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Last year iOS 8 brought with it support for custom third-party keyboards. Some of these are designed to help you type faster, but some just make it easier to inject GIFs and other media into your chats. This week the cutest keyboard landed on iOS courtesy of who else, but Disney. Just as its name suggests, the Disney Gif app puts hundreds of GIFs right inside your iOS keyboard. Choose characters and scenes from films including Star Wars, Lion King, Aladdin, Toy Story and Frozen....

District 9 was the surprise cinematic hit of 2009 but, ten years later, a sequel has yet to go into production. Here are the reasons behind the District 9 sequel delay and why fans might still have cause for hope. South African director Neill Blomkamp’s debut feature was certainly an ambitious beast. The story, written by Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell, blended social allegory with science fiction, and explored the premise of an alien spacecraft appearing over Johannesburg....

The entirety of Detective Pikachu has been leaked online, or has it? The Pokémon film is officially releasing in theaters this week. Early reviews have been mixed to positive, typically agreeing that Pokémon fans should have a lot of fun. When it was first announced, Detective Pikachu caught everyone off guard. It seemed odd at the time to adapt a spinoff Pokémon title, rather than the traditional trainer journey seen in the core games like Pokémon Red and Blue....

On its developers page, Apple announces the launch of the latest beta version of Xcode. The development tool is receiving a number of interesting features, but more significantly, it outlines a big change to company’s policy. Starting with the beta of Xcode version 7, the company is allowing developers to test their apps on Apple devices even if they don’t have a developer membership. This makes it possible for unsigned developers — those who don’t have an eligible developer account (which is also paid) — to deploy their own apps on their own devices....

iOS 13 introduces a number of changes for how developers are able to use user locations. Now, a group of app developers have joined forces to call the changes anti-competitive, and are taking their complaints directly to Tim Cook. As detailed in a new report from The Information, developers say that the new location changes in iOS 13 will hurt their businesses. They also accuse Apple of being anticompetitive and having a “double standard” when it comes to the ability applications have to use location data....

It is not all that long since brands thought that they would need to build a relationship with a celebrity to be successful. And, for many businesses that type of deal is well outside viable budget levels. But brands are beginning to discover that influencer marketing is not the same as celebrity endorsement. The critical point for somebody to be considered an influencer must surely be that the person exudes influence, i....

More recently, cybersecurity experts from Palo Alto published a study focused on Digium Phone Software. In detail, these VoIP devices are vulnerable to CVE-2021-45461, and criminals are taking advantage of them to drop a web shell on the servers in a large and massive global campaign with the goal of exfiltrating internal data and taking control of internal networks. Modus operandi The scripts and how the attack was conducted share similarities with the INJ3CTOR3 campaign reported by Check Point in November 2020, potentially a new wave from the previous attacks....

Algoriddim announced today that it has integrated ShazamKit with djay, its Apple Design Award-winning DJing platform. The universal app is one of the first applications to harness the capabilities of Shazam’s audio recognition, available on iOS 15. The built-in feature in djay now lets users discover music playing in their surroundings, whether they are at an event, listening to the radio, or playing a back-to-back set with another DJ. Once a song has been identified, djay instantly loads it onto the virtual decks and plays the audio in sync with the external music source....

One answer to the problem is good documentation, providing developers with regularly updated information, delivering that as part of the build process for a library or for an API. If documentation isn’t ready, then a build must fail; code should never be released without documentation. SEE: How to build a successful developer career (free PDF) Another is delivering self-paced training, embedding coding tools and test suites into training programs. That’s the approach taken by services like Microsoft Learn, using its documentation as a source of training but offering in-line code scratchpads where you can try out what you’ve just learnt....

The story of Jean Seberg is one of confusion, betrayal, idealism, and the uphill battle faced by anyone who dares to try to make the world a better place. The promising young actress, an instant icon of the French New Wave movement of the late 1950s, had her career utterly derailed and her livelihood threatened by interference from the FBI. Back in those days, under the direction of the infamous J....

