Marvel Studios should consider slashing its marketing budget seeing as fans on the internet do a perfect job at hyping their movies. The lead-up to MCU films—especially Avengers films—are flooded with memes from fans who guess what will happen in the movie. Once the film itself is released, we get another wave of memes sent our way, most of which contribute to people going back to the cinema to rewatch the film....
With the future of Guardians of the Galaxy 3 a total mystery, Avengers: Endgame couldn’t have come along at a better time. But the next Avengers movie could actually do more than just bring the MCU’s Guardians back to life. It could also help to unite their newest enemies: a group that calls themselves the Dark Guardians. The villainous alliance is brand new in the world of Marvel Comics, introduced as the first enemies facing the new rebooted Guardians of the Galaxy led by Peter Quill and the newly punk rock Groot....
In this tutorial, we will guide you on how to backup and restore the QCN file on your Xiaomi Poco F3 (codenamed alioth). With this guide, you can always take one step further to fix the lost IMEI, unable to recognize sim card, unknown baseband version, or more. We in the era of smartphone technology always want to install the root, mods, or install custom ROM or modify the stock ROM....
The most successful [IE competitor] by far is Firefox. Chrome is a rounding error to date. Safari is a rounding error to date. But Firefox is not. The fact that there’s a lot of competitors probably is to our advantage. Yeah, we’re right now about 74 percent overall with the browser market, roughly speaking. But we’re having to compete like heck with IE 8, with great new features. The other guys are getting more and more unanticipated competitive attack factors, the thing that Google announced yesterday where they replaced IE but they don’t tell you....
It’s official, the Legion of Super-Heroes will have a new member come January, Batman’s own son and smart-mouthed sidekick Damian Wayne. Joining his fellow young super-friend Jonathan Kent (Superman’s son) the Boy Wonder will be joining the team of heroes from the 31st century in Legion of Super-Heroes #3 in January 2020. More or less retconned from existence in DC’s New 52 universe, the team made a comeback in September courtesy of Brian Michael Bendis and Ryan Sook....
Batwoman episode 4 finally begins to explain the mystery of what happened to Alice 15 years ago - but still leaves a lot of questions unanswered. The last two episodes have shown Batwoman slip into a comfortable pattern; there’s a villain-of-the-week who forces Kate Kane to up her game, and meanwhile the mystery of Beth Kane’s disappearance is explored a little at a time. Batwoman episode 3 featured Hush, and episode 4 introduces Magpie....
The medieval Dynasty is still in its early access stages. Thus, there are many aspects of the game that the developers need to look into. For some unknown reason, certain vital resources in the early stages of the game spawn very slowly. You will be hard-pressed to find straw and rocks, for example. In case, you are having trouble finding straw in the game, don’t worry, we are here to help....
Apple watch becomes a lifesaver once again. From time to time we get to read news on how the Apple Watch has notified it’s users of health issues and literally saved their lives. Though there are plenty of examples, the recent one is of 24-year old Mike Love who received notification from the watch on his heart’s unfit condition that saved him from dying at such a young age. Now if you’re wondering how, well a normal heart beats 60 times a minute, but in May Mike Love began receiving notifications from his Watch by Apple informing him his heart rate was 130-140 beats a minute....
Apple Watch shipments grew a healthy 19% last year, according to a new report today, increasing from 28.4M units in 2019 to 33.9M units in 2020. No other brands came anywhere close, and indeed most of them saw their shipments fall during the course of the year… Counterpoint Research says that Huawei was the only other brand to see shipments grow. Apple’s market share grew from 34% in Q4 2019 to 40% in Q4 2020....
While the report says that ‘Apple’s next-generation iPhone devices are likely to come with enhanced Siri,’ it’s of course more likely that this refers to an iOS update rather than anything specific to the new phone. Google has launched Google Pixel smartphones with Google Assistant and is expected to promote the adoption of the Google Assistant by other smartphone vendors, noted the sources, adding that Xiaomi has already adopted the Google Assistant […]...
