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Successfully airing for seven seasons, Pretty Little Liars won over their fanbase early on with two mystery questions: What really happened to Alison? and Who’s “A?” Over seven seasons, the show slowly explained who had been there the night Alison disappeared and what had actually occurred. While the night is revealed to the main characters from various points of view, eventually, enough of the pieces connect to make a rough picture as to what had happened....

Parties in a PKI system A PKI system has a number of different stakeholders and parties that participate in the creation of valid trustworthy certificates: Certificate owner: The certificate owner is the person whose identity the certificate is intended to verify (i.e., a website’s owner) Registration authority (RA): A registration authority processes requests for certificates, including validating the provided information and the requestor’s identity Certificate authority (CA): A certificate authority generates and digitally signs a user’s certificate....

On Tuesday, Apple CEO Tim Cook sat down with CNBC and spoke all-things Apple, including a defense of the company’s recent rare earnings miss, calling out reports of a failing iPhone XR and the future of Apple’s services business. During the interview, Cook was quick to address the ongoing lawsuit with California-based chipmaker Qualcomm. When asked about a possible settlement with the company, Cook replied, The rebuke comes in the wake of multiple Qualcomm executives speaking publicly over the prior months, continually claiming a resolution with Apple was right “on the doorstep”....

Buckingham Palace and the Queen have announced that Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan Markle will no longer have use of their “Royal Highness” titles. The decision comes a little more than a week after the couple announced they would be stepping back from their senior roles. Since the couple announced at the beginning of the month on January 8th, that they would be stepping aside from their duties as senior members of the royal family, Buckingham Palace has been trying to figure out how to fix their public relations catastrophe....

Epson is changing the game with its cartridge-free EcoTank printers. They have supersized easy-to-fill ink tanks and come with a ridiculous amount of ink, enough to print thousands of pages. That means you can stop playing the game of “OK, do I really need to print this?” If you print a lot, you’ll save a lot. Save up to 90% on ink: You’ll pay about 1 cent per color ISO page versus about 20 cents with cartridges....

Printers are usually connected to business networks – and potentially forgotten when it comes to security – so they can easily provide an avenue of attack. Highlighting this issue is PrintNightmare, CVE-2021-34481, a Windows Print Spooler service vulnerability that permits attackers to escalate privileges to system level, which was patched in August. In addition, HP patched a separate, 16-year-old privilege escalation driver flaw in July. Also: Microsoft just revealed another Print Spooler bug Now, researchers from F-Secure have documented “Printing Shellz,” a set of vulnerabilities impacting multifunction printers (MFPs)....

If you’re a developer, you might want to check now if your Apple ID has two-step verification enabled. Apple is warning developers that the App Store Connect will no longer accept accounts that haven’t set up two-factor authentication. Accessing the Apple Developer portal already requires a valid Apple ID with the extra security options enabled, but App Store Connect still works with any account, including those protected by just a simple password....

The first Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro orders arriving to customers, and some are wondering what sort of protection options are available for the pricey new accessory. One little known detail is that AppleCare+ coverage for your iPad Pro also extends to your Magic Keyboard. The Magic Keyboard is Apple’s priciest iPad keyboard accessory yet, starting at $299 for the 11-inch iPad Pro and $349 for the 12.9-inch iPad Pro. Therefore, it makes sense that you’d want long-term protection for the accessory....

PUBG Mobile 0.11.5 update will be rolled out on Android and IOS devices today. The new update will bring Royal Pass Season 6 to the game, along with several other changes. An in-game update of around 200 MB in size and can be downloaded directly when you open the game. The new update makes several changes in the game, like new weapons, skins and vehicles. SCAR-L has been replaced by a new AR named G36C, which will be only available in Vikendi Map....

Mac OS X 10.6.7 update that went live yesterday hasn’t brought out any new user-centric features. However, besides fixing display flickering and lock ups on 2011 MacBook Pros, the software update did a good job of bug squashing, fixing a ton of vulnerabilities security experts discovered in Mac OS X Snow Leopard and Leopard. More than 56 vulnerabilities were patched, according to a Computeworld article. These include a vulnerability that security expert and four times Pwn2Own winner Charlie Miller “didn’t get a chance to use at the hacking contest earlier this month....