Halo co-creator Mark Lehto’s new game, Disintegration, was officially revealed during Gamescom 2019 with a brand new gameplay trailer, and it looks a lot like Destiny. Lehto previously released a Disintegration teaser back in early July, announcing the game’s full Gamescom reveal. Lehto co-created the concept for Halo: Combat Evolve when he began working at Bungie in 1997 as art director. After the first Halo, Lehto was an art director on Halo 2, Halo 3, and Halo: ODST, becoming creative director of Halo: Reach and an unspecified new game (most likely Destiny)....

Star Wars: Andor Today Disney Plus is starting the action with an exciting new trailer and key art for “Andor,” which is a 12-episode series from Lucasfilm. The series will take place before the events of the hit movie “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.” The series will debut exclusively on Disney Plus on its modified date of Wednesday, September 21, which includes a three-episode premiere. The series explores a new perspective from the Star Wars galaxy....

Disney’s adding Rogue One: A Star Wars Story star Donnie Yen to their live-action remake of Mulan. The Mouse House is in the business of franchises and remakes right now, and that means steamrolling through their animated film catalogue. After a number of successful ventures like Beauty and the Beast and The Jungle Book, they have a full slate lined up. One of those live-action remakes will be Mulan, a movie at one point scheduled to hit theaters this year....

AMC’s new anthology series Dispatches from Elsewhere has a cast of quirky characters that includes legends like Sally Field and André Benjamin (a.k.a. André 3000). Created for television by Jason Segel, the show is based on the 2013 alternative reality-themed documentary The Institute. Dispatches from Elsewhere season 1 follows numerous individuals whom are recruited by the clandestine Jejune Institute. They play a fascinating game - one that could provide them with meaning, or perhaps be part of dangerous conspiracy....

Domain Name System (DNS) is a naming system used to convert human readable domain names like infosecinstitute.com into a numerical IP address. The process works like this: Let’s assume a user types infosecinstitute.com in their browser and what you see is indeed the infosecinstitute website. But what happens behind the scenes is rather interesting, like how the request got from my browser to the correct domain name? Well, it is the job of the DNS resolver in the end user system to fetch the IP address for the requested domain....

One of the standout features in iOS 11 is support for drag and drop, which allows iPad users to easily move things such as links and images between applications. Though, the feature is limited to iPad users as Apple works to make the device more of a PC replacement. Developer Steven Troughton-Smith, however, has discovered how to enable inter-application drag and drop on iPhone… Smith explained in a series of tweets that drag and drop on iPhone is currently hidden deep inside the iOS filesystem, but that it is there and has seemingly been tested and considered by Apple as a potential feature....

What We Know About Ben Solo Before we get to Luke, it’s worth recapping what’s been revealed about Ben Solo in the new films so far. In contrast to several of the Star Wars villains we’ve seen onscreen over the years, Kylo Ren has not yet fully committed himself to the dark side in The Force Awakens. He spends a majority of the film torn between the light and the dark, looking for the proper guidance from Snoke and even Darth Vader’s melted helmet....

For answers to these and other important questions, organizations turn to digital forensic investigators. What is digital forensics? The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) defines digital forensics as the application of science to the identification, collection, examination and analysis of data — while preserving the integrity of the information and maintaining a strict chain of custody. Put more simply, it’s the scientific process of collecting information and artifacts around a cyber incident....

Discover Mobile version 4.10: The Discover for iPhone app officially gains Passbook support for saving redeemed Cashback Bonuses. -Your Discover app now includes Apple Passbook integration for partner eCertificates! Redeem your Cashback Bonus for a partner eCertificate and save it to Passbook! (Available for users on iOS 6 or greater) Draw Something Pro: OMGPOP is out with a new, paid, ad-free version of its popular Draw Something app. While you could get a universal, ad-free $2....

Though Tangled debuted 9 years ago, this Rapunzel retelling remains one of Disney’s most beloved tales. Featuring a lost princess, charming thief, two hilarious sidekicks, and 70 ft. of golden hair, this film has a lot going for it. As much as we adore this animation, however, we couldn’t help but notice that not every detail of the film makes sense. While the movie doesn’t have any gaping plot holes, there are a few smaller details that could have been better explained....