Adam Sandler’s performance in Uncut Gems won the actor the Film Independent Spirit Award for “Best Male Lead,” and he delivered a biting, hilarious, and often self-deprecating acceptance speech. Sandler’s win comes on the heels of a snub from the Academy Awards for his performance in the film, which was directed by brothers Joshua and Benjamin Safdie. While Sandler’s performance didn’t make the cut at the Oscars, he’s been nominated for - and won - several Critics awards for his harrowing portrayal of a Jewish-American jeweler in Uncut Gems....

Add Dropbox to Windows 7 Context Menu Click Start and type: %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo in the Search box and hit Enter. Now right-click the Dropbox folder under Favorites and hold down the mouse button. Release the folder then select Create Shortcuts Here. If you don’t have Dropbox listed under Favorites, drag the Dropbox icon from where it’s located. This puts a shortcut to Dropbox in the “SendTo” directory and then close out of the Explorer window....

Adobe has pushed a critical update to Adobe Acrobat for macOS today, fixing a trio of vulnerabilities reported by Tencent Security Xuanwu Lab researcher Yuebin Sun. The issue, as highlighted by Gizmodo, could have allowed root access to a Mac without being detected. Sun reported the vulnerabilities to Adobe directly, explaining that even with macOS System Integrity Protection enabled, the flaw could have allowed system-level access to an Adobe Acrobat DC user’s Mac....

Adobe announced almost one year ago that it had acquired the team behind the popular image editing app Aviary, and since then the iPhone app has picked up Adobe ID support for syncing editing supplies with Creative Cloud and joined the Creative SDK. Now Adobe is tying Aviary’s tools like text adding and filter adjustments to Adobe Social — which lets social media managers publish content with simple workflows — thanks to tighter Adobe Creative Cloud integration....

A producer of Alita: Battle Angel is asking fans to tell Disney that they want a sequel. Battle Angel Alita was a popular manga series that ran for five years, starting in 1990. Just this year, the film was adapted for a feature-length film directed by Robert Rodriguez and starring Rosa Salazar as the titular character Alita. An adaptation of Battle Angel Alita had been in development since the early 2000s, with James Cameron originally planning on directing the film....

Amid the raging COVID-19 pandemic, Echtra Games has come up with a wonderful game for everyone in the video game community to enjoy. Yes, it is the latest dungeon crawler RPG, Torchlight 3 that was a surprise release on Steam in Early Access, two days ago. As of now, you can choose between four classes in the game – Dusk Mage, Forged, Railmaster, and Sharpshooter. Apart from this, you can even have a loyal pet companion of your very own in the game!...

Gabrielle Union has been in the news plenty over the past few months, as she has made an effort to move on from the America’s Got Talent firing controversy. As the investigation into the show continues, Union is determined to help others learn from her situation. The actress was a judge on America’s Got Talent last season. In addition to Julianne Hough, she was axed from the show’s panel a few months ago....

Dark Mode hit the mainstream for iPhone with official iOS 13 support back in 2019, but there are still apps that haven’t adopted the system-wide feature. Now Amex has officially launched dark theme support with its latest update and says that it’s the first card issuer to make the jump, even though it’s almost two years late. The new Dark Mode option for the Amex iOS app is a dark blue hue – called “midnight blue” – and should certainly make it more comfortable for users to manage their accounts in low light....

An estimate of component costs for the iPhone X suggests that, despite the high price, Apple may actually make a smaller profit margin on the new flagship device than it does on the rest of the range. The total cost to Apple of the components in the iPhone X is said to be more than twice that of last year’s iPhone 7 … The WSJ cites the comparison almost in passing in a piece on the economics of the new flagship iPhone....

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John Krasinski is reportedly directing A Quiet Place 2, and Emily Blunt is coming back to reprise her role as Evelyn Abbott. Last year, Paramount had a bona fide hit on their hands in horror/thriller A Quiet Place, which was built around the intriguing concept of vicious monsters that hunted by sound. In addition to being a box office smash ($340.9 million worldwide against a $17 million production budget), the film received widespread critical praise....

