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What would it take to evolve the Apple TV from a plastic $69 puck into a covetable device worth a premium asking price? A design collaboration between designers Martin Hajek and Andrew Ambrosino provides some compelling answers, borrowing Apple Watch and iPhone 6 design cues to re-imagine the Apple TV as a two-tone, metal-clad box with a matching color touchscreen remote. The remote can be used for basic icon-based navigation of the Apple TV’s apps, or flipped over to reveal a basic game controller....

Kogan owns and manages a portfolio of domain names, including bitbuy.com. Under the sales agreement, Kogan will receive $1.5 million in cash and a warrant entitling the company to approximately CA$2.8 million in either equity in First Ledger or cash upon exercise of the warrant, which will occur within a year of the domain name being transferred to First Ledger. “The domain sale not only delivers returns for Kogan shareholders but also provides an opportunity to benefit from Bitbuy’s future success in the crypto business abroad and potentially in the Australian market,” Kogan executive director David Shafer said....

1. Email security trends coming in 2022 Organizations are under constant threat of cybercrime. While there are many available attack vectors, email is the most obvious path towards a full network compromise. Read more » 2. Vulnerability in UpdraftPlus plugin exposed millions of WordPress site backups A high-severity vulnerability in the UpdraftPlus WordPress plugin can allow an attacker to obtain website backups that could contain sensitive information. Read more » 3....

(Cross-posted from our sister site 9to5Google.com) The Google I/O 2011 annual developer conference runs today and tomorrow at the San Francisco’s Moscone West. The morning keynote has just wrapped up and we advise you to check out our sister site 9to5Google.com for the complete coverage. Of course, our own Seth Weintraub was at the show. Apart from walking away from the keynote with a free Samsung Galaxy tablet (you get what you pay for), he spotted Jay Freeman, also known as Saurik – the brains behind the Cydia unofficial app store....

One excellent measuring tool regarding security is how well an OS can protect data. This article examines the subject matter in question from three perspectives: Data backup Data encryption Additional data security measures Data backup Before you even proceed to encrypt your data, you should first make a secure copy of it and store it in a safe and trusted place. A clean installation restore point for your Windows 10 can spare you much time....

A lot of mainstream viewers are put off by the films of David Lynch because they don’t play like traditional narratives. Rather, Lynch recontextualizes genre tropes, employs surreal symbolism that takes a lot of analysis to make sense, and edits non-sequitur sequences to play like dreams to unnerve his audience. This has made him one of the most important directors of his time, even if he’s not one of the most famous....

Like a lot of the dramas featuring teen characters in the late ‘90s, Dawson’s Creek changed how television approached teenagers. The show ushered in a wave of television programs aimed at teens instead of families. Without Dawson’s Creek, fans wouldn’t have had shows like Pretty Little Liars, The Vampire Diaries, or One Tree Hill. The teenage characters in the series were a combination of wise beyond their years and naive to the ways of the world....

During a recent interview, the renowned video game designer Hideo Kojima explains why he chose to make Death Stranding’s players feel helpless at the beginning of the game. The enigmatic exploration video game is Kojima’s first creation since he parted ways with Konami after working there for 29 years and designing some of the most popular video games of all time, including the Metal Gear franchise. In 2015, Kojima launched his own game studio and agreed to a partnership with Sony....

In this tutorial, we will show you how to remove bloatware as well as ads from Redmi Note 9S. The device is a rehashed version of the Redmi Note 9 Pro which comes with Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G paired with up to 6GB of RAM. Redmi Note 9S packs a quad rear camera 48 MP main camera accompanied by an 8 MP wide-angle camera with a 119-degree field of view, a 5 MP macro lens, and a 2 MP depth sensor....

Crowdfunding platform Indiegogo today announced that it’s finally launching an app for iPhone and iPod touch that comes alongside a new look for the website. The app includes features for both users discovering and supporting projects and those managing Indiegogo campaigns they’ve launched: A full list of features in the first release is below: Supporting Indiegogo campaigns Discovering new campaigns through recommendations based on past activity and preferred categories Exploring and following campaign categories Claiming campaign perks Sharing favorite campaigns with friends Managing Indiegogo campaigns...

