As our sister-site Electrek covers so well, the automobile landscape is clearly changing with electric vehicles replacing gas-powered cars, autonomous features potentially replacing drivers, and Apple even developing an EV of its own. But Porsche wants no part in that future, says CEO Oliver Blume. Reuters reports that Blume told German media this week essentially that a Porsche is meant to be driven, and that an iPhone is meant for your pocket, not the road:...

Recently, the Chinese smartphone manufacturer Oppo has started Android 9.0 Pie Soak Test for Oppo Find X in India over ColorOS 6 UI. The users are getting the pre-release testing option from the device settings itself. In order to receive trial testing, users need to update the Oppo Find X to ColorOS 5.2 version. Oppo Find X Android 9.0 Pie Soak Test Goes live in India [ColorOS 6]. If you want to give a try Oppo Find X Android 9....

We’re hearing reports that OS X Mountain Lion’s AirPlay Mirroring feature is not supported on all Macs. The video we posted last night that shows the feature in action uses a MacBook Pro, and it has been working on our 1.8 GHz MacBook Air. It’s not working, though, on our 2.4 GHz 2010 Mac mini or 2010 MacBook Pro with a 2.66 GHz processor and 4GB of RAM. Some are thinking that Apple is restricting dual-core Macs, but our MacBook Air is dual-core....

A total of nine movies are in the running for the Academy Award for Best Picture at the Oscars 2020, but Marriage Story should be the eventual winner. This year’s Oscars ceremony, which will once again be without a host, takes place on Sunday 9 February, 2020, at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood, Los Angeles. The Oscar nominations revealed a strong list of Best Picture candidates, although as ever awards season has whittled those down to a few frontrunners....

Note: You and the recipient will need to have HTML mode enabled to see the backgrounds. How to Add a Background Picture to Messages in Outlook First, launch Outlook and start a new email. To add the background click the Options tab on the Ribbon. Then click Page Color. The background changes as you hover over each color. To add an image click Page Color » Fill Effects. The Fill Effects screen opens....

Background information In my previous article, I described the types of encryption schemes available. Here is a quick summary of them. There are two types of encryption schemes: Symmetric key encryption: Encryption and decryption keys are the same. Asymmetric key encryption: Encryption and decryption keys are not the same. Symmetric key encryption can use either stream ciphers or block ciphers. A stream cipher encrypts one bit at a time, while a block cipher encrypts plaintext in chunks....

Why We Take Off Our Shoes in the United States but not in Israel Anyone who’s flown in the United States knows about TSA security. We take off our coats, avoid liquids, and take off our shoes before going through security. We have a no-fly list based on names. These are reactions to specific threats. That’s not the way a country like Israel does security. I haven’t flown El-Al (Israel’s national airline), but friends tell me about the interviews they go through in security....

Pebble, the E-Ink smart-watch for iPhones and Android devices which raised over 10 million dollars on Kickstarter is about to get a lot of new features. Today, Pebble announced that the watch SDK is being released today. The SDK will allow developers to create custom watch faces, alerts and new apps. At the moment, there’s less than 10 available watch faces and only one app, but expect those numbers to grow dramatically now that developers can get their hands on a public SDK....

The iPod Classic is the gadget that refuses to die. Despite containing a hard drive when everything else is flash memory and physical controls when everything else is touchscreen, this 2009 device which isn’t a trillion miles removed from the original iPod design of 2001 remains on sale on the Apple Store to this day. But not for long, according to Wired. The piece pulls together a whole bunch of commentators who all agree that this will be the year that Apple retires the elderly design....

There have been countless podcasts related to the COVID–19 pandemic and Apple even had a featured Apple Podcasts category related to shows about it. This week, I want to introduce you to a podcast about emotion and how COVID–19 is affecting us. This week, my new recommendation for you is ’Our Plague Year’. Our Plague Year is from the team behind Night Vale, and I can only describe it as therapeutic when you listen to it....

