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LastPass has now become free for mobile, allowing many more users to adopt the popular password manager tool to better protect their online accounts against hacking.

Lexa Doig is joining Arrow as DC Comics character Talia al Ghul.

The actress, whose previous work includes roles in Continuum, Stargate SG-1 and V, will make her debut as the daughter of Ra's al Ghul (Matt Nable) and half-sister of Nyssa (Katrina Law) in Season 5's tenth episode. Doig will appear in multiple episodes, with Talia joining the fray as a new recurring character.

Talia al Ghul (image via DC Entertainment) will be played by Lexa Doig on Arrow.

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Captain Jack Sparrow is charting a course for the Wizarding World.

Deadline reports that Johnny Depp has booked a role in the sequel to Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. His role was not disclosed. It's also not clear how many of the now five-film series Depp's character will appear in.

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2 is aiming to start production in early 2017 under the direction of returning helmer David Yates.

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The four members of METALLICA were recently interviewed by the band's official fan magazine So What! about their forthcoming album, "Hardwired... To Self-Destruct", due for release on the group's own Blackened Recordings on November 18. A few excerpts follow. On the musical direction of "Hardwired... To Self-Destruct": Robert Trujillo (bass): "To me, it's a very relentless album. It might not be a super-dynamic album, I mean like 'Death Magnetic', a lot of these songs, very dynamic. I don't necessarily feel this is supposed to be that. I think this is supposed to be where we are now and what we've been experiencing in a positive way. And there's gonna be plenty more journeys!" Lars Ulrich (drums): "This record is still very fresh to me, but I must admit that the times I've heard it, there's something about the intensity and the 'continuous slap in the face.' It has this relentlessness. It just keeps going and going, kkkk, just keeps going!" Robert Trujillo: "You got the old school energy, you've got a little bit of the 'Black Album' energy, you've got all this going on and you get on the floor and start hammering the ideas out, and it grows. I feel when you perform something on that floor, I'm not even saying live in front of a crowd, I'm just saying here at [METALLICA's headquarters in San Rafael, California], a lot of that is like performing, we're physically getting involved. And there is a groove that is very necessary. And I think this album, though it's heavy and it's in your face, there's a lot of groove in there and that makes me really happy." On the songwriting process for "Hardwired... To Self-Destruct": Kirk Hammett (guitar): "At the outset, I think the idea was to make an album that was similar in approach to [METALLICA's 1983 debut] 'Kill 'Em All', and that was an album that was pretty much driven by Lars and James [Hetfield, guitar/vocals], with a little help from [former guitarist] [Dave] Mustaine. So the concept was for those two to spearhead that whole creative process again in much the same way as 'Kill 'Em All' was done. And I'm totally fine with that." James Hetfield (guitar, vocals): "I would say that we're out for the best songs, and wherever the material comes from is where it comes from. We're not trying to be 'exclusive,' it's 'Here's what's best for the band. These are the best riffs we have. These are the best parts and we're gonna put 'em together.' My pet peeve [was] always [that] the songs are too long. I want to play more songs live. I don't want the set to get longer. Let's make the songs shorter so we can play more songs." Lars Ulrich: "The biggest difference between the bulk of the songwriting on this record and the bulk of the songwriting on the last record is that we were more on our own this time. [On 'Death Magnetic'], [producer] Rick [Rubin] would come every couple weeks and continue to challenge us to 'go crazier.' He used a word, the word 'ridiculous.' I remember he would often sit there and go, 'Make it more ridiculous.' That was the word. I'd never associated the word 'ridiculous' with music, and I remember him sitting right on that couch [points at studio couch – Ed.] going, 'Make it more ridiculous.' And then we'd go in and we'd fucking turn it upside down, put it on its head, all that stuff, and three and six and nine and then some of that stuff. And I would say on this record we almost did the opposite of that. We made it less ridiculous as we went along. We started tightening it a little bit, cutting extra parts out, shortening, making it slightly more linear and making it less 'ridiculous.' I can tell you that the analogy that I just came up with, with going more 'ridiculous' on 'Death Magnetic' and less ridiculous on 'Hardwired…To Self-Destruct', I've never said that to anybody before." On his approach to guitar solos on "Hardwired... To Self-Destruct": Kirk Hammett: "I thought it would be great if I didn't work on the guitar solos beforehand. It's a pretty bold and challenging thing because I like to be well prepared when it comes to anything that has to do with music and my guitar playing. Showing up well prepared was my M.O. This time around, I just said to myself [that] in the past, a lot of the stuff that ended up on those albums was what I first played, the very first thing. My subconscious has a feel for what is the most appropriate thing, [so] let the music flow, the creativity flow, the feelings flow, [and] have my subconscious dictate what needs to be done for the music. I put 100 percent of that concept into the approach of doing these solos." On the fan reaction to the first couple of songs from "Hardwired... To Self-Destruct": James Hetfield: "I truly don't give a fuck. I really don't. I've embraced the idiocy of the Internet, and the freedom you have to say whatever you want all the time. At some point, you get so desensitized to it that it makes no sense. Just do what you love. How can you go wrong? It always goes back to, 'Why are we doing this? Because we love doing it, and we want to write some music that we like to listen to.' Simple as that. If you like the music, then listen with us." On the lyrical themes covered on "Hardwired... To Self-Destruct": James Hetfield: "'Hardwired' is so simple, it is not Shakespeare, I know that. But gosh, are humans really doing the right thing? You know. And in the history of time, we're a little blip. And are we gonna be gone? Are we phasing ourselves out with electronics? Are we becoming this? Are we gonna self-destruct because of our egos and all of the stuff that makes humans human? That whole sentence 'hardwired to self-destruct' came from a friend of mine that was just throwing it out there as a struggling addict. Is that what it's like for us? Is our default just to die? Earlier than we're supposed to. Wreck. Destroy our lives; are we hardwired to self-destruct? And that just caught my ear. 'Moth Into Flame' is pretty literal. These days everyone [has] an obsession with being famous. Being popular. Whether it's your Facebook account or walking around the street, watching someone doing selfies of themselves as they're walking down the street. Like what? What are you doing?" Read more excerpts from the interviews at Metallica.com.

