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A portion of iOS’s source code was leaked online yesterday and quickly removed after Apple filed a takedown notice with GitHub, where the code was posted. The leak, which was first reported by Motherboard, was for an iOS process named “iBoot” that starts up the system when you first turn on your iPhone and ensures the code being run is valid and originates from Apple. It was posted to GitHub at this link, which is now down.
The leak could allow hackers to discover iOS vulnerab

Nest co-founder Matt Rogers announced on Twitter today that he’ll be leaving the smart home company. The news comes just a day after Nest — which has worked as a separate Alphabet subsidiary for the last three years — rejoined Google in order to better compete against Apple and Amazon and allow better collaboration amongst Google’s AI-powered hardware. The news was first reported by CNET.In addition to co-founding the smart home company alongside former Apple product gur

Though Destiny 2 was dethroned as the best-selling game of 2017 by fellow Activision release Call of Duty: WWII, it still set records when it rolled out to PCs a month after its console launch. The publisher noted in its Q4 of fiscal year 2017 earnings report today that Destiny 2 sold the most copies of a PC game ever in Activision’s history.
In addition to setting a record as Activision’s biggest PC launch, Destiny 2 was the second highest grossing game on consoles in North Ame

Nvidia chief financial officer Colette Kress acknowledged that cryptocurrency mining contributed to the solid sales of graphics processing units (GPUs) during the company’s fourth fiscal quarter, which ended January 31.
“[It is] difficult to quantify, but cryptocurrency accounted for a higher percentage of revenue than the previous quarter,” Kress said in a call with analysts.
But she added that the company is cautious about projecting the future impact of such activity, a

GUEST: Fraudsters typically line their pockets by forging our signatures, cloning our credit cards, and stealing our personal identities. Yet we’d like to think that folks who know us personally would catch these counterfeiters if they brazenly claimed to be us in public. After all, seeing is believing, isn’t it? If you don’t look like me, you’re not me. If you do look exactly like me, the chances are that you are me. Right?
Well … maybe. This could soon become the

Blizzard Entertainment games combined had monthly active users of 40 million, according to Activision Blizzard’s financial results for its fourth quarter of 2017
While this is the developer’s sixth quarter in a row of having 40 million or more monthly active users, it is down slightly from 41 million in 2016’s fourth quarter. It is also down from 2017’s third quarter, when Blizzard had 42 million active monthly users.
Activision Blizzard does not specify which games are m

Elon Musk was upbeat during a Wednesday conference call about Tesla’s financial performance in 2017, a roller-coaster year in which the company lost over $2 billion but also launched the Model 3 and revealed a Semi truck and new Roadster. Musk was obviously buoyed by the success of the first ever flight of the Falcon Heavy rocket, which happened just over 24 hours before the call. The billionaire CEO even received congratulations from financial analysts participating in the call, with one

Activision Blizzard is cashing in on the renewed popularity of its major first-person shooter game, Call of Duty. The military shooter surpassed $1 billion in sales during the holiday quarter, which ended December 31.
Call of Duty: WWII, from Sledgehammer Games, represents a big comeback for the franchise — although it’s not like Call of Duty had fallen into obscurity. While WWII was the top-grossing console game in 2017, that actually makes Call of Duty the No. 1 highest-grossing fr

Nvidia used to be synonymous with graphics chips for game machines. But now it is using those same chips to drive artificial intelligence calculations, and that is taking the company into new markets from servers to self-driving cars.
For the fourth fiscal quarter ended January 31, the Santa Clara, California-based company reported revenues and earnings that beat expectations on Wall Street. Nvidia reported non-GAAP earnings per share of $1.72, up 52 percent from a year ago, on revenue of $2.91

Over a year ago, I wrote this post about a tiny DIY Game Boy that could fit on a keychain, saying that I would like to buy it. It took some time, but here we are now with the PocketSprite, a polished, commercial version of the original keychain Game Boy. This is a collaboration between the original’s creator, Jeroen Domburg (Sprite_tm), and manufactuer Steve K. The PocketSprite is looking for funding over at crowdfunding site Crowd Supply.
The PocketSprite looks like a more polished versi

Apple’s hunt for original shows from big-name talent continues with the addition of Little America, an anthology series from The Big Sick creators Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon. Deadline reports that SMILF executive producer Lee Eisenberg will write alongside Gordon and Nanjiani, while also serving as showrunner. Master of None co-creator Alan Yang is also attached to the project.Little America will be based on true stories featured in Epic Magazine, a “small, collective portr

