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One security feature a user could potentially find annoying is being locked out of an iPhone after a friend or family member entered multiple failed passcode attempts. In a case in China, a mother is furious after her toddler managed to lock her iPhone for 47 years. The South Morning China Post reports that a mother gave her toddler her iPhone to watch educational videos. However, one day she came home to her phone being locked up for 25 million minutes, which roughly equates to 47 years....

The popular augmented reality game Pokémon GO is about to get a new update in October, but this comes as bad news for users of some old smartphones. Pokémon GO’s official Twitter profile announced today that the game is dropping support for devices running Android 5, iOS 10, and iOS 11. For Apple users specifically, Pokémon GO currently requires an iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad with a 64-bit processor running iOS 10 or later....

The US Federal Trade Commission was due to reach a preliminary ruling in the Qualcomm antitrust case, where the chipmaker is accused of monopolistic behavior in respect of its smartphone radio chips. But Qualcomm has now asked a court for time to reach a settlement … Reuters reports that the FTC is happy with this, and the two parties filed a joint motion. The Qualcomm antitrust case hinges on the accusation that the company used its patents on essential radio technology to over-charge smartphone makers....

Android phones are impressive with many extraordinary features. But Android users frequently come across Wi-Fi connectivity issues on their Android phones or tablets. Here are a few solutions to resolve the fix Bluboo WiFi problems. This solution might be useful for every variant of Android devices. We can use the principle, “simple to complicated’ in listing the solutions to fix the problem. Solutions for fix Bluboo WiFi problems! Before going to the solutions, we need to check out why your Android devices are not connecting to the internet....

Qualcomm announced today that it has completed its acquisition of Nuvia, a startup founded in 2019 by three former engineers from Apple’s silicon team. The deal is worth $1.4 billion, and it will bolster Qualcomm’s efforts to compete with Apple Silicon and create custom-designed CPUs. Nuvia came out of “stealth” mode in 2019 with a powerful team of three former Apple engineers. Gerard Williams spent a decade at Apple, Manu Gulati spent eight years working on iPhone chips, and John Bruno five years....

The report sent Qualtrics shares up 5% in late trading. In an interview with ZDNet by telephone, CEO Zig Serafin remarked, “We passed the one-billion-dollar revenue milestone, and if you couple that with a fourth consecutive quarter of robust growth, that’s quite remarkable.” Added Serafin, “This kind of growth at our size and scale is quite significant.” He said the company is “growing fast” because the software the company sells, “experience management,” is “becoming as important as HR systems and CRM systems” for companies....

Android phones are truly amazing as it is designed to provide maximum features bundled together that offers the best user experience. Although it is powerful, it has its own issues such as Sony wifi problems which is profound across all Sony devices around the world. It is irritating when the wifi of your phone doesn’t connect or doesn’t respond and that’s what we have covered in this extract. Do you want to know how to fix Sony wifi problems?...

Apple’s controversial decision to remove apps from its iTunes Affiliate Program may be bad news for many, but it could represent good news of a kind for those with very small balances … The program has minimum thresholds for payment, which vary by currency. You also accrue payments separately for each currency, meaning that it’s pretty easy to end up in a position where you have balances in one or more currencies that don’t reach the payment threshold....

While the Marvel Cinematic Universe has continued to expand through film installments as well as television series - both current and upcoming - on ABC, Netflix, and other networks/streaming services, the shared universe model has somewhat limited its reach. Conversely, DC Comics characters inhabit a number of different universes, all technically connected by the multiverse, which allows for multiple versions of the same character to exist - Grant Gustin on The Flash and Ezra Miller in the DC Extended Universe....

Now that Detective Pikachu is in theaters, fans are hoping to one day see a live-action Super Smash Bros. movie. As anticipation builds for a followup to this first foray into the world of Pokémon, one of the more interesting comments from the writers behind Detective Pikachu related to how they’d set up a Super Smash Bros. film. It’s a neat prospect to consider, but where would an initiative like this even begin?...

