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Sengled’s Pulse LED light system is definitely a product I never thought would be a thing. The Pulse series is a system of LED lights with built-in speakers. Yes, you read that correctly. It’s something I never thought would need to exist. That being said, because it was so unique I figured it would be worth checking out and to my surprise, it’s actually pretty cool… The Pulse system comes as a starter kit which includes a master bulb and a satellite bulb....

Update: Setting up the Sonos Play:1 is now easier due to the fact that the Bridge is no longer required. The Sonos® Play:1 is a wireless audio system that uses your WiFi network to transmit audio to high-quality portable speakers. The Santa Barbara-based company has been producing audio components since 2002, and their new Play:1 demonstrates their experience in the industry. The Play:1 is very compact at only 6.36 by 4....

Season 4 of Adult Swim’s Rick & Morty aired its first episodes late last year, and they held a lot of clues about where the cult favorite TV show could be headed. The gap between Rick & Morty seasons 3 and 4 lasted two years and was complicated by contract disputes between the show’s creators and its network. The future of the show was not a guaranteed thing until the announcement that Adult Swim had ordered 70 episodes of Rick & Morty to be spread out over multiple seasons....

Riverdale’s Betty Cooper is everything we’d want a present-day version of the character to be. Like in Archie Comics, she’s warmer than freshly baked pie at Pop’s and her high ponytails are on point. However, the reason why she’s a Riverdale fan favorite is because she’s way more of a badass than in the comics. Betty doesn’t take crap, and is a budding detective. Who wouldn’t want to hang with the youngest Cooper?...

Persistent reports that Apple is working on introducing long-range wireless charging technology in the iPhone 8 may be overly optimistic, suggests a new report. Long-range charging would free devices from the need to be placed onto a charging mat, allowing them to be charged anywhere from three to twenty feet away from a charger. Bloomberg first reported that Apple was working on this tech almost a year ago, and there have been multiple suggestions since then of a tie-in with Energous, whose WattUp technology raises the prospect of iPhones being charged anywhere within a room....

Resident Evil 7: Biohazard’s Madhouse difficulty greatly ramps up the challenge, but it’s also the best way to play it. Longtime fans of Resident Evil - AKA Biohazard in its native Japan - started life as a remake of Capcom’s Sweet Home. This 1989 2D title was a tie in for a horror film of the same name, and it pioneered survival horror tropes like limited items, puzzles, and diary and text entries being used to advance the plot....

This year’s analysis begins with these words: “There are tremendous benefits available through technology for both business and society, but there are major questions around safety, privacy, sustainability, and trust” … The global tech industry is worth $5.2 trillion already and continues to grow. Is CompTIA onto something in this year’s report, or have they missed the goal? The IT industry landscape in 2020 Before we take a closer look at the trends identified by CompTIA, let’s look at how they see the IT industry in 2019 and 2020....

With Apple scheduled to kick off its second special event in the last six weeks on Thursday, Re/code has set some expectations for what not to expect noting that Apple is not expected to introduce a Retina MacBook Air. Re/code’s tidbit follows a report last week from The Wall Street Journal which claimed the rumored 12-inch MacBook Air with Retina display won’t enter production until December signaling that it’s debut is slated for sometime in 2015....

Thomson Reuters is out with new a paper, titled “Inside the iPhone Patent Portfolio,” with the goal of highlighting “patent and litigation activity across Apple’s 1,298 mobile patents.” Within the report, Thomson Reuters IP analyst Bob Stembridge takes a look at the 416 smartphone patents Apple has filed since the launch of the original iPhone in 2007 to determine what new technology Apple will likely include in future versions of the iPhone....

Preliminary data on global smartphone sales for Q1 2019 (Apple’s fiscal Q2) is out from IDC and the firm’s iPhone estimates look grim. While the entire smartphone market saw a 6% YoY decline in shipments for the quarter, the data shows Apple shipping 30% fewer iPhones than last year. IDC’s report says that total smartphone shipments across all brands totaled 310.8 million units in Q1 2019, which was a 6.6% drop YoY....

