Make Your Echo Smarter with Skills Launch the Echo app (available on Android, iOS, and Kindle Fire devices) or the Echo web interface. Then in the left column click on Skills. At the time of this writing, you’ll notice there are three cool features. StubHub which will tell you what events are going on in your area. Math Puzzles provides a series of numbers, and you have to guess what the next on in the sequence is....

Malwarebytes has warned of a new malware attack targeted specifically at Macs. The denial-of-service attack hijacks Safari and Apple’s Mail app to keep drafting emails until the Mac eventually runs out of RAM and crashes. The [malware] will keep drafting emails (but does not actually send them) incrementally and covering the previous open windows. This is not a spam attempt but rather a typical denial-of-service attack … The malware appears similar to existing Windows malware, which is intended to encourage owners to either call a fake tech support number or to accept a call from one....

The latest version of macOS Sierra update includes new Color Burst wallpapers that were previously seen in MacBook Pro with Touch Bar marketing material. Check out and download each of the new wallpapers below… Released earlier today, macOS 10.12.2 β4 includes four wallpapers previously not included: Color Burst 1, Color Burst 2, Color Burst 3, and Abstract Shapes. These explosives of pinks, yellows, blues, greens, purples, and reds were first included as iOS wallpapers, then revived in MacBook Pro with Touch Bar marketing material as slow motion videos being edited by the new machine....

One hy feature is that your contacts their addresses will now show up in the Your aces section. This way if you are going to a friend’s house, you can go right to Maps to find their address instead of digging through your contacts. Additionally, if you’re trying to boost up your level in cal Guides, you may know that adding photos is one of the best ways to do it....

All of today’s Apple best deals are headlined by one of the first notable offers on the entry-level M1 MacBook Air. That’s alongside a pair of official accessories including the Apple Watch Sport Loop band at $42 and the very first deal on its Leather 16-inch MacBook Pro Sleeve. Hit the jump for all that and more in the latest 9to5Toys Lunch Break. M1 MacBook Air sees notable deal to $960 Apple’s new MacBook Air packs a familiar 13-inch design but with completely overhauled internals that deliver stellar battery life and notable performance gains despite a fan-less build....

Since the new M1 Macs were announced, developers have been working to run different operating systems on the Apple Silicon platform, including Windows and Linux. Now, thanks to Corellium, it’s possible to run Ubuntu — a popular Linux distro — on new Macs with M1 chip. The announcement was made on Twitter by Corellium’s CTO Chris Wade. Corellium offers solutions for virtualization of ARM devices and platforms, and it was recently involved in a lawsuit with Apple regarding a tool that lets users virtualize iOS....

During the “It’s show time” event in late March, Apple announced that the TV app would be coming to the Mac soon. This naturally sparked discussions about whether Apple would be bringing its other media apps to the Mac, finally splitting up iTunes into distinct applications. Fellow developer Steve Troughton-Smith recently expressed confidence about some evidence found indicating that Apple is working on new Music, Podcasts, and perhaps Books apps for macOS, to join the new TV app....

macOS Mojave developer beta 2 is now available for testing. As always, we’ll dig through the latest beta version and highlight all the changes between the first beta and the latest beta below. macOS Mojave includes a system-wide dark mode; a new dynamic desktop wallpaper type; Stacks for organizing files on your desktop; a new Gallery view and Quick Actions in Finder; more actions available in Quick Look; new screenshot and screen recording features; Continuity Camera for snapping photos on iPhone for use on Mac; News, Stocks, Home, and Voice Memos apps; a new Mac App Store; and much more....

M1 iMac orders first opened up this morning with the all-new design coming in seven colors. While there are models still available for the earliest May 21 delivery, some colors are now pushed into June. Apple has quite the variety of M1 iMacs available when you consider all of the storage and RAM options plus seven colors (four for the base model). The earliest deliveries for pre-orders of the new iMac are set to arrive by May 21 but after availability being open for just about five hours, a number of colors now have shipping times going into mid-June....

