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Samsung has been serving the leader position in the Android smartphone market for very long now. Through all this time a lot of improvements and change in trends have occurred in the market. Samsung was successful in improving with every change happened so far. From budget to premium smartphones, Samsung has provided users with some cool devices where quality comes first. The Galaxy S series is a pride of the South Korean manufacturer....

HTB is an excellent platform that hosts machines belonging to multiple OSes. It also has some other challenges as well. Individuals have to solve the puzzle (simple enumeration plus pentest) in order to log into the platform and download the VPN pack to connect to the machines hosted on the HTB platform. Note: Only write-ups of retired HTB machines are allowed. The machine in this article, named DevOops, is retired....

On the morning of September 20th, 2018, the Port of Barcelona was hit by a cyber-attack that forced the operators of the port’s infrastructure to launch emergency procedures. A few days later, several computers at the Port of San Diego were infected with ransomware. The incident impacted the processing of park permits and record requests, as well as other operations. The incidents have raised discussion about security for these types of critical infrastructures and demonstrated that ports and other such locations are too vulnerable to cyber-attacks....

The Han Solo Star Wars (2018) anthology film, which was first announced in 2015, is set to come out in May 2018. Like Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016), the Han Solo film is a “stand alone” story set in the Star Wars universe. In this case, Han Solo will be set before the events of the original trilogy, showing what Han Solo was up to before he met Obi-Wan Kenobi and Luke Skywalker in A New Hope (1977)....

One of Gotham’s longest-running and most intriguing story lines has been that of Jerome Valeska and the possibility that he’s the show’s version of iconic Batman villain, The Joker. Jerome was introduced in in the show’s first season with a nasty case of matricide, and his cartoonish behavior and menacing laugh immediately drew comparisons to Batman’s arch nemesis. The show’s producers have refused to confirm the theory either way, suggesting that Jerome could simply inspire a different character to go on to become the real Joker....

Crossover storylines are a common occurrence in the world of comic books, and as shared superhero universes continue to grow in popularity on television, sharing characters has become even more commonplace. The CW regularly features crossovers between its two main DC Comics shows, The Flash and Arrow, and even used both to launch the network’s third comic book series, Legends of Tomorrow. Now, The Flash’s Barry Allen (Grant Gustin) will visit Kara Danvers (Melissa Benoist) on Supergirl in the upcoming episode ‘Worlds Finest’, marking the first crossover between The CW and CBS’ DC series....

One of the changes Apple announced for developers at WWDC this year was the ability to challenge App Store Review guidelines. Now, we’re seeing an early instance in which a developer was successfully able to challenge an App Store rule after having their app threatened with rejection. For those unfamiliar, Guardian is a firewall and VPN application for iPhone, founded by Will Strafach. Over the last two weeks on Twitter, Strafach has been chronicling an experience with App Store review regarding a Day Pass feature in the Guardian app....

Marvel has released two new clips from Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 to showcase the film’s action and humor. In just a couple of weeks (as of this writing), the highly-anticipated sequel will debut in theaters, getting a typically packed summer movie season off to a rousing start. Early reactions to the film have been universally positive, with many claiming Vol. 2 exceeds the already great expectations and is one of the best installments in the Marvel Cinematic Universe....

HTB is an excellent platform that hosts machines belonging to multiple OSes. It offers multiple types of challenges as well. The individual can download the VPN pack to connect to the machines hosted on the HTB platform and has to solve the puzzle (simple enumeration plus pentest) in order to log into the platform. Note: Only writeups of retired HTB machines are allowed. The machine in this article, Optimum, is retired....

A new image from the set of Han Solo teases a tense smuggling scene, likely involving the film’s hero. With just 8 months until the release of the Han Solo anthology film, not much is known about the movie. We’ve had no trailer, no photos of the cast in costume, and the movie still doesn’t even have an official title. Instead, most of the focus on the film has been the change-ups behind the scenes....

