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Pressure is growing on Facebook to explain its failure to protect customers against misuse of their data by a firm of political consultants. Both US and UK governments have demanded that CEO Mark Zuckerberg personally appear before them to give testimony. But in the case of the UK, Zuckerberg has already refused … Reuters reports that Zuckerberg has said that he will instead send another senior exec. The firm says that these execs would be better placed to explain what happened and what steps are being taken to ensure that there can be no repetition....

Earlier this week, we noted Apple SVP of Design Jony Ive and U2 pop star Bono made a joint appearance at the Cannes Lions Festival to discuss Apple and Product Red’s partnership in raising funds for AIDS/HIV programs in Africa. During that appearance, Bono pointed out with Jony Ive on stage that Apple does not prominently display the Product Red logo on the products that support the effort, according to AdWeek’s account of the event (the full video has not been made available and the clip showing Bono relaying another story on Steve Jobs has since been made private):...

Here’s how Quantico’s season 2 finale played out. Quantico debuted on ABC in 2015 and stars Priyanka Chopra as FBI agent Alex, who is suspected of a terrorist act. The unique hook of the first series was how it was split between two timelines, with one in the past following Alex as a recruit and the other as she tries to clear her name in the present. The show is a star vehicle for Bollywood star Chopra, who previously appeared in the movie remake of Baywatch....

A new ad for the Powerbeats Pro highlights the battery life of the earphones as a Paris running club ran an intense 174-mile relay race in Iceland over 24 hours. The group of runners named the relay race “Zero Dark Project” as they each took turns chasing the sun over a 24-hour race across Iceland. One of the runners noted how music fits into an experience like this: The run was fueled by Powerbeats Pro with the YouTube description highlighting the 9-hour battery life and 24 hours of listening with the charging case....

This past spring, UnitedHealthcare announced that it would start offering some of its insurance customers the opportunity to earn a free Apple Watch with a limited program. Starting tomorrow, the company is expanding the promotion to all eligible customers so they can pick up the wearable now with the ability to earn a free Apple Watch with UnitedHealthcare in six months. Announced in a press release, UnitedHealthcare shared its customers can earn over $1,000 a year, with those rewards being eligible to pay for a free Apple Watch....

NumPy is a programming language that deals with multi-dimensional arrays and matrices. On top of the arrays and matrices, NumPy supports a large number of mathematical operations. In this part, we will review the essential functions that you need to know for the tutorial on ‘TensorFlow.’ Why use NumPy? NumPy is memory efficiency, meaning it can handle the vast amount of data more accessible than any other library. Besides, NumPy is very convenient to work with, especially for matrix multiplication and reshaping....

One of the things that made The Office so funny was its cast of over the top characters. Many of the characters were pretty funny themselves, but only a few of them had self-aware humor. Most of the biggest laughs on the show came from the ridiculous antics that the employees of Dunder Mifflin would get up to. While some of the time these characters knew they were being funny, often it was the characters who were completely oblivious to their own humor that made us laugh the most....

iPad Pro officially launched last week to the public after initially being announced back in September. The device launched in Apple’s standard trio of color choices, as well: silver, gold, and Space Gray. As with all Apple products, the Touch ID ring found on the Space Gray model is black, while the ring is gold on the gold model and silver on the silver model, just like you’d expect. At least one user, however, has received an iPad Pro with a different color combination…...

Scanner Pro, which lets users scan documents, receipts, and more using their iPhone or iPad, recieved a big update to version 4.5 this week. The update enables live border detection, which allows the app to intelligently find the edges of whatever is being scanned while you photograph it. In our testing, the border detection was very accurate, although it did have a bit of trouble when the paper and the background where different shades of the same color....

Sony’s highly successful gaming console series of PlayStation will receive the latest PlayStation 5 avatar. It will l be released around Christmas this year. And to add to the excitement, it will include the new DualSense controller. Not only does it have an attractive new look, but it comes with a number of interesting new features as well. So if you are one of those tech enthusiasts or a future owner of Play Station 5 then you are at the right place....

