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Apple announced its upcoming single sign-on service “Sign in with Apple” at WWDC last week and it’s received quite a bit of attention, including concerns about a requirement to include the Apple offering if an app offers a login with a Google or Facebook option. Today, The Verge has shared an interview with Google’s product management director covering the company’s own SSO feature, how he feels about Apple’s entrance to the space, and more....

The survey said smart speakers were a gateway to other Internet of Things devices. Of the homes with a smart speaker, one-third have two or more. Overall, the Internet of Things (IoT) market grew 25% to almost AU$1.3 billion in 2019, with the fastest-growing categories being video doorbells and locks, smart outlets, smart garden devices, and smart cameras. The survey claimed 61% of Australian households had at least one smart home product as of the end of June 2020, with the average number of connected devices sitting at 18....

In Gwent: The Witcher Card Game, players have a choice of six factions that each have their own unique characteristics. These factions are Monsters (abbreviated MO, with a Red card back), Skellige (SK, Purple), Scoia’Tael (ST, Green), Northern Realms (NR, Blue), Nilfgaard (NG, Black), and Syndicate (SY, Orange). One of the most interesting aspects of Gwent is that the experience playing each faction is different, and among the factions, there are many several decks and archetypes that players can choose to use....

HTB is an excellent platform that hosts machines belonging to multiple OSes. It also has some other challenges as well. Individuals have to solve the puzzle (simple enumeration plus pentest) in order to log into the platform and download the VPN pack to connect to the machines hosted on the HTB platform. Note: Only write-ups of retired HTB machines are allowed. The machine in this article, named Nibbles, is retired....

Sirius Black was an absolutely wild, devil may care kind of guy. He did what he wanted when he wanted to, and he attempted things and succeeded at things that the vast majority of witches and wizards in the world wouldn’t even conceive of. He was the very first wizard to break out of Azkaban prison, for god’s sake. He truly earned the name Marauder, and it’s hard to imagine anyone being bolder or brasher than he was....

The most common match-ups for wizards in the Harry Potter universe are those concerning Albus Dumbledore, Gellert Grindelwald, Lord Voldemort, or maybe even Merlin. However, more interesting contests are lying in wait for the wizards who are slightly below power level than the aforementioned. The two greatest lieutenants for the good and evil camps in the series are Severus Snape and Bellatrix Lestrange, respectively. The two despised each other but didn’t get a chance to lock horns during the series....

The Grain of Aerosiderite possesses an important role in the RPG game Genshin Impact. It is designed as an ascension material in the game, which the players can use to ascend weapons such as the Black Tassel, Iron Sting, and Mappa Mare. If you’re progressing through the game and are keen on ascending one of these weapons, then the first thing to do will be to find the Grain of Aerosiderite....

Hold on to your seats, there’s a storm coming tomorrow! #Geostorm pic.twitter.com/E6pLwQ1dhd— Skydance (@Skydance) March 7, 2017 Weather-related mayhem has made for big box office in the past. The granddaddy of all super-storm disaster films was 1996’s Twister, a Michael Crichton production that roared its way to a $241 million domestic gross. The disaster may have been more localized in 2000’s The Perfect Storm, affecting just a single group of fishermen on a single boat, but the result was still big box office as the movie took in $182 million in the U....

The rumors were true: Google just announced the Chromebook Pixel. It’s a 12.85-inch touchscreen Chromebook with a 2,560-by-1,700 display that packs in “the highest pixel density (239 pixels per inch) of any laptop screen on the market today.” Go to 9to5Google for all the details. As for the chances of Apple ever making a touchscreen notebook, Steve Jobs made it very clear at the 2010 MacBook Air refresh event that Apple did “tons of user testing” and concluded “it doesn’t work....

For efficient and effective utilization of your GPS, it’s not out of place to know how it works. GPS, which stands for Global Positioning System, is a system to approximately estimate Earth’s location by using signals from orbiting satellites. This GPS system consists of the chip in your smartphone device and the orbiting satellites that revolve around the Earth. Your smartphone device has a GPS antenna, which aids communication with these satellites....