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXxfhBbt3eY] Google’s iOS app Field Trip, a cool background app that alerts you to interesting things around you as you travel, now features notable women from history. If you check the Spark: Women on the Map option in the app, it will point out sites where women have played an important role in our past. Google worked with gender equality campaign group SPARK to add the feature, reports TNW, after it pointed out to Google that its doodles featured women only 17% of the time....

Back in September, we spotted that Google was developing an “Augmented Reality OS” for an “innovative AR device.” A new report today reveals that Google is working on an AR headset with “Project Iris.” Citing sources familiar with the project, The Verge says that Google is working on a headset that will augment incoming video from outward-facing cameras with various graphics. This is not the glasses form factor, and you’ll be looking at a screen with the current early prototype akin to ski goggles....

While Gotham placed a great deal of focus on the evolution of Jim Gordon and Bruce Wayne, the show truly excelled when focusing on its villains. The villains provided the vibrant quirks and campy nature that allowed Gotham to find its identity and hit its stride. Each of them helped raise the stakes in a different way and sometimes made the audience want to root for them even more than Jim Gordon or Bruce Wayne....

Frankie Bergstein is the insatiable free-thinker from Netflix’s Grace and Frankie. After getting divorced from her husband Sol, viewers weren’t sure if Frankie was ever going to bounce back to her normal self after losing—who she thought—was her soulmate. Thankfully, we’ve seen Frankie achieve amazing things in the series’ six seasons and even find love again. Jacob was Frankie’s first love after her divorce. He was her “yam man” and grew all the yams Frankie needed for her lube....

Grace Slick had a colorful music career spanning four decades, but what is her net worth? Pioneering female rock star Grace Slick emerged onto the music scene in 1960s San Francisco when she formed the short-lived band The Great Society with her husband Jerry Slick and his brother Darby in 1965. Just a year later, The Great Society disbanded when Grace left to take up the position of Jefferson Airplane’s front-woman after the original singer Signe Toly Anderson quit....

Image by jennydeluxe Grand opening of Apple’s massive new store inside New York City’s Grand Central Station is scheduled for Friday, December 9 at 10am, but today at 10am is a “media day”. Ahead of the event, first images of the store’s interior are cropping up all over the web. UPDATE: Apple just released a press statement formally announcing the new store. The new outlet is open from 7am to 9pm, Monday through Friday, Saturday 10am to 7pm and Sunday 11am to 6pm as we reported last week....

Spider-Man villain Norman Osborn, a.k.a. the Green Goblin, would be the perfect next MCU big bad after Thanos. In 1964, Stan Lee and Steve Ditko created the Green Goblin, a formidable new nemesis for Spider-Man. According to Ditko, Lee’s original script portrayed the Goblin as an ancient, mythological demon unwitting awoken by a film crew, but Ditko took a different approach. He turned the Green Goblin into a human villain, and it didn’t take long for comic book readers to become captivated by the mystery of the Goblin’s true identity....

Take-Two Interactive announced that Grand Theft Auto 5 was the best selling game of the decade, according to figures from the NPD Group. This is not surprising considering GTA 5 received almost universal praise and acclaim, winning several Game of the Year awards in its release year while now being considered one of the best video games ever. Prior to Take-Two’s announcement, it was already known that Grand Theft Auto 5 had become the third best-selling video game in industry history....

Guild Wars 2 OS X Beta: NCsoft, developer of the popular PC MMORPG franchise “Guild Wars”, announced today that its critically acclaimed Guild Wars 2, released last month for PC, is now officially available for Mac OS X. The Mac version is available to download through the game’s account management page after purchasing the title and will initially launch in beta. While Windows players already have a jump on Mac users, the developer confirmed the beta would run on live servers to allow seamless play between Mac and PC users....

Gwent is a card game from the Witcher universe that became a playable game mode in Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt. The game became so popular, that CD Projekt Red actually developed a standalone card game, Gwent: The Witcher Card Game, which was finally released on mobile earlier this year. Gwent is a unique, free to play card game that changes many of the conventional mechanics of other games in the genre....