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But sometimes the culprit isn’t your actual computer. It can be the browser that you use. Google Chrome is known for eating resources if you have multiple tabs open simultaneously. The good news is that’s about to change. The tech giant will be rolling out new Chrome features soon that will save memory and help extend your device’s battery life. Keep reading for details. Here’s the backstory Having multiple tabs open in Chrome can be a resource hog....

Update: The brothers have uploaded a new video further explaining the Face ID issue. Watch it below. Apple touts that Face ID is even more secure than Touch ID was, with there being a 1 in 1,000,000 chance of a different person being able to unlock someone else’s iPhone X with Face ID. A new video posted to Reddit, however, shows Face ID failing to properly differentiate between siblings… In the video, you can see Face ID unlock the iPhone X for both siblings....

Comcast cable TV customers can expect to pay more for their service in 2020 as the company shifts its focus to its new NBC Peacock streaming service. Over the last couple of years, Comcast has seen a major decline in its cable TV subscribers and now the company looks set to fully embrace the world of streaming, albeit at the cost of existing cable customers. Comcast and NBC announced the Peacock streaming service last year, although pricing was only recently confirmed....

Netflix’s The Two Popes cast is led by two iconic actors, who are joined by an impressive list of supporting actors. Directed by Brazilian filmmaker Fernando Meirelles (City of God) and written by Anthony McCarten (Bohemian Rhapsody), the Netflix drama features two legendary actors as historical Vatican figures. The Two Popes explores the friendship between Pope Benedict XVI and Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio. As the Catholic Church experiences scandal after scandal, the head of the Vatican muses about the future, and if he’s making the right decisions....

Fox has a big year coming up, with Logan (out this week), War for the Planet of the Apes (out July), Kingsman: The Golden Circle (October) and Murder on the Orient Express (November) still to come, but one film they seem particularly confident with is Alien: Covenant. Ridley Scott’s second return to the franchise that made him, the film was originally set for release in August (a time for risky box office prospects), but was bumped up to a prime May spot....

Apple ran a new, minute-long Apple Music commercial during last night’s Country Music Association Awards, featuring hit country music singer-songwriter Kenny Chesney. In the ad – filmed this summer at his concert at the Gillette Stadium in Foxboro MA, home of the super bowl champions New England Patriots – Chesney focuses on the human curation offered by Apple Music. The ad, which can be found on iTunes and watched below, also features a cameo appearance by the Apple Watch, Chesney using it to check his Activity rings....

New iOS 9 Features 3D Touch Earlier this year, Apple introduced us to force touch on the Apple Watch then brought similar functionality to its Early 2015 MacBook laptops. 3D touch shares a similar capability on the iPhone 6s by providing access to quick action menus on apps. When you add a certain amount of pressure on an app icon, it will present a list of common tasks you can complete, such as a Selfie menu for the Camera app, a Post on FaceBook or New Message/Tweet on Twitter....

The Correlium team has today released a beta of a work-in-progress hack to get the Android operating system running on the iPhone. Using the checkra1n jailbreak exploit to gain access to the bootloader of older iPhone models, Project Sandcastle lets you install a semi-working version of Android on an iPhone 7 or iPhone 7 Plus. Support for additional phone models is in the works. Obviously, proceed at your own risk. Even more so than a standard jailbreak, you can imagine the potential for stuff to go wrong here is significant....

A two-sentence notice on Niantic’s support website hints at a major update to Pokémon Go. While that might not seem much of a clue, it is when viewed in context … Niantic said at last month’s TNW conference that the company planned to extend the multi-player functionality of the game – and that gyms would play a key role in this. You can listen to the whole conversation in the video below....

Created by Henson, The Storyteller originally aired in 1987 and utilized both puppets and actors to tell stories of strange and obscure folk tales. Running for only nine episodes, with a 4-episode “Greek Myths” spinoff, The Storyteller went on to win an Emmy and BAFTA. Henson himself directed multiple episodes, which were all written by Oscar-winning filmmaker Anthony Minghella of The English Patient and The Talented Mr. Ripley fame. The late, great John Hurt voiced the narrator who was an elfin storyteller of mysterious origins and the show featured an incredible amount of puppet designs from the legendary Jim Henson’s Creature Company....

