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During his first State of the Union address this evening, President Trump made mention of Apple while touting the growth the United States economy has seen under his watch. Trump acknowledged Apple’s plans to invest in the United States with a new campus and job creation… Apple announced earlier this year that it plans to invest a total of $350 billion in the United States economy over the next five years, while also creating 20,000 jobs....

Warning: Minor SPOILERS for Amazing Spider-Man #35 The events of Marvel’s 2099 event have finally arrived in the pages of Amazing Spider-Man, but Peter Parker won’t have to take on the threats from the future alone. He’s got his big sister Teresa to count on to save the day (including him). Previously in the Amazing series, Spider-Man’s sister Teresa Parker asked for help in protecting a spy whom Teresa had worked with in her own days of espionage....

Paramount’s monster movie sequel A Quiet Place 2 is projected for a bigger U.S. box office opening weekend than its predecessor. Directed by John Krasinski (who also costarred), A Quiet Place was a surprise smash-hit back in 2018, earning terrific reviews and grossing $341 million worldwide on a $17 million budget. Unsurprisingly, Paramount confirmed A Quiet Place 2 was in development just a few weeks after the original film hit theaters, with Krasinski returning as a writer and director and reprising his role as Lee Abbott (who died in the first movie) in flashbacks only....

Case One: Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center Background: A general medical and surgical hospital that originally opened in 1924 as Hollywood Hospital. It later became known as Queen of Angels-Hollywood Presbyterian when two hospitals merged in 1998. It was sold to South Korean CHC Medical Group in 2004 and currently has 424 beds and more than 500 doctors who saw 16,175 patients, according to data from the latest year available. How it Happened: According to Wired Magazine, the computer system was hit by a ransomware virus called Locky, which locks users out and won’t send a decrypting key unless a ransom is paid....

I’m a huge privacy advocate who’s written a lot about the topic because it’s a massively important issue. It’s important for two reasons: First, because the kind of technology we have available to us today poses privacy risks never before imagined. China, for example, has demonstrated the ability of its massive network of facial-recognition cameras to track one individual among millions as they travel from one side of a city to the other....

Famed iOS hacker Comex tweeted today that his internship at Apple has ceased. “So… no point in delaying,” he said to 195,000 followers. “As of last week, after about a year, I’m no longer associated with Apple.” Comex, whose real name Nicholas Allegra, explained to Forbes that his employment at Apple was terminated for not responding to an email. Forbes Andy Greenberg wrote: Before joining Apple as an intern over a year ago, Comex’s hacking work most notably included JailbreakMe....

Often times when a Steve Jobs autographed item goes up for sale it’s Apple-related like a vintage Mac OS X manual or a plaque. However, a rare Toy Story poster signed by the Pixar and Apple co-founder is the latest Jobs memorabilia to go up for auction later this week. Update 8/30: The Pixar Toy Story poster signed by Steve Jobs ended up fetching $31,250 after a starting auction price of $25,000....

This is where rclone – a mod of rsync comes in. Rclone can sync files from your computer to cloud-based storage services including google drive, one drive, drop-box, amazon drive and many more. Installation The installation is pretty simple just head over to rclone.org and you can get the binaries or install scripts for various platforms. If you plan on using the windows binaries, you might want to add them to the path variable....

Apple CEO Steve Jobs has been named 2010’s ‘Person of the Year’ even while US President, Barack Obama, speaks up for the wealth of the Apple co-founder. The Financial Times named Jobs its person of the year, saying the introduction of the iPad marked the moment when the ‘rebound’ in Apple’s fortunes “was complete”. The iPad is the culmination of an approach that he has seemingly been perfecting for his entire career,” stated the newspaper’s opinion writers....

If you recently plugged in Apple’s Lightning to USB 3 Camera Adapter, you were likely met with an alert requesting an update for the device. The update is performed over the air directly via the iOS device that the dongle is connected to. It’s not clear what new enhancements or bug fixes, if any, are included with the new update, but there are no glaring user-facing changes that we’ve spotted thus far....

