring hosts – known as the Fab Five. Karamo, Bobby, Antoni, Jonathan and Tan each improve a different area of the nominee’s life....

Phones have become both popular and powerful with more than half of the world’s population possessing at least phone that lets you do tasks from calling, messaging, socializing, dating, working, and more. But at the end of the day, smartphones are electronic devices with its own share of problems that could be apparent or lying around for a while now. One such problem is touch screen not working which is one of the biggest android problems....

Yet things can take time when you’re largely reliant on part-time volunteers to keep things moving forward, particularly when each contributor has their own interest in the language. “I think it’s something we’ve learned to live with,” says Ewa Jodlowska, who stepped down from her role as the PSF’s executive director in early December. “I don’t think it’s an issue, it just takes a lot longer to do anything because getting community consensus around any kind of direction or change takes a long time....

Seemingly overnight, the video game industry has entered a new and unprecedented era. Yes, console redesigns have become commonplace in the modern gaming world, but iterative mid-generation upgrades will take some getting used to for most console gamers. Last November, Sony took its first crack at 4K gaming with the PlayStation 4 Pro, and now it appears as though it will be Microsoft’s turn as they recently unveiled the hardware specs of their upcoming premium console, codenamed Project Scorpio....

If you’re unable to access Facebook, Instagram, or WhatsApp, it’s not just you. There seems to be an ongoing outage with all Facebook apps and services tonight. While some users are still able to access these apps with some slowness, others are not able to see any content on Facebook’s social networks. Update [6:00 PM PT]: The outage has been fixed and all Facebook apps are working again. The outage was confirmed by Downdetector, which points to a high number of reports on issues with Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp in the last hour....

Next in this PyTorch Transfer learning tutorial, we will learn how to use Transfer Learning with PyTorch. Loading Dataset Source: Alien vs. Predator Kaggle Before you start using Transfer Learning PyTorch, you need to understand the dataset that you are going to use. In this Transfer Learning PyTorch example, you will classify an Alien and a Predator from nearly 700 images. For this technique, you don’t really need a big amount of data to train....

QR code-based payments have their benefits like tying debit and credit card transactions to store reward cards and saving receipts in one step, but they still don’t beat the convenience of NFC-based methods like Apple Pay which are less finicky and more secure. Major retailer Walmart, however, is pushing forward with its plans to make checking out smarter using its own QR code-based system called Walmart Pay. And although the two systems could both be options, Walmart continues to resist other digital wallets including Apple Pay....

Logic Pro X 10.5’s new Quick Sampler completely changes the way users interact with the audio and creative resources around them. It perfectly accommodates a popular instant sampling workflow where producers pull sounds from anywhere — recorded off a phone, stolen off the internet, clipped from Apple’s library, etc — and then loop, chop, pitch, and program them into interesting musical ideas. Software sampling certainly isn’t new by any means, nor is it to Logic Pro X, but this technique of quick and immediate sound recycling has now been laced throughout the LPX 10....

Three tech giants had to take action in response to presidential election hoaxes. This included Twitter placing a warning on a tweet by Donald Trump, which falsely accused the Democrats of trying to ‘steal’ the election. Twitter stated that the tweet violated its civic integrity policy, which says that users ‘may not use Twitter’s services for the purpose of manipulating or interfering in elections’ … Trump tweeted: Twitter hid this behind a standard warning text designed for such hoaxes:...

The enumeration in information security Enumeration in information security is the process of extracting user names, machine names, network resources, and other services from a system. All the gathered information is used to identify the vulnerabilities or weak points in system security and then tries to exploit it. Techniques for enumeration There are many ways to collect data, such as network users, routing tables and Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) information....

Following Facebook’s multiple warnings including a recent public post about concerns over lost ad revenue due to the iOS 14 privacy changes, other digital publishers have shared similar fears. Like Facebook anticipating up to a 50% drop in revenue, one publisher estimates ad rates on iOS could fall as much as 40%. Reported by the Wall Street Journal, a number of publishers are feeling the same as Facebook with concerns about how iOS 14 will change their ad revenue and as some point out, this comes during the difficulties of the pandemic....

The future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is gradually falling into place - and here are our predictions for what Marvel’s Phase 4 could look like in the end. Under Kevin Feige’s leadership, Marvel Studios has become increasingly secretive about their long-term plans. Back in 2014, they announced their entire five-year slate at a press event; nowadays, they only reveal a couple of years at a time. Studios do, however, still need to book release dates in advance....

When it comes to horror movies, Chucky is right up their next to Freddy, Jason, and Michael. The first Child’s Play movie was released in 1988 from director Tom Holland. The film introduced a killer doll named Chucky, who came to life after a serial killer used dark magic to transfer his soul into a Good Guys doll. The movie quickly spawned a franchise, one that is still getting sequels to this day....

Best friends, secrets, and text messages. These are three powerful things and also the premise of Pretty Little Liars, the teen drama which aired for seven seasons from 2010 to 2017. After Alison DiLaurentis (Sascha Pieterse) is believed to be missing, her friends Hanna Martin (Ashley Benson), Emily Fields (Shay Mitchell), Aria Montgomery (Lucy Hale), and Spencer Hastings (Troian Bellisario) vow to dig deep and find the truth. While the girls date and go to school and have various personal dramas, they’re also dealing with this mystery and receiving messages from a figure they call “A” who knows a lot about them....

As promised, Best Buy has begun selling the Apple Watch on its online store, and will have them available in more than 100 of its retail stores too. The company is currently promoting the Watch on its homepage. While you won’t save any money (in fact, you’ll pay 99c more …), it may be a chance to spend any Best Buy rewards credit you’re sitting on – or to earn some via a free membership....

When a friend recommended the This American Life podcast Serial, I got so hooked I ended up binge-listening to the entire first series in a single weekend. The same team has now created a new 7-part podcast, S-Town – and it sounds like it may be just as compelling … As before, the entire series is available in one hit. S-Town is a new podcast from Serial and This American Life, hosted by Brian Reed, about a man named John who despises his Alabama town and decides to do something about it....

Some users are reporting a bug in which cellular data connection is either permanently disabled or extremely spotty following the initial installation and reboot of iOS 12.1.3. If this sounds familiar to you, it’s because we reported on nearly the same issue when iOS 12.1.2 was released back on Christmas Eve. Interestingly, that update was released for practically one reason —to fix a random cellular data killing bug. As for why the problem has seemingly been so persistent over the past few releases remains unknown, however, it doesn’t seem that a simple reboot fixes this latest bug....