Apple Pioneer Place in Portland, Oregon will reopen this coming Monday, February 22 at 11:00 a.m., according to a message posted by Apple. It’ll be the first time the store is open to customers in 267 days. Apple Store openings and closures have become routine due to health conditions over the past year, but Apple Pioneer Place is a special case. The store has been open just three days total since COVID-19 gripped the US, fewer than any other location....

The ‘Texas Noir’ may not be an official genre just yet, but writer Quinton Peeples is doing his part to make it happen with the coming launch of Humanoids’ THE BIG COUNTRY. It’s a detective story being described as a meditation on violence, murder, toxic masculinity, and more against the backdrop of the harsh Texan landscape. And with explicit reference to James Ellroy and Cormac McCarthy, it’s learning from the best....

Apple’s clever location-based ad campaign for its approach to privacy continues, with new privacy-focused billboards appearing in Germany. The campaign started in Las Vegas, with a giant billboard announcing, “What happens on your iPhone, stays on your iPhone… ” This was, of course, a play on the city’s famous, “What happens in Las Vegas, stays in Las Vegas” slogan. Next up was Canada, and again the billboards were tailored to the specific locations....

When viewed on Disney+, the original Star Wars film, Episode IV – A New Hope, still retains the classic 20th Century Fox fanfare and introduction. Disney’s long-awaited streaming service is finally out in the wild, with Disney+ beginning to rollout internationally, at least for a select few beta users. The prospective “Netflix killer” app contains a wealth of Disney content, from classic animated films, live-action oddities, and the entire Star Wars saga....

Genevieve Carlton Genevieve holds a Ph.D. in history from Northwestern University. After earning her doctorate in early modern European history, she worked as an assistant professor of history at the University of Louisville, where she developed new courses on the history of science, Renaissance Italy, and the witch trials. Genevieve has published five peer-reviewed articles in top presses and a monograph with the University of Chicago Press. She also earned tenure with a unanimous vote before relocating to Seattle....

Apple and the FBI are set to start its court battle for the San Bernardino case in a couple of weeks, March 22nd. In support for Apple’s position, over 40 companies, organizations and individuals will file amicus briefs later today to rally against the government order for Apple to compromise its own iPhone security measures. Facebook, Google, Dropbox, Microsoft, Snapchat and more will sign on to briefs in the case, according to sources....

Ahead of the public release of iOS 12 on Monday, Pandora for iOS has been updated with a handful of new features. The update brings Siri Shortcuts support, customizable app icons, and more. First spotted by AllThingsHow, today’s update brings deep Siri integration to Pandora. For instance, you can now use Siri Shortcuts to control your favorite Pandora stations, albums, and playlists. Additionally, Pandora explains that Siri will “learn as you listen” and make suggestions with Pandora stations it thinks you might like....

The Mac Observer just benchmarked Parallels Desktop 8 against its main Mac Desktop virtualization competitor, VMware Fusion 5. Both applications were configured to virtualize Windows on a 2011 27-inch iMac running on OS X 10.8.1 at 3.4 GHz with 16 GB of RAM for this showdown. The comparison specifically measured their ability to handle the 64-bit versions of Windows 7 Professional and Windows 8 Pro. Check out the results below: The conclusion:...

The attacks, which distribute two forms of seemingly undocumented custom-developed malware, have been detailed by cybersecurity researchers at Cisco Talos who’ve named the campaign ‘magnat’. It appears the campaign has been operating in some capacity since 2018 and the malware has been in continuous development. Over half of the victims are in Canada, but there have also been victims around the world, including in the United States, Europe, Australia and Nigeria....

Here is a bad news coming from Linux Mint. Today Clem, member of Linux Mint community posted that ISOs of Linux Mint 17.3 were hacked on 20th of February, 2016. Yes! You heard that right. It’s something that teaches lesson to all those who don’t check MD5 hash to confirm that the image they downloaded are original and not hacked one. Well if you downloaded Linux Mint 17.3 then you should immediately do the following things to be safe....

