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With the WWDC 2022 coming to an end, Apple execs Craig Federighi and Alan Dye are now talking about one of the main changes with iOS 16, the Lock Screen redesign. In an interview with TechRadar, both executives highlight why Apple decided to revamp this part of the iPhone now. It all started with iOS 14 when the company allowed users to add customizable widgets to the Home Screen. In addition, the company also brought the App Library, which let users remove from the Home Screen apps they didn’t want to see all the time, but needed them....

Producer Dave Filoni has further teased the connection between Star Wars: The Clone Wars season 7 and Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith. The Clone Wars is widely considered one of the best pieces of Star Wars canon, taking place after Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones and filling in more information regarding the franchise’s prequel era. It’s also responsible for introducing fan favorite characters like Ahsoka Tano (Ashley Eckstein), whose voice even made a cameo in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker....

Hear me out here, because on the face of it, what I’m going to propose might not seem like a natural fit for Apple. Especially as Apple’s attempts to create social network type products haven’t exactly been a great success. There was Ping, which never really took off in the first place, failing to grow much beyond the roughly 1M users it had at launch, and which was soon drowning in spam and scams....

People these days look for the company of someone who can understand them better than anyone else. Well, the fact couldn’t be denied that only a smartphone can be a true companion of any modern man in the present time. Thus, it would be good to pay attention to the selection of the same. When it comes to selecting a smartphone that is capable to fulfill all the needs, Huawei is one of the trusted brands to consider right now....

Despite being an allure, sometimes the smart gadgets we use face troubles. It doesn’t matter how much we care and maintain them, problems often arrive and affect our experience. Many users blame manufacturers without thinking the actual problem is caused due to another reason. It happens with a lot of users and the common problems are often confused with major hardware troubles and other glitches in the phone. Well, this is the reason many users think of replacing their smartphones quickly after investing money on them....

A user always wants his/her smartphone to run smoothly and perfectly. Although there are premium gadgets available that can be trusted for this, it is not always possible to end the relation of a device with problems. Whatever you do and how with your smartphone, there are always issues that slow down its performance and functionality. These issues could be complex as well and can make things daunting. According to a study, most users feel bad about their smartphones because of common problems and not any other reason....

Many attractive smartphones are available in the market in the present time. However, it has been seen many people who love them fail to own them. For some price matters a lot while for others the configuration is a concern. Well, to make sure all those who love a specific smartphone can buy the same, many smartphone makers have started launching them in different variants. If you remain in touch with all the latest news in the smartphone market, probably you have an idea that many models are available in Pro edition as well in addition to the general....

Choosing a smartphone among the available options may seem an easier task. However, it is actually very difficult. Well, there is no doubt that almost every smartphone maker in the current time has simply the best to offer you if you are good at selecting these gadgets. There are certain facts about these gadgets which need to be examined before you go ahead and own them. Reading reviews is one of the helpful approaches to let you keep up the pace in this matter....

In an interview with ZDNet via Zoom on Wednesday, CFO Brian Carolan said that the trend to larger deals continues for Commvault, without the hiccups the company had seen the prior quarter. “We’re seeing a higher volume of larger deals, we’re getting into these conversations of these larger transformational transactions,” said Carolan. That means selling not merely to the head of infrastructure or the IT backup person, but sales where “board-level directives are coming down to the CIO or CSO” to deal with things such as ransomware....

Threats such as fileless attacks and advanced persistent threats threaten to wreak havoc on company and organization networks, and an EPP solution alone cannot deal with these skilled attacks. There are both open source and commercial options available for EDR solutions. Commercial vendors like Symantec and Cynet are best suited to EDR security and protection for the enterprise; however, open-source is a more cost-effective choice for non-profit organizations and government bodies....