AAPL is down significantly today ahead of Apple’s fiscal Q4 earnings call scheduled to take place tomorrow, despite the usual predictions of growth across the board by the market and the majority of analysts. Apple shares were down around 2.70% to approximately $115 at time of writing, which Reuters noted this morning made it “the biggest drag on the three major indexes.” As for what the market is expecting at Apple’s earnings call tomorrow, the average from analyst estimates predicted around 48....

With Apple’s iPhone 7 next week expected to ditch the 3.5mm headphone jack and make wireless and Lightning headphones a necessity, there a lot of companies racing to announce new products ahead of Apple’s event. And it’s good timing with IFA taking place this week— one of the year’s biggest tech events where many accessory companies are showing off new products ahead of the holidays. Below we take a look at all the announcements with a roundup of new Lightning headphones and wireless Bluetooth headphones....

Avengers: Endgame has concluded the MCU’s Infinity Saga, closing a massive chapter in the cinematic universe’s storytelling. Of course, that just means it’s time to open up the next chapter, which offers a lot of exciting opportunities. As fun as it is to think about all the great heroes that could soon be appearing in the MCU, there are just as many villains we’d love to see. As Disney has acquired the Fox properties, Marvel now has some of their most interesting characters to work with....

Just one day after Apple Pay went live in Poland, the mobile wallet service has today been rolled out in Norway. Three banks support the service at launch … Readers report that Apple Pay has gone live with Nordea, Santander and Sbanken, with Tek.no confirming. Tim Cook promised during last month’s Q2 earnings report that Apple Pay would be launching in Norway, Poland and Ukraine ‘in the coming months.’ The service expanded to Ukraine later the same month....

Alabama state representative Patricia Todd announced today that her upcoming anti-discrimination bill will be named after Tim Cook. Todd plans to introduce the bill, which would prevent the government from discriminating in its hiring practices based on points such as sexual orientation, in March. Initially Todd received pushback from Apple on the naming of the bill, with Apple saying that Cook would probably not want his named attached to a sensitive piece of legislation....

Disney’s CinemaCon presentation included updates and teasers for many upcoming movies - including a five-minute clip from Aladdin in which our hero enters the Cave of Wonders and meets Will Smith’s Genie. Directed by Guy Ritchie and starring Mena Massoud and Naomi Scott as young lovebirds Aladdin and Princess Jasmine, Aladdin is the latest live-action remake of Disney’s animated classics, with The Lion King also still to come this year....

In November, the Justice Department said the 22-year-old was behind the July 2021 ransomware attack against Kaseya, which crippled hundreds of companies around the world for days. CyberScoop reported in November that Vasinskyi was arrested at a border crossing in Dorohusk – a Polish-Ukrainian border town – on October 8. Vasinskyi made his first appearance and was arraigned today in the Northern District of Texas. “When last year I announced charges against members of the Sodinokibi/REvil ransomware group, I made clear that the Justice Department will spare no resource in identifying and bringing to justice transnational cybercriminals who target the American people,” said Attorney General Merrick Garland....

Following the on-off-on-again acquisition of display-maker Sharp by Foxconn, the company has announced that 12 of the 13 board members – including CEO Kozo Takahashi – will step down once the takeover process is complete. The WSJ reports that the announcement follows deepening losses at the company. Sharp was one of a number of Apple suppliers to be hit by the decline in iPhone sales, though in Sharp’s case the slowdown merely added to its existing difficulties....

Set in the Second Age, The Lord of the Rings is set to tell an all-new adventure in the world created by J.R.R. Tolkien’s novels. It’ll hail from showrunners J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay, and has been making some big announcements lately. The series cast Markelle Kavenagh as a character named Tyra, and recently tapped Will Poulter to take on an undisclosed lead role. They are the only two cast members for the series at this point, but it was also reported who’ll first direct them....