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Essential has closed its company doors for the last time, bringing an end to what was a turbulent, and short-lived tech company. Following multiple sexual misconduct claims aimed at the company’s CEO, Andy Rubin, Essential failed to re-establish its place in the market. Here’s an explanation on how and what happened. Often referred to as the “father of Android,” Rubin co-founded the mobile operating system along with Rich Miner, Nick Sears, and Chris White....

Breathtaking new fan art envisions what Angelina Jolie could look like as Thena in Marvel’s Eternals. The film was officially confirmed at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con during Marvel’s grandiose Hall H panel, with a release date set for November of next year. The adaptation of Jack Kirby’s original comic books is being brought to the big screen by acclaimed director Chloé Zhao (The Rider) with a star-studded cast that includes Richard Madden, Salma Hayek, Kumail Nanjiani, and Angelina Jolie amongst many others....

Eve is prepared to expand beyond Apple Home with new smart home products that will be compatible with the Matter standard, set to be released later this fall. Here are the company highlights at IFA. We’re pumped for Matter to become available this fall … A host of Thread-enabled Eve products is waiting to help shape the smart home of the future. Jerome Gackel, CEO of Eve Systems Here’s what Eve is showcasing during IFA 2022 During this fall/winter, Eve Systems will bring five new products with new options for Eve MotionBlinds in partnership with global window covering specialist Coulisse....

Marvel’s What If…? has brought back more than 50 Marvel Cinematic Universe actors, so that they can tell alternate versions of various events that have happened throughout the MCU’s first three phases. The stories told through the lens of Jeffrey Wright’s Watcher focus on the Infinity Saga movies, offering insight into alternative scenarios that would have totally changed the MCU. In 1977, Marvel Comics debuted the What If…? series, and has published 13 volumes overall....

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Evil Dead remake director Fede Alvarez sounds interested in making Evil Dead 2, provided there’s a good story to merit it. Created by filmmaker Sam Raimi, producer Rob Tapert, and star Bruce Campbell, The Evil Dead kicked off the monstrously entertaining franchise in 1981, and picked up a massive cult film following throughout the years along with the film’s sequels Evil Dead II in 1987 and Army of Darkness in 1992....

In an exclusive video, writer-director James Roday discusses bringing Hulu’s March installment of the Blumhouse Televison horror anthology Into the Dark: Treehouse to life. Roday may be known to most television viewers as one half of the comedic detective duo from USA’s Psych or, more recently, from the ensemble cast of ABC’s mystery drama A Million Little Things, but he’s also an accomplished writer and director. His latest effort behind the camera offers up a supernatural take on the #MeToo movement and the idea of toxic men....

Earlier this week, Facebook’s services went completely down for more than six hours. And now some users are reporting that Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp are not working again. On Twitter, users have been sharing complaints about WhatsApp, Messenger, and other Facebook apps not working on Friday. It’s unclear what is causing today’s outage. The company has acknowledged the problem and says it’s “working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible....

There are a few ways to extract data from Facebook ads. One way is to use the Facebook pixel. The pixel is a code that you add to your website that allows Facebook to track conversions and other data. You can then use this data to create custom audiences and target them with ads.Another way to extract data is to use the Facebook Ads Manager. To export Facebook Insights to excel, follow these steps:Log into your Facebook account and click on the “Insights” tab....

ESPN has a significant update to its iOS app today that includes new sports features plus easier ways to watch video on Apple’s platforms with SSO and Chromecast support. Both ESPN and WatchESPN now work with Apple’s recently released Single-Sign on feature starting with the latest versions. This lets you authenticate your TV provider once in Settings, then access paid video content in ESPN’s apps without signing in to each. iCloud Keychain makes SSO work across all connected iCloud devices....

Last Updated: January 17, 2020 The Marvel Cinematic Universe has been dominating pop culture for the past decade - building a sprawling superhero universe that spans movies and TV shows. With 23 MCU movies released so far, and plenty more already planned, it can be difficult to keep track of all the different superheroes and their respective franchises and team-ups. To help fans out, here’s our breakdown of every Marvel movie released so far (in chronological order)....