After confirming that Karen Page and Misty Knight will appear in The Defenders, Marvel has announced several more additions to its upcoming Netflix-exclusive ensemble series.

In a post on Twitter, the show's official account revealed that Elden Henson will reprise his role from Daredevil as Foggy Nelson.

Elden Henson as Foggy Nelson in Marvel's Daredevil

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Marvel has officially confirmed that Deborah Ann Woll's Karen Page and Simone Missick's Misty Knight will appear in its upcoming Netflix series, The Defenders.

The show's official Twitter account shared the news in a post that also includes the following video.

Get ready. @deborahannwoll & @SimoneMissick return for The #Defenders. pic.twitter.com/Yjz6m6xuQ0

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Researchers from Google Brain have discovered that machines can learn how to use basic encryption to keep their messages private. The obvious next step is machines learning how to secretly dispose of human bodies. Don't laugh, they are probably working on that as we speak. Researchers Martín Abadi and David Andersen demonstrate that neural networks, or "neural nets" – computing systems that are loosely based on artificial neurons – can work out how to use a simple encryption technique. In their experiment, computers were able to make their own form of encryption using machine learning, without being taught specific cryptographic algorithms. The encryption was very basic, especially compared to our current human-designed systems. Even so, it is still an interesting step for neural nets, which the authors state "are generally not meant to be great at cryptography". Comments

