. Apple climbed into the list of top 10 places to work in 2012, alongside fellow technology giants Google and Facebook, according to a new Glassdoor survey. The fourth annual Employees’ Choice award highlights 50 of the best workplaces. The findings are measured through company employees’ survey responses on Glassdoor.com. “The reviews are in,” said the career community website in its Dec. 14 press release. “Employees have spoken, revealing the best companies to work for in 2012; and, they love working at some of the biggest tech, science and management consulting companies in the nation…...

Just about two months after Apple Card became available to the public, the CEO of Goldman Sachs — Apple’s bank partner — shared today in an interview how happy he is with the launch of the product, saying he thinks it’s the “most successful credit card launch ever.” There have been some doubts about the profitability of Apple Card, with Citibank reportedly abandoning a deal with Apple over the concern for its new credit card before Goldman Sachs sealed the deal....

Nexus 4 Phone First in the line-up is the Nexus 4 Android smartphone. This handset comes from collaboration with the hardware manufacturer LG, despite the fact that Google could have easily manufactured it through it’s self-owned manufacturer Motorola. With a 4.7 inch display the Nexus 4 comes in at roughly the same size as Samsung’s latest Galaxy SIII phone, but is still dwarfed by the the larger Samsung Note II phablet....

The Gears of War franchise has always set its characters up against seemingly impossible odds, and it looks like things will be just as hopeless for the survivors of planet Sera in the upcoming Gears 5. Like past games in the series, Gears 5’s heroes find themselves in a fight for survival after the invasion of the Locust Horde and the mysterious appearance of the Swarm, but this game finds them in the first days of a brand new war....

Ghost Recon Breakpoint didn’t have one the best reception from the community at launch. However, Ubisoft’s continued efforts have ensured that the player base of the game is intact. Usually, open-world games have a lot of bugs. And Ubisoft has done a very good job of keeping them in check. However, there is one thing that has been an issue for many users out there. The game is locked at 60FPS for some users despite tweaking around with the settings....

Update: Congrats to our winner Damon Ramer from Alberta @RamerDamo!! Thanks to our sponsor Hyper, over the next month we’ll be giving readers a chance to win Apple’s brand new 2018 MacBook Pro for our biggest giveaway yet!! Head below for a chance to take home this MacBook Pro valued at $1,799 USD. Hyper is the company behind HyperDrive, the most crowdfunded USB-C hub for MacBook Pro ever, raising over $3....

According to a solid source, Apple misrepresented the reasons behind MacWorld and Steve Jobs’ keynote cancellation. The real cause is his rapidly declining health. In fact, it may be even worse than we ever imagined: This source has repeatedly been 100% correct before. Those times, however, were always related to news and images of unreleased Apple products. I can only hope that, in this more personal matter, it is absolutely wrong and this just means that Steve Jobs is retiring according to his plan....

When The Goldbergs debuted in the fall of 2013, ABC knew they had something special, but they didn’t realize the show would quickly become one of the best sitcoms in their lineup. Created and co-written by Adam F. Goldberg, The Goldbergs is loosely based on his actual family. Most of their interactions, wardrobe and stories are inspired by his real-life friends, family members and experiences growing up in the 1980s - many of which he documented with a VHS camcorder....

A standard error on Android smartphones is the “Unfortunately, Google Play Store has stopped” one. This glitch might be caused by many reasons, including a bug with the app itself, or maybe something is wrong with your Google Account. If Google Play Store keeps crashing on Galaxy S10, S10E, or S10 Plus, you should keep on reading to find out how to fix the “Unfortunately, Google Play Store has stopped” error....

Gilbert Gottfried’s “erotic” and very NSFW reading of Fifty Shades Of Grey is somehow why more entertaining than the movie. While erotic thrillers existed before Basic Instinct - with 9½ Weeks being a key example - it was really Paul Verhoeven’s film that made studios see the box-office potential in them. This led to a steady but brief glut of erotically charged thrillers, including Sliver, Body Of Evidence, Disclosure, the Alec Baldwin/Kim Basinger remake of The Getaway and the delightfully insane Color Of Night starring Bruce Willis....

Along with The Conjuring franchise and Kevin Smith’s View Askewniverse, one of the only successful cinematic universes that have nothing to do with Marvel is Legendary Pictures’ MonsterVerse. Kicking off with the 2014 Godzilla reboot and continuing with 2017’s exotic, action-packed Kong: Skull Island, the MonsterVerse is about to cross over in a major way next year with Godzilla v. Kong, the franchise’s equivalent of The Avengers or Batman v Superman....

The two most popular non-game apps downloaded from Apple’s iOS App Store so far this year were both Google ones: YouTube and Google Maps, according to data from App Annie (via The Next Web). Google Maps was originally installed as standard on iPhones and iPads until Apple struck out on its own with the rather ill-fated Apple Maps. Though Apple has since fixed many of the embarrassing errors in the launch version, demand for Google’s version has seemingly increased rather than decreased....

Google may own the world’s most popular mobile operating system in Android, but it wants iPhone and iPad developers to recognize that the company has a lot to offer for them as well. Enter a new web series called Route 85, which will consist of a set of videos uploaded to the Google Developers channel on YouTube to showcase everything from SDKs to code libraries that iOS developers can take advantage of....

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrqZl2QIz0c] Ahead of the release of Apple’s much rumored “iWatch” wearable product, Google has now officially announced Android’s entrance into wearables with project “Android Wear.” The Android Wear SDK allows developers to integrate a number of features into Android powered wearables and relies heavily on Google Now functionality, as we were first to report late last year. Google also confirmed that it’s working with a handful of partners to bring Android Wear powered wearables to market by later this year:...

These plasma-confining devices, called tokamaks, are formed using a series of high-power magnetic coils to create a vessel in which plasma is controlled at temperatures as hot as the sun’s core. Correctly confined plasma can allow nuclear fusion to occur between hydrogen atoms and is being studied as a sustainable method of generating electricity. Researchers from DeepMind and EPFL’s Swiss Plasma Center (SPC) detail in a new paper in Nature how they helped create a set of DeepMind AI algorithms capable of controlling the shape of plasma inside the vessel....

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In this tutorial, we will guide you on how to install the firmware flash file on General Mobile E-Tab 5. The device came out of the box with Android 5.1 Oreo and powered by MediaTek. If you are someone who is looking to fix your device’s common issues like boot loop, remove pattern lock, bypass FRP lock, repair IMEI, or extracting DA (download agent) file, then this guide is for you....

Germany’s top civil court today has ruled against Apple in a case pertaining to the company’s swipe-to-unlock input method. Judges in the case explained that swipe-to-unlock is not sophisticated enough to be awarded patent protection. This ruling falls in line with a similar ruling that favored Motorola back in 2013 (via Bloomberg). Swipe-to-unlock was not an invention by Apple, the court claims, seeing that it was already suggested by “the state of the art....

Apple’s latest desktop operating system, OS X Yosemite, is available today. In this post, we’ll take you through the steps required to protect your data by backing it up, upgrading the OS, and getting started with the latest version of OS X. Before you get started, you’ll want to make sure you have everything you need. To backup your data, you’ll need an external hard drive or a Time Capsule with at least the same amount of storage as your hard drive....

Get Organized with Microsoft OneNote OneNote is basically a system where you create different virtual notebooks. You can then break down the notebooks into different sections. To get started, open up Microsoft OneNote. It will ask you to give the notebook a name. Name it and then click on Create Notebook. When you create the notebook, OneNote will ask you if you invite other people to view it. This option is helpful if you’re working on a team project or even just household items you’d like to share with family members....