Twitch has revised its guidelines to take a stronger stance against harassment, hate, and sexually suggestive content. In a blog post, Amazon’s livestreaming video site detailed how these changes will work, and how it is trying to serve the community with these new rules.
“We want everyone to not only feel welcome on Twitch, but to be proud to be part of the community,” reads the blog. “To that end, we are strengthening our stance on harassment and hate.”
The first

ANALYSIS: As Qualcomm’s second annual 5G Day progressed yesterday, I officially went from “cautiously optimistic” about next-generation 5G cellular technology to “genuinely excited.” Qualcomm offered enough specific technical details and demo results to make the abstract idea of new 5G devices feel concrete — and legitimately near-term.
You may have already read my story this morning detailing the 19 device manufacturers and 18 carriers that are using Qualcomm

Last night, a strange video appeared on Twitter: it looks like some sort of deep sea bloom — but then a tiny octopus squirts out and zooms away, changing colors from white to purple. What exactly are we seeing here?The video, posted by the Virginia Aquarium, shows a baby Caribbean reef octopus (Octopus briareus) no bigger than a pinky nail hatching from a bundle of eggs. As for the color change, these octopuses are known to be masters of disguise. “It was going into an instant camou

Some good news if you're hoping to swap out your iPhone’s battery now that Apple has slashed prices on replacements: the wait time to get a new one appears to be dropping. As reported by Business Insider, a Barclays analyst says that the waiting period to get a new battery has dropped from an average of four weeks back in January to an average of two weeks today. The maximum wait had also fallen, dropping from six weeks to four and a half, likely depending on phone model and location.
The

Dungeon Survivor II: Dark Tide’s world features ghoulish creatures and a dark fantasy aesthetic — and other parts are left up to your imagination. Leiting Games’s followup to its 2014 title includes elements of text-based adventure, similar to the multiuser dungeons (or MUDs) of yore. The mobile game will be available on iOS and Android, though it doesn’t have a release date yet. Users can register on the website, and Leiting is trying to entice players by offering reward

Netflix has purchased Extinction, a Michal Peña and Lizzy Caplan-led sci-fi thriller that Universal recently scratched from its release schedule, Variety reports. Netflix plans to release the movie later this year.
This move is similar to the platform’s pickup of Julius Onah’s The Cloverfield Paradox, which Netflix bought from Paramount and then surprise-released after the Super Bowl on Sunday night. That movie started its life as a project called God Particle, with producer

The Olympics are here and besides the pomp, circumstance, and human interest stories, it also means our lives are about to be taken over by really obscure sports we get hooked on for two weeks and then forget about until the next Olympics. 
The Summer Olympics have a bevy of these — water polo and handball being among my favorites — but the Winter Olympics has the very best of these sports: curling. 
SEE ALSO: Hell yeah Leslie Jones is officially joining NBC's Olympics team

Twitch is enacting stricter policies in the interest of curbing harassment and sexually suggestive behavior. The company announced today that its new rules will kick into effect on February 19th at 9AM PT — time intended to give users enough warning to remove any clips or videos on demand that violate new guidelines. “During the transition period, we’ll be reaching out to some streamers whose current and past content may violate these new guidelines to help you be successful o

Amazon today announced that Amazon Music listeners can now build playlists using voice commands via Alexa. For example, if they’re streaming music from an app or listening to the radio on an Alexa-enabled device, they can use voice commands to add the current song to a playlist, or start a new playlist from scratch.
It’s a small but useful addition that’s only available to the online giant’s music service. It’s also a natural next step on voice commands for listeni

The final installment in the Fifty Shades trilogy, Fifty Shades Freed, arrives in theaters this weekend. It’s a movie about marriage, boobs, exorbitant wealth, getting bullied by poor people, and above all, the ins and outs of the independent publishing industry. It’s the final chapter in the trilogy of adaptations of E.L. James’ Fifty Shades of Grey books: 2015’s Fifty Shades of Grey, which only an alien could love, and 2017’s Fifty Shades Darker, which we mathema

As films and television shows grow more diverse, they raise increasingly nuanced questions about how media should portray characters who speak other languages. Mandarin Chinese speakers feature heavily in both Netflix’s horror prequel The Cloverfield Paradox and a new episode of the ABC sitcom Fresh Off the Boat. But there’s a big difference in how they come across. In The Cloverfield Paradox, a Chinese woman who chooses to speak Mandarin instead of English seems uncommunicative com

