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ProtonMail Announces ProtonCalendar It’s called ProtonCalendar and is currently in beta. It’s available to paid ProtonMail users. But in the future, the company plans to make it available for free users of the service – after it leaves beta. In its blog post, the company notes that security is its top priority when organizing your life online. “We believe everyone has the right to plan dinner with friends without announcing to Google who will attend....

If you’re planning on buying an Apple product for someone as a gift – or want to have an extended test-drive yourself before deciding whether or not to keep something – you can safely do so knowing that Apple’s extended Holiday Return Policy is now in effect. Instead of the usual 14-day window to return unwanted items, you can now return them for a full refund anytime up to 8th January....

Reddit announced in a post today that it recently discovered a security incident where a hacker was able to gain access to some user data, including emails and hashed passwords from an old database. Reddit shared that it learned about the security breach on June 19 and that the hacker had access to a couple of its systems between June 14-18. The good news is the database that was compromised was from 2007, and only had hashed passwords....

Jon Bernthal has successfully parlayed his memorable turn as Frank Castle/The Punisher on Netflix’s acclaimed Daredevil series into a starring role in the streaming network’s spinoff The Punisher. Bernthal took Daredevil to uncommonly dark places with his character, and that tone is expected to continue in the spinoff. Although The Punisher is usually dealing his own brand of justice to evildoers, the photos to emerge from the set of Netflix’s The Punisher series so far reveal a down-and-out Frank Castle who appears to take some, well, punishment of his own....

Last October, Apple teased that Apple Pay would launch at some point in Spain, Singapore, and Hong Kong, but details were unclear at the time. This document, while we’re unable to verify it, suggests that Apple Pay will launch in those countries, and more, by the end of this year with support from at least MasterCard. Furthermore, the document suggests that Apple Pay will become available in Japan and Brazil at some point this year, as well....

I’ve long been a fan of ScotteVest products: vests with a ridiculous number of pockets to hold all your technology; check out my detailed review of one of these for chapter-and-verse. The short version is that by putting all your tech into your clothing, you can get around the often-absurd limits some airlines impose on hand-baggage. Plus you can carry a lot of tech around town without the hassle of a bag....

​Part 5 – Top 12 Projects Created With Raspberry Pi Raspbian was released in 2012 by the Raspbian foundation and since then various features have been added. You are likely to purchase it with all the features that you may need for your projects compared to someone who purchased one in 2012. The OS was created by Mike Thompson and Peter Green. Four Awesome Things About the Raspbian Developer support ​Raspbian pulls more attention from the raspberry foundation given it is the official Raspberry OS....

The exhilarating open-world action role-playing game from Tripwire Interactive, Maneater, has released last week for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One on 20th May 2020. Allowing you to step into the role of a vengeful female bull shark intent on taking down the shark hunter Scaly Pete, the game invites you to unleash terror along the coastline of Port Clovis in a way that has been described as a “shark version of GTA....

Pretty Little Liars is a show that aired from 2010 through 2017 and was heavily focused on the mystery of a girl’s disappearance. After her disappearance, her former best friends start getting strange messages that seem to be from their friend that has been missing for over a year. Who could they be from? How do they know all the friends’ secrets? Although the series is heavily focused on the mystery of Alison’s disappearance and the identity of the person sending them messages, there’s also a ton of romance in the show....

Prince Harry has arrived in Canada to begin his new life with Meghan and Archie. The royal said goodbye to his past and hello to his future as he left the UK Monday night. All his life Prince Harry has had to live in the spotlight, constantly surrounded by the media. For the most part he adjusted well to it, until the limelight started to affect his wife, Duchess Markle. Since the death of his mother, Princess Diana, the prince has been an avid supporter of privacy and helping others....

Fans of Dancing with the Stars got a surprise this week when the stars of the HGTV show Property Brothers made an appearance. New couple Jonathan Scott and actress Zooey Deschanel, along with Drew Scott and his wife, Linda Phan, attended Monday’s live taping of the show. Property Brothers is a home renovation show that features Drew as a realtor and Jonathan as a contractor. The show focuses on the identical twin brothers’ talent in renovating homes in need of improvement to give guests their previously unaffordable dream home....

Readdle has been working on bringing its email app called Spark to the Mac for a while now, and this week the company started taking sign-ups for users who want to test the beta version. Spark for Mac will be an alternative email client to Apple’s built-in Mail app with better support for Gmail and a smart inbox for presenting important messages first. Spark first debuted on the iPhone and Apple Watch last year with deep integration with third-party services....

Pretty Little Liars kicked off its seventh and final season with an episode that saw the Liars race to save Hanna from the clutches of Uber A. The news that Freeform’s long-running mystery drama Pretty Little Liars would be coming to an end after season 7 came as a blow to the show’s loyal fandom. Though fans were forced to bid farewell to their favorite show, at least Pretty Little Liars went out with a bang as its season 7 premiere “Tick-Tock, Bitches” proved....

This article discusses analyzing some high-level network protocols that are commonly used by applications. We will specifically use Wireshark to do protocol analysis in this article. Wireshark has the ability to decode the stream of bits flowing across a network and show us those bits in the structured format of the protocol. What is a network protocol As protocol is a set of standards and rules that has to be followed in order to accomplish a certain task, in the same way network protocol is a set of standards and rules that defines how a network communication should be done....

Apple still shows a 3-5 week wait on the new Retina 12-inch MacBook across the board but one US retailer has them in stock and shipping in certain configurations. Best Buy, who also offers a $50 off coupon for people with access to an .edu email address offers the base model MacBook in both Silver and Space Gray for delivery May 18th. Other US retailers don’t have them in stock but offer discounts and state tax advantages:...

Any HomePod owner who has ever hosted a party will know that visiting family and friends love to tell the speakers what to play. Which is great fun during the party, but not so much fun when it comes to the effect on your Apple Music recommendations for weeks later … Fortunately, it’s easy to ensure that your friends’ terrible music tastes don’t influence your For You recommendations. The well-known method is to pick up your iPhone, go into the Home app, force/long-press the HomePod icon, tap Settings, scroll down to Use Listening History and toggle it off....

Follow the full series – Learn Python The IF Else Clause The IF Else clause is very useful when it comes to making changes in program execution. The syntax for an if-else clause is as follows. if(condition): Execute A else: Execute B The syntax is very much human readable, You can see that the first 2 says if(condition): Execute A. This means that if the condition returns true, execute A....

If the decimal places to be rounded are not specified, it is considered as 0, and it will round to the nearest integer. In this Python Tutorial, you will learn: Round() Syntax: How much Impact can Rounding Have? (Rounding vs Truncation) Example: Rounding Float Numbers Example: Rounding Integer Values Example: Rounding on Negative Numbers Example: Round Numpy Arrays Example: Decimal Module Syntax: Parameters float_num: the float number to be rounded....

Qualcomm reported its fiscal Q2 2020 earnings today, announcing revenue of $5.21 billion and earnings-per-share of $0.88. Both of those numbers are above Wall Street expectations, but Qualcomm also predicted a forthcoming 30% drop in handset shipments. As reported by CNBC, Qualcomm’s earnings press release indicated that its fiscal Q3 2020 guidance is based on a 30% reduction in handset shipments, based on the “rate of economic recovery” in China:...

If you were wondering whether the long-running battle between Apple and Qualcomm was going to continue to grow in intensity or be quietly settled, it looks like we now have an answer. Qualcomm has dramatically upped the ante in its latest court filing, now accusing Apple of stealing its source code and giving it – and other trade secrets – to rival chipmaker Intel … CNBC reports the news with a pun even I would hesitate to use....