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Hence, ZigBee is an open global wireless standard designed to address the unique needs of intelligent device-to-device communication. It allows a great diversity of smart home applications to connect to the Internet (e.g., cloud service) and be controlled/monitored through ZigBee-enabled remote control. Compared to other wireless standards, ZigBee seems to be the best option for smart home: By way of illustration: “ZigBee transmissions require 1/1,000th or less of the power required to transmit Wi-Fi (What Smart Home and IoT Devices Makers Need to Know about ZigBee 3....

John Carpenter’s Halloween is a horror film that has remained relevant for decades, but there was a lot of controversy in the horror community when Rob Zombie briefly took over the franchise. John Carpenter’s Halloween has been frightening audiences since 1978 and the director had no idea that he wouldn’t just create one of the most memorable horror icons, but he’d launch a whole franchise and help breathe new life into the slasher genre....

On Wednesday, Google released their aptly named UI testing framework, EarlGrey. Having been using the framework in a few of their current iOS apps already for functional testing, it’s good to hear that the product has been validated before an initial public release. EarlyGrey offers a few key features to help differentiate it from other functional testing frameworks, the most interesting to me personally is the built-in synchronization feature. This means that when tests are being executed, they’ll automatically wait for “animations, network requests, etc....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKG5HDyTW8o#at=12 Google just wrapped up its breakfast with Android/Chrome chief Sundar Pichai and, on top of the expected next-gen Nexus 7 and Android 4.3 announcements, announced new products and services coming to iOS. It also launched a new Game Center-like service today for Android users called ‘Google Play Games’. Google’s new iPad mini competitor will be coming with a new 1920×1200 display (323 pixels per inch), a 1.5GHz Snapdragon chip that’s 80% faster, and a 2mm thinner and 50 grams lighter frame while introducing smaller bezels....

The CW’s Gossip Girl is one of the most popular teen dramas of all time, and there are many reasons fans love it so much. There is the mystery of trying to figure out who was blogging. There is love story after love story, all starring very attractive people. There is the amazing setting on the Upper East Side of New York City. And, of course, there is the fashion....

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Gran Turismo 7 is a racing simulator sports video game that has been developed by Polyphony Digital and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment for PS4 & PS5 consoles only. It’s the eighth main installment in the Gran Turismo lineup that has already received positive reviews by critics. This video game has some issues like the black screen on PS4/PS5 consoles that need to be fixed. Well, it’s one of the common issues among Gran Turismo 7 players these days no matter which gaming platform you’re using....

3Below, the next chapter in Guillermo del Toro’s Tales of Arcadia, releases this week on Netflix and we’ve got an exclusive clip. A sequel of sorts to Trollhunters, 3Below again returns to the town of Arcadia Oaks and will explore the strange things that happen there. In the case of this series, the strange things are aliens who crash land on Earth and must find a way to repair their ship so they can return home....

You may recall that the Touch ID sensor was successfully hacked last year, using a technique where fingerprints were lifted from the phone’s casing followed by sophisticated lab techniques used to create artificial copies of the print to activate the sensor. The bad news is that the sensor in the iPhone 6 is vulnerable to the same methods – the good news is that security researcher Marc Rogers found the iPhone 6 version to be both more secure and more reliable … The improved security was revealed when Rogers tried using the same less-than-perfect fingerprint copies on the iPhone 5S and 6....

An international trailer and poster for Solo: A Star Wars Story have made their way online. Lucasfilm has arguably taken an unorthodox approach to promoting their latest film, unveiling the first footage roughly three months before it hits theaters. The project obviously went through substantial reshoots following the unprecedented director change, but any perceived delay in marketing was intentional on the studio’s part to allow The Last Jedi to have the spotlight to itself before shifting gears....

As of 2019, Grey’s Anatomy has been on for 14 years and 15 seasons. The show will probably be going on for another few years as Ellen Pompeo has claimed it will only end when she leaves the show. From 2005 to 2009, Grey’s Anatomy was the king of drama and its ratings clocked in big time. Due to its popularity, the show has had several A-list actors appear in a variety of roles....

Although we’re a little less than a year away from the release of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, that hasn’t stopped fans from speculating about who might be appearing in the second installment of Marvel’s surprise 2014 blockbuster hit. With so many different Marvel characters now interacting on the big screen, Guardians of the Galaxy 2 director James Gunn is constantly asked whether or not fans might see some Marvel superheroes appear alongside Star-Lord (Chris Pratt) and his team of miscreants....

Popular iPhone photography app Halide is marking its two-year anniversary with a photo contest. Users can shoot images with either Halide or Spectre to earn recognition and some neat prizes. Read on for more details about the contest. Developer Lux, shared the news about the contest on a microsite: The contest is open until June 28 for all images tagged with #ShotWithHalide and #SpectreShot shared on Instagram and Twitter and tagging Halide’s account, be sure to follow Halide as well....

With the merciful end of the USA’s increasingly contentious presidential election just over a month away, it seems fair to say that Americans are currently experiencing a bad case of campaign season fever, whether they really want to be or not. Politics is inescapably everywhere right now, and in 2016, even the fictional world hasn’t been immune to this phenomenon. House of Cards’ villain protagonist President Frank Underwood (Kevin Spacey) spent much of season 4 battling rival Heather Dunbar for the Democratic nomination....

Although Katherine Heigl left Grey’s Anatomy after only a few seasons in 2010, and there has been no small amount of drama surrounding her time on the hospital drama, many fans still count her character Izzie Stevens among their favorites. Part of it is nostalgia for the original group of interns who lived in Meredith’s house. But Izzie is also a funny, strong character who speaks her mind and lives by the courage of her convictions....

Grey’s Anatomy prides itself on being centered around its many relationships, both romantic and familial. The characters’ dynamics have remained the stars of Grey’s since the beginning, and though many revered aspects of the show have fizzled out during its fifteen seasons on the air, romance still plays a significant role. Over the course of its decade and a half long run on television, the medical drama has given audiences many memorable relationships to swoon over, and equally as many to hate with a passion....

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 Node, is retired....

Michael Myers will be going back to basics in the upcoming Halloween reboot. By growing and changing along with its audiences, the slasher genre is perhaps one of the more deceptively simple genres in horror. And while films like those that make up the Scream franchise or even 2011’s The Cabin in the Woods have grown in popularity through their efforts to poke fun at the genre’s silly “rules”, it’s easy for many to overlook a time when slasher horror was straightforward and as simple as a lunatic with a knife, hunting his prey....

Nestled between all of the other headlining releases yesterday was Classroom 2.0 for the iPad. The original Classroom app featured an MDM (Mobile Device Management) prerequisite, which made it more suitable for larger organizations with a dedicated IT department. With Classroom 2.0, teachers can invite students to a class manually, as long as their iPad is running iOS 10.3. Watch our hands-on video inside to see some of the features made possible by the updated Classroom app....

The world seems to have changed entirely from 2005 when this romantic drama series first got started. Back then, smartphones would be deemed alien technology, and having Wi-Fi in every household sounded bonkers. The one thing that remains from then, however, is Grey’s Anatomy. The show just finished up its 15th season and has already been renewed for two more, so it won’t be ending any time soon. With the episode tally now over 340, there are many quality offerings from the show....