After announcing the project earlier this year, popular music streaming service Pandora is today launching its new podcast service, powered by the Podcast Genome Project. The service will be rolling out in beta today for select users on iOS and Android. The Podcast Genome Project uses both human curation and artificial intelligence (AI) to solve the issue of discovery. Simply, most people don’t know what to listen to, or what content will be interesting for them....

Last fall, the folks behind the iPad drawing app Paper introduced a standalone iPad stylus that integrates with the app appropriately called Pencil. FiftyThree’s Pencil is designed to not only look like a good old-fashioned pencil, but the stylus even talks to the Paper software to decipher which end of the stylus is for drawing and which end is for erasing… like a digital pencil. Today FiftyThree showed off in a blog post a new feature coming to current and future Pencil and Paper users that the company calls Surface Pressure....

Parks & Recreation’s Tom Haverford was full of ideas for different businesses, though not all of them were actually good. With the help of his business partner Jean-Ralphio (and other investors, sometimes), Tom started many businesses, and they all ended up failing for different reasons. Created by Greg Daniels and Michael Schur, Parks & Recreation followed the lives of the always optimistic Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler) and her friends and colleagues from the Parks Department in the fictional town of Pawnee, Indiana....

The Parks and Recreation gang visited different places throughout the series, and at the beginning of season 6 they flew across the pond to London, where Andy stayed for a couple of months - but why was he there? Parks and Recreation followed the always cheerful, hard-working bureaucrat Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler), who worked at the Parks and Recreation department in the fictional town of Pawnee. Through seven seasons, viewers also met some of Leslie’s co-workers and friends, such as Ron Swanson, Tom Davenport, Donna Meagle, April Ludgate, and Andy Dwyer, all of them with their personal style of comedy, but the one that quickly gained the hearts of viewers was Andy (Chris Pratt)....

How do you thank someone for 40 years of dedicated collaboration and support? If you’re Apple, you build a one-of-a-kind waterfront glass dome destined to become an international landmark. Starting today, the people of Singapore have a new space to share as Apple Marina Bay Sands opens its doors for the first time. Readers from Singapore shared their photos of Apple’s grand opening on the waters of Marina Bay, where even this year’s necessary health and safety precautions couldn’t dim one of the most spectacular Apple Store designs ever revealed....

Update: The original source, Nowherelse, posted an update with new information regarding the leaked dock connector images claiming the connector has 16 pins, eight on each side, with eight likely being reserved for future uses: There has been a ton of alleged next-gen iPhone leaks in recent weeks including images of the device’s thinner, higher capacity 1440 mAh battery, SIM card tray, and other internal components. Today, we get a look at parts related to the smaller, redesigned dock connector, as well as what French site Nowherelse....

In this tutorial, you will learn- mysqli_connect function mysqli_select_db function mysqli_query function mysqli_num_rows function mysqli_fetch_array function mysqli_close function PHP Data Access Object PDO PHP mysqli_connect function The PHP mysql connect function is used to connect to a MySQL database server. It has the following syntax. HERE, “$db_handle” is the database connection resource variable. “mysqli_connect(…)” is the function for php database connection “$server_name” is the name or IP address of the server hosting MySQL server....

One of the most common feature requests for Apple Music is support Handoff. This would allow you to be playing something on your Mac, then immediately continue that playback on your iPhone. A new third-party app from developer Martin Powlette, dubbed PlayOff, allows you to do just that. PlayOff works by installing an app on both your iPhone and Mac, and using a combination of Bluetooth and Apple’s MusicKit framework to share playback between the two....

Influencer charm and authenticity is one thing, but the rise in engagement for sponsored posts has shown that content is the thing of the thing. That’s what audiences are after; quite the opposite of the notion that audiences are over your ads and want to look elsewhere. If they haven’t already, brands will soon maintain a stockpile of their best content as a kind of in-house stock photo well. A company that’s developed an influencer marketing platform for brands and agencies would do well to include some kind of functionality that meets this trend....

We’re following construction progress of Apple’s Campus 2 via a series of drone videos and renders, but Popular Science got invited in for a closer look at some of the unique features of the building. The piece starts out with some stats, among them that there are around 3,000 sheets of glass, the heaviest of which weighs 7000 pounds. And it’s the glass that’s been one of the great challenges of the project …...