Being a child of the 1990s, the 1992 Dream Team is a strong memory from my childhood, and I vividly remember watching the USA team absolutely dominate the rest of the world. If you watched the Last Dance on ESPN, you’ll hear quite a bit about this team, “the practice” where Michael took over the NBA, and much more. If you want to go deeper, you’ll love this podcast. Don’t forget about the great lineup of podcasts on the 9to5 Network....

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIRBxRlsYR0&feature=player_embedded#!] iLounge reported in May that Apple is allegedly working on a “standalone digital camera, specifically a point-and-shoot model.” The website further said the device would deliver an image quality far beyond what the iPhone and iPad could deliver and attributed its information to sources, camera-related job openings at Apple, a re-trademarked iSight filing, and Walter Isaacson’s biography on Apple’s late cofounder. According to Isaacson, Steve Jobs named photography as one of three industries that he wanted to transform....

Leveraging the power of iOS 8 extensions and new system customization options, Workflow debuted on the iPhone and iPad last year bringing a powerful automation app to users. Today the team behind Workflow is releasing version 1.1, which adds support for over 5o new actions in addition to including new features and updating some existing actions. Check out the latest from Workflow for iOS below: As far as features go, Workflow 1....

The White House has announced four new nominations for jobs in The Obama Administration, including Apple’s Vice President of Worldwide Government Affairs Catherine Novelli. Novelli will be nominated by President Obama to join the State Department as Under Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy and the Environment. The move will likely further improve Apple’s relations with the United States Government. As an Apple Vice President, Novelli is Apple’s lead lobbyist, and according to her LinkedIn profile, works out of Washington D....

Opera has ported its Opera Touch mobile browser from Android to iOS, and claims that it’s the perfect choice for iPhone X and iPhone XS/Max owners. The company says ‘zero-step search’ and a Fast Action button make the browser ideal for larger-screened phones without a Home button … Opera says that Touch, unlike Safari, is ready to search the web the moment you open the app. Safari, in contrast, leaves you wherever you last left off....

If you’re an Oppo A15 user and want to flash the stock firmware on your device, then this article is for you. In this guide, we have shared the complete instruction to flash the official stock ROM file on Oppo A15 CPH2185. Additionally, we’ve provided the stock firmware advantages, requirements, download links, etc. Due to the open-source nature, Android OS is really customizable and users can tweak plenty of things by installing custom firmware or mod files or even installing root access on their devices....

Fans of Ori and the Blind Forest will be pleased to learn Ori and the Will of the Wisps has gone gold. One of the most prized Metroidvania-style 2D action platformers published by Microsoft Studios, Ori and the Blind Forest originally released on the PC and Xbox One back in 2015, with a port of the game coming to the Nintendo Switch back in September of 2019. Developed by Moon Studios, Ori and the Blind Forest tasks players with controlling the titular Ori, a white guardian spirit, who must restore the “light” of the forest by gaining powers of the the main elements which make up the game’s universe....

Apple is preparing to soon release new Mac computers that support super-fast 802.11ac Gigabit wireless, according to code-findings inside of Apple’s latest OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.4 beta seed to developers. The code was located by a tipster inside of the operating system’s WiFi-frameworks folder. As you can see in the image directly below, the 802.11ac code is not found in OS X 10.8.3, which is the latest public release of Apple’s Mac operating system....

Here are our predictions for the winners of the Oscars 2020 in every category. It’s rare that the Academy Award nominations are announced without some sort of controversy or pushback, but the choices for the 92nd Oscars felt especially designed to annoy audiences. Sure, there were some amazing nominees up there, from Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite to Greta Gerwig’s Little Women, but it was hard to overlook how this was yet another year with an all-male director line-up and 19 out of the 20 acting nominees were white....

Layer 1 of the OSI model is known as the physical layer. The physical layer is the lowest layer in the seven-layer OSI model. It consists of the basic networking hardware transmission technologies of a network. The physical layer defines the means of transmitting raw bits over a physical link connecting network nodes. The bitstream is converted to a physical signal that is transmitted over a transmission medium such as a physical wire or a wireless radio transmission....