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Apple Pay may mean you need to carry far fewer cards around than before, but it’s not accepted everywhere, so the chances are you’ll still need to carry a physical card or two. But the great thing about dramatically slimming down the cards you carry is that you can also slim down your wallet and iPhone to a single unit using an iPhone wallet case. Jordan picked the Mujjo Leather Wallet Case as one of his holiday gift recommendations, and I thought I’d put it to the test....

Rocket Raccoon has a new costume in Avengers: Endgame - and it looks to be inspired by a classic uniform he wore in the comics. The entire cosmos suffered when Thanos snapped his fingers and erased half the life in the universe, but nobody lost more than Rocket. He had to watch his beloved Groot crumble to dust before his eyes, and he won’t have heard anything from the rest of his friends either; Rocket is literally the last surviving member of the Guardians of the Galaxy....

Roman Polanski’s best director award in France led to major protests. The 86-year-old Oscar-winning filmmaker has been the subject of much controversy throughout his career and has been the focus of a decades long rape case. In 1977, Polanski was arrested and charged with several offenses including rape after admitting to drugging and having unlawful sex with 13-year old Samantha Geimer at Jack Nicholson’s Hollywood home. The case shocked fans and moviegoers alike, and came at a time when Polanksi was rapidly earning a reputation as one of cinema’s greatest directors....

Aukey is a Chinese company more commonly known for producing charging accessories like in-car chargers and multi-port USB stations. But, it also builds headphones. I’ve been testing the wireless Bluetooth earphones while out running for a few months now. For $25, it’s really hard to argue against the Aukey Sport Bluetooth Headphone… It’s important to note, for me, buying wireless earphones was about fitting a couple of specific needs. I use on-ear and over-ear headphones for regular daily listening, so I didn’t need something for every day....

As Apple’s Shot on iPhone ad campaign illustrates, the iPhone is a capable camera in the right hands. Many people find that it’s the only camera they ever need. But if you’ve ever wished it could do just a little more without carrying around too much extra bulk, the Manfrotto KLYP+ kit may be worth a look. It’s an iPhone case (available for a range of models) that comes with two screw-on lenses and a combination light and tripod mount....

Quibi has given the green light to Rick and Morty creator Justin Roiland’s clay-based stop-motion animation series Gloop World. Creators Roiland, John Harvatine IV (Crossing Swords) and Eric Towner (Buddy Thunderstruck) team up with Stoopid Buddy Stoodios executive producers Seth Green, Harvatine, Matthew Senreich, Towner and Chris Waters on this zany project. The unique series follows the lives of anthropomorphic blobs Bob Roundy and Funzy. The two live as roommates in a fictional universe called Gloop World....

The report sent RingCentral shares up slightly in late trading. CEO and founder Vlad Shmunis remarked called the results, “outstanding,” adding that they were “driven by continued momentum with upmarket customers and ramping contributions from our key partners.” Added Shmunis, “Our commitment to innovation is driving a rapid pace of new, business-oriented capabilities across our RingCentral Message Video Phone and integrated cloud contact center solutions, and we’ve meaningfully expanded our differentiated market access with our newest exclusive strategic partner, Mitel....

Software industries use reverse engineering to dissect a product in order to figure out the purpose of each segment of code. Reverse engineering requires a blend of special skills and a thorough understanding of code-breaking, programming, logical analysis, computer internals and software development life cycles. Professionals who reverse engineer should have some understanding of assembly language opcodes and C++ programming. It is also helpful if they have knowledge of disassembling tools, including IDA Pro, Immunity Debugger, Dumpbin, Radare, Hexa editing, WinDbg and CFF Explorer across both Windows and Linux platforms....

Earlier this year during its education-focused event at a Chicago high school, Apple revealed the sixth-generation iPad with a base price of only $329. This was the first non-Pro iPad to support the Apple Pencil. Instead of creating a cheaper Apple Pencil or dropping the price of the existing version, Apple lent its technology to Logitech, and thus the $49 Crayon digital pencil was born. After initially only being available to school districts, today marks the news that the Logitech Crayon will be made available to the general public, meaning it’ll be sold inside Apple Stores and online....

The countdown is on. It’s New Year’s Eve and folks are either getting ready to go out and party or assembling a junk food fest to sit on the couch and gorge the night away, but it’s guaranteed that almost everyone will have their eyes locked on Time Square’s Ball when the clock strikes midnight. Instead of watching this year’s countdown on television, however, just use an iPhone. The Times Square Official New Year’s Eve Ball App is the official app to celebrate New Year’s Eve live from New York City, as the app’s description indicates, and it’s free....

