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Several recent improvements to Direct Messages in particular have helped to better facilitate the private side of the business-consumer conversation, and Sprout Social has been quick to incorporate these updates. Today, as we continue building upon these enhancements, we are excited to provide an even better experience for our customers. Because of our deepened partnership, Sprout is one of the first Twitter Official Partners with access to new functionality for attaching images to Direct Messages....

Arrow’s 150th episode, “Emerald Archer”, raised a number of questions as it looked back through the series’ past. At the same time, season 7, episode 12 began to lay out a foundation for the show’s future, both for of our heroes in 2019 and the alternate future timeline of 2038. Most of the episode was filmed through the literal lens of a mock documentary, which was meant to explore the history of vigilantism in Star City and how their police department was breaking new ground by employing its superheroes as peace officers....

ASUS is a Taiwanese company which is known for its computer hardware and electronic supplies. They also are trying their best to cover smartphone market as well. This company has made many smartphone devices which are powered by Intel and Qualcomm processors. They recently launched their new flagship device Asus ZenFone Max Pro M1 in April 2018. Users are eager to know whether this device has waterproofing layer or not. So today, we are going to test it out....

While Apple TV+ and Disney+ are both slated to launch in less than a month, the debut of HBO Max is also on the horizon. In a new interview with Retuers, AT&T COO John Stankey said that the company will give HBO Max to current subscribers for free. Stankey said that AT&T plans to make HBO Max available at no extra charge to AT&T customers who are also HBO subscribers. According to the COO, this means 10 million AT&T customers will get free access to HBO Max when it launches in the spring of 2020....

In previous years, agencies had only used voluntary Technical Assistance Requests (TAR) to get service providers to help them, but the latest report shows NSW Police in the past year also turned to the first of the compulsory notices available. That request, used in a homicide investigation, is the first use of a compulsory Technical Assistance Notice (TAN) to force a provider to use a capability they already possess. Assistance notices issued by state-level law enforcement are reviewed by the Commissioner of the Australian Federal Police (AFP)....

WARNING: Major spoilers ahead for Avengers: Endgame. A new TV spot released for Avengers: Endgame gives away several spoilers from the newest film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Even before the marketing began for Avengers: Endgame, Marvel Studios and those involved with the film have been doing their best to keep as many details about the plot a secret as possible. The title was held back until the first trailer, and all the footage released ahead of the theatrical launch only focused on a few scenes....

Writing is key to the success of any credible TV show or movie. Without good writing, shows and films can fall prey to convoluted plots, two-dimensional characters, and trope-heavy scripts. Therefore, acknowledging the writers behind excellent shows and films is key to fully honoring their originality and excellence. With the Oscars just around the bend, it can be easy to forget about the other key award ceremonies that get less TV hype and fanfare....

While Felicity Smoak was never in the original plans for Arrow, the minor DC character became a bigger player instantly in the first season. What was meant to be a one-episode deal became a 7-year arc for her character. With Rickards’ performance and the reception from the fans, TPTB made the Firestorm-related character a full-time character by the time they got to season 2. Season 1 began incredibly dark when it was just Oliver and Diggle in the lair....

Warning: The following contains SPOILERS for Arrow, season 8, episode 10, “Fadeout.” Arrow’s series finale established the existence of Alan Tudyk’s character from the short-lived series Powerless in the Post-Crisis Arrowverse. This gives the fan-favorite actor two recurring characters in the Arrowverse, including his role as Mr. Nobody in Doom Patrol. Premiering on NBC in February 2017, Powerless was a sitcom set in the DC Comics universe. The series centered around the employees of Wayne Security, a subsidiary of Wayne Enterprises overseen by Bruce Wayne’s cousin Van Wayne (Alan Tudyk), which designed technology that could protect ordinary civilians from the dangers posed by supervillains....

Arrow has been teasing Lyla Michaels’ “Crisis on Infinite Earths” character as far back as season 1 of The CW series. It was confirmed in early October through a new image for the upcoming crossover that Lyla will suit up as Harbinger for “Crisis on Infinite Earths”. It hasn’t been confirmed yet if Earth-1’s Lyla will don the costume, or if a Lyla from a different timeline will take on the role of the comic book character....

