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By Mark Wycislik-Wilson on Sep 29 Everyone needs a great video player, and although the tools that come with your PC or Mac do a reasonable job, there's no need to settle for that.  Whether you're looking for the simplest of programs to just get the job done with a minimum of fuss or you want a tool that gives you fine control over every aspect of picture and audio playback, there's a free video player that will deliver what you want. Of course, you're not limited to using just one video player – you may well decide that you want to use a different program for different types of viewing – but with so many players to choose from, selecting which you should use can be tricky. That's why we've collected together the three best free video players of 2018 in this essential roundup. Read on to find the right one for you. 1. VLC Media Player -- Supporting all formats VLC Media Player is a name that crops up time and time and time again when talk turns to fr...

By Micah Singleton on Sep 28 If you’ve finally given up on the world’s most popular social media network — be it from the Cambridge Analytica scandal or today’s news that unknown hackers stole access to 50 million accounts — it’s not too complicated to remove yourself from the service. But before you delete all of those pictures, posts, and Likes, you should download your personal information from Facebook first. Your Facebook archives contain just about  all of the pertinent information related to your account , including your photos, active sessions, chat history, IP addresses, facial recognition data, and which ads you clicked, just to name a few. That’s a ton of personal information that you should probably maintain access to. To download your archive, go to “Settings” and click “Download a copy of your Facebook data” at the bottom of General Account Settings, and then click “Start My Archive.” After you’ve finished downloading your archive, you can now delete your accou...

AQUAMAN - Full Movie 2018 DC Comics Movies of Justice League Film on Dec 21, 2018 Warner Bros. has screened James Wan's Aquaman movie for early test audiences and the first reactions have begun to surface, indicating the DC Comics film is good - but not great. The studio launched their current DC franchise in 2013 with Zack Snyder's Man of Steel, introducing a new take on Superman. However, the cinematic world opened up immensely in Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice, which officially introduced Batman and Wonder Woman and offered glimpses of The Flash, Cyborg and Aquaman. Now, Arthur Curry aka. Aquaman (Jason Momoa) is getting his own solo movie when the eponymous film opens in theaters later this year. Aquaman will be the first DC movie released by Warner Bros. since Justice League, and it joins a franchise that hasn't always performed well with critics or at the box office. While Man of Steel was successful enough, Batman V Superman and Suicide Squad both receiv...

Every year, the shift into cooler weather comes alongside a shift into a cooler box office lineup: fewer billion-dollar blockbusters, fewer on-screen explosions, and a general trend toward less slashing, crashing action and more intense emotional action. The one thing that really heats up at the box office during the fall and winter season is the awards race: the last quarter of the year is a time for Oscar-bait projects and intense awards campaigning. AQUAMAN - Full Movie 2018 DC Movies of Justice League on Dec 21, 2018 The summary: Fresh off his central role in DC’s troubled production of Justice League, undersea superhero Aquaman (Jason Momoa) gets his own film. The child of a human and an Atlantean, he’s caught between the sides of his heritage when surface-dwellers and his underwater kingdom go to war. Why Cuckoo users might care: Justice League was the most promising of the DC movies to date, and Momoa’s Aquaman, with his rough, smirking humor and outsized version of...

By Taylor Hatmaker on Sep 28 Even if you never log into Facebook  itself these days, the other apps and services you use might be impacted by Facebook’s latest big, bad news. In a follow-up call on Friday’s revelation that Facebook  has suffered a security breach affecting at least 50 million accounts, the company clarified that Instagram users were not out of the woods — nor were any other third-party services that utilized Facebook Login. Facebook Login is the tool that allows users to sign in with a Facebook account instead of traditional login credentials and many users choose it as a convenient way to sign into a variety of apps and services. Third-party apps and sites affected too Due to the nature of the hack, Facebook cannot rule out the fact that attackers may have also accessed any Instagram  account linked to an affected Facebook account through Facebook Login. Still, it’s worth remembering that while Facebook can’t rule it out, the company has no eviden...

