In the past decade, Netflix subscribers knew little about how streaming trends affected the larger picture. The streaming service giant has always been protective about its methods of measuring viewership. As the list of streaming services continues to grow, however, Netflix’s executives have decided to be more transparent about the process. An October 2019 letter sent to a UK parliament committee reveals that Netflix uses three categories when measuring viewing figures: “starters,” “watchers,” and “completers....

This is the second article in our new Saturday how-to series (see last week’s post about safely deleting an iCloud account) It is highly recommended that you tie an active, valid email address to your Apple ID. The Apple ID is your login for Apple services such as iTunes, App Store, iMessage, and FaceTime. By actually using an active email address for your Apple ID, you will receive important emails from Apple....

I feel old saying this, but having used computers since before external hard drives existed, I can say with certainty that buying a hard drive is easier today than it’s ever been before. For traditional drives, prices are low, options are numerous, and capacities are so high that your only choices are “enough space,” “more than enough space,” and “way more than enough space.” I could point you towards a gigantic 5-Terabyte $139 Seagate USB 3....

Harry Potter and Inception. One fictional universe is where magic happens, and the other fictional universe is where people have figured out how to make some kind of magic happen within the human mind itself. But what would happen if these two worlds collided? The characters in Inception are all totally extraordinary in their own right, and in their own way. This team is an elite squad who have mastered a skill that most people couldn’t (literally or figuratively) dream of, and every person brings something very specific and unique to the table....

Now that the final season of Game Of Thrones is only a few short months away there’s no better time to go into some of the biggest changes to, and omissions from, George R. R. Martin’s original works. So if you’ve watched the series without reading the books and you happen to find yourself wondering why everyone seems to be so afraid of Tywin and that Rains of Castamere song, or trying to figure out why everyone keeps talking about the valonqar, we’ll get into some of the best details the show forgets to tell you about the house that always pays its debts....

If you are an avid Facebook user, like the other 2.934 billion (Monthly active users), you must have seen Top Fan badges on some Facebook pages. Facebook introduced this jeweled icon badge to reward an active contributor to a particular community to stand out from others. Facebook badges are ways by which any group or page can recognize the roles and significance of each member in their community. The Top Fan badge feature is available for Facebook business pages to recognize and award the distinctive member of that page....

What is cryptography used for? It’s the stuff of spy stories, secret decoder rings and everyday business — taking data, converting it to another form for security, sharing it, and then converting it back so it’s usable. Infosec Skills author Mike Meyers provides an easy-to-understand walkthrough of cryptography. Watch the complete walkthrough below. Cryptography basics: How does encryption work? | Free Cyber Work Applied series Cyber Work listeners get free cybersecurity training resources....

Warning: This article contains SPOILERS for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker saw the much-hyped reappearance of Emperor Palpatine, but how exactly the Sith Lord returned is what’s confusing to many viewers. Also known as Darth Sidious, Emperor Palpatine served as the overarching villain of George Lucas’ original Star Wars trilogy. Though Darth Vader took center stage in the original films and enjoyed a more iconic status in popular culture, The Emperor was very much the true mastermind....

H.R. Giger’s Xenomorph creature from Ridley Scott’s sci-fi horror movie, Alien, took audiences by storm in 1979, but since then has undergone numerous changes as the franchise has evolved. Ridley Scott, the director of Alien (1979), read Giger’s 1977 book, Necronomicon, and hired him to produce artwork and conceptual designs for the film. Two lithographs in the book, “Necronomicon IV” and “Necronomicon V,” proved to the basis for the iconic monster....

Verizon once tried to add Siri’s technology to Droid smartphones long before Apple purchased the voice assistant app, according to a recent report by The Huffington Post. The carrier inked a contract with the startup in 2009 to bring its functionality to devices, and it even went ahead and filmed commercials for the pre-installed product (Tipsters? Send it to us!). Then, Apple bought Siri. The deal with Big Red immediately went bust, as Apple now owned the rights to what has since become one of the iPhone’s most famous features and subsequently stopped the competition from adding the app to their devices....