In this tutorial, we will show you the steps to edit or change a route in Waze. This Google-owned GPS navigation application is power-packed with quite a few useful functionalities. For example, getting live updates and alerts about traffic, police, hazards, providing the ETA and the total toll fees that you will likely have to pay, or even the ability to play music right from within the app, the options are definitely worth commendable....

Here in this article, we have shared the brief guide to Install Dolby Digital Plus on MIUI based on Android 9.0 Pie. If you’re using any Xiaomi or Redmi handset over MIUI 10 (Pie), this guide is for you. Now, you can enhance your audio listening experience by installing the audio mod file. This will work as the audio equalizer and overwrite the stock equalizer to provide a better effect....

The human eye is amazing, but it’s limited as to what it can see. That’s where imaging tools like thermal cameras can come in handy, allowing you to see and diagnose problems that are normally invisible to the eye. This thermal, or infrared energy, is present in all matter, but because its wavelength is beyond the scope of what the human eye can discern, it’s invisible to us without the necessary tools....

As a full time Final Cut Pro X user, I’m always on the lookout for things that can make my editing workflow easier. One such product that fits that description is the Atom SSD from Glyph. The USB-C-enabled 1TB Atom SSD lends ample storage space to the MacBook Pro in a small, portable form factor. More importantly, the unit is plenty fast for transferring the large files that are common to video editing workflows....

[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/290495352″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] New episodes of Happy Hour are available every week. As mentioned, you can download this podcast via iTunes or plug in our RSS feed link into your favorite podcasting app. Note: Subscribing to the podcast feed will guarantee the latest episode is downloaded as soon as possible. Hosts: Benjamin Mayo Zac Hall Here’s what we discussed in this episode: Apple releases iOS 10.1 with Portrait Mode for iPhone 7 Plus, fixes and improvements for all other devices tvOS 10....

One of the most popular Harry Potter fan tattoos you can get is one of the four Houses. It is especially popular since you can take a quiz on Pottermore to find out which House you belong to. Since the website was made by J.K. Rowling herself, it’ll be as canon of an answer as you will ever find on the vast internet. Gryffindor is the house of courage and loyalty....

Google believes your opinion is valuable, valuable enough to pay for it. Now available for iOS is Google Opinion Rewards. Previously limited to Android, the app pays users to complete surveys that are 10 questions or less. Google Opinion Rewards users on Android have been asked questions like what Project Ara‘s modules should cost, and what Android ‘N’ should be named. Google has spent the past few years slowly rolling out Opinion Rewards across various countries....

GIF Brewery, the outstanding GIF creation app for macOS, has been acquired by Gfycat, the rapidly-growing short video platform. The app will remain a Mac-exclusive, and will stay on the Mac App Store, although it will now be offered for free instead of the previous $4.99 asking price. The updated app, which is now being marketed as GIF Brewery by Gfycat, features Gfycat integration, which allows users to easily upload and share GIFs using the short video sharing service....

Samara Weaving signs on for the G.I. Joe spinoff Snake Eyes, ahead of filming beginning this week. Paramount is hoping third time’s the charm for the G.I. Joe franchise, after having mixed success with the first two movies in the live-action series. Unlike 2013’s G.I. Joe: Retaliation, however, the upcoming Snake Eyes spinoff is a full-blown reboot that recasts the G.I. Joe task force, a decade after G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra originally brought them to the big screen in non-animated form....

This year and next will be known as the time that the desktop (or laptop as it were) moved to the palmtop. Every major advancement is occurring in this space. Vista and Leopard are evolutions, not revolutions… Google’s phone will most likely be light on phone features but heavy on Linux OS and Firefox browsing capabilities. This is a very exciting time indeed! Google Announcement Page Fun Details below (you think many people will join the conference call?...