My colleague Bradley Chambers recently wrote that his single biggest disappointment with WWDC was that Apple made no move to announce an upgrade to the 5GB free iCloud tier. One of our readers, Sahil Malik, made a wry comment on the $6,699 maximum cost of the new MacBook Pro: As his comment implies, the 5GB free tier is now nothing less than an embarrassment … An embarrassment because, as Bradley wrote, it looks hopelessly out of touch with today’s world....

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: passwords are a horribly outdated and clunky approach to security, and it’s time to consign them to history. That view has been underlined by the Federal Trade Commission’s chief technologist Lorrie Cranor, who this week told a security conference that official government advice to change passwords regularly can actually make things worse. Her argument is based on something I’ve not only seen myself, but done myself – when I worked for a large company which required monthly password changes....

Popular third-party podcast player Overcast has been updated today with some exciting new features and improvements. Now, Overcast users can listen to their favorite podcasts through Apple’s AirPlay 2 technology. With AirPlay 2, users can stream songs, podcasts, and more from an iPhone or iPad simultaneously to any compatible device, such as the HomePod, Apple TV, and others. With the update, you can use Overcast to play podcasts on these devices with features like extended multi-room support, audio streaming to stereo speaker pairs, and improved buffering....

Do you want to experience this Football season on a big-screen TV and think that it is not possible at home? Well, you are wrong! You can use a laser projector in order to watch the FIFA World Cup on a bigger screen. A laser projector can be mounted directly on a screen or wall without requiring a great throwing distance. So, I think you got an idea about why we are with this article, right?...

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViKORN8URAQ] Robots & Pencils, a company that has up until now been making mobile apps for others, is launching a new platform for Mac that it says reimagines Apple’s HyperCard and allows non-developers to create & publish native iOS apps. Dubbed ‘PencilCase,’ users can create native apps with a drag and drop interface for adding UI elements, 3D models, programmed animations, and physics with no code required. There’s also a full built-in Javascript engine for those that might want to add some code....

Apple is said to have several new hardware announcements planned for this spring, including the low-cost iPhone 9/iPhone SE 2 as well as new iPad Pro models. One of the questions that remains, however, is whether or not Apple will hold a March keynote to announce these products. Reports indicate that Apple will announce the low-cost iPhone 9 next month, alongside likely iPad Pro updates. New MacBook hardware has also been rumored, as Apple is expected to continue to move away from the butterfly keyboard design....

You may be thinking that searching through a company’s own press releases as proof of their achievements is a bit of a cheat, research wise. They’re not going to be proactively distributing the bad stuff. Unhappy customers are a good resource for that, and so it’s worth noting that PostBeyond doesn’t have too many of those. Of their 255 people who reviewed PostBeyond on G2, 193 of them gave five stars....

Next year’s season of Power Rangers may be returning to the world of dinosaurs. Rumor has it that the long-running superhero series will be adapting the dino-centric Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger in 2021, after this year’s second season of Power Rangers Beast Morphers concludes its run. Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger, or “Knight Dragon Squadron Ryusoulger,” is the 43rd season of Super Sentai, the long-running Japanese series from which Power Rangers takes its concept and battle footage....

The past several months have done much to demonstrate why Miles Morales may be be the best Spider-Man, proving himself stronger, more determined, and more courageous than even Peter Parker. But as his latest appearance in Miles Morales: Spider-Man #14 proves, he’s also one of the most creative when it comes to instilling terror in his enemies, instead of plain old webbing. The issue looks to be a special one for fans of Marvel’s Ultimate Universe, from which Miles first originated....

In iOS 11, Markup is a system-level feature able to annotate and draw shapes over images and PDFs. It lets you draw with a pen, a marker and some basic squares and circles over photos. Apple doesn’t really advertise Markup as a redaction feature, to cover up information, but it feels like it is up to the job and I’ve seen many people on social media use it to do just that....

On this page, we have shared the official stock ROM flash file for QMobile A1 Lite based on Android 7.0 Nougat. To install the firmware flash file on QMobile A1 Lite, you need the software flash tool known as SP Flash Tool (aka Smartphone flash tool). This software is supported for Mediatek powered devices. Android always opens the door to various possibilities such as flashing custom ROM or kernel or APK modding etc....

