The usual gang of idiots are still going strong at MAD Magazine, using February’s issue to send up the hottest shows on television (of yesterday and today). But does it count as a parody… if it’s actually smarter than what viewers are already getting? After rumors claimed that MAD Magazine was shutting down back in July, DC Comics was quick to reassure fans that wasn’t the case. While still being released on its bimonthly schedule, DC would be turning to both vintage MAD material and new content going forward....

When it came to trailer views and social media activity, Fast & Furious 9 was easily the big winner at this year’s Super Bowl. The NFL’s 2020 championship game was a success all around, becoming the first Super Bowl in five years to see an increase in ratings. There were fewer commercials for movies than there have been in the past, with studios like Warner Bros. and Sony sitting out the game entirely and Paramount opting for cheaper pre-game show spots....

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There are several ways in which the Google Assistant and Google Home outshine Siri, but one that has stood out to me since HomePod’s release is Google Home’s integration with Chromecast… Essentially, if you have both a Google Home and a Chromecast dongle or Chromecast-enabled TV, you can ask Google Home to play content on your TV. Google outlines the process in a support document here. You can simply say, “Hey Google, play The West Wing on TV” and the show will start playing via Netflix or whatever streaming service you desire on your Chromecast-enabled TV....

February’s Microsoft Xbox Game Pass additions are sure to excite subscribers - Final Fantasy 15 and Wolfenstein: Youngblood have made their way to the monthly game service. Though both games received lukewarm ratings from fans and critics compared to other installments in their respective series, these two games represent an excellent addition to Microsoft’s Game Pass collection. Game Pass includes numerous excellent games, from Mass Effect to Obsidian’s latest game, The Outer Worlds....

New York Toy Fair kicks off in just a few days, and each week leading up to the annual event we’ve been exclusively debuting upcoming toy lines, including most recently some of the very first Power Rangers sets coming from Hasbro. But there’s so much more from Hasbro, especially when it comes to Transformers. Among Hasbro’s enormous showcase of all-new products at NYTF 2019 will be the next wave of family-friendly toys from Transformers’ recent BotBots line....

It’s easy to drop recently-taken photos and videos into your Facebook Messenger chats directly from the camera roll, but it was less easy to share Dropbox files. This previously required you to open the Dropbox app first to grab a link to share. The latest update to the iOS Facebook Messenger app streamlines the process by allowing you to drop any file into a chat just by tapping the ‘…’ button....

Facebook is testing a video dating app called Sparked, as reported by The Verge. The app, which requires a Facebook account, is developed by the company’s NPE team. Last week, we reported about a new app Facebook was developing called Hotline, a Clubhouse competitor that combines Instagram Live features. Sparked is described as “video dating with kind people.” According to The Verge, the app “promises no public profiles, no swiping, no DMs, and that it’s free to use....

As announced on the Facebook for Business news blog, the social network has added new features in an update to their mobile applications today. Taking advantage of the OpenTable service, visiting a restaurant’s page now shows available times and reservations and everything can be completed right inside the Facebook app. In addition, the update brings listings to the pages of primetime TV shows and movies: The update has also brought hashtag search to iOS....

Halloween is a great time to break out video gaming’s scariest properties and get in on the fun. One game that fits the bill nicely is Fallout 4, with its post-apocalyptic video game world. With just a few mods tacked onto a load order, Fallout 4 can go from eerie and unsettling, to downright terrifying and horrific with just a few clicks. Many of the mods take advantage of the game’s already bleak world and narrative, and flesh out the horror by introducing ravenous zombies, murderous monsters, and bone-chilling quests....

There was much disappointment back in June when the new Mac Pro‘s CPU – the 12-core Xeon E5-2697 – delivered a surprisingly low Geekbench score of 23,901. It had been widely expected to break 30,000. Some cautioned then that the score, based on a 32-bit build of Geekbench running on an early pre-release version of the CPU with a beta version of Mavericks, might not tell the whole story, and new tests by Tom’s Hardware on V2 of the chip appear to confirm this … While this is still some way short of Apple’s claimed ‘2x faster’, the claimed performance boost did show up in specific areas, like 3D modelling and optical character recognition....

After launching in 2015 with free unlimited storage and marketing the service around that key feature, Google Photos has become a popular option even for Apple users. However, that’s changing as the company announced last fall that the free unlimited storage is ending on June 1. Read on for how to export Google Photos to iCloud Photos. Instead of free unlimited storage, a 15GB limit will apply to photos and videos added from June 1, 2021....

Opera is the only well-known browser that Facebook could actually acquire. According to Pocket Lint’s sources, Facebook is planning to buy Opera Software, the company that makes the Opera browser. The browser which its makers say has 200 million users and is the fifth most used one last week, according to StatCounter. Buying Opera Software would help Facebook kill two birds with one stone –- Opera has a very good mobile browser....

After a rather successful launch (it was #1 in the App Store for quite a while), Flexibits has updated Fantastical 2 for iPhone with a number of small but notable improvements. Most notably, Fantastical alerts now come with a notification tone. New options for assigning the app icon badge are available as well. If you haven’t already tried it out, you can pick up Fantastical 2 on sale for $2.99 in the App Store (regular $4....

An important update as a Shanghai court hearing this morning confronted Shenzhen, China-based LCD display maker Proview and Apple of California, the maker of the widely popular iPad tablet. The high-profile hearing drew more than a hundred reporters. As you know, Proview is dreaming of a multi-billion dollar settlement for rights to the iPad name in China where Apple pushes aggressively with claims it acquired the iPad trademark in 2009 from Proview’s Taiwanese affiliate for about $55,000....

F1 TV is the go-to platform for formula one fans to catch the live action on any device running on any operating system. One can watch live content, highlights, and specific replays with just a single tap. But the problem for formula one fans with the F1 TV application is not with the application. It is with the geo-restrictions that are tied to the app. Due to the ongoing media rights of Formula 1, certain regions in the world are limited to only a few particular TV channels when it comes to Formula One races....

What Is Branded Content & Why Does It Matter? Branded content is nothing new. In the age of social more and more brands are taking on the role of content creators, curators and publishers. Organizations are hiring journalists, setting up newsrooms and sharing owned and third party content that resonates with their audiences. The Harvard Business Review has even reported on how businesses are investing millions into social content strategies that help increase brand awareness....

Facebook today has updated its desktop Facebook Live platform with integrated support for screen sharing, a task that previously required the use of third-party software for users. The Next Web first noted of this change with a new “Share Screen” option… To access the new screen sharing functionality, simply head to Facebook Live and look for the “Share Screen” button. It appears alongside the option for other cameras, such as your built-in FaceTime HD webcam....

Social media’s history precedes the 21th century and ever since then malevolent people have attempted to infiltrate the computers of innocent people using these media in hope of 1) obtaining sensitive information such as bank details and personal information, 2) using the machine as a bridge in major cyber-attacks, 3) impersonating you and using your account for their own ends, 4) installing some form of adware on your computer and bombarding your machine with endless pop-up ads, 5) spreading spam through your computer for material gains, deceiving you to fill out a survey or by any other means try to acquire financial resources and transmitting the virus to more people via your machine with the hope of multiplying their material gains, 6) retaliating, gaining fame or proving that they can infiltrate someone’s machine or/and spreading the virus to a lot of people for the same reasons....

Facebook updated its Messenger iOS app today making it easier to send photos and emoji with a few new features. Facebook is deeper integrating Instagram into Messenger, allowing users to attach photos from Instagram albums (in addition to any other album on their iPhone) right in the app. Version 2.6 of the app also makes it easier to send photos and emoji with a new paper clip icon that users can tap from any message....