The wait is almost over as we’re now six days away from WWDC 2021. Ahead of the event, 32nd Worldwide Developers Conference event stream page has officially been published. Apple has also sent an email to developers informing them that WWDC 2021 is almost here. Since Apple introduced the Memoji feature with the iPhone X, most of the subsequent WWDC events received some sort of cool artwork highlighting this function. For WWDC 2021, Apple is teasing the event with Memojis with Macs....

Oppo, a Chinese smartphone manufacturer promoting its upcoming Oppo F9 smartphone. Now the two new posters released on the internet that reveals two Oppo F9 color variants, Sunrise Red and Twilight Blue. There some more promoting poster and hand on image also surfaced online. According to the latest poster, the company will launch the Oppo F9 smartphone in colo variant for sure, Sunrise Red and Twilight Blue. The poster also revealed that the phone will have glass made back panel with diamond pattern design....

But an overly hierarchical culture gets in the way of content creativity—especially when it comes to social media. It feeds into the myth that only those with ‘senior’ or ‘executive’ in front of their titles have ideas worth listening to and those at the bottom have less experience, wisdom and creativity. In actuality, when executives only solicit ideas from their peers, it holds brands back from reaching their true potential....

You may still be waiting for your Mac Pro to arrive, but OWC is ready to sell you a CPU upgrade once it does. The company offers a choice of four E5 2600-series processors, ranging from an 8-core 2.6GHz chip with 20MB cache for $950, to a 12-core 2.7GHz processor for $1480. We first confirmed that CPU upgrades were possible last December. The company says the upgraded processors offer speed gains ranging from 25 percent to 46 percent over Apple’s base model 4-core 1600-series processor....

Guillermo del Toro’s love letter to movies and TV shows about giant piloted-robots battling giant monsters, Pacific Rim is getting a sequel in 2018 in the form of Pacific Rim: Uprising. Daredevil season 1 showrunner and Spartacus TV show creator Steven DeKnight is calling the shots on the Pacific Rim sequel, though del Toro helped to get the project off the ground after it was seemingly-almost canceled, apocalypse-style. Meanwhile, in front of the camera, the Star Wars franchise’s John Boyega is leading the way as the son of Stacker Pentecost (Idris Elba), from the first Pacific Rim installment....

Parks and Recs had some fantastic supporting characters, but Jenny Slate’s evil Mona-Lisa might be the most underrated. The 2000s produced some all-time classic TV comedies, ranging from Arrested Development to 30 Rock, The Office and It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia. The latter show debuted back in 2005 but is still going strong, with its most recent season airing in 2019, making it one of the longest-running live-action sitcoms in TV history....

The future of live music concerts could be each audience member enjoying their own personalized sound mix, all controlled by an app on their smartphone, says UK startup Peex. Peex is currently trialling its tech at a number of concerts on Elton John’s farewell tour … CNET’s David Carnoy got to try it, and was impressed. Peex kit takes a feed from the main soundboard, and then wirelessly transits five separate channels to users....

Pi-Hole is a privacy-focused DNS server that can be installed on many devices, such as the Raspberry Pi. It’s a great way to protect an entire network from tracking by data gathering and mining services, which can be done by setting your local Pi-Hole as the DNS server for your network in your router’s settings. Now Pi Stats has arrived on iOS to easily keep an eye on your DNS server....

A sector can only be part of the CDR regime after the federal government formally designates what classes of information or data can be used in applying the regime into that specific sector. For the telecommunications sector, the classes of information designated for applying the CDR will be generic and publicly available product data, product data that relates to particular products used by consumers, and basic consumer and account data such as data available to consumers on their bills or through online accounts or mobile apps....

Apple made a big move to energize its gaming platform today by launching more than 30 new titles on Apple Arcade. While that includes big ones like NBA 2K21, a major part of the strategy is bringing hit iOS and traditional classics to the platform. What favorites do you want to see come to the ad-free Apple Arcade in the future? Major Apple Arcade update Apple Arcade’s big update is exciting in a number of ways....

iOS photo editing app Prisma proved an almost instant hit when it launched last summer, its AI-powered filters offering higher quality and more diverse results than competing apps. An update to the app yesterday means you can now download even more filters through a ‘filter store’ … While the downloadable filters are currently free, the use of the word ‘store’ does suggest that this may not always be the case, so it might be a good plan to check them out sooner rather than later....

For the six months ending 31 December 2021, the Australian IT solutions provider recorded net profit after tax of AU$12.4 million, climbing 32% year-on-year from last year’s reported AU$9.4 million. Revenue came in at AU$999 million, following a 17% uplift. According to the company, revenue growth was underpinned by solid public cloud revenue, which was up 35% to AU$466.7 million as major organisation and government departments migrated to cloud-based infrastructure....

A Chinese smartphone company, Oppo teased that the first ever the company’s R series smartphone coming to India. Now, the company sent out media invites for the product launch event on December 4 in Mumbai. Where the company unveiled the Oppo R17 Pro smartphone. The company launched the Oppo R17 Pro in its home market a few months ago along with Oppo R17 phone. The company launch only Pro version of the Oppo R17 smartphone....

With the release of OS X El Capitan later this year, Apple will bring a setting that has been part of iOS for some time over to the Mac. The setting allows users to determine whether they want to enter their password every time they download a paid app or in-app purchase, or if they would rather only have to enter it once for a given 15-minute window. A second setting will also allow users to permanently save their password for free downloads, ensuring that you never have to login to download another free app....

The application layer is the seventh layer (layer 7) of the seven-layer OSI model. The application layer is the OSI layer closest to the end-user. This layer interacts with software applications that implement a communication component. Application layer functions typically include the following: Identifying communication partnersDetermining resource availabilitySynchronizing communication It is important to understand that user applications do not reside in the application layer. It is those protocols that interact with the end-user application that reside in this layer....

While nobody should base their purchasing decisions on patents, it’s always interesting to see what companies are working on behind the scenes. Today, it looks like Apple is working on a next generation Lightning connector. According to Patently Apple, the company is working on updating its current Lightning connector design to “create a liquid-tight seal.” It notes that as our devices are getting more use, it’s becoming increasingly important to protect them from Mother Nature....

In the face of new competition from Apple, smartwatch maker Pebble has released an update to the device’s firmware that enables all-new activity tracking features for health applications. To accompany this update, new Pebble apps from Jawbone and others that integrate with the health and fitness tracking features. The app by Misfit will be capable of monitoring sleep and movement using the watch’s built-in sensors, while Jawbone’s “UP” watchface will be able to track similar data and sync back to the Jawbone UP service via a smartphone connection....

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It is the day and age of reboots, reunions, and revivals. While some prefer original versions over these new ones and vice versa, it is nice that we all have more options when it comes to television and films. Since there are so many rebooted TV shows, we thought it would be fun to compare the newer casts with the older ones by looking at photos of the two. We will also provide information on when these series started, who they star, and where they can be seen....

Although there are a lot of similarities in K–12 and enterprise networks, K–12 networks will have some requirements that must be considered when overhauling a network. Over the next few weeks, I am going to discuss all the various pieces of building a K–12 network. We will look at firewalls, switches, Wi-Fi, device management, and device selection. This week, I am going to look at picking the best firewall. About Making The Grade: Every Saturday, Bradley Chambers publishes a new article about Apple in education....