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Beijing Morning News reports that local ticket scalpers have found a new way to make money on Apple: booking up all available Genius Bar appointments and then offering them for sale online. Ticket scalpers usually make their money by buying large quantities of event tickets as soon as they go on sale then illegally selling them for more than face value once the event is sold out. With Genius Bar appointments, they don’t even need to fork out cash in the first place: they just use a bunch of email addresses to make the appointments then advertise them online....

Hover Zoom in Action As an extension, there’s no real interface for Hover Zoom. After installing it from the Google Chrome Web Store, it begins working right away. Just let your mouse linger over an image or link and—hooray! Here it is on some other websites: Reddit: On Google+: Settings and Options Once Hover Zoom is installed, you’ll forget it’s even there. But there are some worthwhile options that you can access by Right-clicking the Hover Zoom icon in your omnibar and choosing Options....

Software as a Service (SaaS) is a web-based deployment model that makes the software accessible through a web browser. SaaS software users don’t need to care where the software is hosted, which operating system it uses, or even which programming language it is written in. The SaaS software is accessible from any device with an internet connection. This cloud service model ensures that consumers always use the most current version of the software....

Carnival Row is a unique fantasy series, combining the thrill of a noir mystery with the aesthetic of steampunk in a Victorian England full of mythological creatures. Immigrants from war-torn kingdoms find their way to the city of Burgue, where their human colonizers live among them in an uneasy peace. Inspector Rycroft “Philo” Philostrate (Orlando Bloom) is tasked with solving a string of murders that have started on Carnival Row, where the city’s mythological immigrants call home....

Android users with Google Talk stuck on their initial Google Account have been plagued with this problem since late 2009. Fast forward 2 and a half years later and the problem still persists, virtually untouched by any of the official Google app developers. While there isn’t a solid solution, this work-around will allow you to reset which Google Account your phone is synced to by default. On your Android Smartphone, go to Homescreen » Settings » Applications » Manage Applications...

Charlize Theron is now executive producer for a new reality tv racing competition, Hyperdrive. She describes the show as being Fast & Furious meets American Ninja Warrior. Theron starred in the former, and is now turning to reality TV in her newest project. Theron, who raced her way through the Wasteland in her War Rig as Imperator Furiosa in Mad Max: Fury Road knows a thing or two about racing, as she is also currently filming for Fast & Furious 9 that will set to be released in 2020....

Everyone idolizes Superman. He’s the world’s favorite all-American superhero, and has been the poster boy for heroism and morality since his debut in 1933. And quite rightly - he’s frickin’ awesome. But behind the incredible powers and the near-invincibility, there’s another side to Superman that is too often forgotten: our more humble bespectacled friend, Clark Kent. Although he might not don the famous Superman suit and crimson cape, Clark is every bit as super....

It’s been an interesting election cycle to say the least, and now Pokémon Go is entering the fray. The presumptive nominees for both major political parties today addressed the game that’s seemingly taking over the internet, both attempting to use the game to lure in potential voters and talk job creation. For her part, presumptive democratic nominee Hillary Clinton mentioned the game at a rally this afternoon while talking about creating jobs....

We’re now less than a month away from the anticipated iPhone event in September meaning it’s prime season for parts from the next generation iPhone to surface. New high resolution photos shared today by Feld & Volk (via MR) clearly show another look at what claims to be the front panel for the iPhone 6. Specifically, the up-close shots focus on the tapered edges of the display panel aligning with existing information showing a more rounded design on the next generation iPhone....

Catwoman usually sticks to just a few different looks, but she’s one of the few comic book characters whose costume changes have mostly been stellar. One of her more iconic looks is the grey suit Selina Kyle wore in Batman: The Animated Series. That suit is about to make a comeback with a twist on the classic look. Sean Gordon Murphy (Batman: White Knight) announced on his Twitter a new Catwoman series alongside Blake Northcott (Vampirella)....

Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice has garnered both praise and ire for its blistering difficulty (here’s our review). However, the creator of acclaimed indie platformer Celeste has ideas for making the game more approachable. FromSoftware’s latest epic has become somewhat notorious for its lack of accessibility options, more so than previous titles such as Dark Souls and Bloodborne. Celeste released January 2018 and gained widespread praise for its challenging gameplay and emotional storytelling....

Sponsored by Hyper: If you’re at CES 2020, stop by the Hyper booth to check out their latest USB-C hubs. You can also get an exclusive sneak peek at the new heavy duty Hyper USB-C hubs here. And check out Hypershop.com for more great Apple accessories. Alpine iPad Pro-sized CarPlay Receiver Two exciting CarPlay announcements at CES include Alpine’s newest receivers. First is the company’s new Halo 11 iLX-F411 that has a massive iPad Pro-sized 11-inch screen....

Warning: Major SPOILERS ahead for Chambers season 1 In Netflix’s supernatural horror series Chambers, a teenager called Sasha (Sivan Alrya Rose) has her life saved by a heart transplant from Becky LeFevre (Lilliya Scarlett Reid), who died after being electrocuted in a bathtub. As Sasha begins to delve into the mystery of her heart’s previous owner, however, she discovers that there were sinister circumstances leading to Becky’s death. By the end of Chambers season 1, Sasha has finally uncovered the dark and frightening truth: both she and Becky were made into vessels for a powerful demonic spirit called Lilith, who can either heal or destroy....

The city of Chicago is a beautiful and lively urban sprawl that has been the backdrop for a number of films. While some films, like Candyman or The Dark Knight, were shot in the city, their plots don’t quite showcase the city as a real place. These 10 films all capture the city with realism, historical accuracy, or just slightly fantasized admiration. They come from a genuine place of wanting to do more than show the big bean and tall building in an establishing drone shot....

A claimed prototype of the cellular model of the iPad mini 2 is being auctioned on eBay, with a starting bid of $4,999. No bids had been placed at the time of writing. The reason bids go for so much on these prototypes is that security experts, hackers and jailbreakers like to understand the software that’s loaded on them to get a better idea of what’s going on behind the scenes on iOS devices....

https://download.vulnhub.com/clover/Clover.ova You can download the machine and run it on VirtualBox. The torrent downloadable URL is also available for this VM and has been added in the reference section of this article. Please note: For all these machines, I have used Oracle VirtualBox to run the downloaded machine. I am using Kali Linux as an attacker machine for solving this CTF. The techniques used are solely for educational purposes, and I am not responsible if the listed techniques are used against any other targets....

Former director Colin Trevorrow’s treatment for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker has made its way online, and it sounds so much better than the one audiences got from J.J. Abrams. Originally hired to finish the sequel trilogy, Trevorrow was in the process of working on the film’s script when it was announced in September 2017 that he exited the project due to creative differences with Lucasfilm. Not long after that when it was revealed that Abrams was returning to take on the mantle after he kicked off the ongoing story via Star Wars: The Force Awakens in 2015....

Colleges in the U.S. are using a smartphone app to monitor and track students. Besides the obvious concerns surrounding individual privacy, the use of the app is also raising concerns that it is installing a mindset in college students’ that tracking is a normal part of everyday life. A smartphone’s ability to locate an individual is already common knowledge. Smartphones come with multiple communication solutions including GPS, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. All of these individually can provide some context to where a person is and when taken together can pinpoint a person’s location....

There are two trendy features you can find any flagship smartphone – a dual-camera module and a full-screen. If looking more attentively, you can even find a quad-camera and curved-screen devices as well. Seems these are the decisive factors affecting the customers’ activity when buying a new phone. But there should be the third feature to accomplish the trinity. Any large-screen handset that also comes with good camera capabilities should be packed with a large battery....

The evidence for a MacBook Pro refresh happening soon is strong, with multiple independent reports about supply constraints emerging recently. In addition, Best Buy, a top Apple reseller, has already placed “dummy” SKUs for new MacBook Pro models in their system with a March release date. Although Best Buy is not always right about release dates, that dummy SKUs do represent a refresh for Apple’s line of pro notebooks is near....