As an IT and cybersecurity professional who has earned 40 different IT and security certifications, Thorsen is applying her experience as a certified technical trainer and developed three new learning paths for Infosec Skills: Writing secure code in iOS Writing secure code in Android (releasing soon) CertNexus cyber secure coder A quickly changing cybersecurity landscape Thorsen says the average developer in history was always adding security as an afterthought. If they spent a little more time with security in mind, apps and users’ data would be much more secure and less likely to leak private information....

The death toll in the Arrowverse’s Crisis On Infinite Earths Part 3 was truly epic. The Flash anchored the third chapter, which welcomed Black Lightning (Cress Williams) to the superhero shared universe. So far, Part 1 of the mega-crossover kicked off with billions of deaths as five Earths were destroyed, including Earth-38, the homeworld of Supergirl (Melissa Benoist) and Superman (Tyler Hoechlin). In addition, Green Arrow died to help evacuate Earth-38, though he was resurrected via a Lazarus Pit in Crisis Part 2....

If you ever saw Alan Moore in the street, you might walk in the other direction. But for over thirty years. Moore has been taking his unique curmudgeonly style to all kinds of popular heroes, crafting marquis stories like “Whatever Happened To The Man Of Tomorrow?” For Superman. He’s also created quirky superheroes for Marvel like Captain Britain. He helped to reinvigorate, along with Frank Miller, The Batman in “The Killing Joke....

It’s a song that’s both incredibly catchy and educational so here are the key grammar jokes in Weird Al’s “Word Crimes.” Weird Al Yankovic has been spoofing popular hits for over four decades now, and first rose to fame based on his song “Eat It,” a parody of Michael Jackson’s s “Beat It.” The combination of the song and music video - a spot-on spoof of “Beat It” - helped propel it to success....

Whether it’s on the big screen or the silver screen, Marvel Comics has spent the better part of the last decade committing their most beloved characters to film. From the very first utterance of “I am Iron Man,” Marvel has had its audiences hook, line and sinker. When Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. took to television in 2013, it only made sense that this would cue the floodgates of Marvel TV shows to come....

Pixar unveiled the trailer for their next original movie recently. Onward is a fantasy drama about a pair of elf brothers living in a suburban fantasy world who head out into the wilderness in search of magic that will allow them to spend a day with their dead father. Since this is a Pixar movie and it revolves around losing a parent, it wouldn’t be at all surprising if a few tears are shed along the way....

It appears the U.S. Justice Department has some solid evidence against companies including Apple, Google, Adobe, Intuit, Pixar, Lucasfilm and Intel. TechCrunch obtained a document from the DOJ that is now posted to Scribd. Among the pieces of evidence, include: The DOJ settled with the six companies, but a class action lawsuit is pending. The complaint regards entering into non-poach and no bidding war agreements. The above mentioned companies allegedly lowered employee compensation artificially while hindering mobility....

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdT3eKdto4w&feature=player_embedded] Historypin, a user-generated map displaying historical data of nearby locations, is now available as an iOS app for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Created in partnership with Google by not-for-profit We Are What We Do, the app allows users to add their own historical photos by pinning them to a map, capturing historic moments as they happen, and creating replicas of historical images. The images are then shared with users requesting data for a specific location…....

After starring as Barry Allen aka The Flash in Zack Snyder’s Justice League, Ezra Miller is set to play another unique figure, the Spanish painter Salvador Dalí. Ten years ago, Miller landed his first feature role in Antonio Campos’ Afterschool, an indie drama that premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. By the early 2010s, Miller gained more attention within the world of indie filmmaking, as he played the titular role in Lynne Ramsay’s acclaimed 2011 film We Need to Talk About Kevin, and starred in the popular 2012 drama The Perks of Being a Wallflower....