"VISUAL CAFFEINE" #5 Link - by Avi Abrams DRB Visual Caffeine: a thrilling blend of art, architecture, myths and fabulous technology - Issue 5 This is the fifth issue of our "visual caffeine concoctions" (read the first one here) - somewhat unpredictable short forays into the history of art and architecture, coupled with mythology, culture and fabulous (often obsolete) technology. ------------ "Heaven Can Wait" movie poster displays that classic Hollywood (anticipation of a) kiss, complete with creepy guys looking down from a painting. "The film tells the story of a man who has to prove he belongs in Hell by telling his life story". So, a-story-in-a-story, starring heavenly-looking Gene Tierney and (this is not Clark Gable!) Don Ameche: (images via 1, 2) Delahaye MS 165 V12 roadster sporting beautiful Art-Deco custom coachwork by Figoni & Falaschi, was chosen to represent France at the 1939 New York World's Fair, where it caused a sensation. ------------ A full-size Jumbo jet Boeing 747 in Soviet "Aeroflot" livery? Well, this apparently was a thing in 1987: this picture appeared in the official Panam promo brochure as a possible addition to the fleet of planes already servicing Moscow-New York direct flights. However, by the early 1990s the Soviet Union underwent massive political upheavals and Aeroflot did not fare very well, so the project was dropped: (image via) ------------ There is something very quaint about antique postcards, especially the ones completely crisscrossed by fine lines of cryptic handwriting: Here is another "angelic" example of old illustration from 1909 issue of Jugend German magazine (info), well-known for its popularization of Art-Nouveau style (appropriately called "Jugendstil" in Germany, and Art "Modern" in East Europe and Russia): (images credit: Jugend Magazine (digital version)) ------------ This futuristic concept car is one of the most visually exciting creations of the early 1960s. 1964 GM X Stiletto was truly "a dream car", completele with an aircraft-styled steering controls and a marvellous dashboard, worthy of Japanese classic manga artist Leiji Matsumoto (Space Cruiser Yamato) who would put similar dials and controls in his sleek starships and busy spaceports: (image via) The image below shows rare Soviet concept car (similarly streamlined and ready to blast off into space) "GAZ Torpedo" from 1958: (image via) One of the more interesting recent concept cars is this Renault DeZir, powered by an electric motor and sporting lovely sleek dashboard (see it in motion in this video): (image credit: Renault DeZir) ------------ Prairies in bloom (wild peonies)! Stavropolski Area, Sendileev Lake, Russia - Photo by Fedor Lashkov, National Geographic. Check out more incredible flowerings at photographer's page: (image credit: National Geographic, Fedor Lashkov) ------------ Chester City's lovely double-decker (photo taken in the 1980s). See a complete collection of these beautiful buses at Victoryguy's gallery: (image credit: Victoryguy) ------------ A sort of a "topographic" 3-D table recreates a lake right in your room. Materials: wood, glass - simple, but stunningly effective! The Abyss Horizon Table by Duffy London. See more here: (image credit: Duffy London) ------------ The Nazi Olympics in Berlin in 1936 were the first to be televised: this humongous 6 feet long zoom camera was called "Fernsehkanonen" (television canon). Three of these cameras were used at the Olympics: (image credit: Early Television) ------------ Italian architect Renzo Picasso imagined this "American Multiple Highway" in 1929, the stacked system covering the whole of Manhattan! - see more here: (image credit: CityLab, courtesy of Renzo Picasso Archive) ------------ This is all, for now. Here is a relaxing photograph: "Three women keep cool during a heat wave by moving a park bench into the water in Central Park, New York. September 1961": (image credit: unknown photographer GettyImages) ------------ Read the previous Visual Caffeine Issues here: Issue #4 Issue #3 Issue #2 Issue #1

At Universal Studios in Los Angeles tonight, Tesla CEO Elon Musk showed off the company's solar roof-top panels, a new $5,500 Powerwall 2 high-capacity residential battery pack, and the Powerpack 2 for businesses.

Sherlock fans can ring in the new year with the show's season 4 premiere.

The official Twitter account for the BBC series revealed that the series will return on January 1, 2017, alongside a teaser image seen below. The first episode of Sherlock's return is called "The Six Thatchers."

Sherlock Season 4 begins January 1.

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It's hard to recall today, but being able to edit a document at the same time as others was a transformative feature for Google's suite of online office apps. That feature debuted a decade ago, though; these days, it's something most of us take proba...

Delta's new RFID luggage tags rolled out earlier this year, making it harder for at least one airline to lose your bags. Now, just in time for the holiday travel rush, Delta has already upgraded their baggage tracking system to include a up-to-the-mi...

The interesting news came from Canadian astrophysicists claiming that they experimentally discovered optical spectrum modulations of stars with the most likely explanation being that these modulations are caused by activities of extraterrestrial civilizations.

The article of Canadian astrophysicists E.F. Borra and E. Trottier (Département de Physique, Université Laval) was published in a prestigious scientific journal “Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific”. The journal is more than simply authoritative in fundamental astronomy and astrophysics with each article heavily reviewed and verified before publication. This means that even if Borra and his co-author did not find any aliens, they certainly found interesting peculiarities of some stars from spectral class range F2-K1 similar to our Sun.

