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On a BBC radio show where interviewees are asked to choose eight music tracks with special significance to them, Bill Gates yesterday selected the Beatles song “Two of us” as one of them, saying that it summed up his relationship with Steve Jobs. In the Radio 4 show Desert Island Discs, Gates said the two of them had a varied relationship. In the wide-ranging interview, Gates also talks about his childhood, girls, cars, holidays, ruthlessness, charity and his wife Melinda....

To delete your black desert mobile account, first go to the “account” tab on the main menu and select “delete account.” You will be asked to confirm your decision. If you have multiple accounts on Black Desert Mobile, you will need to delete each one before deleting the account itself. Yes, Black Desert Online is free to play. However, there are some in-game features that can be purchased with real money....

As per their official Github page, we can use the “Blackbox tool to help understand what an Android application is doing at runtime and assist in the identification of potential security issues“. The following figure gives a quick overview of how Introspy for Android works. Introspy consists of two different modules: Tracer: GUI Interface GUI Interace is used to configure hooks. We can select the target application(s) and the tests we want to perform and other options using this GUI Interface....

At Mashable they’ve gathered up 10 hidden Google tricks beyond the new “do a barrel roll” Easter Egg including a playable Pac-Man logo, crooked search results, and ninjas that leap around Google Reader. Hit up the link below to check them all out. Beyond Barrel Roll: 10 Hidden Google Tricks [Mashable]

Big Brother season 21 has officially ended with Jackson Michie coming out on top as the crowned winner. It was down to three contestants: Jackson, Nicole Anthony, and Holly Allen - all of whom divided the jury with their decision making. Early in that episode, Nicole was evicted from the house, leaving just Holly and Jackson. Jackson was ultimately chosen in a 6-3 vote. Second place winner Holly, whom Jackson remains in a romantic relationship with, took home $50,000....

Silicon Valley is a place where people value a good story behind a company. The Two-Guys-in-a-Garage scenario is a favorite trope and has been since the 1970’s when two guys named Steve built an empire in a 2-car setup while one of them was tripping on LSD. Great story. By that measure, the story of BigCommerce isn’t nearly as interesting or surprising, but it’s not an apples-to-apples comparison. It’s an Apple to BigCommerce comparison, and BigCommerce has plenty of its own mystique to have created a proper Silicon Valley legend....

Jurnee Smollett-Bell, who plays Black Canary in Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn), has revealed her favorite Black Canary scene from the film. Birds of Prey, which is the first film to bring together a female superhero team, has had a peculiar journey since its release. The film had the worst DC opening in over a decade, and at one point, had to double its current box office gross to be a hit....

WARNING: This article contains potential SPOILERS for Black Panther and Infinity War - The Black Panther movie will reveal Wakanda to the MCU - along with the mystery of Iron Man’s new Infinity War armor. It’s possible that even devoted Marvel fans won’t even have noticed that Iron Man is sporting a new armor for The Avengers: Infinity War, let alone that it would be a mystery if he were (Iron Man has more suits than sense)....

Though the MCU is filled with some of the most powerful beings in the universe, Black Widow has managed to become one of the most essential heroes, despite having no superpowers. Black Widow aka Natasha Romanoff is a former Russian assassin who finds redemption as a covert agent for S.H.I.E.L.D. before becoming one of Earth’s mightiest heroes. Though she is surrounded by godlike individuals, she never lets you question if she belongs on the team....

Between the clouds, a couple of new developments appeared as the proverbial silver lining. BlackBerry Messenger, or BBM as it’s called, finally made the jump to Android and iOS, and the company launched a new flagship in the form of the Z30. After the debut of the Z10 (the all-touch device that also marked the launch of BlackBerry’s new mobile OS, BB10), this is the fourth handset that runs the same OS, with keyboard-toting Q10 and Q5 appearing in the middle....

Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale presents a dystopian, not-so-distant future, that is almost as insightful as it is terrifying. The social structures of the Republic of Gilead place a select few Commanders at the very top, with everyone else significantly below them in some capacity or another. Although June Osborne finally escaped Gilead, her journey throughout Canada with the Waterfords and navigating the world she used to be familiar with has demonstrated that Gilead stays with people long after they’ve left it....

Bob’s Burgers, which features Bob, Linda, Tina, Gene and Louise Belcher, is about a family who owns and runs a hamburger restaurant. It has been called one of the best cartoons ever, it has won awards, it has tons of fans, and next year, it will get its own film. What will Bob’s Burgers: The Movie give the world? What can be expected? And what do people want to see? What could happen in it?...

Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice was released on the 22nd of March for PS4, Xbox One, and PC. This is a very demanding title, but it can be run on decently powered PCs. But if you are suffering from frame drops and are looking for a way to get some sort of FPS and performance boost in your gameplay, then just follow the instructions in this article. Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice has a maximum frame rate capped at 60 fps, and 60 fps is what the developers intended for you....

iTunes Radio, Apple’s upcoming streaming music service that will compete with services like Pandora and Spotify, will be partnering with large brands for audio and video advertisements, according to a new report by Ad Age. The service, which will be available on all iOS devices – including the Apple TV – and every computer that can run iTunes, will be ad-free for subscribers of Apple’s $24.99/year iTunes Match service, but otherwise “users will be served an audio ad once every 15 minutes and one video ad every hour”, according to Ad Age’s sources....

Marvel’s Black Panther is not just a warrior appointed to protect his high-tech home African nation of Wakanda, he’s a prince under his father, King T’Chaka. T’Challa’s (Chadwick Boseman) who serves as Black Panther finds his entry point into the Marvel Cinematic Universe during the political events of Captain America: Civil War. This is why when it comes to choosing sides in the Civil War conflict, Black Panther is neither team Iron Man or team Cap....

Beloved series BoJack Horseman has now come to an end, and it may very well be remembered as one of the best television shows of the modern era. The animated comedy-drama, available to stream on Netflix, debuted its final episodes on January 31, and fans witnessed their favorite characters finally receive the endings that they deserve. In true BoJack style, the final episodes encompassed simplistic and slap-stick comedy with harrowing and hard-hitting scenes....

Borderlands 3 contains a few handfuls of extremely powerful weapons. This guide will help players find the Double Penetrating Boring Gun. Borderlands 3 is a game with procedurally generated weapons, meaning the game has over 1 billion total random guns. While many of these will be swept under the rough, very few out of this massive total will shine like the diamonds in the rough. In a game about looting weaponry and treasure, finding the better guns prove to be a difficult task....

In the world of comic books, characters change all the time. In the last ten years there have been about five different Wolverines, three different Captain Americas, dozens of Spider-Mans, and three different Batmans. Whenever a book seems to be getting stale, publishers look for a quick fix by temporarily writing off or de-powering their titular character and replacing them with somebody else. While these changes are fairly common, almost none are long-lasting....

Bill & Ted Face The Music has officially cast the roles of the duo’s grown-up children. The pair, played by Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves and known collectively as the rock band Wyld Stallyns, first debuted in 1989’s Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure. On the verge of failing high school, they were aided by a man named Rufus (George Carlin). Announcing himself as from the future, he revealed that together they were destined to write the music upon which a peaceful, utopian world would one day be formed....

Biometrics has gone from something we used to only see in the movies to a natural part of our lives. We are used to using tools like Face ID and Touch ID to unlock our devices. In K–12 schools, companies are looking to take it even further, though. I recently read an article in EdTech Magazine that looked further at the use of biometrics in K-12 schools. About Making The Grade: Every Saturday, Bradley Chambers publishes a new article about Apple in education....