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I think the Globe and Mail was the first to report that RIM’s beleaguered CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis are out – moved upstairs to the boardroom. The strangest thing about the story, and really the past few years, is the total denial by the leadership that Blackberry is in a death spiral. Even in appointing a current co-COO, who looks even less charismatic than either of the two people he replaces (video below), RIM is hedging its bets on Blackberry 10/QNX, which it won’t release until the end of 2012 on phones —if it bucks recent trends and ships on time....

Today we will guide you on how to install TWRP Recovery on Alcatel Raven LTE / TCL A574BL. TWRP recovery is considered to be one of the important contributions from the active developer community that Android has. This open-source custom recovery is in wide usage around the world. TWRP recovery helps to install Custom ROM, Kernel, Mods, Root or even backup and restore any ROM. If you are here, then you probably wondering how to install the TWRP Recovery on Alcatel Raven LTE....

Reviews of the iPad Air 2 and iPad mini 3 have gone live across the web tonight and, as you may have expected, reviewers and pundits love Apple’s newest tablets. As usual, we’ve rounded up links to the reviews along with some choice quotes. You can find them all below the break: iPad Air 2 The Verge Re/code WSJ The problem was this: I couldn’t tell the difference between the Air and Air 2 while doing these things....

Presently, while rumors may be spreading from popular blogs such as AppleInsider, I don’t suspect it’s much of a threat to Flash yet. Currently, Gianduia is entirely JavaScript based. However Apple is working on their JavaScript replacement, and that’s when things may start to shift. It’s not clear why Apple hates flash, but the current Gianduia they are using for their retail Site Genius bar is pretty groovy. Have you experienced Gianduia or another new Apple software?...

The iPad 7, the latest generation entry-level iPad for the masses, is one of the best deals in tech at only $329, and often found for much less on sale. It’s the first entry-level iPad to feature Smart Connector support, allowing users to conveniently connect a Smart Keyboard. It also features a larger display with more on-screen real estate. In this hands-on review, I discuss why the iPad 7 is indeed the best iPad for most people, and why it’s $329 entry-level price point is a steal given the amount of features packed inside this slab of aluminum and glass....

Yesterday, I reviewed PowerSkin’s Spare, a semi-protective battery case designed specifically for the iPhone 6. While Spare didn’t strike me as a great value for its asking price, PowerSkin also sells a more powerful alternative called PoP’n 3 that can work with multiple iPhones, including the iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, and earlier iPhone 5 models. And despite having nearly twice as much power as Spare — enough power to fully recharge any iPhone — it sells for only $50-$55, depending on the color you prefer....

One of the common knocks against Apple’s iPad is its keyboard. The entire premise of the iPad is its large, Multi-Touch keyboard, but some call the feature a roadblock to content creation. We previously profiled a slim, convenient Logitech keyboard that will “kickstart your your transition from consumption to creation” on the iPad. Over the last couple of weeks, we have been testing out an iPad accessory called the TouchFire, which for a decent price, will open up more doors for content creation on the iPad....

Riot Games’ lawyers are defending the company’s proposed $10 million settlement in a discrimination case. Following reporting on the lawsuit, the League of Legends developer sent Screen Rant a copy of a recent court filing contesting a California state agency’s allegation that Riot’s $10 million proposed settlement is inadequate. Riot Games recently proposed a $10 million settlement with the women, whose class-action lawsuit arose from a culture of discrimination and harassment at the company....

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker had less of a box office drop than Star Wars: The Last Jedi on its first Monday. The final installment in the Skywalker saga has been hotly anticipated by Star Wars fans, ever since director J.J. Abrams released the first film in the new trilogy. Back in 2015, the arrival of Star Wars: The Force Awakens was the first time in a decade that fans had the opportunity to see a brand new Star Wars film....

The future of Fox’s X-Men movies remains very much uncertain - not in the sense of whether or not they plan to make more, but rather a question of which direction the franchise will head. Full plans for the main series’ continuation are unknown, while most recent production rumors have focused on spin-offs like Deadpool and the potential X-Force and New Mutants franchises. Now, a new casting call sheet (if real) may shed new light on which characters might show up in one such production....

