There’s a hilarious meta moment in Family Guy where Peter comes into his house feeling more than a little the worse for wear, collapses onto his bed, and says, “We act like we didn’t take a lot from The Simpsons, but we took a lot from The Simpsons.” As with all great jokes, there’s some truth to this. When Family Guy first hit the airwaves in the late ‘90s, some critics immediately dismissed it as an inferior clone of Matt Groening’s timeless animated classic, and in many ways – at least in the early seasons – that was the case to an extent....

The Fast and the Furious franchise is expected to end after two more movies. Currently in theaters, The Fate of the Furious has broken box office records with the biggest opening weekend ever, bringing in 532.5 million dollars. Pretty impressive for a movie that is eighth in a series that has been around for sixteen years. Considering it’s been in theaters less than a week, its safe to say that there should be plenty more where that came from....

T-Mobile and Sprint officially filed their merger plans with the FCC back in June. While the FCC typically makes a determination within six months, the commission informed the two carriers today that it is pressing pause on the “180-day transaction shot clock.” Along with its FCC filing, T-Mobile and Sprint previously created a new website to promote the benefits of the merger. However, at 55 days into the FCC process, the commission has deemed it necessary to freeze the timeline to allow more time for the review....

If you’re already using Fedora, you can upgrade from the command line or use GNOME Software — upgrade instructions here. We’ve put a lot of work into making upgrades easy and fast. In most cases, this will take half an hour or so, bringing you right back to a working system with no hassle The figures below are a recommended minimum for the default installation. Your requirements may differ, and most applications will benefit from more than the minimum resources....

The Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles Remastered has been one of the most pleasant surprises from Square Enix for fans of the franchise. The game has been praised for its enhanced sound, visuals, and online multiplayer feature. However, there has been some confusion regarding saving game progress. Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles mainly features an auto-save system that is only activated when you reach some specific checkpoints after a big task. Many players, understandably, prefer to save their game progress before quitting the game....

iPhone X users have been complaining that they are unable to use Face ID to approve app purchase requests by their children. Users note that while they can use Touch ID on other devices to approve purchases through the Ask to Buy feature in iOS, it doesn’t work with Face ID … Arstechnica notes that it’s a particularly problematic issue at this time of year. The site says that it’s surprising given that Face ID works seamlessly with third-party apps....

Facebook has launched a new feature in its official iOS client called “Instant Articles,” the company announced today. The feature will allow web publishers to create versions of their stories optimized for display inside the Facebook app. As suggested by the name, these optimized articles are designed to load instantly and provide a more native-feeling experience. The articles are built using some of the same user interface elements and concepts first introduced in the alternative Facebook client, Paper, such as large images that scroll as you tilt your phone, and in-line videos that automatically start playing....

Facebook released a big update today to its recently released Paper mobile app. The app, which provides a full Facebook experience alongside a news reader-style collection of content from around the web, today integrates birthdays and events from Facebook via the app’s “notifications globe” icon. Version 1.1 also introduces the ability to add photos in comments, and updates from Groups: Also new in the updated Paper app is new navigation buttons for stories and 9 new “article covers” with news from sources including Fox News, Bloomberg News, Mashable, FT, kottke, Popular Science, The Hollywood Reporter, Vanity Fair and Hacker News....

Why? We noticed that the picture wasn’t at native resolution(2). We also saw that they put it on top of a TomTom Card instead of plugging it into the port (3). Wait, TomTom doesn’t make a GPS card(4) do they? Also, if it was real, do you think they would have it on a wood table while going 14.2 Km/hr on a curvey road as the iPhone Tom Tom is showing(5)?...

The reception for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald steered largely toward negative territory, with the main criticism being the needless shift in tone from the first part’s whimsy to dark and dreary. The major plus point, though, has been the introduction of Albus Dumbledore. His role in the film was relatively minor compared to everything else that went on, but in pure Dumbledore form, every appearance he had consisted of memorable dialogue that the fans won’t be forgetting....