Updates are being continuously added on this post… Update as of October 5: The Google Android 12 AOSP is officially out now. This gives OEMs a green signal to work on their iterations and release Android 12 updates on their devices which includes Asus as well. [Source] Taiwanese brand Asus is known for its electronic good and Asus smartphones are one of them. Although the device variant and userbase are quite less in terms of other OEMs, Asus has somehow tried to release new smartphones every year and pushes software updates too....

To be honest, Asus hasn’t been too thorough with major Android updates and has stuck to minor updates so far. Google unleashed Android 10, the tenth iteration of the Android operating system brings a lot of the table. According to the timeline, Google released Android 10 on September 3rd after it officially renamed it as Android 10 rather than sticking to a dessert nomenclature. Henceforth, Google will be using numerical identifiers for its Android OSes where Android Q became Android 10, Android R will become Android 11, and so on....

[slideshow] A few of the most noteworthy apps in the iOS ecosystem either landed on the App Store recently or received much-welcomed updates, such as the launch of Mule Radio, CNNMoney, Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Episode II, and LA Clippers, or performance enhancements for Official UEFA EURO 2012 and The Daily. Check out the full slate of notables below. Mule Radio: The free iPhone app released yesterday and unveiled a network of syndicated podcasts from well-known Apple enthusiasts, including Daring Fireball’s John Gruber....

CrowdStrike called the group “Aquatic Panda” and said it is an “intrusion adversary with a dual mission of intelligence collection and industrial espionage” that has operated since at least May 2020. The group’s exact intent is unknown because the attack was disrupted. CrowdStrike told ZDNet, however, that Aquatic Panda is known to maintain persistence in environments to gain access to intellectual property and other industrial trade secrets. “Aquatic Panda operations have primarily focused on entities in the telecommunications, technology, and government sectors,” CrowdStrike explained in a report....

One slightly surprising spec in the new 15-inch MacBook Pro line-up is that even the base model got an AMD GPU. Previously, Apple has offered only integrated GPU in the base model, reserving discrete graphics for the higher-specced models. John Gruber noticed that the ArsTechnica review explains this: it was the only way to allow the machine to drive two 5K monitors. And the reason for that is that Apple had to use something of a workaround to achieve it …...

There were already dozens of Avengers: Endgame secrets and Easter Eggs for fans to enjoy, but the list just keeps on growing. Now, it’s been revealed that Tony and Steve’s trip through time actually crossed paths with Hydra years before they betrayed S.H.I.E.L.D.–but there’s no way they, or the audience, would ever have noticed. The final entry in the MCU’s Infinity Saga found a way to pay tribute to almost every movie that came before....

The devil of any Quentin Tarantino movie is in the details, and that’s truer than ever when it comes to Once Upon A Time In Hollywood. The auteur’s ninth film celebrated Los Angeles’ past with incredibly accurate recreations while also reimagining some of its darker history, and audiences reacted remarkably well. With the digital version of the film being made available and 4K, DVD and Blu-ray packages arriving on December 10, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment showcased some of the gorgeous costume pieces for members of the press....

Popular smart home security maker Arlo today announced its latest home security camera system. Dubbed the Arlo Ultra, the camera system features 4K Ultra HD resolution and is set to launch to consumers during the first quarter of 2019. Arlo touts that the new Arlo Ultra features a 4K image sensor with HDR image processing and is capable of capturing and outputting 4K video quality to users. The sensor also offers “one of the widest viewing angles in the wire-free security camera industry,” which is a notable feature for a security camera....

Topics covered Introduction to Android WebViews Implementing WebViews in Android apps Security issues Exploiting Android WebView vulnerabilities using Metasploit Using QR Code attacks Let’s begin. Introduction to WebViews When developing an Android app, we can load a remote URL or display HTML pages stored in our application within an activity using WebView. Internally it uses WebKit rendering engine to display web pages. It supports methods to navigate forward and backward, text searches, etc....

Popular sleep tracking app AutoSleep has today been updated to version 6.1. This release comes following a major update back in December that added Siri Shortcuts support, a new design, and more. Today’s update makes improvements to that new design and adds a new “Today” interface. AutoSleep 6, released in December, completely revamped the app’s interface, removing sleep session bar graphs in the process. Today’s update, however, brings sleep session bar graphs back to give you an “instant picture of how you slept....