Get ready for a whole new HBO. While WarnerMedia’s upcoming streaming service will be known as HBO Max, the service is more than just a new spin on the popular premium network. HBO Max will combine HBO’s slate of original series with other content from WarnerMedia’s vast library, includingFriends. According toa press releasefrom WarnerMedia, HBO Max will be the new home for the hit ’90s sitcom in 2020, which Netflix previously paid$100 millionto stream for a single year....

Summary Green Lanternheads to the American Wild West in a genius new piece of fanart DC needs to see. Although Green Lantern lives in modern times, the concept allows for one to exist in practically any time or era. ArtistMike J. Becker taps into this idea, creating a Green Lantern patrolling the American West of the 19th century, keeping it safe from outlaws. Mike Beckerreleased the fanart in a post on X, formerly Twitter....

IBM’s latestX-Force Threat Intelligence Index reportreveals that more than 2.9 billion records were leaked through publicly disclosed incidents in 2017. While that sounds horribly bad, there’s a bright side to this stormy disclosure: the number is 25 percentlowerthan the amount of records leaked in 2016. Why? Because hackers are shifting over toransomware. They’re becoming more focused on holding files hostage for money than on unleashing all that data to the dark markets....

We’re a few episodes into the fifth season of HBO’s hit comedy seriesSilicon Valley, andthe network has already announcedthat it is renewing the show for a sixth season. HBO announcedthe return of Richard Hendricks and companyon its official Medium account, alongside news of a second season for the Bill Hader-led dark comedy seriesBarry, which debuted the same day asSilicon Valley’sfifth season premiere. “WhileBarryhas delighted audiences with its deft interplay of comedy and drama,Silicon Valleyremains as brilliantly and frighteningly prescient as ever,” Amy Gravitt, executive vice president, HBO Programming, said....

In this day and age, aFacebookname carries more weight and identity than a physical listing in the Yellow Pages. Your online name serves as a portal of sorts, ushering friends and family to discover and navigate your timeline, while offering a touch of personalization in the form of additional nicknames, professional titles, and the like. However, there are more plausible reasons than you might expect for changing your Facebook name to something more appropriately suited for you....

Zoom has faced severalprivacy and security concernsas more people turn to it as a way to communicate. Businesses, including SpaceX, have beguntelling employees to stop using the service, while others, including consumers, have started opting for alternatives. But what if you still need touse Zoom? We’ll teach you how to increase your privacy and security on what is quickly becoming one of the web’s most popular video conferencing services. Update your Zoom software Zoom has begun to handle a large number of its security flaws, already jumping to enable passwords for conference entry with digital waiting rooms and stopping its mobile iOS app fromsending data to Facebookin the background....

Aran Tal is one of the newest characters inStar Wars: Hunters, and it is one of the only characters in the game not currently available through the typical means to unlock them. Most characters in the game can beunlocked just by playing the game. As you level up, the characters are slowly unlocked one by one, and it usually does not take long for you to collect most of them. However, Aran Tal is not like the others....

Whenever I get a new video game handheld (there are a lot of them these days), my first goal is always to find my “go-to game.” I seek out the kind of replayable puzzlers orroguelikesthat I will always keep installed and come back to whenever I don’t have anything new to play. On Nintendo 3DS, it wasDr. Mario Miracle Cure. On Nintendo Switch, it wasTetris 99. On Steam Deck, it wasVampire Survivors....

Adobe Lightroommay be the RAW photo editor of choice among many photographers, but working with large quantities of big files means speed is often a chief complaint. Older computers, in particular, can suffer from slower imports and delays while editing. But, tweaking some settings can help Lightroom users eke out more speed, even on an older device. Try these seven ways to speed upLightroom Classic andLightroom CCas well. Optimize your hardware A major part of any software’s performance is the hardware that’s running it....

Lisa Vanderpump questions Bethenny Frankel’s call to unionize reality TV stars After RHONY’s Bethenny Frankel urged reality TV stars to fight for their compensation, Lisa Vanderpump has opened up about why it doesn’t make sense to do so. Lisa Vanderpump has been the matriarch behind Vanderpump Rules since its inception into reality TV in 2013. Not only is she featured on theBravoTVshow, she’s also an executive producer. Vanderpump was also on Real Housewives of Beverly Hills from 2010 until 2019....

The iPhone may be Apple’s most popular product, but the company hasn’t forgotten about its former flagship, the MacBook. In late 2016, Apple revealed the new face of the MacBook Pro lineup, including three new laptops with updated hardware (two of which feature the newly-unveiled Touch Bar feature). The Touch Bar is an OLED multitouch display, one designed to replace the function keys at the top of the keyboard and provide custom shortcuts for whichever app is at hand....

Image via The Science Elf/YouTubeImage via The Science Elf/YouTube Do you remember Clippy? Before Cortana, Alexa, and Siri existed, the anthropomorphic paperclip-shaped assistant dominated the screens of computers everywhere in the 1990s to helpMicrosoft Office2001 users when writing letters. Well, though it has been over 18 years since Clippy last appeared in mainstream software, he recently made a bit of a comeback, only to die off again. Earlier this week, some Clippy themed sticker packs were released to the Microsoft Teams collaboration software....

The Nintendo Switch is one of my favorite consoles for multiplayer gaming. With so many greatmultiplayer Switch games, there’s something for everyone no matter their gaming skills. If your more adept gaming buddies are over, you can start up a seriousSuper Smash Bros. Ultimatetournament or have some intenseSplatoon 3matches. And if you’ve got some more casual gamers or absolute noobs in the mix, you can jump into more straightforward fun likeSuper Mario PartyorMario Kart 8where everyone can have a little fun....