The world is transforming into a digital world where most work is done via computers. Software and hardware are the most common terms used when discussing computers. Many elements dedicate themselves to the making of modern tech devices. There are various kinds of software and hardware, and you may come across firmware. In the electronic industry, firmware and software are evenly popular. Differentiating between these terms can be tricky as they can sometimes have the same purpose....

It may be true that Avatar has made an eye-watering amount of money since its original release – almost $3 billion to date – but the long-in-development sequel has its own mountain to climb now that it’s ready to begin its box office journey. Some still aren’t sure the first movie even needed a sequel, others have lost interest in Avatar altogether, while the more die hard fans have waited a long time to see Cameron’s ideas for his Avatar franchise expanded into a fully-fledged universe....

To enter to win a $200 Gift Card to Svaha, click here! While there has been a push to get more women into STEAM-related fields (which is to say science, technology, engineering, art, and math), we still have a long way to go. Women make up roughly half of the American workforce, but are particularly underrepresented in STEM fields, with only a quarter of the science and engineering workforce composed of women....

Now with our first trailer for Johnson’s follow-up, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, it would seem the director is intent on doing his own take of that 1973 cult classic—or at the very least homaging it extensively. This fact is made clear at the beginning of the Glass Onion trailer. Before we even see Daniel Craig’s well-groomed gentleman sleuth onscreen, we hear that unmistakable “Southern” drawl. “Ladies and gentlemen,” Benoit Blanc gravely intones, “You expected a mystery....

While there are so many ways that Ragnarok demonstrates why Triple-A sequels are typically among the most anticipated games in a given year, there are other ways that the game exposes the complicated state of the sequel industry. After all, we’ve expected sequels to be bigger than the original for roughly as long as sequels have existed. That expectation isn’t going anywhere, but even a sequel as brilliant as God of War: Ragnarok shows that the current popular expectations for bigger gaming sequels may be hindering their ability to eventually offer so much more than just “more....

Hap and Leonard: Season 1 Episode 6 It was initially surprising that the final showdown with Soldier and Angel was more or less over in the first fifteen minutes of the finale. But as I’ve said before, this show has never been about the stolen money. Rather, Hap and Leonard is about old flames and lifelong friendships. And so we embark on a slow denouement that seeks to patiently tie up loose ends for characters in desperate need of closure....

Good news: she’s playing Eleanor Bishop, Kate’s mom; she is in fact pretty evil; and she doesn’t appear to have a whit of ’80s frumpy ex-nun to her character. She’s just going to be a wealthy, amoral jerk. And also maybe a vampire. Who Is Eleanor Bishop? Eleanor has a place in Kate’s story going back to her earliest days – she’s mentioned in Young Avengers Special #1 in 2006, shortly after Kate was created by Allan Heinberg and Jim Cheung....

The real highlight this month comes on Jan. 13 with the release of Peacemaker. Developed by James Gunn, this series spins off John Cena’s titular character from last years’ The Suicide Squad. The show will delve into the pathology of a superhero who will achieve peace regardless of how many people need to be killed to attain it. Also of note this month are second seasons for two major HBO series....

Roger’s hero speech. Ma Costa’s revenge. Lyra karate-kicking the fire alarm. Serafina cutting a magical swathe through the enemy. The mother-daughter-monkey-rage-scream through the locked door. Iorek’s arrival. Lee’s gunshot. The guillotine meltdown… This episode had so many high points and so much rousing action that it’s a real credit to the writing, performance and direction that its most gripping scene was also its quietest: Lyra and Mrs Coulter’s reunion. The careful work done to build Mrs Coulter’s character in episode two – the smiling, still face muzzling her violent rage, the extreme self-regard masking abject self-hatred – paid off beautifully here....

Did you stay until the end? All the way to the end, after the production names and notices about the support of the Welsh government and tax credits from the Hawaii Film Office? Then you saw him – a hint as to where this fantastic (in all senses of the word) tale is heading. Lyra has spent season two tormented by guilt over Roger’s death and wishing she could have done more to help him....