Warning: This article contains SPOILERS for Avengers: Endgame. After the events of Avengers: Endgame, what is the future of Iron Man and his alter ego Tony Stark in the MCU? Joe and Anthony Russo’s mega-blockbuster not only concludes the macro story spanning the first 22 films of the Marvel Cinematic Universe but it also provides a fitting an poignant end to Robert Downey, Jr.’s billionaire superhero who started it all. When Iron Man launched the MCU in 2008, no one dreamed that a vast and diverse universe of billion-dollar hit films would be its result (as Tony Stark’s final speech at the conclusion of Avengers: Endgame alludes to)....

Pretty Little Liars ran for seven seasons between ABC Family and Freeform. The series followed four high school girls a year after their best friend Alison disappeared. At the pilot’s end, Hanna, Aria, Spencer, and Emily have all received a message from the mysterious, “A.” Their stalker is excellent at their job, somehow knowing everything about them all the time. The mystery kept fans on the edge of their seats, wondering who “A” was as “A” terrorized the group....

Apple, Microsoft and Intel are locked in a bid for a contract to supply Turkish schools with up to fifteen million iPads. The government-funded project is nick-named “Fatih”, a Turkish word for “conqueror”. The government will require the winner to build the tablets and/or peripherals in the country, however. This little nugget has been officially confirmed to Anatolia news agency by the country’s trade minister Zafer Caglayan. Bloomberg has the story:...

Earlier plugins updates could be automatically applied with the help of additional plugins. One popular plugin is Jetpack that can apply available updates automatically. Now WordPress 5.5 core supports auto-updates out of the box. In this article, we will discuss the auto-update feature of WordPress. For many websites, this feature can be a lifesaver, but there may involve some risks for some. How Auto-update works? WordPress runs any scheduled task using WordPress cron jobs....

In this comprehensive PS5 extended storage guide, we will show you how to format a USB Drive, Store, Move and Delete Games. The just-released video game console comes in two different variants: Ultra HD Blu-ray-compatible as well as a Digital Edition. But that’s not all. Beholding an SSD results in high-speed storage performance. Along the same lines, the 4K display coupled with 120FPS and ray tracing technology all add up to give an immersive gaming experience....

If you’re having trouble accessing the App Store Connect this Saturday, you’re not alone. Apple has just confirmed an outage that is affecting multiple developer tools, including the App Store Connect, Feedback Assistant, account management, and more. App Store Connect is the platform used by developers to upload and manage App Store applications. Multiple developers have reported on social networks that the platform is not working properly this afternoon, and now Apple has confirmed the issue....

We all know the importance of keeping on top of security updates, but there is one kind that might escape your attention if you don’t have it set to check automatically: those for your AirPort base station. Whether you have an AirPort Express, Extreme or Time Capsule, they all have firmware updates to plug security holes and fix other issues. Apple last month issued an urgent update to the firmware for all AirPort devices to fix a serious flaw....

If your iPhone battery struggles to make it through a full day, and you don’t want to add an ugly hump to your device, Guardian tech writer Samuel Gibbs has found that deleting the Facebook app and using Safari instead can boost battery life by up to 15%. Gibbs spent a week comparing battery usage when using the app against a week using Facebook’s mobile site in Safari, finding that he averaged 15% more remaining battery life at the end of each day....

Brendan “PlayerUnknown” Greene, the creator behind PUBG, has officially left the battle royale genre behind in pursuit of a new direction and the potential of other, less-explored genres. The creative mind behind PUBG recently left his position at the game’s studio in favor of heading a new internal division called PUBG Corp’s Special Projects division. Nothing about the Special Projects division is really known at this point beyond the philosophy that’s at play behind its creation....

Just yesterday, Qualcomm drastically upped the ante in its legal case against Apple, accusing the company of stealing source code and giving it to Intel. In a new interview today, however, Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf took a friendly approach to the situation, and said he expects Apple will become a Qualcomm customer again in the future. It’s believed that this year’s iPhone models exclusively use radio chips from Intel. Apple’s move to ditch Qualcomm completely is, of course, a huge blow to Qualcomm, but Mollenkopf still remains optimistic about the future of the relationship between the two companies....