Lace up those corsets and hike up those kilts: Outlander will arrive on Netflix in the U.S. in May. Outlander, based on the novels by Diana Gabaldon, follows the adventures of Claire (Caitriona Balfe), a former World War II nurse who inadvertently travels back in time to the 18th century. There, she meets and falls in love with a hunky Scottish Highlander, Jamie Fraser (Sam Heughan), whom she marries just before he is tortured by the villainous Jack Randall (Tobias Menzies), who is the ancestor and a lookalike of Claire’s modern-day husband, Frank....

Parasite exploded this past weekend on Oscar night when it became the first international film to win four Academy Awards, including the coup de grace, Best Picture. The film centers on two families, one poor and one rich and the interactions between them that end explosively. Each character in Parasite is unique, but they definitely differ in levels of intelligence. Here are our rankings of the most intelligent and least intelligent characters....

This game is excellent with a good variety of level designs, lots of great DLC, and a lot of loadout customization. It became so fascinating to experience the heists world. One can easily spend countless hours on it with friends to have fun and mess around the PayDay 2 world. Meanwhile, in any game, controls are the most important aspects that make the game more user-friendly. But, in the case of PayDay 2, it is quite tricky to control your character as not all of us know the exact and perfect controls and button mapping in their respective Consoles or PCs....

The fifth season of our favorite 1900s crime drama, Peaky Blinders, just premiered earlier this year in 2019. While some characters have come and gone, we still all have our favorite Shelby family members, as well as our favorite supporting characters that have the pleasure of running into this wild family. We thought it fitting to combine this hit British crime show with our favorite magical British movie franchise. In case you’re wondering which Peaky Blinder would be at your table at Hogwarts, we’ve made a list....

Let’s make it clear: DigiTimes has been coming up with a lot of pretty far out predictions lately. The publication’s accuracy and reliability – at least when it comes to reporting Apple rumors – has been disputed more and more. Now, with that off our chest, the latest tidbit from this Asian trade publication is intriguing. Apart from claiming that Apple commissioned contract manufacturer Pegatron to produce a small volume of high-resolution iPad 3 units ahead of a March launch and an initial volume of about 7 to 10 million iPad 4 units for an October launch, “Sources from the upstream supply chain” told DigiTimes that Apple is changing its outsourcing strategy as well:...

PTES (Penetration Testing Methodologies and Standards) The penetration testing execution standard covers everything related to a penetration test. From the initial communication, information gathering it also covers threat modeling phases where testers are working behind the scenes to get a better understanding of the tested organization, through vulnerability research, exploitation and post-exploitation. The penetration testing execution standard consists of seven phases: PTES defines a baseline for the minimum that is required for a basic pentest, as well as several advanced scenarios that provide more comprehensive activities required for organizations with higher security needs....

Philips announced today at IFA 2018 in Berlin that it will update the Hue app for iOS with support for Siri Shortcuts. With Siri Shortcuts integration, Hue users will be able to further customize their Shortcuts to include Hue-specific lighting settings. As reported by iCulture, this means users will not need to use the Home app to control their Hue lights via Siri. Further, Hue lights will be able to directly integrate into Siri Shortcuts similar to how HomeKit also integrates with Shortcuts....

The fact that Apple was working on a smartwatch may have been one of the worst-kept secrets in the world, but the company did at least manage to keep us guessing about the form it would take – right down to whether the form factor would be square or circular. Was a square format the right choice? To help us form a view, UX/UI designer Alcion has put together a series of renders showing what the Apple Watch would look like with a round face … Take a look at the gallery below and let us know which you prefer....

I woke up today with an email that one of my favorite apps is going away. Record Bird was a tool that would let you know when your favorite artists had new music coming out. It’s being shut down tomorrow. The app could scan your Apple Music or Spotify database and import all of your existing artists. It would then build a list of release dates, recommend new ones, inform you of concert dates, etc....