The Fantastic Four were created by comic book greats Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, and premiered in The Fantastic Four #1 in 1961. For those who don’t know, the team is comprised of Reed Richards (Mister Fantastic), Sue Storm (Invisible Woman), Johnny Storm (Human Torch), and Ben Grimm (Thing). By now most people have heard about the Fantastic Four making their way to the MCU in a new feature film directed by Jon Watts....

While Twitter is taking increasing action over both hate speech and disinformation, Facebook has taken a much more hands-off approach. We’ve seen criticism of this stance even from early employees, and we’re now seeing a growing Facebook ad boycott … The WSJ says that the boycott campaign is gaining momentum. Some are going further, messaging app Viber saying that it has cut all business ties to Facebook, including removing the company’s SDK and Facebook Connect from its app....

A YouTuber has created a fan trailer for a hypothetical Captain America 4. Since appearing in Captain America: The First Avenger, Steve Rogers went on to become one of the most well-liked characters in the MCU. His presumably final appearance in Avengers: Endgame gave him a happy ending alongside Peggy Carter. The journey of Captain America through the MCU is fascinating to watch. In his debut movie, Steve Rogers was a weak, but kind person who was turned into a Super Soldier....

While it’s an interesting idea on paper, Far Cry 2’s malaria mechanic is one of the most annoying ever introduced in a video game. The original Far Cry was released in 2004 and followed an ex-soldier being hunted on a lush tropical island. Far Cry featured stunning graphics and open-ended gameplay, giving players several options in how they approached the world. It was later adapted into a movie by director Uwe Boll which was poorly received and went straight to DVD....

As the much-awaited FIFA 21 video game has been released on October 6, 2020, by the Electronic Arts team, more & more interested FIFA lovers are trying to get into the game. While Windows users are getting multiple performance-related, gameplay-related, and graphics-related issues while launching or playing the FIFA 21 video game. So, if in case, you’re one of them, you can check out the FIFA 21 PC Optimization Guide | How To Run The Game At 60 FPS in this article....

It’s here, we’ve played it, and we have a lot to say. The Final Fantasy VII Remake, awash in delays, rumors, teasers, finally has a confident release date, and Screen Rant’s stormed Square Enix headquarters for precious time with controller in hand. While hard to express in words the worldwide anticipation surrounding the game and how that invariably affects and feeds into three precious hours of demo gameplay, it’s also not unreasonable to expect, quite possibly, the greatest video game remake ever made....

Heap memory can be viewed as another memory region. Heap memory is allocated via different memory allocators such as dlmalloc, jemalloc, ptmalloc, etc. In this article, we will be looking into vulnerabilities related to the older version of dlmalloc. In case of Linux systems, a malloc call is implemented as a wrapper around mmap and brk syscalls. At the very low level, this memory allocation is handled by the kernel....

The Brian Griffin character has changed a little over the years, but he’s always been an intellectual with a dry sense of humor and a strong relationship with both Peter and Stewie who is infatuated with Lois. He began in season 1 as the voice of reason who tagged along with Peter’s antics, but he’s since evolved into an douchey, uninformed, uber-liberal wannabe writer. Either way, he’s always been very rigidly characterized, and with that has come some of the funniest lines in the whole history of the show....

With every new entry in The Fast Saga comes a new antagonist for the heroes to battle against. While Fast & Furious 9 - officially titled as F9 - will be bringing back the same main antagonist from the previous installment, we’ll also be getting John Cena’s Jakob as a new villain. Although every antagonist has had a list of feats due to their destructive capabilities, not all of them can be considered intelligent....

Earlier this year, I wrote a feature request that proved popular: a gesture to undo tapping the top of the screen to return to the top of the page. But with this year’s iPads now confirmed to have slimmer bezels, I’d actually like to go further … That’s annoying in any app – losing your place and having to scroll back down to find it. But it’s even more annoying in apps where tapping the top also triggers a refresh of the content....