You can set up a virtual machine on Windows, macOS, and Linux computers using the free Android Studio, then run the Chrome OS inside it. You won’t get the complete Chrome OS experience on it, but you will see enough to know whether or not the operating system is for you. The Chrome browser that comes with it is fully functional, and you can sync all your browser settings to it....

Robert Liefeld is an American comic book creator. A prominent writer and artist in the 1990s, he is known for co-creating the character Deadpool with writer Fabian Nicieza, and has since been called one of the most controversial figures in the comic industry. In the early 1990s, the self-taught artist became prominent due to his work on Marvel Comics’ The New Mutants and later X-Force. In 1992, he left the company to help found Image Comics, which started a wave of comic books owned by their creators rather than by publishers....

After making a splash at the 2018 Fantasia Film Festival, The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then The Bigfoot is approaching its proper release to general audiences. Though it sports the title of a pulpy straight-to-video action flick, that assessment couldn’t be further from the truth. Boasting the talents of Oscar-nominated special effects legends Douglas Trumbull and Richard Yuricich, to say nothing of the unparalleled star power of the great Sam Elliot, The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then The Bigfoot is a character study disguised as a pulpy romp, delivering excitement and palpable drama in equal measure....

Up until last year, digital styluses — ones with electronic parts inside — worked pretty well across multiple iPad models. Developers including Adonit took over two years to develop electronic iPad writing tools that were thinner-tipped than fingers and rubber-domed styluses, but they succeeded, enabling iPads to serve as notepads and sophisticated canvases for artwork. Then the iPad Air 2 came out, subtly changing the touch-sensing technology that digital styluses relied upon, breaking some and reducing the accuracy of others....

Podcast playback remains one of the biggest opportunities for Apple Watch. Apple doesn’t offer an official Podcasts app and watchOS doesn’t let developers create a fully featured app with features like sync, subscriptions, and even volume control. Outcast for Apple Watch doesn’t magically fix any of those limitations, but the app does work within current constraints in a way that makes it actually usable. The ideal Apple Watch podcast player would support streaming on Wi-Fi and cellular, syncing episode progress between devices, and offer subscriptions with alerts for new episodes, but third-party apps can’t create that experience yet....

Back in August I reviewed the Raumfeld One M Wireless Speaker and I was thoroughly impressed by the sound emanating from such a compact speaker. The One M featured a 5-driver 2-way stereo speaker solution that came bundled with its own built-in down-firing subwoofer. The result was nothing less than impressive. Yet, single speaker solutions have inherent limitations when it comes to things like stereo separation. That’s where the step-up Raumfeld Stereo Cubes make their presence felt....

Roller Champions is free to play sports game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and Published by Ubisoft. Ubisoft is yet to officially release the game for Microsoft Windows, which they said would unveil in early 2020. As part of its development, Ubisoft confirmed that the game is in development for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch and Mobile devices as well. Roller Champions is a 3v3 competitive multiplayer sports game with third-person perspective gameplay....

Ronda Rousey is going to be the newest edition to Facebook Gaming as a streamer. This will be the first time that Rousey has entered the video game streaming scene, but several big name streamers have left other platforms for Facebook in the last several months. Rousey has had very successful career as both a martial artist and actress. Her career took off once she became the first American woman to earn a medal in judo at the 2008 Olympic games....

This October marked the 20th anniversary of Roswell’s season premiere; an American sci-fi show that ran for three seasons. Starring Shiri Appleby, Katherine Heigl and Colin Hanks, the show follows a group of high school students who discover some of their classmates are aliens. It’s not surprising they chose to reboot the series as there were several unique characters and relationships. For three years, fans grew to love the forbidden romance between Max (Jason Behr) & Liz (Appleby)....

Reuters has some big news about future generations of the Apple Watch: according to people familiar with Apple’s plans, the device will eventually get more health-releated sensors. Which generation we can expect to see these sensors or what types of data they’ll collect wasn’t exactly specified, but the company is definitely planning to include additional capabilities in future upgrades. Of course, this isn’t exactly the most shocking or unexpected news. It would be hard to believe that Apple had hired a group of fitness experts only to give up on improving the headline fitness features in the wearable device after the first version hit the market, and the company is still adding new sensors to the iPhone seven years after it first debuted....