Warning: The following feature contains SPOILERS for Crisis on Infinite Earths. The tagline of the Arrowverse crossover event Crisis on Infinite Earths seems particularly fitting in the case of Black Lightning; “Worlds will live. Worlds will die. And nothing will ever be the same.” For all that is changing in the new Arrowverse, it seems likely that Black Lighting will be the most drastically altered series in the post-Crisis reality....

There hasn’t been a Constantine season 2 after the show was cancelled on NBC, but it would be a smart move for DC to greenlight one after Legends of Tomorrow season 4. Although John Constantine’s series failed on network TV, trenchcoat-clad occultist remained so popular he jumped to a completely different show - The CW’s Arrow - and was later made into a series regular on Legends of Tomorrow. Now, it’s time for The CW to start thinking about John Constantine’s future - and that means reviving his solo series for a season 2 when his time on the Waverider ends....

Microsoft Teams is designed as a collaboration tool for businesses and organizations. It offers different features, which, if well utilized, go the extra mile to enhance the productivity of any organization. Knowing how to utilize Microsoft Teams to increase productivity is an added advantage. So, how does Microsoft Teams improve productivity? Today’s posts details how Microsoft Teams improves productivity in an organization. We will discuss each point in detail, giving examples where applicable, such that by the end of the article, you will understand why Microsoft Teams is a worthy tool for your organization....

One of the big new features in macOS Sierra is the new iPad-inspired Picture-in-Picture mode for Safari. This allows users to detach a video from its player so that it’s always viewable across desktops and while using other apps. Although YouTube’s player doesn’t make it readily apparent that its videos work with Picture-in-Picture, it’s quite easy to enable the handy feature for all of your favorite YouTube videos on Safari....

The sequel to the 2017 film The Hitman’s Bodyguard, The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard, casts veteran actors Richard E. Grant and Antonio Banderas. In 2019, Grant received an Oscar nomination for his supporting performance in Can You Ever Forgive Me?, while Banderas received a 2018 Golden Globe nomination for portraying Pablo Picasso in National Geographic’s Genius. Directed by Australian filmmaker Patrick Hughes, The Hitman’s Bodyguard stars Ryan Reynolds as the titular character Michael Bryce....

Warning: SPOILERS ahead for Hobbs & Shaw Director David Leitch changed the ending of Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw right before production began. After multiple appearances in the larger Fast & Furious franchise, Leitch was put in charge of bringing a spinoff movie starring Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson’s Luke Hobbs and Jason Statham’s Deckard Shaw to the screen. He was hired after his work on Atomic Blonde and Deadpool 2, where he proved his ability behind the camera....

We suggested Houseparty as an alternative to Zoom earlier this month, and a report today indicates that it has seen 50 million sign-ups in the past month. It has been the most popular social networking app in the App Store every day since March 20, giving it more daily downloads than Facebook, Messenger, and WhatsApp… Of course, that’s not a fair comparison given the vast number of existing users of the trio of Facebook apps (Facebook alone has seen around 2....

Over the last few months, several reports have indicated that Apple has a cheaper HomePod in the pipeline to join the existing $349 model. Last night, a report suggested that device could be priced at $199. Several reports out of Apple’s supply chain in China have indicated that the company is working on a more affordable HomePod. Most of those reports, however, have been relatively vague, not offering any concrete details on price or form factor....

What is the Javali trojan? The Javali trojan was first observed by the Kaspersky Team in November 2017 and described later in detail by Segurança-Informática. This piece of malware has increased in volume and sophistication in recent months. As noted in other threats from Latin American, Javali is using similar routines and calls also observed on other trojans, such as Grandoreiro, URSA and Lampion. As described by Segurança-Informática: (…) part of these trojan families are using padding to enlarge the binary; empty sections or even BPM images attached as a resource (…)....

We’ve been testing out a prototype version of the Hive Dock for iPhone for the last few days and here’s our review and overview of the product. For those unfamiliar, the Hive Dock is a dock for the iPhone 4 that provides the phone with clearer audio output and uses a magnifying plate to provide a 4X zoom for anything your iPhone displays on its screen. The product is actually pretty slick for movie watchers and the audio actually does sound crisper than iPhone 4 audio without the dock....