Tools required VMware IDA Disassembler OllyDbg Debugger Hex editor First, we will examine its dynamic analysis behavior. Running it though Cuckoo we get the following basic details about it: We now have an initial idea what the malware is doing. It can be summarized as: Connects to traffic. Has an anti-sandbox feature (based on time difference) Hooks and Reads browser data. Hides itself in ADS. Look at some of its some of its registry modification or retrievals....

[slideshow] Talk about good timing. A few days before Sandy hit our town, Hyper sent me its new MacBook + iOS charging external battery device, the Hyperjuice MBP2-100. Hyper has made external MacBook/Air/Pro batteries for years, and if you’ve ever been to an Apple (or any big technology) keynote event, many of the live bloggers have their rigs hooked up to them. HyperJuice’s latest line, dubbed the “MBP2 series”, expands on the capabilities of the big power batteries…...

As soon as Apple launched the 12-inch MacBook in early 2015 with a USB-C power port instead of MagSafe, it seemed to me the writing was on the wall. I predicted then that Apple would do the same for the MacBook Pro. I was sad to see it go. It was a fantastic feature that has saved numerous MacBook machines from an untimely death as someone snagged their power cables....

Rick Sanchez has invented some pretty cool stuff over the years. From interdimensional travel to robots that serve butter to little blue creatures that pop up out of nowhere to help people with a problem and then pop away again when it’s fixed, Rick has conjured up some incredible inventions. With the fourth season of Rick and Morty due to begin airing this November, we’re surely in for some new spectacular inventions....

New leaked images from an art book for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker suggests that the film was going to be much different. The Rise of Skywalker was the final film in the sequel trilogy and also closed out the Skywalker saga, a story that had been in the making for over 40 years. Despite the film recently surpassing $1 billion at the box office, The Rise of Skywalker was met with a lot of negative reviews upon its release, mainly because of the story....

Update: Square has provided us with the following statement on the matter, stating that its products have special security measures and that the described problems are more of an industry-wide issue: A new report out of Motherboard details how three recently graduated Boston University students have been able to easily hack the increasingly popular Square Reader. For those unfamiliar, Square Reader is an iOS accessory that allows retailers to easily accept credit and debit cards without having to spend the money on traditional point of sale terminals....

This is why the consensus on mask-wearing has grown over the last several months. When masks are worn, fewer viral particles can escape into the air to infect other people. Tap or click here to see the top 14 face masks ranked according to scientists. Even though 2020 is winding down, COVID-19 hasn’t taken a break. High-profile patients like U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson and President Trump have brought even more attention to the disease and its symptoms....

A new fan mod for Resident Evil 2 brings in characters from classic survival horror series Dino Crisis. The original Resident Evil wasn’t the first survival horror game, though it quickly made the subgenre mainstream. Dino Crisis hit upon the simple, but ingenious notion of a survival horror title with dinosaurs instead of monsters, with Resident Evil helmer Shinji Mikami directing. The original Dino Crisis was an intense experience with memorable set pieces, with the dinosaurs able to react and adapt to the player’s tactics....

Right, let’s get this out of the way first off – they say the new iPhones look exactly like their predecessors. Is that right? In a word: Yes. In keeping with the iPhone design philosophy of keeping the original and S versions looking pretty much the same (remember how difficult it was to distinguish between the iPhone 4 and 4S, 5 and 5S?), Apple has pretty much followed the same design sheet for the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus as it did for the 6 and 6 Plus....

Welcome to our Maneater review. Have you ever wanted to be the shark? Mutating your way into some nuclear grotesque killing machine that preys on innocent beach goers and boating enthusiasts — all through the unfolding of a nearly forgettable story setup that didn’t matter in the first place because you’re a death shark now? Well, Maneater is about as good as it gets and exactly what you’re looking for — a not-quite AAA experience with a campy narrative, interesting mutant shark RPG mechanics, and the freedom to terrorize fisherman and sea life equally....