Today’s comScore report shows that a full third of all US phone users are using a Smartphone and that is heading toward a majority pretty quickly. Perhaps that is why (with a little help from Verizon) Apple was the biggest gainer in the overall phone market in the Feb-May quarter. LG was up just slightly while Apple stole marketshare from Motorla and RIM. I think it is important to keep in mind that Apple’s original iPhone goal was to capture 1% of the total phone market in the first year of release....

Today, Condé Nast’s Epicurious becomes the latest to take advantage of iBeacons in-store by teaming up with inMarket to beam location-based notifications and offers to shoppers in retail environments. I previously wrote about inMarket, an in-store marketing platform that recently started rolling out iBeacons to retailers (mostly grocery stores), when it announced Zatarain’s would become the first consumer packaged goods brand to use the platform. The company was using inMarket’s Mobile to Mortar (M2M) platform to beam notifications and offers directly to shopper’s smartphones when in proximity of one of inMarket’s in-store iBeacons....

The Confession Killer season 2 is something that viewers are wondering about considering how many serial killers there have been. Directed by Robert Kenner and Taki Oldham, The Confession Killer season 1 tells the story of Henry Lee Lucas, an alleged serial killer who confessed to more than 600 murders. The Confession Killer season 1 implies that Lucas aimed to please Texas Rangers by providing false information about cold cases....

Configuring an Alternate Configuration for your TCP/IP settings is very useful for computers that move between networks where at least one network requires a static IP address. If you are a mobile computer user, you can use the Alternate Configuration functionality to maintain seamless operations on both office and home networks without having to manually reconfigure TCP/IP settings. This feature specifies that TCP/IP uses an alternative configuration if a DHCP server is not found....

Last week, the US Senate voted to overturn Internet privacy rules that were introduced by the FCC last year. As we noted last week, the next step for the issue was to pass through Congress and today it did just that… As noted by The Verge, the House of Representatives today passed a resolution that overturns the Obama-era rules that required Internet service providers to ask for customer permission before sharing their browsing history with other companies....

Corning Inc., announced today its plan to unveil Gorilla Glass 2 at the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas next week, and the company said more product details would be made available Jan. 9. The Corning, N.Y.-based company plans to “showcase the critical role of highly engineered specialty glass in addressing emerging trends” at CES 2012. Some of the highlights include increased functionality from smaller form factors; connected devices in new applications; touch technology; and, large-format design aesthetics....

Actor Jamie Bell is keen to work on a sequel to 2011’s The Adventures of Tintin and is onboard with the idea of co-star Andy Serkis taking over directorial duties. Based on the beloved series of comics by Belgian author Hergé, the motion-capture based film assembled a creative dream team of Steven Spielberg, Peter Jackson, Edgar Wright, and Steven Moffat among others, with Bell being cast in the title role after Thomas Sangster was forced to withdraw....

2017 promises to be a big year for the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Marvel Studios is already in production on Black Panther and Avengers: Infinity War, while Marvel TV is wrapping up Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season four and filming The Defenders and The Punisher for Netflix. The Marvel brand will be expanding even further with Hulu’s Runaways potentially already filming and Cloak & Dagger set to air on Freeform next year....

The Dirt is a biographical film that tells the story of glam metal band Mötley Crüe’s rise to fame. Colson Baker, known professionally as the rapper Machine Gun Kelly, plays Tommy Lee, Mötley Crüe’s drummer. Douglas Booth, who starred in Darren Aronofsky’s Noah and The Wachowskis’ Jupiter Ascending, plays Nikki Sixx, the band’s bassist. And Game of Thrones’ Iwan Rheon plays Mick Mars, Mötley Crüe’s guitarist. The Dirt was released on Netflix this March....

Comcast is reportedly planning to launch a new broadband streaming TV service that will include HBO and ESPN among other channels. Variety reports that the service will be priced at $15/month with tiers ranging to $40/month and launch in Q3 later this year. Comcast already offers a $15/month Xfinity add-on called Stream that it launched back in 2015. Comcast’s new product will be called Xfinity Instant TV and feature higher tiers....