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iOS 10 makes waking your iPhone from sleep as easy as raising it in your hand. Aptly named Raise to Wake, this useful feature automatically wakes the screen as you raise the device so that you can instantly see all your notifications at a glance. It may sound like it’s no big deal, but it is. However, Raise to Wake requires iOS to constantly capture and interpret data from the iPhone’s many sensors to determine how you’re holding the phone in your hand....

Earlier this month,BlackBerry announcedplans to receive an investment worth over $1 billion in the form of a debt sale and to fire its CEO Thorsten Heins. Instead of sell out, the company has decided to try and rebuild. Of course, that’s much easier said than done. Not only has BlackBerry lost nearly all of its consumer marketshare, it’s also lost most of itsmajor enterprise accounts, and word has it that another one—Pfizer—is on the way out…...

The 90+ Weekly TOTS Upgrade SBC is now live in EA FC 24 Ultimate Team. EA Sports has released yet another version of TOTS guaranteed SBCs for the players to complete, and get a special card from the ongoing promo. To complete the challenge, players will need to finish two tasks. EA FC 24 90+ Weekly TOTS Upgrade SBC Tasks Both tasks associated with this challenge have their own set of conditions....

Detroit: Become Humanis a choice-based narrative game that was originally released in 2018 as a PlayStation 4 exclusive, later making its way to Epic Games and Steam in 2020. It takes place in a futuristic Detroit, where androids work alongside humans. The game explores just what makes someone “human,” following different android characters who fight for what they believe is right and the fallout of their decisions. David Cage Says Working on Detroit: Become Human ‘Changed Me Forever’ Detroit: Become Human has received critical acclaim for its storytelling, and shortly after its 2018 release,we reviewed it,stating “The narrative is filled with pressing real-world issues including xenophobia, automation of the workforce, climate change, social media influence and more....

Romania-based VPN service Cyberghost is known for its distinctive service that derives inspiration from its slogan “Reboot the Internet”. This team of highly motivated experts provides its service to more than 7.5 million users with an aim to make cybersecurity your top priority. Apart from the paid plan, the company offers a great free VPN plan and lets you use your own free web proxy as well. The challenge remains to fulfill our mission to provide to everyone in the world an unrestricted access to information and protect their privacy....

FFXIV is full of items to collect, whether it’s a mount to ride, a new glamour piece to show off, or a little minion companion to keep you company as each expansion and major patch release, more are added to the game. Minions are cute, can be used to do battle at The Gold Saucer, and can even hang out on your Island Sanctuary. Here’s how to get the Skink minion in FFXIV....

Square Enix’s Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age released this week for the PS4 and is a remaster and in some ways overhaul of the classic PS2 game. One of the new features is that players can now earn trophies for playing the game! In thisFinal Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Agetrophy guideyou will find all 41 of the trophies and their descriptions, along with tips on how to earn them. This will be a living guide that will evolve as new methods and best practices are discovered....

Fitbithas a new sportswatch, the Fitbit Versa. Adding to the company’s line-up of sporty smartwatches, the new Fitbit Verso very much evolves what theFitbit Ionic started. Although designed to the unisex, the new Fitbit Versa is a softer design than the existing Ionic, losing some the hard lines. Some might see it as a little more feminine. In terms of smartwatch functionality it very much mirrors the offering of the Ionic, connecting to the Fitbit platform, serving you notifications from your smartphone and also offeringFitbit Pay, allowing contactless payments from your watch....

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is expected today to approve an investigation into so-called patent trolls, according to the New York Times. Results of the investigation could be used as part of a possible antitrust lawsuit. FTC chairwoman Edith Ramirez has said the technology involved in one smartphone could spur thousands of patents. In 2012, patent trolls – politely referred to as patent-assertion entities – comprised 60 percent of some 4,000 patent lawsuits....

Sad news for movie fans. Iconic American filmmaker and legendary TV sitcom creatorGarry Marshallhas passed away. Perhaps best known for turningJulia Robertsinto a household name with his classic 1990 romanic comedyPretty Woman, the mansuccumbed to complicationsfrom pneumonia following a stroke. A Los Angeles resident most of his life, hediedTuesday night in a Burbank, California hospital. Garry Marshallwas 81 years old at the time of hispassing. Along withPretty Woman, he also helped establish actress Anne Hathaway as a true Hollywood star with both 2001’sThe Princess Diariesand its 2004 sequelThe Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement....

With only a few days left until the coveted Version 3.5 update, Genshin Impact has released drip marketing announcements for Version 3.6, giving free-to-players some time to mull over their upcoming pulls. After a wave of waifu-dominant banners, the game is finally giving husbando-lovers a massive treat in the form of two new males to add to their collection. Five-star Baizhu and four-star Kaveh are the Dendro duo expected to heal hearts and break wallets in the coming months....

Google is considering making Apple’s Swift a “first class” language for Android development, The Next Weblearnedfrom unnamed sources. Facebook and Uber are also said to potentially make Swift “more central” to their operations. Representatives for Google, Facebook and Uber were recently at a meeting in London to discus Swift possibilities. Swift couldn’t have received a bigger endorsement than that, which is saying a lot about Apple’s effort to produce a modern programming language not only for iOS and OS X development, but for the web as well....

The Pixel Fold has long been the subject of rumour and speculation, having been through many years of will-they-won’t-they, it seems that 2023 is the year that Google will venture into the folding phone market. This is a book-style opening device, so it will be a direct rival forthe Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 4, with Samsung currently dominating the market for this type of device. It’s perhaps an odd choice for Google to start with, seeing as Samsung generally sells more of the flip-style devices, the Galaxy Z Flip 4....