With iOS 10, Apple added the ability for six categories of application to integrate with the iOS personal assistant, Siri. One of these groups was mobile payments. The PayPal app for iOS has now been updated with this integration, so you can use natural language voice queries to send and receive money. Using your contact address book, queries like ‘Hey Siri send David $20 using PayPal’ will bring up a confirmation sheet in the Siri conversation with one button to confirm....

Apple today has been revealed as the target of yet another lawsuit. This time, Pennsylvania resident Samuel Lit is suing Apple over a 2008 patent covering web carousel technology. Lit claims that the design of the Apple.com homepage, which cycles through a variety of different products, infringes upon his patent. The patent in question is for an “information display system and method” that uses elements of a display engine to take information from a server to a webpage and display it in a carousel design, reports AppleInsider....

The video game Perfect Dark was set in the 2020’s, but now that the future is actually here where has the popular franchise gone? The original Perfect Dark game was developed by the studio Rare and released for the Nintendo 64 in 2000 to both player and critical acclaim. The game did well enough to achieve Nintendo’s ‘Player Choice’ award and is typically cited as one of the greatest video games ever released....

Mortal Engines has all the potential to be another massive hit for Peter Jackson if the same attention to detail is given as it was to the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit trilogies. With four books in the series, there’s no shortage of material to pull from for the film adaptation, which Jackson is also co-writing with Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens. Set for a late 2018 release, Mortal Engines (not to be confused with 2013’s Mortal Instruments) is a big task for first time director Christian Rivers....

After teasing its new AR multiplayer feature “Buddy Adventures” last month, Niantic has shared a new video promoting the upcoming feature and announced that it will arrive “very soon.” Buddy Adventures makes use of Pokémon Go’s AR+ to “access more detailed depth maps and other data necessary to create advanced AR visualizations.” (via The Verge). The feature will arrive for both iOS and Android in early 2020. Here’s how Niantic describes Buddy Adventures:...

As we eagerly await the kick off of this year’s WWDC, you were kind enough to share your views in three separate polls on Friday, so here’s a quick roundup of the results. Asked what Apple should call the next version of OS X, the favored option was ‘macOS,’ with 60% support. Most of the rest of you wanted the same thing with a capital M, while only a handful wanted a space in the name or something else entirely....

Basically, pptPlex lets you display the structure of your slides and then zoom in, drill down and bounce around from slide to slide in a fashion that is more visually engaging for the viewer. This little known free add-in from OfficeLabs is guaranteed to wow the socks of a jaded academic or corporate audience. Plus, it makes the data easier to understand. It’s sort of hard to explain what pptPlex does for your PowerPoint presentations, so you may as well check out this overview video first:...

In the previous article, we saw the internal details of the Shellshock vulnerability. In this article, we will see how to exploit the bash bug in the following scenarios. SSH exploit Apache server exploit But before proceeding further, it is recommended to go through the first part of this series. Prerequisites Software required VirtualBox Download and install VirtualBox from www.virtualbox.org A machine vulnerable to Shellshock – Victim I am using Kali Linux since it is vulnerable to the bash bug....

If you’re still weighing up the pros and cons of installing the iOS 14 public beta, it’s worth noting that it disables coronavirus contact tracing apps in Europe if they use the Apple API … Apple lists this as a ‘known issue’ with the beta. Once you have the beta installed, going into Settings > Privacy > Health will show that COVID-19 Exposure Logging is off. If you try to turn it back on, a message says that the feature is ‘Not available in your region....

OtherWorld Computing has announced a new upgraded model of its Thunderbolt 3 dock. The new dock features 14 ports of connectivity, including max 85 watt charging over Thunderbolt 3, which means it can fully charge a MacBook Pro — and provide various I/O ports — using a single cable. In addition to high wattage charging, the 14-port dock includes a new USB-C 3.1 Gen 2 port on the front alongside the rectangular USB-A....

