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Here’s a who’s who guide to the cast and characters of 2016 comedy Dirty Grandpa. Directed by Dan Mazer – best known for co-writing Sacha Baron Cohen films Borat and Bruno – Dirty Grandpa tells the tale of a recently widowed man who convinces his estranged grandson to join him on a road trip to Florida. That might sound like the start of a heartwarming family drama, but while Dirty Grandpa counts acting great Robert De Niro among its cast, it’s actually a raunchy comedy full of gross-out humor....

Disable Desktop Alerts Outlook 2010 Launch Outlook 2010 then click Files » Options. The Outlook Option window comes up. Select Mail then scroll down to Message Arrival and uncheck Display a Desktop Alert. If you’re sick of hearing the alert noise, go ahead and uncheck Play a Sound too. Disable Desktop Alerts Outlook 2007 & 2003 Launch Outlook 2007 and click Tools » Options. The options window opens. In the Email section click the Email Options button....

The Disney+ launch film Noelle provides family-friendly holiday entertainment, and it’s also designed to keep viewers thinking about Apple iPads. The product placement is so absurd throughout the movie that even innocent children are used to help sell the Apple brand. And that’s not the only weird thing in the movie. Noelle stars Anna Kendrick as the title character who tries to find her missing brother Nick (Bill Hader), the new Santa....

The official Avengers: Endgame Oscar campaign does not include a push for Robert Downey, Jr. in the Best Actor category. Downey, of course, has been the poster boy of the Marvel Cinematic Universe for more than a decade, perfectly embodying the character of Tony Stark over the course of several appearances. Even after Tony died in Endgame, he continues to have a presence in the franchise. Spider-Man: Far From Home examined the effects Tony’s death had on Peter Parker, and it’s been reported Downey will feature in the upcoming Black Widow movie....

Disney has removed a release date competing with Sony’s 2021 Spider-Man Marvel movie. In the wake of Sony and Marvel Studios striking a new deal to share the rights to Spider-Man, the former has been working harder to connect its upcoming Marvel films to the MCU. The trailer for Morbius not only references Spider-Man being on the run after having his identity outed in Far From Home, it even concludes with a brief appearance by Michael Keaton’s Vulture from Homecoming....

Probably not. The “hacks” require the attacker to have physical access to your device (whether it be Android or iOS). That could be a speaker dock, a charging station, or a friend’s computer, but it still requires you to plug the iPhone into something compromised or give up physical access to it. The issue, as Gareth Wright first discovered, is that Facebook stores saved account information in a plaintext file that can be transferred to another phone and used to log into your Facebook account without signing in....

Not one to shy away from the spotlight, Kanye West has announced that this weekend he’ll be opening up 21 pop shops around the world, some of which will be exclusively accepting Apple Pay thanks to a partnership with Square. Square’s contactless readers will be available in the U.S., Canada, and Australia so that customers can focus on paying for their items as quickly as possible. West claimed that the last pop-up shop had generated $2 million in sales in New York City alone, so a high revenue weekend like this could be great exposure for Square’s technology....

Role-playing games have a massive fan following. Although role-playing games are designed to give players a sense of thrill and grind, oftentimes, the characters are way too powerful or the enemies are overpowered. This creates an imbalance in the gameplay. Diablo 1 was a great game no doubt, but Diablo 2 and 3 had the same recurring issue of overpowering characters. This issue seems to be fixed in the new game, i....

Disabling Auto-Play Videos in Popular Mobile Apps Mobile apps are becoming notorious for auto-play videos. The options here won’t be comprehensive, but for the apps that you often use like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube, here are some tips to help you out. If you are using an app such as Snap Chat, which is heavily video-based, you will probably have to accept the trade-offs. But with YouTube, sometimes you can get away with watching a couple of videos now and then....

Apple cleaned up its MacBook lineup this week with updated hardware, better prices, and one casualty: the 12-inch MacBook. While the MacBook Air and entry-level MacBook Pro saw changes (and Mac storage prices dropped), Apple killed off its lightest notebook after four years and three generations. The death of Apple’s coolest MacBook has sparked many hot takes, exposing just how hated the 12-inch notebook was by a group of customers who had plenty of other Mac options....

