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Rdio has likely been feeling the squeeze from the launch of Apple Music, and is today adding live streams of 460 traditional AM/FM radio stations, reports the Los Angeles Times. The rollout, which starts Wednesday, includes 460 stations owned and operated by stakeholder Atlanta-based Cumulus Media Inc [including] long-running stations such as Cumulus’ KLOS-FM (95.5) in Los Angeles and KFOG-FM (104.5) in San Francisco, along with talk radio and sports outlets … Some talk shows will also be archived for later on-demand play....

Most brands are already monitoring the conversation on social platforms. A retailer, for example, might use monitoring to immediately respond to customer inquiries or to like and share positive user-generated content. The ability to track direct mentions is great for any business’ engagement strategy—but there’s more opportunity to tap into on social than meets the eye. Where companies stand to benefit the most is when they learn to listen to the conversations on social media at scale....

What is Apache Spark? Spark is a big data solution that has been proven to be easier and faster than Hadoop MapReduce. Spark is an open source software developed by UC Berkeley RAD lab in 2009. Since it was released to the public in 2010, Spark has grown in popularity and is used through the industry with an unprecedented scale. In the era of Big Data, practitioners need more than ever fast and reliable tools to process streaming of data....

1 What is Quality Management Plan (QMP)? 1.1 Purpose of this Quality Management Plan 1.2 Quality Management Plan Components 1.3 Quality Philosophy 1.4 Quality Strategy 2 Project Quality Assurance 2.1 Methodologies and Standards 2.2 Quality Review 2.2.1 Project Quality Consultants 2.2.2 Project Evaluation and Review 2.2.3 Management of changes to project scope 2.3 Risk Assessment and Management 2.4 Information Management 2.4.1 Document Management 2.4.2 Record keeping 3 Output Quality Control 3....

For every Luke Skywalker, Jyn Erso, and Rey fighting against the Empire or First Order, there’s a droid out there standing right by their side. In many ways, the robots of Star Wars are the true unsung heroes of the franchise. After all, it was R2-D2 and C-3PO who delivered Leia’s stolen Death Star plans to the Rebel Alliance. It was the reprogrammed Imperial droid K-2SO who sacrificed himself helping a squad of rebels infiltrate Scarif....

This exploit comes on the heels of the company releasing several patches (69 to be exact) earlier in the week for Flash, Reader, and Acrobat. According to the Adobe Security Bulletin: Help Protect Your Computer from Flash Exploits We all know that Flash is going the way of the dinosaur, and the best way to protect your system is to uninstall Adobe Flash completely. Unfortunately, that option might not be realistic for a lot of users....

Some actors start off big, only to kind of fade away for a little while, before coming back strong later in their careers. Linda Cardellini is one such actor, who rose to fame at a very young age, after starring in a number of teen-oriented films and series’, and is now back in the mainstream viewer’s eye. Linda has been a great player in the films she’s been seen in, and has predominantly been cast as a supporting actress, one who elevates the film’s potential and the cast’s performance as well....

Subscription music service Rdio announced today that it’s completely overhauling how stations work through the service. While stations and the player get a refresh with new endless station types to pick from, the big new feature is something Rdio calls “You FM”: The new player will let users “vote on individual songs, tune stations towards familiar or adventurous sounds, and pivot stations based on favorite tracks” in order to fine tune stations....

In this series of articles, we will learn various tools and techniques used to perform thick client application penetration testing by using a vulnerable application developed by the author. In this first part of this series, we will start with discussing the basics of thick client applications and learn the information gathering techniques by setting up a custom lab. Thick client applications According to Wikipedia, a fat client/heavy client/rich client/thick client is a computer (client) in client–server architecture or networks that typically provides rich functionality independent of the central server”....

President Arnold Schwarzenegger takes the Oval Office in a new photo from Kung Fury 2. Despite what its title implies, the upcoming martial arts action-comedy isn’t really a sequel to the 2015 short film Kung Fury. The latter was a crowdfunded viral hit directed by and starring David Sandberg (not that David Sandberg) as Kung Fury, a super-powered Miami detective whose adventures drew inspiration from classic police and martial arts action movies from the ’80s....