The scientists analyzed roughly 2.5 million spectrums of stars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey data using Fourier Transform. 234 stars with their spectrum demonstrated periodic modulations with the period of modulation being equal for all 234 stars. At the same time, all unusually behaving stars belong to spectral classes from F2 to K1. This means that the stars are very similar to our sun with its spectral class being G2.

^{The screenshot is taken from Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence project SETI@home}

The authors of the article claim that the discovered anomalies cannot be caused by hardware errors or mathematical peculiarities of signal processing. Borra and his colleagues believe that the most fitting hypothesis is that we are observing high frequency (about 10^-12 times per second) light impulses that are generated by extraterrestrial civilizations.

Perhaps, we in fact observe how developed civilizations communicate to each other!

People with expertise in star spectroscopy or star seismology, I would definitely love to hear your opinions on the matter!

Some financial gurus are convinced that blockchain (the underlying tech behind bitcoin) is the future of business, and they might already have some proof. The Commonwealth Bank of Australia and Wells Fargo have conducted the first international, inte...

We've just gotten our first look at Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, in the form of a teaser poster.

Originally posted by director James Gunn, the image shows what looks like a fashion shoot (that will inevitably descend into violence of some kind):

Left-to-right: Nebula (Karen Gillen), Yondu Udonta (Michael Rooker), Rocket (Bradley Cooper), Gamora (Zoe Saldana), Baby Groot (Vin Diesel), Peter Quill (Chris Pratt), Drax (Dave Bautista).

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Note: Some spoilers follow for tonight's Arrow, "A Matter of Trust," though nothing not previously revealed officially by the network and studio via the guest credits already released for the episode.

This week's Arrow, "A Matter of Trust," features an interesting guest star in the form of Michael Rowe, who reprises his role as Floyd Lawton, AKA Deadshot. Deadshot's appearance is notable, of course, because the character died a couple of years back on the show - but also because this marks Deadshot's first appearance on Arrow since the Suicde Squad movie opened this summer, in which Will Smith played Deadshot.

I saw "A Matter of Trust" at a screening for press this week and while I won't divulge details on Deadshot's role in the episode, I will say it's signifiant and more than a one-scene cameo. When the character was killed off -- and Amanda Waller soon after -- more than one Arrow participant said that there was a mandate from above at DC and Warner Bros. for the series to curtail their use of any of the Suicide Squad characters, as the movie approached, even though many had been already introduced on the series.

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We've had an exciting year in the smartphone world and for those that haven't upgraded in a while, it's time to answer the question - what should you put in the letter to Santa? Sure, it might be a bit early for the holiday shopping, but we don't expect any new major phones launching to market this year so this buyer's guide will probably be the last one for 2016.

Today's nation-wide internet outage was enabled thanks to a Mirai botnet that hacked into connected home devices, according to security intelligence company Flashpoint. The distributed denial of service attack targeted Dyn, a large domain name server...

We're hours away from Nintendo's (brief) reveal of the NX, and if there's one game we're excited for, it's The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. The new adventure, which is coming out on both the Wii U and NX next year, was a highlight at E3 2016,...

It's been almost a year and a half since Nintendo announced the NX, and now the gaming giant has finally dropped the codename and secrecy in favor of something more official: Switch. Like the countless rumors previously asserted, it's indeed a hybrid...

• This is an iconic portrait of Microsoft's first 11 employees, dating back to 1978.
• Despite their looks here, most of the Microsofties went on to become millionaires.
• Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates went on to become the second-richest person on the planet. 
• Paul Allen, his friend and fellow cofounder, passed away in October 2018 after a battle with cancer. 
• Here's what happened to all of them.

It's one of the most iconic photos in American business.

A ragtag group assembled for a family portrait in Albuquerque.

If you see it on Facebook or LinkedIn, there's usually a question above the photo: "Would you have invested?"

It's a trick question. You're supposed to answer no — because, well, look at those people — but then you learn it's a company portrait of Microsoft from 1978.

Early employee Bob Greenberg, pictured in the middle, won a free portrait after calling in to a radio show and guessing the name of an assassinated president. The gang reluctantly gathered together in some of their finest attire, and an American business legend was made.

We all know what happened with the two guys in the bottom left and bottom right corners — Bill Gates and Paul Allen, who both became billionaire philanthropists and tycoons. But what about the rest, many of whom became millionaires in their own right?