If you’re looking to buy an iPhone 7 for full price, then you may want to stick to the Apple Store route. That’s because Best Buy is charging $50 more for the iPhone 7 and $100 more for the iPhone 7 Plus. With the iPhone 7 readily available at local Apple Stores and online, even in the once elusive Jet Black variety, it makes little sense to pay such a premium for an unlocked iPhone at full price....

Before Netflix’s Queer Eye reboot, one of the stars, Karamo Brown, had already made reality TV history before joining the legendary Fab Five. At the age of 38, Brown continues to break down barriers and inspire others. Queer Eye is Netflix’s reboot of Bravo’s , a show where the “Fab Five,” five gay men, upgrade people’s lifestyle - from their hair to their clothes to their living space. The new Fab Five include Brown, Bobby Berk, Tan France, Antoni Porowski, and Jonathan Van Ness....

J.K. Rowling has blessed us with a magical set of characters in Harry Potter that we have grown to love and cherish dearly over time. We feel as though we have grown up with these characters which made it all the more difficult when they were taken away from us. Most of the people at Hogwarts serve as a tremendous influence in our daily lives and despite the fact that these characters are fictional, it doesn’t make the impact they have on our lives any less real....

The winners of the 2019 Razzie Awards winners have been announced. Since its start back in 1981, when the very first Golden Raspberry winners were announced in Los Angeles at a humble event in Razzie co-founder John J. B. Wilson’s living room, the awards ceremony - which honors the worst films of the year - has grown into a globally recognized dressing down of Hollywood’s biggest mistakes. This year marks the 39th incarnation of the Razzie Awards, with well-known movies such as Friday the 13th, Annie, Speed 2: Cruise Control, Grown Ups 2, and Transformers: Age of Extinction having been (dis)honored with Golden Raspberry trophies over the years....

After a long wait and several setbacks, the free Readability app finally landed on iOS devices. Readability is a universal binary that supports both iPhone/iPod touch and has a native iPad interface. According to a blog post announcing the software, the app was born from a collaboration between the Readability team and the talented designers and builders at Teehan+Lax. It features clean typography from Hoefler & Frere-Jones to turn any web page into a clean view for reading now or later on an iOS devices or desktop with the free Readability browser add-on....

It was one of the longest-running mysteries on Pretty Little Liars, so who was the twisted stalker known as “A?” Pretty Little Liars is a based off a series of books by author Sara Shepard and follows a group of teen girls who have to learn the identity of “A,” who threatens to reveal their darkest secrets and punish them for past mistakes. They first believe it could be their friend Alison, who vanished a year prior, but when she later turns up dead, things take a progressively darker turn....

Specifications The PSV will offer a massive 5” OLED Touchscreen, two analog sticks, SIXAXIS motion control, three-axis compass, a rear touch panel, a front and back facing camera and even more goodies in terms of specifications, which you can read here. Games A handheld is no good without any good titles, is it? Sony is saying they are working on bringing some of the best PS3 games to the PSV, and yes, the list includes LittleBigPlanet, Dynasty Warriors and Uncharted....

Cloud-based test management tool Allow coordinating team across multiple locations Supports Agile testing tools result in rapid deployment of product Automatically create detailed defect document Ability to add notes and annotations Easy sharing option In this article, you will learn How to Login and Create New Project in qTest Adding Requirements to our project Creating and Approving Test case in qtest Test Case Execution Generating Reports How to Login and Create New Project in qTest Step 1) Click on start a free trial....

The new alerts are rolling out to Workspace Google Drive users globally today and aim to help protect users and their organizations from malware, phishing and ransomware. The alerts are displayed in a yellow banner at the top of the page after a user has clicked on a link, but before the file is downloaded. The warning states that the file looks suspicious and “might be used to steal your personal information”....

Readdle is releasing a major update to its Spark email app today with version 2 for both iOS and macOS. The new app is unlike other email clients in that it doesn’t just let you manage email on your own, but instead builds features for teams on top of email. When used with a team, Spark 2.0 includes the ability to discuss emails with team members using private in-line comments below the message....