While I don’t think that Sony and their studio partners simply woke up and chose violence in regards to how difficult some of the PS3’s most notable games are, it’s kind of amazing to think that some of this console’s best titles helped change the conversations we have about the very concept of difficult video games. For that matter, some of the PS3’s best action games are the hardest we’ve seen since the arcade era....

Created by actor-turned-filmmaker Taylor Sheridan and starring Kevin Costner, Yellowstone boasts some truly eye-popping viewership numbers. Though the show was a hit right out of the gate, it’s reached new heights in its fourth season. The season 4 premiere drew in 12.7 million viewers in the Nielsen Ratings Live+3 metric. That made it the most-watched premiere on cable since The Walking Dead in 2017. Naturally, a show this successful almost has to become a franchise and introduce at least one spinoff....

As indicated by its title, 1917 is a stunning microcosm for the war that ushered in our modern age with blood and sacrifice, as well as a tribute to the men who spilled both by the millions. It is also a magnificent achievement for Mendes and Deakins. More than just a technical marvel and another masterpiece in a year filled with several, 1917 is a hauntingly evocative work that is likely to change how war stories are filmed, and how we process their lessons a century later....

As the name implies, open-source apps have their source code available to the public to inspect and even modify. This ensures they are secure and respect privacy as the vulnerabilities in the code can be detected by anyone. Furthermore, these apps are usually maintained by volunteer developers who work on them in their free time, so they are usually free to use. Being free and secure is more than enough reason to get open source apps, but if you are not convinced, then below are some more reasons:...

Discovering Bigfoot A deep dive into the legendary mythical (or not?) creature, Discovering Bigfoot is the first full-length documentary to allegedly capture real live footage of wilderness experts and professors – including the renowned Dr Jeff Meldrum – interacting with the elusive Bigfoot. The film follows the brave researchers as they explore Sasquatch Country, discovering along the way that what we knew about human evolution may be quite different from the truth, and that the Sasquatch may in fact be a modern day descendant of the creature we now know as Bigfoot....

You’ll start by learning the condition for valid matrix multiplication and write a custom Python function to multiply matrices. Next, you will see how you can achieve the same result using nested list comprehensions. Finally, you’ll proceed to use NumPy and its built-in functions to perform matrix multiplication more efficiently. How to Check if Matrix Multiplication is Valid Before writing Python code for matrix multiplication, let’s revisit the basics of matrix multiplication....

In this post, we will review the top affordable Mesh Wi-Fi systems and their features. What is a Mesh Wi-Fi system, and why is it needed? A Mesh Wi-Fi system consists of the main router and two or more Wi-Fi nodes (also called units). The router connects to a modem to access the internet, and Wi-Fi nodes are placed across the home or office to cover the entire area for a flawless internet connection....

Valid, novel and understandable data is all businesses need for their knowledge discovery models. For this reason, businesses are applying analytics in many different ways to uncover quality data. But where does it all start? The answer is data wrangling. Let’s get started! What Is Data Wrangling? Data wrangling is the act of cleaning, structuring, and transforming raw data into formats that simplify data analytics processes. Data wrangling often involves working with messy and complex data sets that are not ready for data pipeline processes....

As the days pass by, privacy concerns are growing in your visitor’s minds. And they aren’t wrong because new scandals surface every now and then. Recently, I woke up to this headline where some famous personalities’ Twitter account was hacked. Zoom had some flaws, websites are infiltrated, and not even Google and Facebook are spared from online attacks. What’s the consequence, you ask? A huge number of user data is getting exposed!...

It’s because if a critical business application gets interrupted or fails, it affects basic organizational operations. As a result, a business can suffer in its efficiency, app performance, finances, productivity, security, and customer trust. These are enough to cause damage to your brand authority in a market full of competition. This is why you must do everything you can to maintain your application’s health to perform at its maximum efficiency....

From Washing clothes with a washing machine to listening to the radio on smartphones, things have changed a lot and keep changing with time. It cannot be said that technology has no contributions in terms of taking care of our children too. There are a lot of smart devices that help maintain children’s safety. One such device is the GPS tracker for kids that can help you keep an eye on them....

Due to globalization and technological advancement, apps need to access global time data instantly. Managing the date and time of multiple locations on your app will make the tool complex. Timezone API integration ensures easy access to data, minus any additional setup. Let’s learn the use cases of timezone API and the top APIs that offer this service. Who Uses a Timezone API and Why With the help of a timezone API, users can avail the exact current time from address and location, IP address, and time zone....

Online marketing has created a huge opportunity for entrepreneurs and job seekers. Digital marketing is replacing conventional marketing practices, and it has become the next big thing on the internet. However, don’t let the terminologies fool you as it is no rocket science. People from any educational background can make a successful career in digital marketing. Certain platforms are offering certification courses for digital marketing enthusiasts, and you can begin your learning from these platforms....

Software development goes through several phases: requirements gathering, analysis, coding, testing, and maintenance. Out of all these phases, the coding/ development phase requires a lot of time and effort. Software engineers deal with syntax errors, logical errors, and runtime errors. Syntactical errors are identified at compile time and occur due to the code not abiding by the rules of a programming language. On the other hand, logical and run-time errors can’t be identified by the Integrated Development Environment (IDE) and are often difficult to debug and fix....

However, organizations are left with many releases to work on in order to keep their software products updated with new features and functionalities. This can become confusing and overwhelming if not handled well. Therefore, you need to streamline your release management process to work on each release with full clarity and effectiveness. Let’s understand how to do that. What do you mean by Release Management? In software development and IT, release management refers to the process in which a software system is built, deployed, and released to the users....

“I’m not good with horror movies. I’m a scaredy cat,” Krasinski said at a recent NYC press conference. “[Producer Andrew Form] called me one day and said, ‘Would you ever do a genre movie,’ and I said ‘I don’t know, man. I’m a scaredy cat and I don’t know if I could do horror movies.’ He said, “Well what if it was a really cool idea?’ I asked what the idea was and he said ‘It’s a family that can’t talk, and you have to figure out why....

As it turns out, you can make a sound in A Quiet Place—so long as it is loud enough that it’s too much for these blind demons that hunt us. Such is the ending to John Krasinski’s surprisingly taut and relentlessly grueling horror movie. Because for the entire picture up until that point, we have been told that to even speak above a whisper is to invite death. And that is still true, but it is now time for the monster’s deaths too....

Abbott Elementary Season 2 Episode 2 Abbott Elementary is at its absolute best when it finds a glimmer of hope in the depressing atmosphere that is underfunded public education. This week’s episode is another shining example of this, as the teachers of Abbott know better than to get their hopes up when new history books arrive on their doorstep in the mail. They immediately recognize the misdelivery, as the pristine texts were meant for the charter school a couple of blocks down the street....

Laurence Fishburne played “Bumpy Rhodes,” based on Bumpy Johnson, in Francis Ford Coppola’s 1984 gangster film, The Cotton Club, and reprised the role as Johnson in the 1997 film Hoodlum. In the Epix television series, Godfather of Harlem, Forest Whitaker is paroled into the part. Clarence Williams III plays Bumpy in American Gangster. The film opens at his funeral and in his shadow. His lessons loom over a successor’s rise....

The movie, which will still open theatrically in “select” international markets, was originally scheduled to come out last April, but was bumped by the initial onslaught of the coronavirus pandemic to August 21 before being taken off the calendar last month. With COVID-19 still raging unchecked through much of the United States, Lionsgate apparently assumed it was better to get the film out to as wide an audience as possible through PVOD platforms instead of waiting to assess the state of movie theaters this fall....