If you have a mix of loans, credit card debts or other borrowing, it can be hard to see just how much the interest rates and fees are costing you. A new app – currently only available in the UK but with plans for international expansion – takes a really interesting approach to this. Link Pariti to your bank accounts and credit cards, and it will show you the total costs of your debts....

Today, smartwatch maker Pebble finally announced a long awaited feature that will allow users to receive all notifications from their iOS 7 device reliably. It also announced version 2.0 of its SDK with new features for developers. Back in June, we noted that Apple was introducing Apple Notification Center Service to allow Bluetooth devices to reliably receive all notifications that hit Notification Center on a connected iOS device. Before integrating ANCS, Pebble could only receive SMS, Email and Call notifications reliably from iOS 6+ devices....

Pedro Pascal probably stole all of our hearts when he had his first break-out role as Oberyn Martell on Game of Thrones. Of course, most recently, he also has a huge role as the Mandalorian on the new Star Wars live-action show. Pedro Pascal is also quite the movie actor, and it’s time to make a list of flicks to binge to get to know more about this man’s versatility and brilliance....

We’ve already seen early customer photos of the iPhone 12 Pro Max and iPhone 12 mini, and Apple has now shared some in-store photos. The first photos shared by Apple were from Australia and China, though the company also included an impressive night shot of Singapore’s Marina Bay Sands store taken with the iPhone 12 Pro Max (bottom) … Apple usually adds to the photos as the day unfolds in different time zones around the world, but there will be fewer than usual this year thanks to coronavirus-induced store closures in many countries....

If you’ve ever been browsing Pinterest and spotted a lamp you really like in a shot of someone’s living room, or a bag you love in a street shot, the iOS app now has a tool designed to help. Just tap the search tool in the corner of the photo, highlight the object of interest and the app will search its product database to try to identify it … Pinterest says that it has so far indexed a billion of the 50 billion images posted to the service, and in time aims to index them all....

On this page, we will share all the latest Poco C3 (codenamed angelicain) firmware flash files. To flash the firmware file, you need Xiaomi Mi Flash Tool which works on both Windows, Mac, and Linux. You can follow this guide to flash the firmware stock ROM file on Poco C3. Xiaomi’s subsidiary brand POCO though becomes an independent smartphone brand, the tradition, and official stock skin is still followed with the help of Xiaomi....

The main characters on Pretty Little Liars each had their own unique styles, personalities, strengths and passions, and for Hanna Marin, fashion was her thing. She enjoyed shopping, the others turned to her for advice, and she always looked glam, no matter where she was going or what she was doing. While all of her outfits were fab, there were a few that stood out in special ways. These were one-of-a-kind and trendy outfits that she put her fun and funky twist on, to make them even better....

It’s always a good idea to accept iOS dot updates as soon as they are available as they generally have significant security fixes. But iOS 10.3.3, released yesterday, fixes one particularly nasty vulnerability, making a swift update a particularly good idea … Apple’s security document describes it in rather mundane-sounding terms. But what Nitay Artenstein of Exodus Intelligence discovered – and reported to Apple – was that it was able to exploit the issue to ‘run code in the main application processor....

Apple’s ‘just works’ philosophy has hit a snag for those shooting video on an iPhone for editing in Final Cut Pro X: the app doesn’t yet support the new H.265 High Efficiency Video Coding used in iOS 11. The HEVC codec is, as the name suggests, a far more space-efficient way to compress video, reducing the space needed to store video by as much as 50%. But right now, any HEVC video footage you import into FCP X will be unusable …...

Both new films and catalogue titles will be available from a range of studios, including 20th Century Fox, The Walt Disney Studios, Warner Bros., Paramount Pictures, Universal Studios Home Entertainment, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Lionsgate, Image Entertainment and First Look Studios. We’re thrilled to bring iTunes Store customers new films for purchase day-and-date with the DVD release," said Eddy Cue, Apple’s vice president of iTunes. “We think movie fans will love being able to buy their favorites from major and independent studios....