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Today, Google launched a new mobile app for startups called Primer, an interactive tool that helps companies with their marketing needs. Available now on iOS, the software cranks out five minute lesson plans for subjects like Content Marketing, PR & Media and Search Advertising. A simplified experience, Primer is packed with case studies, insider tips and quizzes designed to make marketing easier. Google created Primer as a way to make it easier for businesses to be successful at marketing....

Today we will tell you how to enable Google Phone with Visual Voicemail Support using the Magisk module. You need a device rooted with Magisk and TWRP and having Google’s Phone App as the default calling App. Then all you need to do is flash the Magisk module using TWRP. Magisk is a systemless interface to integrate various modules tailor-made to perform specific activities on the device. It is made up of phh superuser which is based on an open source root procedure....

When a critical Flash Player vulnerability was discovered being used in the wild last week, Adobe posted an advisory and promised an update within a week. The exploitable software flaw lets attackers take control of your system after opening an Excel spreadsheet with an embedded malicious Flash file (Office 2010 is said to feature safety countermeasures that prevent harmful code execution). This undoubtedly nasty bug that affected the whole web and not just the parts of it needed a quick fix....

Google is launching retail stores by the end of the year to sell its own products, we’re reporting over at 9to5Google. Will Google try to squeeze into the local Mall between the new Microsoft store and the existing Apple store? Will it be able to supplant some of Apple’s MacBook sales with its $249 Chromebooks? iPhones with Nexuses? Find out more. Cook: Apple Stores aren’t just stores, they are gathering places, entertainment venues, and Prozac (9to5mac....

While the new version of Android brings with it a handful of new features, the update is largely aimed at ironing out the bugs and provide other improvements. With Android M, Google is “going back to the basics,” focusing on polish and quality, the company said. Among the new features, the new version of Android will give users better control over app permissions, “you don’t have to agree to permissions that don’t make sense to you....

About a year ago I wrote an article reviewing the process Google uses to fight back hacker dudes. To recap – While Google is crawling the internet for content to index, they at the same time examine the web pages for known malicious code in order to determine if the website has been hacked or not. This is important for Google since they might send someone to that site sometime in the future and they would hate to do that if they are going to get hacked thus help spread more malicious code over the internet after visiting that site....

There are several platforms available to create these interactive stories, and Google now has its version called Google Web Stories. Google Web Stories for The Creator Economy: Google Web Stories Explained Google Web Stories are a web-based version of the popular “Story” format that allows content creators to host and own their work. They are swipeable micro-content that can include texts, audio, videos, images, and animations. Web Stories can also contain links, Call-To-Actions, and AdWords....

This only works with simple animations and is still quite resource heavy on the iPhone. As PCWorld points out, As a JRE extension it runs natively inside the iPhone’s Safari browser, however it will only work on sites that have specifically incorporated the Gordon code. Reports indicate that a static image presented in flash will peg an iPhone at 100% CPU, so it’s not quite ready for browsing YouTube via Safari just yet....

Adobe’s strategy for bringing its desktop apps to the iPad crystalized with Lightroom and Photoshop. Instead of porting decades of legacy features and controls, each app is built from the ground up for touch input and progressive disclosure, allowing complex functionality to live inside an easy-to-use interface. This approach means that version 1.0 of each app will be missing some key features, but the long-term reward for users is greater. Illustrator follows the same pattern....

Ravenclaw is easily the most interesting house in all of Hogwarts. Sorry, Gryffindors. Those who reside in the blue and bronze living spaces of the castle simply have the most to offer. Not only are Ravenclaws in the Harry Potter series praised for their admirable intellect, but they also cherished for their eccentric personas and highly imaginative minds. Sounds like the coolest Hogwarts house to us! And the coolest Hogwarts house deserves the coolest common room, there is no doubt about it....

Harry Potter is a series that still has multitudes of fans. The series and movies may be over, but fans’ love and nostalgia is still going strong. Plus, with the Fantastic Beasts franchise, new generations of fans are being introduced to the world and becoming obsessed. While Harry Potter is definitely a wonderful book series, it’s not always perfect. There are definitely some aspects of the books that don’t make a lot of sense and other things that haven’t aged well at all....