Warning: Possible SPOILERS for Messiah ahead. Upcoming Netflix Original series Messiah may have already given away its big ending twist - in the name of its titular messiah. The potential spoiler, if proven true, would be especially ironic considering the show’s preoccupation with influence and truth in the social media age. Created by Michael Petroni (The Book Thief) and directed by James McTeigue (V for Vendetta), Messiah is set to drop on Netflix on January 1st, 2020....

Netflix is planning more interactive content after the success of Black Mirror movie Bandersnatch. The streaming giant has been busy as of late basking in the glow of their four Oscar wins at this year’s Academy Awards. But having already stated they intend to spend $15 billion on original content in 2019, Netflix is now preparing to capitalize on the success of Bandersnatch. Created by Charlie Brooker and released exclusively to Netflix at the very tail end of 2018, Bandersnatch initially drew interest from fans of the Black Mirror sci-fi/horror anthology series, which was also created by Brooker and is available exclusively to Netflix subscribers....

New Girl centers around Jessica Day, a recently dumped school teacher who found a new place on craigslist with three male roommates. It details their lives, both personally and professionally, and their relationships – both with each other and with romantic partners. There were some couples on the show who made absolute perfect sense and who were perfect together. But then there were those couples where you couldn’t figure out how they ended up together and made no sense to the audience....

The Nintendo Switch already has two games in The Legend of Zelda series in development, but there may be a third one on the way, as a recent job posting from Monolith Soft suggests that they are working on the next entry in the series. Monolith Soft is a video game development studio that is currently owned by Nintendo and has produced exclusive titles for Nintendo systems since 2007, and was involved in the process of developing The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild....

Information disclosure An attacker usually observes and obtains an abundance of information that the programmer left inadvertently or the application discloses. This kind of attack is not given as much attention because the programmer doesn’t understand the mindset of attacker, how exactly they will break the system. An information disclosure attack is considered a very deadly attack because an attacker can either use information to exploit the vulnerability directly or use it against your application to exploit another loophole....

2K launched their iOS NBA 2K19 app on October 3rd, this year and along with it came the awesome online play mode which is for the first time for mobile devices. This obviously is a big user experience since the game involves competition. And, any app developer knows the importance of android devices hence, releasing an Android version is a must. And, 2K is no different. They also have released their Android version, but looks like the online mode from iOS version is missing....

Netflix announced today via its sci-fi and supernatural Twitter account that it would be attending E3, and that fans could expect more than just another look at the upcoming Stranger Things video game. The Stranger Things game is the only currently announced Netflix gaming project for this year, a cross-over between the popular television property and a retro-inspired adventure title from yesteryear. Netflix hasn’t been a major player in video games up until this point, with the Stranger Things game representing one of the biggest forays the company has made into the medium....

Netflix releases a teaser for The Society and sets the premiere date as May 10. Last November, the drama series’ main cast was announced, and first-look images were released in March. Directed by Marc Webb and written by Chris Keyser, The Society follows a group of teenagers who must survive on their own upon being transported to a location that’s similar to their new New England hometown but devoid of any parents....

If you remember a few months ago, we shared a mysterious device dubbed to be LG V40 that had triple rear cameras and dual front shooters. Apparently, the device exists and some new LG V40 images are now making the round of the internet. Rumor has that this phone will enter the market around October later this year. This will be the successor to the LG V30 and V35. These new LG V40 images are CAD renders from the production factory blueprints....

In its extensive review of the new 2013 MacBook Air, AnandTech notes an issue with the machine’s new 802.11ac WiFi capabilities that it says is limiting the faster Wi-Fi chip’s potential. While it was able to get an average of 533Mbps using the iPerf networking tool, Anand found real world file transfers would only get 21.2MB/s or 169.6Mbps: According to the review, the problem is likely with the OS X networking stack that is for some reason artificially limiting the capabilities of 802....