In the wake of Paul Allen's untimely death at age 65 in October 2018, we thought it would be a good time to take another look back.

This is an update of a post originally written by Jay Yarow in 2011.

SEE ALSO: Microsoft millionaires unleashed: 12 Microsoft alums who spent their money in the most magnificent ways

Bill Gates is now giving away the billions he made from Microsoft

We all know what happened with this guy. Bill Gates founded and built Microsoft from nothing into the most valuable technology company in the world. Along the way, he became the second richest man in the world, and is now giving is fortune away to all kinds of good causes.

Andrea Lewis became a fiction writer and freelance journalist

Andrea Lewis was the only person at the company from Albuquerque. She was a technical writer for Microsoft, which means she wrote documents explaining Microsoft's software. She left Microsoft in 1983, eventually becoming a freelance journalist and fiction writer. She co-owns the Hugo House, a literary center in Seattle.

Maria Wood sued Microsoft just two years later

Maria Wood was a bookkeeper for Microsoft and married to another one of the early employees in the picture. She left the company just two years later, suing it over sex discrimination. Microsoft settled the case. After that, she vanished from the public eye, raising her children and volunteering for good causes.

See the rest of the story at Business Insider

Warning: Full spoilers for the October 19th episode of Arrow, “A Matter of Trust,” follow.

Several notable developments occurred in this week’s Arrow, as Felicity made a big confession, Curtis suited up for the first time, and Lyla approached Oliver with a big request.

Arrow executive producer Marc Guggenheim discussed these plotlines and more, and where various Season 5 storylines are going as the season continues.

At the end of the episode, Felicity (Emily Bett Rickards) revealed to Rory, AKA Ragman (Joe Dinicol), that she was responsible for the death of his family (and indeed, his entire hometown) and Guggenheim said that moving forward, “I feel like

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Eastman Kodak and the Bullitt Group on Thursday introduced the Ektra smartphone, which will be the first mainstream handset carrying the Kodak brand. The phone inherits its Ektra name from Kodak’s consumer cameras from the 1940s, and is designed to cater to digital photography enthusiasts, which is emphasized by overall design (which somewhat resembles the original), a large assembly of lenses as well as a dedicated shutter button. Initially, the Kodak Ektra device will be exclusively in Europe for €499.

Kodak developed the world’s first digital camera in the mid-1970s and has patented a huge number of digital imaging-related technologies since then. Although the company was fairly successful with its digital cameras in the 1990s and early 2000s, it lost a significant chunk of its market share later on as new companies entered the scene. Consequently, Kodak filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in early 2012 and then had to exit the digital camera business, sell off its image sensor solution unit and some other businesses, and then sell many of its patents to a group of high-tech rivals in 2013. After re-emerging from bankruptcy, Kodak decided to focus on commercial products and services, but did not forget its heritage of serving consumers. In 2013, it demonstrated its first micro four thirds camera to be made by a third party and in late 2014 announced plans for smartphones.

Nowadays the market for standalone cameras is on the decline as many people use smartphones to make pictures, and this is when Kodak decided to team up with Bullitt (which also has rights to produce phones under CAT and Land Rover brands) to create a Kodak-branded handset. Under the terms of the agreement, Kodak licensed two of its trademarks to Bullitt and then developed the photography software as well as the optical lenses assembly. In the meantime, Bullitt designed the Kodak Ektra smartphone itself.

From hardware point of view, the Kodak Ektra is a typical mainstream smartphone, featuring a 5” FHD display and is based on MediaTek’s Helio X20 SoC. The handset comes equipped with 3 GB of LPDDR3 RAM, 32 GB of NAND flash storage, a 802.11ac Wi-Fi + BT 4.1 wireless module, a 4G/LTE Cat4 modem and a 3000 mAh battery. A good thing is that the phone sports a USB Type-C port used both for data and charging.

