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In two months, Apple will unveil three new Apple Watches, including the rumored Apple Watch Pro. This new high-end model, called “rugged” and made for “extreme sports,” will be the company’s new bet for a specific niche of customers. In his latest Power On newsletter, Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman details more information about this upcoming product. It has already been reported by Mark Gurman that this Apple Watch Pro would have a larger display, longer battery life, and a new body-temperature sensor....

HTB is an excellent platform that hosts machines belonging to multiple OSes. It also has some other interesting challenges as well. Individuals have to solve the puzzle (simple enumeration and 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 writeups of retired HTB machines are allowed. The machine in this article, named “Haircut,” is retired....

The people who are excited about Half-Life: Alyx will soon have another chance to purchase a Valve Index VR Kit and Valve is celebrating the occasion with two new VR environments from the game. Valve announced Half-Life: Alyx at the end of 2019, with the promise of a landmark VR experience that marks the first new Half-Life game since 2007. Half-Life: Alyx is currently only planned to be released on PC, but it will be compatible with a number of different VR headsets that are on the market....

Image credit: Gizmodo Anticipating Android backers will face legal hurdles as Apple now has the upper hand in its case against HTC (here and here), Google has stepped up and bought more than a thousand IBM patents for an undisclosed sum. The news was first reported by the blog SEO by the Sea and picked up by The Wall Street Journal. The search company might use IBM inventions as a leverage against pending lawsuits that indirectly involve its Android software....

Interesting things are going to be happening when Gotham returns for the second half of its third season January 16th, 2017 on Fox. A synopsis was shared recently for the midseason premiere episode, titled “Ghosts”, and it drops the news that the long-absent Jerome character will be making a reappearance (something that was also hinted at in an Instagram post by actor Cameron Monaghan). It also said that Penguin “spirals out of control before the biggest television interview of his Mayoral career....

Grand Theft Auto 5 Online’s newest casino heist update brings along tons of old and new content. Here’s a guide on how to find and unlock Packie McReary in Grand Theft Auto 5 Online. The newest update for Grand Theft Auto online, the Casino Heist has brought along plenty of new content, including a new casino to gamble in, and a new heist. Aside from the main event, the Casino Heist update brought several side events including the Los Santos Slasher and several new properties to purchase at the casino itself....

If you ask any Grey’s Anatomy fan what character they would love to see back, the majority of them would say Cristina Yang (Sandra Oh). From seasons 1 to 10, fans watched as Cristina studied to become a cardiothoracic surgeon. Although she was often sarcastic and cold, Cristina also proved to have a softer side it came to her patients and friends. She may not have been a social person, but time proved that Cristina was a friend you would love to have in your corner....

Gringo is a messy, confused entry in the crime genre that wastes its stellar ensemble on an uninspired narrative and leaves minimal impact. Gringo is the latest project from director Nash Edgerton, a longtime Hollywood stuntman who has also helmed a number of short films in his career. With this movie, he’s making the jump to feature-length pictures, accompanied by an all-star cast that includes his brother Joel Edgerton, David Oyelowo, Charlize Theron, and Sharlto Copley....

Following news of Apple’s dictat to publishers that they cannot offer content for free to existing subscribers via iPhone apps, the UK’s Guardian newspaper has moved to a subscription basis for its app. “Since launching in December 2009, the app has seen over 200,000 downloads, received one of the highest App Store ratings for any news app and dominated the news category, both in the UK and in many countries beyond,” the newspaper writes, describing positive reactions and strong reader retention for the app, which had cost £2....

The Chinese smartphone giant Xiaomi has grown into a good position in the global market. They have reached the 5th position in case of sales, while in India they are at the top. The Chinese company has even put Samsung one position below them in the Indian market. They are having planning to do a better job in the year of 2018 and the first launch of Redmi Note 5 Pro and the responses been getting suggest a better year for Xiaomi....

Halide is arguably the most polished yet powerful camera app on the iPhone for photography. It strikes a balance with its attractive appearance and useful controls that let anyone do more with the optics on today’s iPhones. Of course, iPhones aren’t the only Apple devices with amazing camera systems. Modern iPads often match the iPhone in most camera specs, and today, Halide is celebrating that with the first-ever version of Halide for iPad....

From 9to5Google: Google announced today on its Google Commerce blog that it’s rolling out an update for the Google Wallet mobile apps that includes a new “Orders” feature for tracking online purchases. Google says the feature will let you stay on top of your online orders (including past purchases) as well as get notifications for status updates regarding deliveries. How will Google know what you’ve purchased? In order to track your recent online orders, the feature pulls receipts out of your Gmail account :...

The finale of Gotham will feature fully realized versions of Batman, as well as Penguin and the Riddler. Gotham, which premiered on Fox in 2014, tells the story of a young Jim Gordon as he becomes a police officer in Gotham. It also tells the story of an even younger Bruce Wayne, who is still dealing with the loss of his parents. Throughout its previous four seasons, Gotham has introduced many of the most iconic characters in Batman lore....

Finding a protective iPhone case that doesn’t add too much bulk or hide the device’s design can be tricky. Griffin has the solution to that problem with its classic iPhone SE Survivor series cases that offer up to 7-ft. drop protection with slim, premium designs. Head below for a look at the new cases. Griffin has been a go-to brand for iPhone and Apple accessories for quite a long time, and it’s tapping into its 25 years of experience and innovation to bring two of its classic Survivor designs to the new iPhone SE....

This guide will help you the players to understand how to win the Diamond Casino heist in GTA Online. Among the many acclaimed features in GTA Online, heists definitely rank high in many favorite lists out there. Players get to team up with each other to accomplish daring quests and obtain treasures. That said, certain heists like the Diamond Casino are quite hard for most players to accomplish. Even veterans have trouble with it sometimes....

Guardians of the Galaxy cast members are coming together to show support for director James Gunn, who was fired by Disney this pas week, after his near-decade old offensive and crude social media posts were unearthed recently. Shortly after Disney officially fired him, Gunn issued an official statement, accepting his employer’s decision on the matter and apologizing for his past blunders. For context, this isn’t the first time these controversial tweets have been brought to light....

Now that the smartphones are getting more powerful, manufacturers have started replacing physical buttons with its on-screen digital counterpart such as the home button is gone is plenty of latest smartphones. But there’s one button which has stayed and probably stay for a long time and it’s the power button, it is the powerhouse of functionalities as it can boot and reboot the system, enable the phone to boot into safe mode, recovery mode, fastboot mode, etc; allow to light up the screen and turn it back off, allow to disconnect call and take a screenshot and counting....

Guillermo del Toro has signed on to write and direct an original ninja movie titled Zanbato for Bad Robot, with J.J. Abrams serving as one of the film’s producers. It’s not clear yet if this will be del Toro’s next project, seeing as he has several movies in development at the moment. The Pan’s Labyrinth filmmaker won his first Oscars last year, thanks to his Best Picture-winning monster romance The Shape of Water....

The hacker who gained access to numerous celebrity iCloud accounts in order to obtain nude photos has been sentenced to 18 months in prison in a plea bargain deal. The leak of nude photos of a number of celebrities was initially labelled an iCloud hack. We suspected at the time that it was in fact a combination of phishing and guessing the answers to security questions, and this was soon confirmed by Apple....

Those who expressed concern about Google’s acquisition of Nest may have have been right: the company has told the Securities and Exchange Commission that it may choose to serve ads on “refrigerators, car dashboards, thermostats, glasses, and watches, to name just a few possibilities.” The Wall Street Journal reports that Google made the statement in support of its contention that it shouldn’t have to break out ad revenue from mobile devices....