One of the fab five of Queer Eye, hair guru Jonathan Van Ness, reveals his hidden dark past in his new memoir, “Over the Top.” The reality TV personality reveals his past drug addiction and being a sexual abuse survivor. 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....

The game that knocked Angry Birds and Tiny Wings off of the top slots in the App Store games chart. What is this with the App Store and bird-themed games, huh? First Angry Birds sat atop the App Store games charts, then Tiny Wings came along and now we have Air Penguing, a Gamevil-branded feather-themed time killer. It’s currently #1 paid app in the App Store games category in the US, Germany, Austria, Hungary and Russia....

The new Powerbeats 4 feature a slightly sleeker design, which should be more comfortable on the ear, and boast up to 15 hours of battery life according to WinFuture’s source. See the pairing animations for the new headphones after the jump … As expected, the new Powerbeats will incorporate the Apple H1 chip with support for Hey Siri. The Beats logo doubles as button that can be used to play, pause and advance through tracks similar to the double tab gesture on older AirPods....

To follow along with the article please download the latest version of PowerSploit available here: https://github.com/PowerShellMafia/PowerSploit If you have GIT, then you can simply run the following command to get all files from the github repository: [plain] git clone https://github.com/mattifestation/PowerSploit.git [/plain] To run PowerSploit scripts, you should have Microsoft PowerShell installed. It comes installed on Windows 7 and above operating system versions. Here, the current scenario is: we have a remote desktop connection to the victim machine (Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit) which has PowerShell installed, and we run PowerSploit tools on it....

Prince William and Duchess Kate showed off their Royal Christmas look over the recent holiday. The parents of George, Charlotte, and Louis were accompanied by Prince Charles as they walked to St. Mary Church in Sandringham. Christmas is a time for family. However, given the rough year that the Royals have had, it’s no big surprise that this holiday was a divisive one. With Prince Andrew drowning under accusations of inappropriate behavior with underage girls at the late Jeffrey Epstein’s arrangement, as well as William and Harry’s sibling rivalry, the family seems to need a little time apart....

Under its conservative projections, Psystar told investors it would sell 70,000 computers in 2009, 470,000 systems in 2010 and 1.45 million machines in 2011. The firm’s aggressive growth model, however, put those numbers at 130,000, 1.87 million and 12 million during 2009, 2010 and 2011, respectively. In fact, an economist hired by Apple found that it might not have even reached the 1,000 computer mark from April 2008- August 2009....

So here will go through different ways in which we can remove duplicates from a given list. In this tutorial, you will learn: Remove duplicates from list using Set Remove Duplicates from a list using the Temporary List. Remove duplicates from list using Dict Remove duplicates from a list using for-loop Remove duplicates from list using list comprehension Remove duplicates from list using Numpy unique() method. Remove duplicates from list using Pandas methods Remove duplicates using enumerate() and list comprehension...

Comic book publisher Boom! Studios recently announced the next installment in R. L. Stine’s Go Beyond series of graphic novels, titled Go Beyond: Beast Island. The Goosebumps and Fear Street author is working with Kelly & Nichole Matthews, artists known for Pandora’s Legacy and the webcomic Wishbones, and cover artist Julian Totino Tedesco (Daredevil: Know Fear, Mystik U). Beast Island is releasing this October. This is the third OGN in the Go Beyond line of middle-grade supernatural horror books....

After first announcing and showing off new licensing plans with Pro Tools 12 in January, today the latest version of Pro Tools has arrived at last alongside the new subscription plans on Avid’s online store. Highlights for Pro Tools 12 include a new “Avid Cloud Collaboration” feature that lets users collaborate in real-time from different locations using built-in chat and other collaboration features, and a new “Avid Marketplace” for finding talent and accessing apps, plug-ins and third-party content....

The Indie Stone did release Project Zomboid way back in 2013 as an open-world isometric zombies survival horror video game. Whether you’re playing in single-player or multiplayer mode, you can loot, build, craft, fight, farm, and so on to survive. This title offers an RPG skillset, a vast map, and customizable items. But somehow several players are encountering the Project Zomboid Not Working issue on Mac due to some reasons that can be fixed quite easily....