E-commerce Application: Artificial Intelligence (AI) allows retailers to upgrade their customer experience on and off their web pages. It can be directed to make more informed decisions using customer and business data. It helps you to predict business trends and offers owners strategies/tips for developing their businesses. The following are AI applications in the E-commerce sector: Personal Shopping: Artificial intelligence technology uses design recommendation engines to improve customer interaction. For example, AI will use customers’ data to display all needed products/items....
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A report yesterday from The Guardian placed Apple and Siri in the middle of privacy concerns over voice activated assistants. The report claimed that Apple contractors listen to Siri audio as part of its efforts to improve performance, and oftentimes hear sensitive conversations. Apple defended the efforts in a statement, saying that “less than 1% of daily Siri activations” are used for grading. What do you think of this revelation?...
The Arrow season 8 premiere rewrote season 1 by killing off a key original character - Thea Queen (Willa Holland) - resulting in a major ripple effect for the timeline of Earth-2’s Starling City. The CW’s flagship superhero series kicked off its final season by building towards this year’s mega-crossover, Crisis On Infinite Earths. At the end of Arrow season 7, Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) left his family and friends behind to join the Monitor (LaMonica Garrett) on a mysterious quest involving the imminent Crisis....
The iPhone 5s launch was initially plagued by constrained supply and lagging shipping times, but in the past few weeks those issues have been alleviated as shipping times dropped significantly. The shipping times have dropped yet again, this time to only 3-5 days. This is down quite a bit from the previous 2-3 weeks required to ship. This is an especially welcome update for those buying iPhones as gifts this holiday season, although shipping times of 24 hours, which iPhone 5c buyers have enjoyed since the phone launched, would be ideal for last-minute shoppers....
Asus ROG Phone 5 is the successor of Rog Phone 3 which came out of the box with Android 11. The device gets powerful hardware and also promised to receive regular security patch update and bug fixes. However, it’s not a new case when some of the users haven’t received the latest firmware OTA update notification. Meanwhile, some of the ROG Phone 5 owners also look for the stock ROM to install mostly....
Wireless data hogs who jam the airwaves by watching video on their iPhones will be put on tighter leashes, …[AT&T] will also give high-bandwidth users incentives to “reduce or modify their usage.” Just 3 percent of “smart” phone users are consuming 40 percent of the network capacity, de la Vega said, adding that the most high-bandwidth activity is video and audio streaming. Several applications on the iPhone provide nonstop Internet radio....
Avast has been accused of harvesting data from those who use the company’s free antivirus and protection software, then using a subsidiary to sell the data on to third-parties, including some of the biggest names in tech, such as Google and Microsoft. Avast had already been accused of using its various browser extensions to collect and sell data resulting in many of the browsers opting to remove support for the extensions....
Disney is gunning for a possible Best Supporting Actor nomination for this year’s Academy Awards for Robert Downey Jr.’s performance as Tony Stark/Iron Man in Avengers: Endgame. The actor’s name wasn’t initially on the list of the House of Mouse’s “For Your Consideration” list despite garnering buzz after the release of the Joe and Anthony Russo-directed flick back in April. This bummed many of his supporters as getting acknowledged by the organization would’ve been a great way to cap off his run as the MCU’s poster boy....
From the Toys Section: mwave.com offers the Avexir 4GB Mini USB 2.0 Flash Drive, model no. AVND010304G-XMAS, for $4.99. With free shipping, that’s $1.25/GB, tied with our February mention, and the lowest total price we could find for a 4GB USB drive. This tiny drive measures 20mm x 15mm and features a plug cap. Seagate FreeAgent 3TB USB External Hard Drive $150 (9to5mac.com) 2TB Seagate USB hard drive: $75 (9to5mac.com) Seagate 1TB Expansion Portable USB Hard Drive: $70 (9to5mac....
