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Guns N’ Roses frontman Axl Rose has described Apple CEO Tim Cook as ‘the Donald Trump of the music industry’ … The comment was made in a one-sentence tweet, without explanation. One thing is clear: it isn’t a compliment. A quick scan of his tweets reveals a number of them referencing the Trump administration in less than glowing terms. These include referring to it as ‘US gold standard of what can be considered disgraceful,’ describing it as a ‘relief’ that Kushner lost his Top Secret clearance, and referencing Melania Trump in, shall we say, unflattering terms....

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 Blocky, is retired....

Slowly but surely, smart cameras with HomeKit Secure Video are becoming more common while also dropping in price. One of the newest options comes from Eufy, and it even costs less than some Apple dongles. Here’s how the new Indoor Cam 2K from Eufy works with HomeKit. The specs Eufy is well-known for its higher-end smart home cameras as well, such as the EufyCam 2 and EufyCam 2C. These cameras are wireless and battery-powered, but they require the companion Home Base from Eufy....

The New To-Do When we took a look at the Microsoft To-Do preview, only the web version was available. Now, you can download Microsoft To-Do app from the Microsoft Store or access it on the web. It’s also available for iOS and Android. There are a few apps and programs out there that allow you to create digital to-do lists. One that is quite popular is Wunderlist, and if you’ve used it before then Microsoft To-Do will look familiar to you....

The former Bachelorette star, Hannah Brown, shut down the rumors that she’s dating her Dancing with the Stars partner, Alan Bersten. She set the record straight that they’ve got their eyes on the prize and not on each other. Brown has had her share of ups and downs when it comes to romance when she was cast as the lead of season 15 of The Bachelorette. Audiences watched as the southern belle as she searched for love....

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Photos of Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan were left out of the Queen’s annual Christmas speech this year, but it wasn’t personal. In fact, there’s a very logical explanation for their absence, even if the omission might seem a bit personal. Harry and Meghan’s relationship with the press and the rest of the Royal Family has been bumpy at best - especially this past year. With the icing on the cake being Harry’s decision to spend the holidays with Meghan’s family, instead of his own, 2019 has hardly been easy on them....

Duke Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan Markle are spending Archie’s first Christmas in Canada instead of with the Queen of England, Archie’s grandmother. Many royal fans are outraged that the new parents would have the audacity to snub their noses at tradition, especially since Prince Phillip was recently admitted to the hospital while others feel it was the right move for the black sheep of the family. The Duke and Duchess have had a hard time making a good impression with their subjects since their wedding....

When thinking of Harry Potter as a family Christmas movie, a few particular scenes come to mind. There’s Harry receiving the invisibility cloak for Christmas in the first film, and Ron wearing one of many Weasley sweaters. There’s the Great Hall decorated out with multiple Christmas trees, and the Yule Ball which takes place over the holiday in the fourth movie. In the fifth film, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry and company spend the holiday at 12 Grimmauld Place, the ancestral home of the Black family, now owned by his godfather Sirius Black....

During its Google I/O keynote earlier this month, Google announced that it would be bringing conversational, Google-Now like voice search to the desktop. Using a UI similar to voice search and Google Now in its mobile apps, Google would soon allow Chrome users to search and drill down further into results using only their voice. Today, Google appears to have finally started rolling out the feature for Chrome users on the stable and beta channels of Chrome....

The initiative also involved requiring 2 million YouTube users to enable it. “This decrease speaks volumes to how effective having a second form of verification can be in protecting your data and personal information. And while we’re proud of these initial results and happy with the response we have received from our users and the community, we’re excited about other ongoing work we’re doing behind the scenes,” Google Chrome safety director Guemmy Kim said....

Google Pixel 6A is considered one of the best smartphones for the year 2022 as it comes with the configuration of the best hardware and the latest Android firmware. However, since its initial launch, many users have complied regarding multiple touch screen related issues with the smartphone. Many say that the touch is not fully calibrated, not working properly, or facing the ghost touch problem. Usually, such issues are caused by technical glitches and go away once you restart your Pixel smartphone....

Smart canvas now also offers a pageless format for Docs, a new email draft template for Docs and a Google Maps smart chip so that users can preview a Maps link directly in Docs. Google will also soon launch intelligent suggestions in Sheets to help users correct formulas. Google offered a few stats to illustrate the traction smart canvas has had with customers. Usage now exceeds the usage of comments in Docs, the company said – more than six million checklists and six million smart chips are added to documents each week via smart canvas....

Neronha’s office told the news outlet that they are receiving a high number of calls about the incident, prompting them to look into what happened. On December 21, RIPTA sent out a notice saying that August 5 was when it first identified a “security incident.” RIPTA eventually discovered that data was exfiltrated from their systems between August 3 and August 5. The files contained information about RIPTA health plans and included Social Security numbers, addresses, dates of birth, Medicare identification numbers and qualification information, health plan member identification numbers, and claims information....

Accessory maker Griffin today updated its line of iPhone and Apple Watch charging solutions with new designs for 2019. A series of USB-C cables and a new iPhone case from Incipio round out today’s CES announcements. First is the PowerBlock Wireless Charging Stand/Pad, a 10-watt Qi device that can charge your iPhone vertically in portrait and landscape mode or horizontally. A convertible design allows the charging surface to flip up as desired....

James Gunn teases a death in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. After getting fired by Disney last year from his post at Marvel Studios following the emergence of some of his unsavory social media posts from a decade ago, the director is back to his old job, helming the much-anticipated threequel. He’s currently busy with DC’s The Suicide Squad first, which is already in production. Once that’s done, Gunn will be back in more familiar territory....

The developers of Handbrake just announced the 0.10 update to their extremely popular and useful Open Source video transcoding product. Originally focused on ripping DVDs, the product now can be used for transcribing many different types of files/codecs to almost any other. Today’s headliner updates include H.265 and VP8 encoding. The LibAV AAC encoder is now the default as FAAC has been removed. This encoder is adequate for most, but until it improves a bit further, we have enabled support for the FDK-AAC encoder also....

The Harry Potter series wasn’t really about romance, but romantic relationships did take up some space in the books as the main characters got older. Since Harry always wanted a family, seeing him find love in romantic relationships and eventually start a family was absolutely thrilling. So, when Harry ended up with Ginny, many fans saw this as a positive addition. However, other people also felt like the relationship came out of nowhere and wasn’t the best choice of a romance for Harry....

It’s been a long time since Harry, Hermione, and Ron managed to find and destroy all of Voldemort’s horcruxes and save the wizarding world… but just because it all ended well doesn’t mean that we don’t have questions about this particular bit of dark magic. Like many of the burning questions that the Harry Potter fandom has, some of these may eventually be answered by Rowling herself (given her predilection for using Twitter to add to canon), but in the meantime, we’re still waiting for some of these answers to come to light....

The elemental system in the action-RPG game Genshin Impact is a really useful feature for the players in-game. Mastering how to perform elemental combos in the game will add up as great assistance in combat that you feel is hard. Every enemy in the game possesses a weakness. If you utilize elemental combos in the game, you’ll easily manage to hit the enemies with that they’re most weak to. How to do Elemental Combos in Genshin Impact In this guide today, we’ll get you through how to perform elemental combos in Genshin Impact....