George Lucas says Jar Jar Binks is his favorite Star Wars character and The Phantom Menace remains one of his favorite movies in the series. Lucas kicked off his Star Wars prequel movie trilogy with The Phantom Menace twenty years ago, followed by Attack of the Clones in 2002 and Revenge of the Sith in 2005. Together, the three films followed Anakin Skywalker as he grew up and became a legendary Jedi Knight, only to be corrupted by Sheev Palpatine (aka....

Mobilecom Debitel, a German carrier, just announced a new iPhone is coming. As if we needed any additional confirmation? Machine translated: “In September, it’s finally time for a new generation of smartphone to go on sale. mobilcom-debitel allows you to find free e-mail about everything worth knowing about iPhone.” While just about everyone knows the announcement and launch dates, Apple has been silent so far. Mobilecom has a much more subdued public-facing teaser where it advertises:...

The final episode in the latest Star Wars trilogy, The Rise of Skywalker, is almost here, and eBay, the largest Star Wars store in the galaxy, is partnering with Screen Rant to celebrate 42 years of the franchise with a special Star Wars bundle giveaway of rare, retro, and right now items for one lucky winner. eBay has something for every Star Wars fan at eBay.com/StarWars, whether it’s memorabilia and rare comics, or toys, collectibles, video games and more....

A pair of teaser images posted on Madrid’s Parquesur mall’s Facebook page. That Apple’s retail chief Ron Johnson is on its way out, taking over CEO post at JC Penney early 2012, hasn’t affected the slightest bit the company’s aggressive retail expansion. Last week, the gadget maker opened five new stores: Two in the U.S. (one in Anchorage, Alaska and the other in Murray, Utah), a store in Research In Motion’s Waterloo, Ontario homeland, as well as shops in Australia’s Cheltenham and Italy’s Florence....

Anguirus’ skeleton was secretly included in Godzilla: King of the Monsters, and the movie’s credits may have revealed what killed him. In classic Toho movies, Anguirus is one of Godzilla’s most recognizable and iconic allies. Anguirus fought at Godzilla’s side as he went up against King Ghidorah and Gigan in Godzilla vs. Gigan, and was one of several kaiju to join him in the battle with King Ghidorah in Destroy All Monsters....

A handful of MonsterVerse characters - which includes both humans and Titans - are confirmed to return in the next film in the franchise, Godzilla vs. Kong alongside a host of new characters. So far, the number of returning Titans in the film haven’t been announced yet, such as Rodan, who unlike Mothra and King Ghidorah, wasn’t killed at the end of Godzilla: King of the Monsters. That wasn’t confirmed by the first Godzilla vs Kong trailer, however, but it did offer first looks at lots of new characters and two new Titans....

Few will argue if you tell them Google Maps is the best navigation service, and it’s continually getting better all the time. Today, Google is bringing a new feature to Maps to improve its functionality for wheelchair users. While Google Maps can easily give users directions to get around town, it hasn’t always been that great at identifying if those routes are wheelchair-accessible. Starting today in select cities, Google Maps can use a filter to look for routes that are wheelchair-accessible....

Google has announced that it will shortly be rolling out a new version of its Google Translate iOS app, with two significant enhancements. First, it is replacing the existing camera-based text translation with the far slicker Word Lens system. Google acquired Word Lens back in May of last year with this upgrade in mind. If you haven’t ever tried it, this was the app that brought home to me the truth of the Arthur C Clarke saying that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic....

Gotham might be finished, but fans can relive their favorite episodes from the Batman prequel series on streaming sites like Netflix. The series spent five seasons building Gotham residents into supervillains and teenager Bruce Wayne into a hero. With 100 episodes, a handful of the hours stand above the rest. Through the Internet Movie Database, fans and critics alike can rate movies and television series on a star scale. One star is the worst, while ten stars is the best....