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Individuals could be taken to court based on the use of retail DNA test kits in the not-so-distant future. In fact, it might not even need to be the person in court who used a home DNA kit, as someone related to them is likely to be enough. DNA kits sold over the counter by companies like Ancestry and 23andMe have come under increased scrutiny lately. For starters, the Pentagon warned military service members away from using these kits as they could be a threat to personal and operational security....

The US antitrust regulators are reportedly looking into Apple’s subscription service rules for the App Store are anticompetitive and illegal under US law, according to Reuters. The main issue of contention is that the standard streaming music price of $9.99 per month is not attainable for Apple Music competitors as App Store rules enforce a 30% cut of all revenues made from within apps. This means that streaming companies either have to take on significant profit cuts to stay at the $9....

Reuters tonight reported that it recently polled 23 of the nation’s top hospitals and found that 14 of them have already launched the first stages of programs built on Apple’s HealthKit software in place, or have plans to do so in the near future. These programs will allow doctors to monitor patients with chronic medical conditions and alert them at the first sign of a problem, giving users the ability to take preventative action rather than reactive....

After the success of having partnered with multiple companies for its modular case system, OtterBox is ready to add another household brand to its roster. Available today, OtterBox is introducing mophie’s charge force battery technology to the uniVERSE case system. I spent the past week with the new charge force battery and charge force adapter to see how well the two companies were able to integrate their products. At its core, the uniVERSE Case System is a case for your iOS device....

Naim Audio isn’t a household name outside of audiophile circles, but this British company has for many years made some of the most respected amplifiers in the business. Naim long had an informal partnership with Linn, and if the standard audio system fitted to Bentley’s ultra-expensive cars isn’t good enough for you, the optional audio upgrade is to a Naim system. You’ll also find it available through the Apple Store....

After thrilling and entertaining audiences for the better part of a decade with his tough moral decisions and mispronunciations of his son’s name, Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) left The Walking Dead with one last sacrifice. This, however, wasn’t exactly the end for the former lawman, as AMC revealed that Rick would be starring in a rumored trilogy of Walking Dead films in the near future. This announcement split his fanbase, since one half was fine with his farewell while others felt that he deserved better....

After Life is the dark-comedy series on Netflix starring Ricky Gervais as a widow named Tony. The show is based around Tony’s new normal as he tries to go on with life after his wife dies of cancer. Without his wife, Tony finds it hard to live and makes horrible decisions throughout season one because he has nothing to be scared of if death is his inevitable end-goal. Thankfully, the season one finale showed us there was hope for Tony and a second season is on its way this year....

The Korea Times is reporting that a “first tier display supplier” is already manufacturing a 12.9 inch panel for iPads. According to the report, Apple is looking to bring the bigger iPad to market sometime “early next year”… In support of this report, rumours of a larger iPad have been swirling over the last few months. The Wall Street Journal said that Apple was testing iPads measuring ‘slightly less’ than 13 inches, back in July....

However, services like these are aimed more at sharing documents and sometimes you might find yourself in a situation where you need to recover an accidentally deleted file or restore a previous version of a shared document. The cool thing is Dropbox makes getting your work back easy. Restore a Deleted File There are a few ways to get your important documents back depending on the Dropbox app you’re using....

[vimeo http://vimeo.com/44479512] Checkmark is a new take on Apple’s Reminders app with additional features and a clean interface. It features the ability to create location- and time-based reminders like Apple’s solution, but it goes beyond what Apple’s implementation offers. For example, when creating a location-based reminder, you have the option of setting a delay before the notification appears. I especially like that, as I usually have a few things to do before getting to the tasks on my list, and Apple’s Reminders app sometimes reminds me way too early....

The iPhone SE (hands-on), which is quickly approaching its third anniversary, was an amazing phone when it was released. It gave us a device with the timeless design of the iPhone 5s, with modern specs borrowed from the iPhone 6s. With the news that Apple recently sold out of a clearance allotment of the iPhone SE, it got me really thinking about the device again. Are people crazy for buying a nearly three-year-old budget-minded iPhone in 2019?...

Rian Johnson reveals he doesn’t care if Star Wars: Episode IX retcons any plot points he established in The Last Jedi. As anyone who follows the galaxy far, far away knows, Johnson’s entry into the Skywalker saga was one of the most polarizing blockbusters in recent memory. Some people felt the film was the refreshing change-of-pace the series needed in order to thrive for the longterm, while others thought Johnson’s bold creative choices were a bit too much and ruined the franchise entirely....

[The following contains spoilers for Game of Thrones season 8, episode 3] Star Wars: The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson poked fun at the fan backlash against his movie with a snarky comparison to Game of Thrones. Star Wars fans had high expectations going into 2017’s The Last Jedi, but writer-director Johnson in many ways went again those expectations, leading to a lot of online complaining from fans who felt they’d been cheated out of their perfect Star Wars experience....

However, have you ever thought that cryptocurrency can make anyone enter the list of world’s richest people? Actually, we are talking about Chris Larsen who is the former CEO of Ripple which issues the cryptocurrency token called XRP. Chris Larsen became an overnight multi-billionaire when the value of Ripple jumped from $0.25 in December 2017 to $3.16 on this Wednesday. It’s worth to note that Ripple right now ranks as the second biggest after Bitcoin....

This month we have seen how Google’s AI defeats human experts in Lip-Reading. So, Artificial intelligence and robotics are advancing, and at the same time, some critics say that rapid advances in AI (Artificial Intelligence) can simply lead to widespread job losses. Sounds creepy right, as it should be. However, this time a robot managed to pass the Google’s Captcha test and make himself count as a human. Well, you might be knowing about Google’s reCAPTCHA which is used to distinguish between humans and robots....

Maxim Integrated used two robots to demonstrate its new three-axis gyroscope, which was announced at Mobile rld Congress this week—a clever way to show off a not-so-exciting piece of technology. Gyroscopes are built into smartphones help determine the phone’s orientation, for instance, if it’s being held in lscape or portrait orientation, or how far away from its users’ face it is. Maxim Integrated’s MAX21000 gyroscope features a silicon MEMS (micro-electro-mechanical system) sensor that is ultra-sensitive to temperature, time, location....

Whenever we would like to reverse-engineer a function, we need to know exactly how the function is being called: its calling convention, number of parameters, parameter types, parameter values, etc. After the Ida analyzes the program, it will create comments for known parameters being passed to known functions. The function names will also be preserved and an automatically generated name will not be assigned to that function. An example of such a function is GetCurrentDirectoryA , a function call we can see in the picture below:...

For the last few months I’ve been using my Apple EarPods for nearly every application that requires in-ear audio. I use my EarPods for monitoring while recording voiceovers, for podcasting, and for everyday music listening. Absurd as it is, the last pair of headphones I’d owned, a pair of Sony MDR-7506’s, ended up developing a short in the cable. I simply never got around to replacing them in a timely manner....

A few weeks before initial reports that Apple was planning to acquire Beats Electronics, I started AT&T’s three month trial of the Beats Music subscription streaming service.. Given that generous window of time, I felt more comfortable investing my time than I would with a one or two week trial. When news broke that Apple was in final talks to purchase Beats, I was caught off guard and immediately concerned that the subscription service that I was starting to really like would change under Apple’s watch....

While most of my content goes straight to the cloud these days and is usually easily accessible to move around, download or stream from any of my devices, I still found myself getting a lot of use out of Hyper’s new iStick. It’s one of the first made-for-iPhone USB flash drives that also includes an integrated Lightning connector to easily transfer content to and from the device to others. Hyper’s companion app is what makes the experience more than just storage, however…...