Specifications of Kodak Ektra
	Kodak Ektra
SoC	MediaTek Helio X20 (MT6797) 2 × Cortex-A72 at 2.3 GHz 4 × Cortex-A53 at 2.0 GHz 4 × Cortex-A53 at 1.4 GHz ARM Mali T880 MP4 GPU at 780 MHz
RAM	3 GB LPDDR3
Storage	32 GB + up to 128 GB microSD
Display	5" 1920 × 1080 with Corning Gorilla Glass
Network	GSM/GPRS/EDGE: 850/900/1800/1900; WCDMA: 850/900/1900/2100; HSPA; LTE: 1/3/7/20 (Cat 4);
Dimensions	147.8 × 73.35 × 9.69 mm 14.02 at camera lens
Weight	163.8 grams
Rear Camera	Sony Exmor RS 21 MP sensor with F2.0, PDAF, OIS and dual-LED flash. The lense is covered with Corning Gorilla Glass.
Front Camera	13 MP with F2.2 PDAF
Battery	3000 mAh (5V, 2A charger)
Sensors	Ambient Light, Accelerometer, Gyroscope, Proximity sensor
OS	Google Android 6.0 Marsmallow
Software	Kodak Camera software Snapseed app for photo editing Super 8 app for video Prints app MobiSystems OfficeSuite AVG AntiVirus FileCommander
Connectivity	802.11 ac Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.1, USB-C, 3.5mm for audio, FM Radio
Navigation	GPS + GLONASS
SIM Size	Nano SIM
Colors	Black
Launch Countries	E.U.
Price	€499, £449

Meanwhile, the imaging capabilities of the Kodak Ektra deserve a closer look: after all, the smartphone is all about photography. The main (rear) camera of the phone uses Sony’s 21 MP Exmor RS IMX230/IMX338 sensor (Kodak does not reveal the exact model), which is found on some other smartphones nowadays, as well as a dual-LED flash. As noted above, Kodak designed the imaging software with SLR-like UI to select the scene type (e.g., HDR, landscape, portrait, macro, sport, night-time, panorama, bokeh as well as a smart auto mode). In addition, the phone supports the manual mode that allows adjusting exposure, ISO, focus, white balance and shutter speed — just like on cameras. Finally, Kodak applied a special coating to the lenses to maximize their luminous transmission.

While Sony’s 21 MP sensors are used relatively widely and behave predictably, Kodak’s lens assembly and custom software are supposed to be the main factors that will differentiate the Ektra from competing Android 6-based devices. Obviously, we will need to test the hardware and software before drawing any conclusions about imaging capabilities of the Kodak smartphone. As for the front-facing camera, Bullitt/Kodak installed a fairly good 13 MP sensor with an f/2.2 lens.

Kodak and Bullitt intend to sell the Ektra in Europe later this year for €499 or £449, depending on the country, through Bullitt’s typical sales channels. The design as well as the price point clearly indicate that the Kodak Ektra is a niche phone that is positioned below flagship models from Apple and Samsung, but still relatively high in the market for what's largely mainstream hardware. That said, it looks like the Ektra is banking on people familiar with the Kodak brand, who value imaging capabilities, stylish design and original accessories (Kodak will offer a case and a pouch). However, it is unlikely that the smartphone will capture a significant chunk of the market. After all, many smartphone makers claim that their products have the industry’s best photography capabilities and Kodak/Bullitt are definitely not the first to advertise such features.

Nintendo just revealed their brand new console to the world, the Nintendo Switch. It's the first console of its kind to let you play your game anywhere you want, whether it's at home on your TV or out and about. At the core of the system is a display unit running on a custom NVIDIA Tegra processor that makes use of a brand new set of gaming API called NVN to get the best out of it. The main unit is an assuming slab with an HD screen on it. It's what you plug it into that makes it interesting. At home, you can just slot the unit into the Nintendo Switch Dock that connects to your...

Artist Mike Kelley creates "Airportraits" of the world's airports by photographing all the planes that take off on a given day, then compositing them together into a kind of time-lapse of a day's worth of flights, which presents an instantly comprehensible way of comparing the different services; they're available as stunning prints. (via Kottke) (more…)

The Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them movie series just got bigger.

During a Facebook Live Global Fan Event, Harry Potter creator and Fantastic Beasts screenwriter J.K. Rowling announced that the movie trilogy has now expanded to five films.

The series, set in the 1920s, follows the adventures of Newt Scamander in the wizarding world.

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David

has told you that we do tell about Dumbledore and Grindelwald

," Rowling said. "I can say one thing. We were doing some script sessions the other day, and I can tell you that we always knew it was going to be more than one movie.

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