Over the weekend prominent leaker Evan Blass, @evleaks on Twitter, shared a couple of interesting dates for when the next iPhone will be released. Blass tweeted that the 2016 iPhone would be released during the week of September 12th, then later specified that Friday, September 16th would be the actual retail release. Now Blass is digging further and adding that pre-orders for the next iPhone will “start on the 9th” which happens to be the Friday before the release date he shared previously....

TV’s original Breakout Kings are back for yet another Fox revival, and we’re hoping the Prison Break reboot is better in quality than previous efforts recently dusted off and shelled out by the network (we’re looking at you, 24: Live Another Day and The X-Files). Unfortunately, after watching the season five premiere, “Ogygia,” we’re not overly optimistic. Not only did “Ogygia” raise more questions than it answered (fitting for a premiere, no doubt), but it refused to address any of the dozen or so elephants dancing around the room....

Just a quick PSA for those who like their carrier data cheap and pre-paid: Sprint subsidiaries Boost and Virgin Mobile will be offering the iPhone 7 and accessories starting on September 23rd. Sprint has been improving its network nationwide aggressively over the past few years and for many it is good enough to use instead of the $100/month “unlimited” plans that AT&T and Verizon offer. Boost unlimited everything plans start at $50/month and drop with on-time payments....

From awards-season buzz to ultimately unfounded fears that the film would inspire real acts of violence, Todd Phillips’ Joker has been one of the most talked-about movies of the year. Heavily inspired by the Martin Scorsese-helmed classics Taxi Driver and The King of Comedy, Phillips departed drastically from the comic books in his telling of the Joker’s origin story. Joaquin Phoenix plays the title character, depicted here as a mentally ill comedian in the ‘80s who is inspired to turn to a life of crime by the prevalent class divide in Gotham City....

As long-time readers will know, I’ve long been a fan of Siri. As I’ve often noted, it’s my primary means of interacting with my iPhone (part of the reason I don’t need a larger screen). I dictate most of my messages, and if it’s possible to ask Siri to do something for me rather than doing it myself, I do. But Siri does have one major failing: it has no access to third-party apps....

When I wrote last week’s opinion piece on five hardware lessons Apple could learn from Android manufacturers, a few of you wondered why I hadn’t added wireless charging to the list. Those who know me might be especially surprised. I hate cables, and indeed went to the trouble of having a bespoke desk made so that cables could be rendered almost invisible. I’ve also been known to favor hi-tech approaches over low-tech ones just because I’m a gadget guy, so why wasn’t I calling on Apple to introduce wireless charging … ?...

Did you get Oppo A31 2020 (Model: CPH2015) smartphone? Then this guide will be useful to you. If you have lost your pattern lock details or you are not able to verify your Google account after the hard reset,, then you can bypass it quickly using this guide. You can easily get the ISP PinOUT connection of the Oppo A31 2020 by following the full guide below along with images. By using the ISP PinOUT, you can easily bypass FRP lock or reset user data on your device via UFi Box....

It’s been a long time since we’ve seen a publicly-released jailbreak, but this year’s Mobile Security Conference (MOSEC) in Shanghai made it clear that jailbreaking isn’t dead. MOSEC is a one-day security conference co-hosted by Pangu, the Chinese hacking team responsible for several of the most recent jailbreaks. This year’s event was scheduled for today, July 1st, and was hosted at the Grand Kempinski hotel, in Shanghai, China. As noted by Stephen Chan, near the end of the event, Pangu showed off Cydia running on the iOS 10 beta, indicating that an iOS 10 jailbreak is indeed in the works....

The social network was set up after Twitter started clamping down on disinformation and hate speech. However, both Apple and Google dropped the apps after it was revealed that Parler was used to help plan the attempted coup at the Capitol, and was being used to plan a second armed attack in DC ahead of the inauguration … Background Apple first gave Parler 24 hours to begin properly moderating posts, to remove harmful content....

Does it ever happen, when you hire a graphic designer to create you one awesome poster, and he sends you out everything PES file extension, and you have no idea how to open it on your Windows 10 PC? Well, PES is the popular Photoshop extension, which is primarily used by a graphic designer to hold data. The reason why PNG and JPG are not used is that all the data is flattened and rolled out in final export....