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Blockchain’s distributed nature perfectly suits today’s technology trends of allowing a unanimous update of the Blockchain data across all the nodes of a computer network. Blockchain best suits this role since it maintains data record security involving a trusted third party. Additionally, it eliminates possible data duplication since Blockchain also ensures the integrity of data with a single source of truth. This further contributes to Blockchain’s security advantage. Having looked at what makes Blockchain a popular in-demand technology tool, let us intricately cover what Blockchain is in programming....

Metaverse is the perceived future of the internet. A future beyond the screens, into the digital realm of avatars, games, learning, commerce, and practically everything that we do in our real lives. Okay, but… What is Metaverse? In its present form, the metaverse is a virtual world that you can enter into with the help of extended reality gadgets. Built to cut distances, the primary aim is to collaborate without physical boundaries....

Screams from the Dark: 29 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous edited by Ellen Datlow Type: AnthologyPublisher: Tor NightfireRelease date: June 7 Den of Geek says: Several stories in this anthology have set themselves in stone as some of our most memorable reads this year, with Fran Wilde and Stephen Graham Jones adding particularly remarkable entries to the anthology. With this many stories there are inevitably ups and downs, but that also means there’s probably some flavor of monstrous for everyone....

“You’d be surprised,” says Peter Anderson, creative director of the studio behind the title sequences for hit ITV crime drama Unforgotten. “You can show something really on-the-nose, and people won’t get it until they’ve been told. We fret and worry about giving too much away but the clue is only triggered when you know the context.” Each 40-second title sequence for Unforgotten is a curated collection of purpose-filmed scenes designed to go where the drama can’t – namely, inside the characters’ heads....

Van Helsing Season 2 Episode 11 After last week’s revelatory bottle episode in which Vanessa learns some harsh truths about her past at the Farm, Van Helsing goes the stripped down route once again. And yet, the adventures of Sam and Mohamad no longer hold enough allure to carry the evening by themselves. Directed by Jonathan Scarfe (Axel Miller), “Be True” finds itself in an awkward predicament. In isolation it presents a compelling character study that uncovers some of the dark layers of Sam’s childhood, and at least partially explains his deep connection with Mohamad....

Harry Nilsson’s song “One” appeared on his 1968 album Aerial Ballet. The album title was a tribute to his grandparents, who were highwire circus act performers. It was the follow-up to his Pandemonium Shadow Show album, which got everybody talkin’ about the singer-songwriter from Brooklyn. When John Lennon and Paul McCartney were asked to name their favorite American group during their highly-covered 1968 press conference to announce the formation of The Beatles’ Apple Corps, each of the songwriting duo independently answered “Nilsson....

Well, that got complicated fast. After two action-heavy instalments bracketed by exhilarating ‘Brace! Brace! Brace!’ emergencies, episode three switched gears for some old-fashioned gumshoeing that left us with a truckload of information and new characters. If anyone felt like requesting a paracetamol from the medical officer after that one, you’re not alone. Best check it for tampering first though, eh? Wouldn’t want to end up like Burke – in a body bag, being slid in and out of a torpedo tube every two minutes like a human swanee whistle....

Watchmen episode 3 is perhaps the biggest, most explosive (in at least one instance literally) episode of the series yet. Not only do we meet a legacy character from the original book, in the form of FBI Agent Laurie Blake (the former Silk Spectre, brilliantly and perfectly portrayed by Jean Smart), but we finally learn the answer to the mystery that pretty much everyone has known the answer to almost since the very first Watchmen trailer was revealed: Jeremy Irons’ character is Adrian Veidt, Ozymandias....

Westworld Season 4 Episode 1 At the end of season 3 of Westworld, things looked fairly bleak for humanity. After all, there were still fires burning and riots in the streets, hundreds of people were either killed or killed themselves, and humanity’s social order had been thrown into chaos by the revelation that Incite’s AI program Rehoboam controlled everything about every person’s fate. That seems like the kind of thing that would indeed kick off a melt-down of society and full-scale revolution, right?...

New anime hits emerge every year, but staggering levels of love have surrounded Tatsuki Fujimoto’s Chainsaw Man. The anime’s inaugural season has already become one of Crunchyroll’s biggest 2022 additions. Audiences have been quick to commend the anime’s ultra-violent atmosphere as it chronicles Denji’s journey as the blade-wielding monster known as Chainsaw Man. However, beneath the grisly gore and heightened aesthetics, there’s a real heart and humanity to Chainsaw Man’s characters and their world....

