Month: December 2019

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[Warning: The following contains major spoilers for The Witcher. Read at your own risk!] The Witcher, Netflix’s adaptation of the Andrzej Sapkowski books that inspired the popular video game franchise, is finally here. Starring Henry Cavill as the titular witcher Geralt of Rivia, the fantasy series shows how the monster hunter-for-hire’s destiny becomes intertwined with
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Disney/Lucasfilm’s Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker powered up its light sabers in 46 material offshore markets through Thursday, grossing $59.1M at the international box office. That includes China where the force is, unsurprisingly, not strong with this final installment. Elsewhere, Episode IX has seen launches above Star Wars: The Last Jedi in most majors.
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WASHINGTON — Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner commercial crew spacecraft will return to Earth Dec. 22, just two days after launch, as the company and NASA investigate a timing problem that prevented the spacecraft from visiting the International Space Station. In a media teleconference Dec. 21, NASA and Boeing officials said they had decided to land the
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Carly Pope and Kristoffer Polaha star in tonight’s Double Holiday on Hallmark Channel. Written by Nina Weinman, who has almost two dozen successful television movies on her resume, Double Holiday follows Rebecca, a successful Jewish woman working on her company’s Christmas party with Chris in the hope that it leads to a promotion. Carly and
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Respected video game designer Shigeru Miyamoto has been honoured and is now recognised as one of four honorary citizens of Nantan City, Kyoto Prefecture. Mr. Miyamoto is well known for creating some of the biggest video game characters and games out there, so it’s great to see his work being acknowledged beyond the usual gaming circles.
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Warning: Spoilers for Shazam #9 In the first issue finding DC’s Shazam family complete, there is little time for celebration, or even stopping to explain magic to Billy Batson’s confused father. But history has been made all the same… as Shazam #9 barrels into the fallout of C.C. Batson becoming the Seventh (and final) Champion. But even
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F5 got an expensive holiday present today, snagging startup Shape Security for approximately $1 billion. What the networking company gets with a shiny red ribbon is a security product that helps stop automated attacks like credential stuffing. In an article earlier this year, Shape CTO Shuman Ghosemajumder explained what the company does: “We’re an enterprise-focused
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New York City’s longest-running premier boutique comic books and popular culture show, revealed its program of events for the Big Apple Christmas Con holiday party this Saturday, December 14 at the New Yorker Hotel. “This is the beginning of a new era for comics in New York!” says Big Apple Comic Con founder Michael Carbonaro. This special one-day
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EXCLUSIVE: The dark force from critics isn’t keeping Disney’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker down with the Lucasfilm finale to the George Lucas-created saga seeing between $44M-$48M per Deadline sources tonight. At that level, Rise of Skywalker will wind up being either the third or fourth best preview night ever with the current top three being last
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Since July 2018, our development team has talked about giving Warframe players something different than the tried-and-true procedurally generated corridor shooters and open-world expansions they have become used to. They have wanted to expand Warframe’s gameplay into real-time, ship-to-ship space combat. With that first Railjack demo shown at TennoCon one-and-a-half years ago, they turned a
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France’s competition watchdog has slapped Google with a €150 million (~$166M) fine after finding the tech giant abused its dominant position in the online search advertising market. In a decision announced today — following a lengthy investigation into the online ad sector — the competition authority sanctions Google for adopting what it describes as “opaque
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Even when Apple telegraphs its hardware strategy, it’s proving to be nearly impossible for startups to beat them. The company’s executives have been motioning interest in following their runaway success on mobile with hefty investments in augmented reality, something that has led to the rise of dozens of venture-backed startups hoping to beat Apple to
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