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For years, San Diego Comic-Con was a staple on the geek calendar. MIllions trekked to Southern California to learn the latest happenings on movies, television shows, video games, streaming, comics and beyond. Then, the world grinded to a halt, the word “virtual” became part of our lexicon, and SDCC had to pivot. No longer. The convention returns in earnest in July, and Paramount Pictures is proud to be the first panel in the celebrated Hall H, kicking off the weekend with a slew of activities tied to the 2023…

Issue I was forced to manually shut down Chrome and reboot my computer — losing dozens of tabs. Quick fix Use History to restore complete Chrome windows, including all groups and tabs. The full story Over the weekend, I needed to use my somewhat elderly MacBook Pro — the one I usually use for work — for a Zoom call. Unfortunately, I had been running several work projects and had two iterations of Chrome going, each with about 40 or 50 tabs. (Okay, I had a couple of other apps going as well.) As a result, when I began…

Twitter is being accused of letting Elliot Page’s deadname trend for approximately 45 minutes despite the platform’s hateful conduct policy.The 35-year-old actor’s deadname – the name he used before coming out as a transgender man in 2020 – was trending on Twitter on Tuesday (5 July).According to Twitter’s hateful conduct policy, users are prohibited from “targeting others with repeated slurs, tropes or other content that intends to dehumanise, degrade or reinforce negative or harmful stereotypes about a protected…

YouTube, Instagram, Discord, and Twitter moved to quickly pull social media pages that appeared to belong to Robert Crimo III, a person of interest in the Chicago suburb shooting that left six dead and dozens injured this afternoon. Under a pair of aliases, Crimo seems to have posted more than a dozen videos to YouTube and hosted a Discord channel named “SS,” which was open to the public through an invite link. Crimo’s apparent YouTube account hadn’t posted in around eight months, based The Verge’s viewing before the…

Shakespeare Unleashed is an anthology of prose horror stories inspired by the work of William Shakespeare. The book, published by Monstrous Books and Crystal Lake Publishing, is currently being funded on Kickstarter, where it has nearly quintupled its original goal in less than a week. Since the project’s launch they have since added a comic book anthology component, and today The Beat has an exclusive first look at a pair of pages from the Shakespeare Unleashed comic. The Shakespeare Unleashed comic currently features…

Viktor (Elliot Page) and Allison (Emmy Raver-Lampman) share a smile in season three of The Umbrella Academy.Photo: Christos Kalohoridis/NetflixNetflix’s The Umbrella Academy hit the streamer today with its third season, unfurling more time-travel troubles and (in a new twist!) inter-dimensional shenanigans for the super-powered Hargreeves siblings. But one key part of season three happened both on-screen and behind the scenes.In late 2020, several months after season two dropped, Umbrella Academy star Elliot Page came out…

Twitter is partnering with Shopify on an integration that will keep a seller’s Twitter profile page updated with direct links to the products they have for sale. Shopify users who install the new Twitter add-on can connect their Twitter account with Shopify and then start building out a store on Twitter with the platform’s Shop Module. The new add-on automatically loads a merchant’s products from Shopify onto Twitter, which then appear in a carousel on the Twitter profile. Users can browse through or expand the…

Google updated the product rich results support page to add details around how these rich results can be used for product variants where each product variant has a distinct URL. For example, if you have a product page that has a shirt in blue, green, red and yellow, that page may not be eligible to show rich results for product-rich results unless you have a specific landing page for each product variant. What changed. Google simply clarified how rich results on product…

Apple has released updates to all of its iWork apps. Today's update, which brings the productivity suite to version 12.1, adds some notable updates to Pages, Numbers, and Keynote across iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and iCloud. Pages The latest version of Pages adds a number of notable features to the writing app, including the ability to mail merge: Use mail merge to quickly create personalised letters, cards and envelopes for multiple recipients Select from stylish new templates for event invitations and student certificates…

Facebook has decided to crack down on user reviews to prevent people from leaving fake feedback on business pages.The company has updated its Community Feedback policy to address this widespread issue. While actions were already being taken against potentially abusive reviews, the new policy puts these rules into writing.Facebook's new guidelines protect against people who leave fake bad reviews as a way to get refunds or other freebies out of a business that wants to please its customers, and they're also supposed to…