One of Today at Apple‘s most significant cultural contributions this year was Made in LDN, a special extension of the free creative sessions already offered at Apple Stores around the world. To celebrate the achievements of young Londoners who took part in sessions this summer, Apple will host a Made in LDN Showcase from November 8-10. Made in LDN was an initiative supported by the Mayor of London and attended by thousands of young people across the city throughout August and early September....

We’ve seen it happen numerous times in the tech industry. Apple’s iPhone development cycles regularly, leaving older phones in the dust. And Netflix, long a staple on smart TVs, has already vanished from thousands of older sets. Tap or click to see if your device lost Netflix support. And this week, one of the world’s most popular apps is saying goodbye to millions of older smartphones. These older models can’t keep up with the pace of new updates and software demands anymore....

MultCloud MultCloud is a free service and that has taken every possible precaution to make sure your data is safe. It connects to websites and transfers data using 256-bit AES encryption for SSL, it doesn’t save or cache your data on its servers and it accesses your cloud drives using OAuth authorization. That way the service doesn’t get access to your passwords and you can revoke access whenever you feel like it....

Mad Men was an incredibly popular show amongst both fans and critics, and one of the reasons for that was because of how consistent it was. The show always changed things up and while it had lengthy and well-developed plots, it also gave time to shorter ones for the supporting characters. This is why the ensemble cast felt so strong because each character was given a moment throughout the show, something to work with....

A software-based keylogger doesn’t require physical access to the victim’s computer. It can be easily downloaded from the Internet for the purpose of spying activity on a particular system. It can be also installed on a system unwillingly as a spyware and executed as a part of a remote administration tool, which is also known as a Trojan. Basically, a keylogger program has two files, DLL (dynamic link library) and EXE (executable)....

In order to verify a payment’s legitimacy, these devices need to be able to both read the payment information of the card and to connect to the corresponding financial institution via the internet. Wherever you have internet-connected devices with access to valuable data (like payment card information), you probably have cybercriminals. Point of sale malware is designed to reside on a PoS terminal, steal the information of the payment cards used on that terminal and transmit that data to a cybercriminal via the internet....

Unless they’re a director taking on more responsibility or a superstar known for their specific project choices (see Kevin Feige with Marvel, Jerry Bruckheimer with explosive blockbusters or Harvey Weinstein with Oscar-baiting prestige pictures), producers are rarely the most well-known person on a film set. They’re the money men, the clear studio influence on the creative vision. This obscurity is definitely not true of Jon Peters though, who served as a producer on Batman and Superman films for over twenty years....

The trailer for The Mandalorian syncs up surprisingly well with the audio from the recent much-discussed Cats teaser. In November, Disney will launch their new streaming service Disney+ with The Mandalorian, a Star Wars adventure from showrunner Jon Favreau centered on a bounty hunter living on the outskirts of the galaxy in the wake of the Empire’s destruction. Recently, fans got their first look at the series via a trailer that, it’s safe to say, generated a whole lot of excitement....

Rather than download and install them from my micro-SD card, it would be nice to find an easy way to snatch the apps I want. Now it’s possible with this easy to use Google Chrome extension. Windows Phone QR Beta Extension First install the Windows Phone QR Beta extension in your Google Chrome browser. Now any time you browse the Windows Phone Store for apps, a nice easy to scan QR code will be displayed so you can install apps more quickly....

Customers and employees at the Fifth Avenue Apple Store in New York had somewhat of an interesting experience today. According to a report from ABC 7 NY, a man entered the store and headed to the iconic clear glass staircase and began waving around a samurai sword while screaming. He was then escorted out of the building, with Apple Store employees building a wall between him and the customers as a layer of protection....

Night Shyamalan’s Apple TV+ show Servant premieres November 28. After remaining in relative obscurity after his first two comedic feature films went largely unnoticed, Shyamalan turned to the suspense/thriller genre and immediately found himself being praised for his 1999 film, The Sixth Sense. The film’s tense, gloomy atmosphere and excellent twist may have made it all the rage at the tail end of the 1990’s, but Shyamalan, despite ongoing creative output and effort, has still not been able to recapture that same level of intrigue in his filmmaking since....