Riot Games is changing the role randomness plays in Teamfight Tactics, aiming to make RNG-based setbacks less frustrating. All auto-battler games require some amount of RNG, but it appears Riot wants to make its League of Legends spin-off a little less random in the Set 2: Rise of the Elements update. After first introducing Teamfight Tactics as a temporary League of Legends game mode in June 2018, Riot made Teamfight Tactics a permanent part of the League of Legends ecosystem....

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’s opening weekend was less than half of Avengers: Endgame’s record-breaking debut. On the heels of last summer’s Solo: A Star Wars Story becoming the first box office bomb in Star Wars history (grossing only $392.9 million worldwide), many expected The Rise of Skywalker to be a return to form for the franchise, commercially speaking. Not only was the property returning to December (where Lucasfilm found tremendous success from 2015-2017), The Rise of Skywalker felt like a true cinematic event for the holiday season....

Rob Zombie’s Firefly family is coming back in 3 From Hell, but who are they? Zombie made his directorial debut back in 2003 with House of 1000 Corpses, an exploitation horror film that introduced a family of serial killers known as the “Firefly family”, who were also the protagonists of the sequel, The Devil’s Rejects. More than a decade after the events in The Devil’s Rejects, the surviving members of the Firefly clan are coming back to continue their reign of horror in newer and bloodier ways in 3 From Hell....

The late Hollywood legend Peter O’Toole once described Rose Byrne as a “beautiful, uncomplicated, simple, pure actress and a very nice girl” and these are the very qualities that make her so special and underrated. At once gorgeous and accessible, talented and down-to-earth, Byrne has the skill, workhorse mentality, and natural charisma to make the best of any role that comes her way with seeming ease. After transitioning to Hollywood with little more than a cameo in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of The Clones (2002), the Australian actress first made a splash in the US with a recurring role on the crime series, Damages, for which she earned multiple Emmy and Golden Globe nominations....

Network Router protocols helps you to specify way routers communicate with each other. It allows the network to select routes between any two nodes on a computer network. Types of Routing Protocols There are mainly two types of Network Routing Protocols Static Dynamic Static Routing Protocols Static routing protocols are used when an administrator manually assigns the path from source to the destination network. It offers more security to the network....

NetNewsWire 5.0 launched to everyone on the Mac back in August, and now you can get it on iPhone and iPad as well. After a period of public beta testing, the powerful RSS reader is now available for download on the App Store for free. NetNewsWire is a name you’ve probably heard of if you’ve been using the Mac for a while. Brent Simmons released the first version of the app back in 2002, and it was acquired by NewsGator in 2005....

When Mountain Lion launched last year, Apple introduced some basic Facebook sharing options to OS X. You can post a status update from Notification Center or upload a photo from Finder, Preview, iPhoto, or other Mac applications. While those functions are useful, Apple has yet to really embrace all of Facebook’s features. For example, you can’t tag a friend in a status update or create a new photo album, and the notification integration, while nice, is a bit unreliable....

Update: Since this post was originally written, Ultimate Ears has released the Boom 2 and replaced the Mini with the Roll Last year, we took the best Bluetooth speakers we could find and put them head to head in one big ‘mega review‘. When all was said and done, the overall best in the field was the Ultimate Ears (UE) Mini Boombox which retailed for $99. Since that time, we’ve reviewed plenty of others including new standouts like the $149 JBL Charge and the $199 Bose Mini Soundlink which we found to be fantastic, higher-priced alternatives....

Sid Haig and Rob Zombie are long-time collaborators who have worked together on multiple projects successfully; Haig was meant to be a featured player in The Lords of Salem, but ended up with his role cut down significantly in the final product. Zombie’s 2012 tale of witchcraft, The Lords of Salem, is sometimes considered to be one of the director’s most unique and underrated movies. It differs heavily from his other works, House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil’s Rejects, and was his attempt to get back into the creative groove after his Halloween remakes in 2007 and 2009....

Marvel Comics’ adaptation of last year’s Rogue One: A Star Wars Story fleshes out certain aspects of the blockbuster to reveal more character details. Comic adaptation of films are tricky. Too often, they’re just attempts to cash in on the success of the film and don’t offer anything new. However, this one written by Jody Houser and illustrated by Emilio Laiso, seeks to go beyond what was on the screen. The first issue is out in stores today and features numerous expanded scenes, as well as additional and deleted material that was not in the film....