FEATURE: When ClassPass was looking to open a third office outside of its New York and San Francisco locations, it decided on Missoula, Montana — a location that doesn’t usually top the lists of the best cities for tech startups.
“We wanted to choose a place where big tech companies weren’t already in. No Googles, no Facebooks, no Microsofts, no Amazons,” CEO Fritz Lanman said. He added that the company also wanted to choose a city that afforded opportunities f

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Valentine's Day is a great excuse to pick out another sparkly gift for your significant other — even though it feels like the holidays were literally last week.
If you're dreading the task of having to choose yet another perfect gift for the lady in your life (she is pretty awesome, after all) we've r

Ever since Fox canceled its science fiction / Western TV series Firefly in 2003, fans have been clamoring for more stories from the world. Now, we’re going to get another series of adventures in book form.EW reports that Titan Books will release three new novels, the first of which will hit bookstores in October, with the publisher confirming that franchise creator Joss Whedon will be involved as a consulting editor. In Firefly: Big Damn Hero, written by author Nancy Holder, Captain Malco

It’s a commonly accepted, scientifically proven fact that Twitter is bad for you. Not only is it awash in a synapse-frying torrent of mental spew and unpleasant headlines, but the network is also a performative minefield waiting to destroy either your career or your emotional well-being — and quite often both if given enough time. However, some of us use Twitter for our jobs. And sometimes we still find Twitter occasionally enjoyable, like when we all get to watch a rocket launch to

Psychiatric disorders such as autism, schizophrenia, and depression share similarities at the molecular level, according to a new analysis of 700 donated brains.
It is well-known that genetics can make people more susceptible to psychiatric disorders, but the link is more complicated. DNA includes instructions for making proteins, but these instructions can be carried out in different ways by another genetic building block called RNA. (This is called “gene expression.”) In a study p

It's been said, many times, but it's worth repeating: Instagram's algorithmic timeline is a steaming pile of nonsense.
SEE ALSO: Instagram is actively ruining my life with its inhumane algorithm
The photo-focused social network replaced its chronological feed with an algorithmic one back in 2016, meaning the content you see is ranked according to the likelihood you'll "care about it." What this feature denies is the ability for you to select what you actually care about and see it at a glance.
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If you're shopping for Valentine's Day gifts for that special guy in your life, then you might be feeling overwhelmed by all of the options. 
SEE ALSO: Easy Valentine's Day gifts for her
As February 14 approaches, you're gonna need some help narrowing down your gift ideas so that you're no longer frant

WhatsApp has been working on digital, peer-to-peer payments for quite some time now, and the Facebook-owned messaging company appears to have just launched the service in beta in India, one of its most important markets. TechCrunch reports that select users in India have noticed the feature popping up in both the iOS and Android version of WhatsApp, with many celebrating the launch on Twitter. Way back in April of 2017, WhatsApp confirmed it was working on a payments service specifically for In

After 10 years of Marvel movies, (most of) the team got together to take one big happy family photo.
SEE ALSO: The first reactions for 'Black Panther' are in, and yes, you can believe the hype
Like, really big. Go ahead and click on this photo below to expand it and try to find some of your favorite actors and filmmakers from the Marvel cinematic universe:Image:Marco Grob/marvel studiosAlong with the giant photo, Marvel released a short video that showed a little bit of the behind-the-scenes pro

The first month of California's legal recreational marijuana sales showed that weed is big business, despite local government's reluctance to issue permits.
MedMen, a cannabis company that's basically an Apple Store for pot products has dispensaries across Los Angeles, and found itself in an interesting position as one of the few places people could purchase marijuana in the most densely populated areas of Los Angeles when legalized sales began in California.
SEE ALSO: Get ready for weed yoga: T

Lexip’s “3D” mouse is promising gamers a supercharged experience with a mouse that comes with two joysticks built in. Currently in the middle of its Kickstarter campaign, the company says Lexip’s joysticks make this an all-in-one solution for any variety of games.
Lexip’s first joystick is internal and controlled by tilting the mouse shell. It can register over 300,000 joystick positions by simply tilting it left, right, up, or down +/- 20 degrees. The second joyst