As the developer’s follow-up to The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, CD Projekt Red’s ambitious Cyberpunk 2077 is one of the most highly anticipated games of the last few years. Although it’s been several years since Cyberpunk 2077’s announcement, the game is almost here, and CD Projekt Red fans now know enough about its story and gameplay to hold them over until its release date. The first Cyberpunk 2077 teaser trailer came out back in 2013 - before the launch of The Witcher 3 - after which there was a lengthy drought of information....

It’s been a huge year for DC comics. Last March, the publisher announced several major changes in multiple areas across the brand from character designs and writing teams to frequency of publication and per-issue pricing. These changes all came along with the DC Rebirth soft reboot, and could be largely considered a massive success as both DC sales and market share dramatically increased over the course of the year....

Figure 1: Deadbolt thread on Reddit (source). The QNAP NAS and ASUSTOR device’s files have been damaged and encrypted by Deadbolt ransomware. According to the ransomware operators, the malicious piece takes advantage of a zero-day vulnerability. Although there are few details about the root causes, ASUSTOR explained that the NAS devices had been encrypted via a flaw in the PLEX media server os EZ Connect that allows access to the devices....

Some of Death Stranding’s spoilers and biggest story reveals are simply, in a word, crazy. That’s coming from a game that pulls no punches when it comes to telling the sort of narrative Hideo Kojima is known for, complete with a convoluted, anachronistic plot involving multiple dimensions and people with superhuman abilities. That’s before diving into the fact that human technology has now incorporated the use of deliberately aged fetuses to help combat spirits that have transcended worlds and come to inhabit the physical realm....

Looks like Arrow star Stephen Amell was less than thrilled with how the filming of Green Arrow’s first death went in The CW’s Crisis on Infinite Earths. This season’s annual crossover between Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl, DC’s Legends of Tommorrow, and Batwoman was the network’s biggest and most ambitious yet. In it, the heroes of the Arrowverse took on a multi-universal threat that sounds like it made for an especially challenging shooting schedule....

Cyber insurance coverage has been available on the market for a decade, but only recently companies have been seeing a significant growth—sales of cyber insurance in 2013 escalated 30 percent in comparison with 2012, according to the Global Head of Professional Liability for AIG Tracie Grella. Now cyber insurance is among the fastest growing sectors in the insurance business. Owing to the increased competition with respect to cyber insurers, many mid- and small-companies can afford to buy a policy....

Tom Kellermann, VMware’s head of cybersecurity strategy, said the Log4j vulnerability is one of the worst vulnerabilities he has seen in his career – and one of the most significant vulnerabilities ever exposed. Log4j, a Java library for logging error messages in applications, was developed by the Apache Software Foundation. Kellermann called Apache “one of the giant supports of the bridge between the world’s applications and compute environments,” adding that the exploitation of Log4j will “destabilize that support and… destabilize the digital infrastructure that’s been built on top of it....

Like a giant mech emerging from the ashes of a war-torn city, Daemon X Machina has been given new life on PC. The third-person fighting game always felt like an odd choice for Nintendo Switch exclusivity, with its focus on online cooperative and competitive play - a feature Nintendo historically isn’t great about supporting. On the other hand, it’s flashy anime graphics and fluid fighting mechanics meant it both looked and played great on the portable system....

Asymmetrical multiplayer horror game Dead By Daylight will be coming to Apple and Android mobile devices courtesy of a partnership between mobile powerhouse NetEase Games and the title’s developer, Behaviour Interactive. Dead By Daylight was one of the breakout games of the indie multiplayer scene a few years ago, competing directly with titles like PUBG on Steam for a while and captivating audiences with a smart, viewable asymmetrical set-up that felt pretty balanced....

On Tuesday, digital insurance infrastructure firm Boost Insurance, alongside insurtech Breach Insurance, announced that it has launched Crypto Shield, which covers the theft of cryptocurrencies while in the custody of a custodian such as Coinbase and Binance.US. In the case that the custodian is breached or suffers a social engineering attack resulting in lost assets, individuals insured under Crypto Shield can be reimbursed up to the value of their policy....