Thus the need for a beginner-friendly and widely used programming language arose. The Python programming language was the answer. This is because python is user-friendly, dynamic, portable and easy to learn. Python was created by Guido Van Rossum to be used as a language for teaching elementary programming in schools and colleges. Surprisingly this very ambitious plan laid out more than a decade ago is being realized fully through the invention of the Raspberry Pi....

Want to flash the Stock Firmware file on your QMobile QSmart i4i, then you are in the right place. In this guide, you can flash the stock firmware file to troubleshoot any issues or problems on your device. Yes! With this guide, you can resolve problems such as WiFi and Bluetooth issues, unbrick your device, resolve lag or bad performance, and also fix any software related problems. To flash the stock ROM file on your QMobile QSmart i4i, we are using the SPD Flash tool aka Spreadtrum Flash Tool as this device is powered by Spreadtrum SoC....

Various Qualcomm executives have received bonuses for settling the company’s legal battle with Apple. As first noted by CNBC, the bonuses were revealed in an SEC filing, with CEO Steve Mollenkopf taking home the biggest bonus. Mollenkopf has received a bonus of 40,794 Qualcomm shares, according to the filings. At Friday’s closing stock price, that equates to just over $3.5 million. For comparison’s sake, Mollenkopf made just under $20 million last year in its entirety....

No one is suggesting you jump off Facebook entirely as there are several steps you can take to help avoid falling victim to hackers, Facebook, and advertisers. Any time you utilize social media, you must be cautious about how much info you share publicly. Less is best. You can further safeguard your data on Facebook by adjusting some privacy settings. That’s why we’re going to show you some critical privacy settings that will help protect your information....

If you don’t want to spend $50 for a case every time Apple announces a new device, you still have great options: cases with comparable quality are available for much less money if you do your research. One of the best brands for that is Poetic, maker of an Apple Watch stand we loved, and today the company has released brand new, sub-$20 iPhone 6s and 6s Plus cases called Revolution and Affinity....

ProtonMail, the iOS app that makes using PGP email a near-seamless experience, has now made itself even easier to use. Instead of having to use both your login and mailbox passwords, you can now use Touch ID to unlock encrypted mail. The app also offers support for password managers. If you want to maximize security, you can set the app to require a PIN as well as your fingerprint, and can also make it auto-lock every time you exit the app – or after a preset time has elapsed....

The Moto X is soon going to be a year old, which means its successor — the Moto X+1 — is just around the corner. While Motorola has not announced anything as to when it plans on unveiling the Moto X+1, the specs of the device have been continuously making appearance on various benchmark suites online. Today’s leak comes courtesy of GeekBench, which lists that the Moto X+1 would come with a quad-core Snapdragon MSM8974 chip clocked at 2....

In Summary Snapdragon 870 is a successor to the Snapdragon 865 Plus and builds upon the success of the Snapdragon 865 and Snapdragon 865 Plus. It is built on a 7nm manufacturing process and offers up to 3.2GHz of clock speeds. The SoC provisions support for up to 4K resolution displays at 60Hz or QHD+ displays at 144Hz. Camera capabilities include up to 200MP capture on the rear and either up to a single 64MP capture or up to 25MP (dual camera) capture on the front....

Qualcomm is an amazing company. They were one of the first to combine everything needed to make a smartphone into a simple package that anyone could then use to build a smartphone. Yet for some strange reason, Qualcomm has recently decided that the need to advertise the “Snapdragon” brand. You’ve probably seen their ads on a technology site or two, and maybe even a magazine. But let’s be realistic, almost no one cares about the chip inside their phone....

Not content with officials yesterday confiscating iPads in Shijiazhuang over an ongoing litigation on the iPad moniker, Taiwanese company Proview Electronics is now looking to put a ban on both iPad imports and exports, according to Reuters. The company is already petitioning Chinese customs to stop shipments of iPads. Proview sued Apple last year over its “I-PAD” trademark and could seek up to $1.5 billion for the name from the Cupertino, Calif....