Pretty much anyone who aspires to become a successful filmmaker or performer dreams of making one really great project that will launch them into the stratosphere of success in the entertainment industry, but that is a Cinderella story that rarely happens in real life. However when it comes to writer and director Kevin Smith, he managed to make that dream into his own reality with his debut feature film, Clerks....

G-Form, a protective-wear company that is transitioning to iPad enclosures loves doing these stunts. In the video below, someone drops an iPad in their extreme sleeve out of an ultralight at 500 feet. The camera falls off but it looks like the iPad survives. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKNdknJI53Q?rel=0&hd=1&w=640&h=390] Unfortunately they are only on pre-order. The company promises to deliver on May 10th. iPad 2′s thinner glass is remarkably stronger than iPad 1 (9to5mac....

Season 2 of Castle Rock adds Lizzy Caplan in a major role as a young Annie Wilkes, better known as the super-fan who kidnaps and maims her favorite author in Stephen King’s 1987 psychological horror novel Misery. That will be a large part of the story in Hulu’s King-centric anthology series, as the new season will reportedly delve into the misery (pun fully intended) of its location, and the role in plays in ruining the lives of those who have the misfortune of calling it home....

Cybersecurity is not about buying the latest security monitoring and automation tools to solve the day-to-day problems. Government and banking organizations have increased funding for managing security vulnerabilities and risks. Security tools that are available in the market may identify and solve only part of the problem. The problem can be solved only if we have the right persons with the right skills. We are aware of fact that most companies that are willing to secure their data are in the search for hiring talented security engineers and leaders....

We did not see a hardware upgrade to the HomePod this year, but Apple did give it a hefty software upgrade yesterday. The new HomePod software features the ability to ping devices (even devices with Family Sharing) via Find My iPhone, make and receive phone calls, and set multiple timers. However, how does it compete against its other smart speaker brethren? Today, a report out from CIRP details just that....

A claimed design sketch of the iPhone 7 shows identical dimensions to the iPhone 6s. The drawing (shown in full below) shows only the height and width, not the depth, so doesn’t shed any more light on the ‘headphone jack or no headphone jack’ question. The sketch was posted by French site NWE with an @onleaks watermark, so has decent credentials, though of course neither can be sure that it’s genuine....

Clint Eastwood is targeting The Ballad of Richard Jewell to be his next directorial project. The film, which has been in development for a number of years, is based on the true story of the 1996 Olympics bombing. Jewell, a security guard at the event, was originally deemed a hero after he discovered what looked to be a bomb and cleared the area, saving a number of lives in the process....

Europe’s tough new privacy law, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), came into force today. It provides the strongest protections the world has ever seen for customer and user data. Even Apple – a company famed for its respect for customer privacy – had to strengthen its safeguards in order to meet the extremely high standards set by GDPR. But while the law only applies to European Union citizens, Apple and some other companies have said that they plan to roll out the same privacy standards worldwide …...

TCL 30 V 5G The TCL 30 V 5G will be a Verizon-exclusive device, boasting a 6.67-inch display with a 1,080 by 2,400 resolution. The big screen smartphone is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 chip, 4GB of RAM, and a 4,500mAh battery, all of which TCL hopes will provide day-long usage. At the back of the device is a fingerprint sensor and a camera module that houses a 50-megapixel primary camera, a 5MP super-wide lens, and a 2MP macro lens....

Microsoft Office Search For instance, if you want to search a word or phrase in a Word document, simply highlight it and select Search with Bing. That will open your default browser and bring you to the search results from Bing. Change Microsoft Office Search Provider If you would rather use a different search engine in Microsoft Office documents to Google, DuckDuckGo, or something else, you’ll need to hack the Registry....

China UnionPay is the largest bank card provider in the region, but the App Store has not supported the payment method up to now. Apple has announced that this inconvenience has now been resolved with customers in China now able to link their Apple ID with debit or credit cards from UnionPay. The addition should help expand the reach of the App Store to even more customers, allowing Apple to bolster its number credit cards on file ahead of an Apple Pay launch in the country....

Apple Pay adoption has been rather slow in Australia due to disagreements between Apple and major banks over access to the NFC chip in iPhones. Today, however, The Commonwealth Bank of Australia – or CommBank – announced that it will finally support Apple Pay. CommBank made the announcement in a tweet this evening, saying that Apple Pay will launch for its personal customers in January of 2019. Other details are unclear at this point, but this announcement has been a long time coming for CommBank customers....

Which certification is best for you? We break it down below. CISSP vs. CASP+ The CISSP certification exam uses a Computerized Adaptive Testing (CAT) format to evaluate a professional’s understanding of cybersecurity strategy and hands-on implementation experience. It evaluates the technical skills to design, execute and manage the overall security posture of an organization. It’s most applicable for experienced security practitioners, cybersecurity managers and executives. The CASP+ certification uses multiple-choice and performance-based questions to evaluate a professional’s ability to implement solutions to make an organization more resilient while complying with cybersecurity policies and frameworks....

A former Apple designer who worked on both the iPhone and HomePod has created a startup company for speakers known as Cell Alpha, which aim to take spatial audio to the next level … Christopher Stringer’s company Syng bills the sound technology used as “triphonic” audio. Syng’s website is very light on detail, but The Verge has a little more. A revolution in home audio. Cell Alpha marks the birth of a new standard in spatial sound....

An IMSI-catcher is a surveillance solution used by law enforcement, military and intelligence agencies for telephony eavesdropping, it is the technology used for intercepting mobile phone traffic and tracking movements of mobile phone users. An IMSI catcher runs a Man in the Middle (MITM) attack acting as a bogus mobile cell tower that sits between the target mobile phone and the service provider’s real towers. The only way to prevent being tracked by an IMSI catcher is using specific products that secure communication on mobile devices....

Let’s discuss these concepts in detail. Confidentiality Confidentiality revolves around the principle of ‘least privilege.’ This principle states that access to information, assets, etc. should be granted only on a need-to-know basis so that information that is only available to some should not be accessible by everyone. As you might have guessed already, the core for good confidentiality, or need to know, the principle is a strong data classification policy....

Colin Farrell has become one of the most diverse, underrated actors in Hollywood. After bursting onto the scene as the Hollywood bad-boy action star with movies like Phone Booth and SWAT, Farrell has dialed it down in subsequent years to demonstrate what a fine actor he is. This Friday, audiences can see Farrell in The Gentleman, which marks his first time working with British director Guy Ritchie! But before you do, let’s take a look back at some of the plum parts Farrell has played over the course of his 20-year career....

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The Charlie’s Angels reboot becomes the latest box office bomb of the fall, grossing only $8.6 million in its opening weekend. While there have been some noteworthy hits the past couple of months (Joker, most prominently), there have also been more than a few major commercial disappointments. The likes of Terminator: Dark Fate and Doctor Sleep flopped and will ultimately cost their studios money. Even last weekend’s champ, World War II drama Midway, earned just a fraction of its $100 million production budget in its debut and has a long way to go to reach profitability....

While the iPhone 5c became available for pre-order today in several countries via Apple’s website, Apple is currently not offering pre-orders for the iPhone 5s or reservations for pickup at Apple Stores for either model. However, this will change on September 17th in China. Apple began noting this on its website on the day the new iPhones were announced, and MacTrast brought it to our attention today. Starting on September 17th, customers visiting both the general China Apple website and the Hong Kong Apple website will be able to reserve either an iPhone 5s or an iPhone 5c for pickup at an Apple Store....