Tough and intolerant of injustice, Detective Erin Lindsay of popular crime drama series Chicago PD makes for the perfect detective. She is played by the beautiful Sophia Bush, who pulls off the feisty yet feminine protagonist with great skill. As the narrative of the popular series suggests, she was shaped for her profession through a tough upbringing and shows a resilience that makes her a perfect law enforcer. Fans of Chicago PD probably admire her for showing the perfect balance between femininity and tough perseverance....

To celebrate Beijing’s successful hosting of the 2008 Summer Olympics and the 2022 Winter Olympics, the Sports Culture Development Centre of the General Administration of Sport of China, the China Sports Museum, the Chinese Olympic Museum, Cultural Investment Holdings (official sponsor of the Beijing 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games), and the Shanghai Pudong Science Fiction Association have released an NFT collection. Its “Snowflakes Illuminate the Centenary Journey of Winter Games” is the official digital commemorative collection (NFT) on the BSV NFTonShow platform....

Questioning into Apple over its iPhone slowdown announcement continues today. Reuters reports that a Chinese consumer group has asked the company for additional information regarding slowing down older iPhones, demanding an answer before this Friday… The interrogation comes from the Shanghai Consumer Council. In a letter sent to Apple today, the council asked the company for “an explanation for the slowdown,” as well as further information as to what it plans to do to rectify the problem....

I wrote back in 2016 that I’d come to terms with the fact that the then-new MacBook Pro models marked the end of the line for upgradable MacBooks. I wrote then that I understood why Apple had done it. But I still hear complaints today from professionals who value upgradability and battery-life over sleekness, and seeing someone yesterday using a 17-inch MacBook Pro – like the one I used for many years – did make me feel nostalgic for it....

While Cobra Kai has evolved past the simpler days of The Karate Kid, it still shows that Daniel LaRusso and Johnny Lawrence have a famous rivalry that will seemingly never end. From that first All-Valley Tournament, the two have grown and led their own lives. With both of them being adults, many people wonder who is the better fighter nowadays. Because Cobra Kai treats both characters as likable, neither one of them is shown to be better than the other....

In a matter of less than two weeks, the Carrier IQ controversy blew up and became the mainstream topic in national newspapers and evening newscast. The idea that over a hundred million cell phone owners weren’t aware of an app that secretly collect personal information without their consent has had privacy advocates cry foul. Making the privacy scare even more scary, The Federal Bureau of Investigation refused to release information about its own use of Carrier IQ in response to the request under the Freedom of Information Act filed December 1 by Michael Morisy....

This week’s episode of VH1’s reality tv series Cartel Crew featured 30-year-old Emma Coronel Aispuro, the wife of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, the well-known drug kingpin. Her debut drew fierce criticism and anger on many fronts. The Miami based reality TV show Cartel Crew, currently in its second season, is a docuseries that normally focuses on the children of cartel members and the challenges they face. The show centers around the lives these children lead outside of the drug world in the aftermath of their parents, and often their own, criminal lives....

Autonomous driving is “still down the road a bit,” he said. When “you want to keep your hands on the wheel… There’s nothing better than voice interface.” Carmakers want to keep customers happy not only with voice-activated features but with a whole range of new tools and digital experiences powered by cloud computing and AI. On top of that, they’re looking to technology companies to help them transition to more efficient and software-defined means of production....

Change Windows 10 Mail app Background By default, Microsoft shows a cloud-themed background when you launch the Mail app and empty your mailbox. To change it, go to Settings > Background Picture and browse to any image on your PC, network, or cloud storage that you want to use. There you go. I guess I just changed the background from fluffy happy clouds to stormy ones…but you get the idea....

Chrome is perennially criticized for its memory usage, and Google has been working to address those complaints in recent browser releases for Mac, Windows, and Android. With the latest Chrome release, Google is using its own advanced memory allocator. PartitionAlloc is optimized for low allocation latency, space efficiency, and security. It’s now used everywhere on Chrome for Android and 64-bit Windows. The browser is also smarter about using and discarding memory:...