Apple's legal team has been busy. 
Less than 24 hours after Motherboard reported that a leaked version of some iPhone source code was posted to GitHub, the iBoot files in question have been pulled down and replaced with a Digital Millennium Copyright Act takedown notice. 
SEE ALSO: Apple's historic iOS 11 leak may have been an inside job, report says
At issue, explains a statement on behalf of Apple by law firm Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP, is the alleged "Reproduction of App

When Twitter announced it had acquired Periscope in March 2015, the app was full of promise. It was one of the first to let anyone broadcast video of themselves live from anywhere in the world, using just a smartphone. It also let them interact with viewers through real-time comments and a little heart button used to express that you "liked" someone's video. By the end of 2015, Apple crowned Periscope iOS app of the year — and Twitter had a hit on its hands.
But three years later, Periscop

Pinterest shared insights into its Lens visual search tool today, one year after the social media platform launched the tool in beta for its Android and iOS apps. Together with Pinterest browser extensions and Pin searches, Lens is now used to complete 600 million visual searches every month, with people twice as likely to use Lens today compared to six months ago. Visual searches with Pinterest have been available for two years, but they’re up 140 percent year over year since the launch o

Google today announced the third step in its browser’s war on HTTP sites. Starting in July 2018, Chrome will mark all HTTP as not secure right in its address bar.
HTTPS is a more secure version of the HTTP protocol used on the internet to connect users to websites. Secure connections are widely considered a necessary measure to decrease the risk of users being vulnerable to content injection (which can result in eavesdropping, man-in-the-middle attacks, and other data modification). Data i

Starting in July, Google Chrome will mark all HTTP sites as “not secure,” according to a blog post published today by Chrome security product manager Emily Schechter. Chrome currently displays a neutral information icon, but starting with version 68, the browser will warn users with an extra notification in the address bar. Chrome currently marks HTTPS-encrypted sites with a green lock icon and “Secure” sign.
Google has been nudging users away from unencrypted sites for

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Although the cryptocurrency market is on a downward trend this month, Bitcoin and the blockchain are not going away anytime soon. In fact, the SEC just released testimony to support the technology, which is super legit for something that used to be associated with black market drug sales. 
Though marke

Digital Audio Workstations (DAWs) are so complicated. Every time there’s an update to something like Logic, Ableton, Bitwig, or what have you, it’s hundreds of tiny little changes thatare often too many to try and make sense of. So if you are as confused as most people, producer Kill The Noise has redubbed Ableton’s video that guides us through the most important changes in its Live 10 update. “[In] case u nerds wanted to know what ur missin in able10,” he says.And

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Valentine's Day is a day of love — and it's not just for couples.
This year, we're reclaiming Valentine's Day as the perfect excuse for a little self love — single or otherwise.
SEE ALSO: Gift ideas for people in long-distance relationships
2018 is the year we make self care more than just a Twi

Last year, Microsoft moved its Build developer conference from San Francisco to Seattle. The company has apparently deemed the decision a success as Build 2018 will indeed stay in the company’s home state of Washington, scheduled from May 7 to May 9, 2018. Registration opens on February 15.
The event this year overlaps with Google’s I/O developer conference, which is scheduled for May 8 to May 10 in Mountain View. Unlike Google, which is hosting its event at its headquarters, Microso

Watching pimple-popping videos online has been...a thing for a while. But if simply watching a pimple extraction isn't enough for you, now you can simulate the real thing with this handy-dandy pimple popping toy.
Called the Pop it Pal, the full "kit" comes with a hunk of fake flesh (available in a light or dark skin tone), a bottle of fake yellow pus (made from "all natural" oils), and a filling tool – all for $19.99. Refills of "pus" are also available for purchase.
Get your gross on, pim

Quentin Tarantino has been in hot water this week for many reasons, most recently a resurfaced interview from 2003 with Howard Stern in which he said Roman Polanski's rape victim "wanted it." After a day of online fury, he notes he did reach out to Polanski's victim on Wednesday to apologize.
"Fifteen years later, I realize how wrong I was," he said in a statement to IndieWire.
SEE ALSO: Ugh, resurfaced audio shows Quentin Tarantino defending Roman Polanski
In the 2003 interview, Tarantino defen

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How would you live your life if you knew the day you were going to die?
That's the question Chloe Benjamin's characters face in the heart-wrenching novel The Immortalists, the second novel from the San Francisco-based author. The story follows the Gold siblings who, as children, take a trek through Manhattan to visit a psychic who