Machine learning is the principle behind all AI products. Human developers use various ML methodologies to train their intelligent apps, games, etc. ML is a highly diversified field, and different development teams come with novel methods of training a machine. One such lucrative method of ML is deep reinforcement learning. Here, you punish undesired machine behaviors and reward desired actions from the intelligent machine. Experts consider this method of ML is bound to push the AI to learn from its own experiences....

Some big MCU actors have returned to lend their voices to Marvel Studios’ first animated project, What If…?, but before the show started streaming on Disney+ it became clear that not all the major players were up for being in the mix. Chris Evans, who left Steve Rogers/Captain America behind after Avengers: Endgame, did not reprise his iconic role in the new show, so the creators looked to established voice actor Josh Keaton to take up the mantle in the multiverse-busting season premiere, ‘What If…Captain Carter Were The First Avenger?...

A read-out appears on its screen, detailing everything that led to this point. The replay stops on the image of a human face: it’s a face audiences know all too well from a decade of action movies. Right here and right now though, they know him as Maj. Alan “Dutch” Schaefer. Without saying a word, the Predator knows this is its next target. As ideas for opening scenes go. The one dreamed up by writers Jim and John Thomas for their follow-up to the original Predator was an enticing one, setting in motion a sequel that most insiders in 1989 assumed would star Arnold Schwarzenegger....

By now, you’ve probably heard about Diablo Immortal‘s microtransactions and the many ways those microtransactions have hurt the game’s reputation. In order to understand how bad things can get, though, you need to understand why some gamers are spending thousands of dollars on in-game items known as Legendary Gems. Legendary Gems are…confusing. Indeed, some players are speculating that Immortal‘s Legendary Gem system was made as confusing as possible in order to incentivize people to spend money and skip some of the confusion....

And now it’s being turned into a 10-part Netflix series. It’s a story that, at least on the surface, appears to lend itself quite easily to screen adaptations, and in fact it’s already been turned into two films: The Haunting (1963) and, um, The Haunting (1999). The first, directed by Robert Wise, is appropriately creepy and subtle; the second, by Jan de Bont, tries to make Hill House’s manifestations bigger and more obvious, and completely loses sight of what’s actually scary about the story in the process....

While the show instantly won over a large group of fans there were still some detractors who blasted the show for “controversial” choices in relation to those questions and more. Adult Aang, seen in flashbacks, was much more serious than his goofy younger self. Certain characters weren’t as instantly beloved as the previous cast. Korra getting her bending back at the end of season one was seen as a huge waste of story potential....

It sure seems that people like The Sandman. The long-in-development adaptation of the influential DC Comics series finally came to Netflix on Aug. 5, and almost immediately gained a following. Fans took to Tom Sturridge’s complex portrayal of Dream aka Morpheus, the Lord of the Dreaming. Over the initial 10 episodes, fans tuned in to watch Morpheus gain his items back from the troubled John Dee (David Thewlis), capture the rogue nightmare the Corinthian (Boyd Holbrook), and contend with guest stars such as Gwendoline Christie’s Lucifer and Jenna Coleman’s Johanna Constantine....

The current state of DC Comics live-action adaptations may be up in the air, but there has been one bright spot in recent weeks. After more than a decade of false starts and development failures, Neil Gaiman‘s great Vertigo comic The Sandman has come to television screens. Even more surprising, it’s really good. Even as the show changes some details from the comics, downplaying its larger DC Universe connections, it still retains all of the beauty and horror that made the original series an enduring classic....

The sports anime revolves around anxious Japanese figure skater Yuri Katsuki, who is taken under the wing of his role model Russian figure-skating champion Victor Nikiforov, alongside young Russian skating prodigy Yuri Plitsetsky. (Yes, there are two characters named Yuri on this show.) The first season follows both Yuris as they train to take part in the Figure Skating Grand Prix. Yuri On Ice is directed by Sayo Yamamoto and written by Mitsurō Kubo....

Wynonna Earp Season 2, Episode 7 “You’re a god damned superhero.” “I’m a single mother.” “Same thing.” But Wynonna doesn’t crack under all of these pressures. Because showing emotion isn’t cracking. It’s being honest. It’s being brave. Because allowing others to see your vulnerabilities is one of the bravest things you can do. In the midst of her own personal crisis, Wynonna even demonstrates a degree of empathy (because woman are socialized to think about others even and perhaps especially when they are falling to pieces themselves) for the broflake who might be the father of her child....