Apple and other tech giants will in future be required to pay tax in each country in which they sell products and services. Apple, for example, will no longer be able to funnel profits from all European Apple Stores through Ireland as a means of avoiding tax in the countries where the products are actually sold. The plans were announced by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), following more than 130 countries agreeing on the need for global tax reform…...

In 2014, directors Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer debuted their film, Starry Eyes at SXSW. It was the strength of that film (and exploration of a lead characters descent into darkness) that helped get them the gig of adapting a Stephen King classic, Pet Sematary. Now, back at SXSW, Pet Sematary debuted as the closing night film. Since it was co-director’s Kevin Kolsch birthday, the whole crowd sang “Happy Birthday” to him to help celebrate....

“We don’t recommend sending PGP encrypted articles as we frequently have problems with people using the wrong keys and/or an incompatible version. If it doesn’t work right away, we discard it and move on to the next submission.” Well, that was no problem for me. As a productive tech journalist, I email my work to editors at least a few times per week, and those emails are never encrypted. I encrypt an email maybe… once a year?...

Every franchise needs a breakout character to establish itself, and Pirates of the Caribbean had its star-making performance in Captain Jack Sparrow. He has been so popular that the series has exclusively relied on the audience draw that comes with the character with each film. Jack is such an interesting figure that even his very first appearance had everything you needed to know about him - in a scene where he didn’t even speak....

After taking a good look at each of the main features in the latest Logic Pro X update, it’s time for the notable holiday weekend plug-in deals. This time of year tends to bring a number of half year sales and things of that nature on plug-ins, software instruments, FX, and even some hardware gear for Logic users and music makers of all kinds. Head below for this weekend’s deals and freebies from Waves, UAD, iZotope, Spitfire Audio, Native Instruments, KORG, Apogee, and many others....

Detective Pikachu is wholesome, silly fun, with solid world-building and stunning CGI Pokémon that are complemented well enough by its story. For decades, Hollywood has been trying to crack the code of video game adaptations, attempting to translate the popular medium to the big screen with few successes. The latest video game adaptation is Pokémon Detective Pikachu, the first live-action adaptation of the Pokémon franchise. Though it’s specifically based on the 2016 game, Detective Pikachu, the movie is rooted in the franchise that kicked off and rose to popularity in the mid-90s....

Pokemon Go is one of the most popular games out there. When the game got launched back four years ago, it immediately became one of the most trending games in the gaming industry after a short while. From then on, the game has witnessed decent growth and has been able to retain its playerbase despite many mobile games trending now and then. If you are an avid Pokemon fan, you must be knowing that Dragon-type Pokemons are one of the most sought types in the game....

I asked back in May whether you thought the Apple Watch Activity app would lead to a leaner, fitter you. At that point, more than 80% of you said that it either would or already had. A Wristly survey yesterday suggested that the reality perhaps hadn’t quite lived up to this promise, but still contained some pretty impressive numbers. More than 50% of Watch owners said that they were exercising more and were making better health choices, with around 40% reporting weight loss....

NBC has pulled the comedy Powerless from their weekly lineup. As a result of the comic book movie boom created indirectly by the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the number of comic book adaptations being added to the television roster only continue to grow with each new pilot season. Whether it be Marvel’s Netflix Defenders series, or DC’s growing, critically-beloved TV lineup on the CW, superheroes are fighting crime both in your local cineplexes and living rooms on a fairly regular basis nowadays....

Sharing updates on your brand’s LinkedIn Company Page is a great way to keep your LinkedIn followers informed of your latest company news, brand content and job postings. Now, you can do all of that using the same publishing tools you know and love in Sprout. After connecting your LinkedIn Company Page, any user with publishing or draft-only permissions that has been granted access to the profile can begin crafting messages for LinkedIn....