When considering the adaptation of a classic science fiction universe as massive as Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series, the sheer scale of such an enterprise seems quite daunting. How can Apple TV+ take a story that spans centuries in a galactic empire with thousands of inhabited planets and make it accessible both to hardcore fans and to audiences unaccustomed to “space opera” sci-fi? When viewers watch the first two episodes of Foundation, set to release on September 24, they’ll see Asimov’s world come to life in an expansive yet character-driven vision that will please both groups....

In that same library, though, are a few games which some PS4 owners will ultimately remember differently than others. That’s obviously normal, but what is somewhat unusual is how the PS4’s three most divisive console exclusives each reveal a key component of how Sony won the PS4/Xbox One console war in terms of hardware sales and how the company will look to continue its success into the PS5/Xbox Series X generation....

What is The Animatrix? The Animatrix is comprised of nine short films, with stories ranging from a “historical file” of how the Matrix was created out of the war between humanity and machines in two-parter “The Second Renaissance” to the minimalist black-and-white noir of “A Detective Story” to a Westworld-like feudal fighting exercise that takes place in a Matrix-like construct in “Program.” The Wachowskis came up with the ambitious premise for The Animatrix when they were in Japan doing promotion for the first Matrix film....

Written by David Seltzer, The Omen featured Peck as Robert Thorn, a rising politician who is manipulated into adopting an orphaned baby after his own son dies in childbirth. But Thorn and his psychologically fragile wife (Lee Remick), who doesn’t know about the switch, are soon beset by unexplained “accidental” deaths, while Thorn is haunted by tormented figures who claim that little Damien is the Antichrist — the son of the devil, born into the world to bring about its end....

Given a string of parentheses, checking if the parentheses combination is valid is a popular coding interview question. And over the next few minutes, you’ll learn the technique to solve this question and also code up a Python function to validate a given string. What is the Valid Parentheses Problem? Let’s start our discussion by answering the question, what is the valid parentheses problem? A valid parentheses string satisfies the following two conditions: Here are a few examples of valid and invalid parentheses strings....

Windows users have their fair share of problems; black screen of death, blue screen of death, unexpected store exception, and whatnot. A similarly frustrating problem is when your display briefly crashes and wakes up with the message: Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered. This can happen a few times a day to every few minutes, causing interruptions in your routine work. And like with many infamous Windows snags, the exact cause is unknown....

Ansible is one of the most popular configuration administration and infrastructure automation tools. It helps to automate infrastructure configuration/provisioning, software deployments, and general infrastructure management. Ansible was initially available on Linux. However, with Microsoft’s new viewpoint on open source, their community improvements, and their acceptance of a more agile, DevOps-minded software development method, Windows support is gradually catching up with the pace. Although Windows support requires a slight bit more configuration, it’s not very bad once the initial setup is done....

Docker is an open-source project that supports building, testing, deploying, and managing applications in self-sufficient, portable containers. Generally, the container images have all the resources that an application requires to run. Today, Docker has become a popular tool for deploying and managing applications as containers while overcoming compatibility issues. The technology allows you to install the apps and services on a wide range of computers regardless of the underlying hardware and operating systems....

MongoDB, one of the popular NoSQL database, is available for recently released CentOS 8. Let’s check out how to get it installed. Update – if you are looking for production-ready managed MongoDB then you should check out these hosting platforms. Installing on CentOS/RHEL 8 Support for CentOS 8 is available from MongoDB 4.2.1. This means you can’t install the previous MongoDB version, like the 3.x series. So, if you are currently running MongoDB (lower than 4....

The installation will be done using the conda command-line tool built into Anaconda. PyTorch is a machine learning library written in Python and is based on the Torch framework. It was developed by Facebook and is comparable to the likes of Tensorflow by Google. It is useful in the fields of computer vision and natural language processing and has been used by companies such as Tesla to develop autopilot software....