By Sarah Perez & Zack Whittaker on Sep 28 Facebook is cleaning up after a major security incident exposed the account data of millions of users. What’s already been a rocky year after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, the company is scrambling to regain its users trust after another security incident exposed user data. Here’s everything you need to know so far. What happened? Facebook says at least 50 million users’ data were confirmed at risk after attackers exploited a vulnerability that allowed them access to personal data. The company also preventively secure 40 million additional accounts out of an abundance of caution. What data were the hackers after? Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the company has not seen any accounts compromised and improperly accessed — although it’s early days and that may change. But Zuckerberg said that the attackers were using Facebook developer APIs to obtain some information, like “name, gender, and hometowns” that’s linked to a ...

Every year, the shift into cooler weather comes alongside a shift into a cooler box office lineup: fewer billion-dollar blockbusters, fewer on-screen explosions, and a general trend toward less slashing, crashing action and more intense emotional action. The one thing that really heats up at the box office during the fall and winter season is the awards race: the last quarter of the year is a time for Oscar-bait projects and intense awards campaigning.  With December 2018, we move on to new Spider-Man Miles Morales, James Cameron’s return to filmmaking with  Alita: Battle Angel , a  Transformers  spinoff that feels like a weird fit for the holidays, and Mary Poppins’ return to London.   This isn’t a comprehensive list of releases. We’re focusing primarily on titles of particular interest to  Verge  readers, with a tongue-in-cheek consideration of what these films have to say about the future of film, awards season, or the world we live in. DECEMBE...

By Ernesto on Sep 26, 2018 File-sharing traffic, BitTorrent was so popular particular before but it was decreasing a lot and now a new world is making a comeback as a decentralized video player named Cuckoo , totally free and anonymous based on p2p connection. New data reveals that Cuckoo will replace BitTorrent as the dominant source of upstream traffic worldwide especially in video files. Cuckoo's increased fragmentation in the streaming market may play a great role in this resurgence. Many Internet traffic reports have been published over the years, documenting how traffic patterns change over time. One of the trends that emerged in recent years, is that BitTorrent’s share of total Internet traffic decreased. With the growth of services such as YouTube and Netflix, streaming started to generate massive amounts of bandwidth. As a result, BitTorrent lost a significant chunk of its ‘market share.’ This trend gradually increased, until recently. In some parts of the...

The Securities and Exchange Commission lodged a complaint today against Elon Musk and Tesla following tweets sent last month by the CEO involving a planned private takeover of the electric car company at $420 a share. The filing from the Southern District of New York identifies the tweets as “false as misleading,” adding: Musk’s statements, disseminated via Twitter, falsely indicated that, should he so choose, it was virtually certain that he could take Tesla private at a purchase price that reflected a substantial premium over Tesla stock’s then-current share price, that funding for this multi-billion dollar transaction had been secured, and that the only contingency was a shareholder vote. In truth and in fact, Musk had not even discussed, much less confirmed, key deal terms, including price, with any potential funding source. In addition to the August 7 “funding secured” statement, the document identifies three additional tweets,  My hope is *all* curre...

BUMBLEBEE Full Movie online 2018 HD - Watch Transformers Series on Cuckoo Bumblebee contains an explanation for an apparent plot hole from Transformers: The Last Knight: why is Bee a newcomer on Earth who doesn't remember fighting Nazis during World War II? Director Travis Knight's film is a solo adventure starring the heroic yellow Autobot, which is set in 1987 California. Bee is discovered by an 18-year-old woman named Charlie Watson (Academy Award-nominee Hailee Steinfeld) in a junkyard and the two strike up a friendship as Decepticons and the government agency Sector 7 hunt the missing Autobot. However, by the time he meets Charlie, Bee has lost his memory. Given how all of the Transformers in Bumblebee are in their beloved Generation-1 designs, many fans suspect Bee's solo adventure is actually a soft reboot in disguise. Bumblebee is a decidedly more character-driven movie with fewer Transformers at its core than the five overblown spectacles Michael Bay dir...