Lately, Playstation 5 or PS5 is becoming quite popular amongst gaming enthusiasts across the world. Though it too is not left alone with errors. As per several users, their PS5 is not turning ON, despite their several efforts. Users are complaining that either PS5 won’t turn ON, become unresponsive, or turn off suddenly. Today, in this article, we have gathered the responsible reasons that lead to PS5 not turning ON the issue and try to include the exact solutions to the same problem....

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has now been banned in Nepal. This marks yet another country that has blocked the popular battle royale shooter after several nearby countries have implemented similar bans. Neighboring areas such as China and parts of India have already blocked PUBG due to complaints of its graphic violence. Not to be outdone, PUBG’s rival, Fortnite, has seen its fair share of bans as well. The NHL has already restricted its teams from playing it, and the Chinese government has reportedly blacklisted the game as well....

Buffer overflow vulnerabilities occur when memory management goes wrong. Before data can be stored in a chunk of memory, that chunk of memory has to be allocated. This means the program needs to know how much memory to allocate in advance. A buffer overflow occurs when a program tries to copy more data into a particular memory location than is allocated at this location. For this to happen, two things need to go wrong:...

Spider-Man is one of the most enduring and beloved comic book characters of all time. Given the age of the comic book movies, his popularity is only continuing to grow. There are few characters who have had so many separate film series in such a short span of time. With the recent news that Spider-Man is done in the MCU, fans are worried about the cinematic future of the wall-crawler. But given with so many movies already made featuring the character, we know his legacy will go on no matter what....

While Apple yesterday warned Chinese customers that their data would be migrated to local servers managed by a government-owned company from the end of February, TechCrunch reports that some U.S. customers are also being caught up in the migration. Apple’s terms & conditions for the transition provide an explanation for the apparent anomaly, while a support document offers a solution … Why it matters If you’ve received the email warning that your data will be migrated, it’s something you’ll want to address....

Puppy Linux is one of the tiniest Linux distros. It loads into RAM and runs from it making it faster than most Linux distributions. Puppy Linux 8.0 “Bionicpup” came out yesterday with a couple of new features and latest software. As the codename ‘Bionicpup” suggests, this release is based on Ubuntu 18.04.​Here is what’s new in the new release –woodenshoe-wis rox filer.rox now has copy and paste!compton compositor set up as default....

Yaas Queen! Netflix’s Queer Eye recently returned with a special season based in Japan, and it once again proved that the show is one of the best things on the streaming service. Heartwarming, educational, and entertaining, there is simply nothing to dislike about Queer Eye. The ‘Fab Five’ is obviously the main reason that the show is so successful. With the chemistry between them being undeniable, each member brings something totally unique to the show....

It’s hard to remember a time before Netflix’s Queer Eye, which has since become one of the network’s most successful series. Before they were household names, the Queer Eye stars were experts in their industries, but didn’t realize what would happen when combining their gifts. Here’s what Jonathan Van Ness did before joining the Fab Five. Last year, Netflix debuted Queer Eye, a reboot of Bravo’s Queer Eye For The Straight Guy, where the Fab Five - including Van Ness, Antoni Porowski, Tan France, Karamo Brown, and Bobby Berk - help people reinvent themselves - overhauling everything from their wardrobe to their apartment to their personal grooming habits....

On the hardware side of things, as promised, I’ve swapped out the original whip antenna for a much larger 1090MHz antenna. While the antenna is technically designed for the top of a pole, I’m not planning on drilling holes in my roof, so it’s instead duct-taped to the inside of a window at the back of my home, facing roughly north. It certainly has made a big difference, almost doubling range and improving reception for local traffic, including the helicopters up and down the river....

It caters for businesses of all sizes – from small businesses to agencies and freelancers, to franchisors and multi-locational brands. You can use it to schedule and share posts with all the major social networks, including importantly for such a visual app, Instagram, and Pinterest. You can set a posting schedule for different types of posts. PromoRepublic suggests a suitable posting schedule for each of your social networks, but you can easily modify this to however you want your posting to go....