Simply put, it’s like installing an OS (guest) into another OS (host). While this sounds like a typical process, it actually isn’t, at least not with VirtualBox. What is VirtualBox? VirtualBox is free and open-source software developed by the Oracle Corporation. It acts as a hypervisor for the virtualization of x86 and AMD64/Intel64 architecture. This helps create a virtual environment for installing multiple guest operating systems (OSes) onto a single host OS....

If you are a WebSphere administrator and supporting production environment, then one of the challenging tasks is to monitor the important metrics for better control. You can use any monitoring tools which fit your requirement. Here, I will explain how to use Application Manager by Manage Engine for in-depth IBM WebSphere Application Server monitoring. Application Manager is not just for IBM WAS, but it supports many other technologies from a different stream....

ComScore predicts that by 2020 50% of searches will be performed by voice Not only does that mean there will be more opportunity for voice searches, but – equally important – there will be less opportunity for written searchers. Not just that, but the search engines are getting ever more geared towards it. Google has, in effect, been working towards voice-based searches since 2013 when it installed its Hummingbird update....

But, what is WiFi calling? And, how is it useful? In this article, let us explore more about it while also talking about an app, “Hushed,” where you can make calls over WiFi with privacy. Wi-Fi Calling: Explained Wi-Fi calling eliminates the need for a strong cellular network to call someone using the same phone number. It utilizes Voice over WiFi or, more accurately—Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) for the calls....

It only takes a small, insignificant moment to completely change the course of a life. It’s that premise from which The Blacktongue Thief starts. Kinch Na Shannack, working thief, is spared when a banditry gig goes south. The Spanth warrior who spares him, Galva, is on a quest—and the Taker’s Guild, for which Kinch works, assigns him to accompany her, gain her trust, and wait for further instruction. As he travels with Galva, and, soon after, a witch companion Norrigal, he begins to question just where his allegiance lies, and what he owes his newfound friends—and the world....

YAML a strict superset of JSON, so anything written in JSON can be parsed to YAML. It’s mostly used for configuration files in projects and it’s super easy to understand and read the code. The file extension for YAML files is .yaml or .yml In this tutorial, we are going to learn about different data types that are present in YAML and work with YAML in Python. By the end of this tutorial, you will be able to understand the YAML and its syntax....

“We launched Harry Potter: Wizards Unite more than two years ago, bringing together a community of witches and wizards from all over the globe in an epic quest to put an end to the Calamity and keep the wizarding world safe,” says Niantic via a statement. “Not all games are meant to last forever. Our goal with Harry Potter: Wizards Unite was to bring the magic of the wizarding world to life for millions of players as they stepped outside and explored their neighborhoods....

Are people better off without June Osborne? In season four episode five ‘Chicago’, a Martha tells Nick that he would be, because everybody who helps June ends up dead. That Martha isn’t wrong. The Econo-Husband in season two, the Mackenzies’ Martha and Eleanor Lawrence in season three, the Guardian at the Keyes farm in season four, Alma, Brianna… all died at least partly because of June’s actions. And by the end of ‘Chicago’, we’re left with the possibility that the choice to stick with June has led to yet another casualty: Janine....

The book kicks off with John Constantine as he’s just graduated high school, but he’s still the chaos-hungry magician we all love. He’s just like the rest of us at that age, Garcia explains. “Like all 17 year olds, he thinks he knows everything.” That meant that Garcia had to essentially “reverse engineer” the character from “beloved weather-worn Constantine” to his teenage self. But as she tells us, it made a lot of sense because he’s still the punk-loving occult practitioner he always was....

It’s a familiar tact for stories about greatness cut short, and figures too large for a movie’s runtime to grasp. That’s how Lin-Manuel Miranda accounted for Alexander Hamilton via the envy of Aaron Burr, and why Jesus Christ Superstar told the its parable through the prism of the silver-tongued apostle. But in Judas and the Black Messiah, this narrative technique has never been more uncomfortable or slippery. Walking in the shoes of William O’Neal, the used and abused FBI informant who helped law enforcement eventually execute Hampton, is like spending two hours in an active crime scene where the blood is still fresh, and any semblance of justice remains perpetually out of reach....