When Apple first revealed Apple Music, one of the aspects I was most excited about was the always-on Beats 1 streaming station. I wrote in detail how it was the feature that could help Apple Music stand out from the competition. Throughout the past year and a half, however, it feels as if Apple has seriously neglected Beats 1, seemingly giving it no attention since the initial unveil. With Apple not releasing direct listenership data for Beats 1, you have to wonder what is being said about the initiative behind the closed doors of Apple…...

Google updated its Chrome app for iPhone and iPad today with a few minor features to make the browsing experience more comfortable. First up is right-to-left Omnibox support for Arabic and Hebrew after adding initial autocomplete support for right-to-left languages in the previous update. The company said the update also brings the ability to “Easily refine your search queries and view more results” thanks to a slightly revamped search results page....

Freeform has released a new poster confirming that Cloak & Dagger season 2 will premiere on April 4. Starring Aubrey Joseph and Olivia Holt, the socially-aware young adult TV show was one of the most popular superhero shows of 2018. The first season saw the two teenagers learn to use their powers, and prepared the way for a dangerous new threat. Created by Bill Mantlo and Ed Hannigan, Cloak & Dagger are a popular superhero duo who have often worked alongside Spider-Man, and were even briefly members of the X-Men....

This quirky comedy about a large and dysfunctional yet loving family provides viewers with an array of unique characters, each with their own goals, values, and takes on life. It makes complete sense that this show has captured the hearts of fans over 10 seasons. Such a diverse cast made it particularly intriguing to look into each Modern Family character’s Myers-Briggs® Personality Type. Since that task has been completed, what better way to further explore these interesting personalities than combine them with the much-loved fandom of Harry Potter, where we can sort them into the perfect Hogwarts houses to suit their characters?...

Since Windows Vista, Microsoft has included in a memory diagnostics tool that can check for errors. Before this, users had to depend on third party utilities such as memtest86+, which can also be useful. In this article, we show you how to use the Windows Memory Diagnostics tool that’s built into Windows 10, too. Windows Memory Diagnostics Tool Scans RAM for Errors If you can boot to the Windows 10 desktop, click Start, then type: memory, hit Enter on your keyboard....

Apple yesterday announced a really impressive achievement: its entire global operations are now 100% powered by renewable energy. That encompasses everything from retail stores and local offices through data centers to its Apple Park campus. Unlike many companies, Apple doesn’t cheat by buying offsets. Last time it updated us, the figure was 96%. When you don’t cheat, getting there with that last few percent is a far bigger achievement than it might sound, and I think Apple deserves every credit for this …...

Even though the iPhone X has been available for several months now, there are still a slew of notable apps waiting on optimization for the device’s 5.8-inch OLED display. Today, however, Chase has finally updated its iOS app with iPhone X support… Chase doesn’t explicitly mention iPhone X optimization in the update’s changelog, but the app now takes full advantage of the larger display wrapping around the notch cutout at the top, as seen in the screenshots above....

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that whilst China Mobile’s 4G services do not launch until the 18th, the carrier will open preorders for the iPhone from this Thursday, the 12th of December. The information is sourced from a customer representative conversation the Journal had with the carrier, after attempting to preorder an iPhone today, after the Journal found a new advertisement for China Mobile’s 4G service on its website (shown above)....

Chris Evans volunteers to be in a new Star Wars movie, days after one from Kevin Feige was announced. This week, it was reported the Marvel Studios mastermind was developing a new film set in the galaxy far, far away, joining separate trilogies from Rian Johnson and David Benioff & D.B. Weiss on the ever-growing list of big screen Star Wars projects coming through the pipeline. As is the case with most things Star Wars, information about Feige’s movie is being kept firmly under wraps, but the prospect of him working in the franchise is more than enough to excite viewers....

Luis Banhara, who has led Citrix’s Brazilian operations for seven years, will be replaced by sales director Luciana Pinheiro on an interim basis. “Already well known by customers, Luciana now has the mission to leverage the use of solutions that not only allow them to work from anywhere, but that can unlock their full potential”, Banhara said in a LinkedIn post, announcing his decision. Banhara joined Citrix in 2014 from Microsoft Brazil, where he worked for 12 years as a sales director before doing the same job at SAP Brazil....