To millennials of a certain age, it remains a Halloween anthem. It’s also wildly different from what David Kirschner, the movie’s producer and co-writer, originally had in mind. For context, consider this: Kirschner’s first choice for Winifred Sanderson was Cloris Leachman, the perfectly deadpan, but severe, comedic presence of Young Frankenstein (1973) and The Last Picture Show (1971). Kirschner couldn’t even imagine there would be a musical number in Hocus Pocus....

Homeland Season 6 Episode 10 There was a moment midway through tonight’s episode of Homeland where the president-elect, the soon-to-be most powerful person on the planet, paid an unannounced visit to Carrie Mathison’s brownstone. With all the subtlety of “Hail to the Chief,” Elizabeth Keane acts like a concerned, mentoring figure to Carrie while having her secret service agents turn the screws of pressure simply by turning an about-face toward the door....

The unique jolt of seeing something so strange, so horrifying, on the screen that it cannot be forgotten is a powerful experience, and lasts far beyond the roll of the credits. One that contains more than a few images that have retained their ability to upset and unbalance me since first seeing them is a film that was made by a director who is often thought of as a maker of psychological dramas rather than horror films....

House of the Dragon Episode 3 It took Game of Thrones nearly two full seasons (and an influx of gold dragon currency) before it felt comfortable enough to tackle a big action sequence. In fact, for much of its early run Game of Thrones went out of its way to avoid major battles even when the situation called for it. Season 1 saw Tyrion sit out a scuffle after an errant axe to the head knocked him out....

What would a normal day in King’s Landing be like if a building wasn’t been blown up or a dragon wasn’t crashing a coronation? We imagine it would be pretty boring. Thankfully, it was business as usual in House of the Dragon season one’s penultimate episode, as “The Green Council” saw Aegon II Targaryen (Tom Glynn-Carney) crowned as king of the Seven Kingdoms. While a full-blooded Targaryen sitting on the throne should be good news for everyone, we know this is the beginning of the end for the doomed dynasty....

It’s a prime example of the power Arachnophobia still possesses, 30 years on from its release. The power to have audiences breaking out in cold sweats one minute and fits of laughter the next. Fortunately, Arachnophobia had Frank Marshall at the helm. Never work with animals and children While the old Hollywood adage claimed you should never work with children or animals, Marshall had an impressive track record with both – especially animals....

Concepts, like passing callbacks to functions or writing asynchronous code, are often not so difficult to implement, which makes most JavaScript developers care less about what goes on under the hood. They just don’t care about understanding the complexities that have deeply abstracted from them by the language. As a JavaScript developer, it becomes increasingly important to understand what really happens under the hood and how most of these complexities abstracted from us really work....

Actually, you’re forgiven if you watched Final Fantasy Origin‘s debut trailer and didn’t even realize that it appears to be a kind of retelling of the original Final Fantasy game. While some of the specifics of the relationship between Team Ninja’s Final Fantasy spin-off and 1987’s Final Fantasy remain unknown, the two clearly share a number of plot points and characters. Because the trailer honestly did a pretty bad job of making that clear, though, only hardcore Final Fantasy fans were probably able to those references....

Nikyatu Jusu’s love of horror is undeniable, evidenced in her short film Suicide By Sunlight (2018), and now even more so in her debut feature Nanny (2022). “I usually start every project with imagery. And as I’ve said many times, the springboard is my mother’s story, loosely… and I’m just fiercely protective of my mother,” Jusu explains about the entry point for this script and her personal connection to the story of Aisha (Anna Diop), a Senegalese immigrant in New York and the nanny for the child of an affluent white family....

Power Rangers Dino Fury ended on a bigger high than when it came in, which is saying something because Dino Fury was a huge fan favorite right from the get go. Over the last two years the series has earned wide approval and love from the Power Rangers fanbase and entering into these final episodes fans were eager to see if the show could stick the landing. It was able to do that and so much more....