It’s been over 80 days since Apple announced the original HomePod was being discontinued. Now, Apple appears to be winding down sales of its smart speaker at retail stores, even though availability continues online. As spotted by MacRumors, most physical Apple Stores don’t have a HomePod available for pick up. However, it’s still possible to order the smart speaker online for next-day delivery with no problem. Since April 12, when Apple discontinued the product, the space gray model of the HomePod has been completely sold out, but the white version has been available broadly....

Discover announced today that it’s made a deal with Apple to join the other three big card companies already offering support for the company’s new payments service, Apple Pay. That means that starting this fall, Discover cardholders will finally be able to add their cards to the service and make contactless, NFC-based payments using iPhone and Apple Watch, as well as make payments within apps supporting the platform on all iOS devices....

Conditional forwarding is a new feature of DNS in Windows Server 2003. Conditional forwarding can be used to speed up the DNS name resolution process by directing queries for specific domains to specific name servers. They can also be used to help organizations resolve each other’s namespace in a situation where the organizations may have direct links into each other’s networks and have the need to resolve internal hostnames to access internal resources....

Chernobylite is a new survival game set in the Chernobyl and Pripyat area where you take the role of Igor, a scientist who came back 30 years after the catastrophe to find his bride Tatyana. However, this game is currently in the beta stage, or we say early access stage. But, after seeing the gameplay and sci-fi theme, gamers won’t be able to stop them playing this game for hours. Farm 51 did a tremendous job with the graphics of this game....

Facebook allows you to share photos, videos, and other posts with friends and family in line with some guidelines. Just like many other social media platforms, Facebook users post pictures on the platform. If you want to post photos on Facebook and you don’t want them to be seen or saved by any other users, There are some things you need to know about Facebook settings that can help preserve your photos from unauthorized access....

Apple presents itself as a company that ships hardware, software, and services that integrate together elegantly. While Apple makes the majority of its money from its hardware, Apple makes use of its free, popular internet services and software to sell their hardware. For example, the iLife suite of Mac apps that are included for free with new Mac purchases is a common reason that people choose to buy a Mac. On the iOS side, Apple offers free services like iCloud, iBooks, iMessage, Game Center, and later this year, iTunes Radio....

But as anyone who works remotely will know, extended periods of working in solitude can carry some undesirable side-effects, including loneliness, productivity hurdles, and a lack of visibility for career development. The impact of remote working on software developers is the subject of a new report of over 1,000 engineers by software platform Terminal. SEE: New year, new job: The tech resignations are coming, so get ready The 2022 State of Remote Engineering Report aimed to capture sentiments of software developers across a range of issues impacting the profession, including remote working, burnout and productivity, compensation and pay equity....

Disney’s acquisition of 20th Century Fox was primarily based on the decision to move forward with their own streaming service, Disney+. After a lengthy and complex legal process, The Walt Disney Company’s purchase of Fox’s entertainment assets was completed in March 2019 in a $71.3 billion deal. In an interview with CNBC, Disney chief Bob Iger spoke about the decisions in the lead up to the acquisition, stating clearly that the reason this action was taken was based solely upon Disney’s plans to enter the streaming market:...

Doctor Who is far more than a simple TV show, becoming a British institution. Nearly every British actor one could think of has either popped up on the show or has expressed interest in doing so, it is almost a rite of passage. That being the case, there have been dozens of guest appearances from actors who appeared in only one episode or so. These guest appearances can either serve as a distraction or really offer something to the overall series....

Directed by Tom Hooper, Cats has received mostly negative reviews and is a major box office bomb, but might still appeal to those who love the iconic theatre production. Cats is an adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s unique Broadway hit, and given the new music and CGI effects, some people may be wondering if Hooper added one final encore after the credits. Cats features an ensemble cast and primarily focuses on a group of cats known as the Jellicles....