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Ryan Murphy’s latest show takes on a real case – that of the Broaddus family who bought a house in Westfield, New Jersey in 2014 and subsequently began receiving highly strange and threatening letters signed off by someone calling themself The Watcher. Murphy’s show explores various possibilities as to who might have sent the letters, some based more in fact than others. So which is the most plausible? To consider that, let’s first look at the evidence....

It’s no secret that there’s quite a lot of buzz around this topic – Web3 – right now. Numerous people have left behind their jobs at FAANG and prominent startups to pursue a new start in the Web3 metaverse. And, assuming that you’re feeling a similar itch – where do you begin? This article is dedicated entirely to those who wish to jump straight into Web3 development. Our focus will be on a variety of categories, each one containing valuable resources to get your journey started....

Haynes had been developing the documentary for several years. Besides contemporary interviews with John Cale and drummer Maureen Tucker, there is only archival footage of conversations with Reed, guitarist Sterling Morrison and Christa Päffgen – whose stage name was Nico. The Velvet Underground only includes interviews with people who knew the band personally during the time they were together. We hear from Reed’s sister, Merrill Reed Weiner; Warhol Factory artists Mary Woronov and Amy Taubin; cult director John Waters; and Modern Lovers front man Jonathan Richman....

The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Vol 2, edited by Jonathan Strahan Type: AnthologyPublisher: Gallery/Saga PressRelease date: Sept. 28 Den of Geek says: It’s exactly what it says on the tin. Today’s top authors keep you on the pulse of the conversation (and provide inventive, moving stories) in this anthology that could serve as a cutting-edge collectible or an introduction to new worlds. Publisher’s summary: With short works from some of the most lauded science fiction authors, as well as rising stars, this science fiction collection displays the top talent and cutting-edge cultural moments that affect our lives, dreams, and stories....

Tomcat manager is essential for administrative tasks. However, by default, it’s not functional. There are few things you must do for tomcat manager to work. Let’s see how… As a best practice – take a backup of configuration file before modification so you can roll-back when something goes wrong. Tomcat 6.x/7.x Login to Tomcat server Go to installation directory and then conf folder Open the tomcat-users.xml and add the following above syntax...

In this article, we will learn about the Queue and its implementation in Python. What is a Queue? A Queue is a linear data structure that follows the First In/First Out(FIFO) principle. It’s opposite to the Stack data structure. We can compare the queue with a real-life queue at the cinema ticket counter. Let’s see the illustration of a queue as follows. If you observe the queue at the counter, the second person can go to the counter only after the first person completes his/her work....

This is of course good news about a good horror movie, one of the best in a while with its panic attack-inducing allegory about a woman being gaslighted by an abusive ex. But it’s also rather miraculous news for the Universal Monsters label, which has by and large languished in the 21st century despite multiple attempts to resurrect it from the dead. Indeed, just three years after the Dark Universe was embarrassingly put out to pasture following The Mummy’s disastrous June 2017 debut, the Universal Monsters once again look viable....

However, employing a customer success team in the beginning stage can be expensive for small businesses. In this article, we’ll explore the benefits of using a customer service platform like Gorgias, built to help small businesses improve the customer experience while keeping costs low. Without any further delay, let’s begin! What is a Helpdesk Software? Helpdesk software is usually a Saas product that helps companies assist customers or people with pre-sales queries....

Today’s smartphones are so powerful that they can easily replace laptops or desktops for regular office work, personal stuff, and entertainment. However, they lag behind computer devices in one feature. You guessed it right! The battery that powers the device. Though a smartphone can stay on standby mode for days, it might seem pretty quick to run out of battery when you do stuff like use GPS, mobile internet, play games, watch movies, etc....

A track from legendary rapper Eminem, fittingly titled “Venom,” that was featured in the 2018 Tom Hardy film has popped up all over the Internet in recent years. Here is a particular favorite example of mine. Yes, most of these memes have to do with filicide. Read into that what you may. Now that the long-awaited sequel to Venom is out, Venom 2: Let There Be Carnage, shouldn’t we be expecting another quality Eminem song to go along with it?...

“You’ll be on board for three days, finish your paperwork, then they’ll let you off on a raft,” DCI Silva was told. Small hope of that. More like you’ll be on board for three weeks, have zero time for paperwork between the near-misses with passing tankers, nuclear reactor failures and scheming Lieutenant Commanders, and, if you come any closer to the truth, they’ll only let you off as shark chum....

HBO’s Watchmen is a sequel to the classic comic book story by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. That’s right, it’s a sequel, not an adaptation of the original work. And yes, you’ll note that we said it’s a sequel to the book and not Zack Snyder’s movie, which was faithful to the broad strokes of the book save for a handful of details. While Watchmen isn’t the most sprawling superhero universe in comics by any stretch, it’s one rich in comic book mythology, commenting on the superhero genre as a whole while engaging in some incredibly detailed worldbuilding....

Forgive the glibness, but it certainly felt that way over the last week when Film Twitter was inundated by stunned reactions to a certain tweet which revealed just a single snippet of Spielberg’s lively cinematic remake of the Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim musical. In the clip a solitary, mind-numbingly complex dolly and crane (or drone?) shot follows a group of characters that include Maria (Rachel Zegler) and Anita (Ariana DeBose) as they enter a school gymnasium to attend a dance....

Crypto wallets help you interact with blockchain technology. They support buying, selling, storing, mining, staking, and everything that’s possible with the specific blockchain they are meant for. However, some crypto wallets like Guarda, Trust, and Ledger are multi-currency. They allow accessing many blockchains from a single user interface. Based on the internet connectivity, one can divide crypto wallets into two categories: Hot Wallets These are the most popular and easily accessible of the two....

Using CLI tools offers automation options with easy-to-build scripts, which otherwise is not possible if you rely exclusively on the cloud provider’s web interface only. With gcloud CLI, you can create, modify and delete various types of Google Cloud resources like Google Compute Engine virtual machines, Google Cloud SQL instances, Google Kubernetes Engine clusters, Google Cloud DNS, and Google Cloud Deployment Manager. Further, it can be used to deploy App Engine applications, manage authentication to cloud resources, customize resource configuration, and various such administrative tasks....

In this world wide web, data travels from one point to another, bringing delays. While it seems insignificant from a normal life perspective, it makes a whole lot of difference in how the internet operates. What is Network Latency? Simply put, network latency is the round-trip time it takes a signal to leave a user for the server and return. But it’s not as simple as it looks in the above image....

Hack’s approach to the art, which is the really distinctive element here, is a successful fusion of the monochrome TV original, Whitaker’s prose, and the Peter Cushing colourful movie version from 1965. There are some of the same bold colours from Cushing’s movie but usually one colour dominates each painting, giving the images a sense of monochrome without painting in only greys. With Whitaker’s imagination not limited by a TV budget Hack is also able to work on a larger scale than the original, and ramp up the horror in some scenes: the realisation of the Dalek mutants is satisfyingly unsettling....

It’s really fascinating that 1992 ended up being this incredible turning point for the industry. With due respect to the exceptional titles of 1990 and 1991, the first two years of the new decade strongly suggested that developers were still living in the ’80s to some degree and were only just starting to figure out what the future of the industry was going to look like. All of a sudden, the market was flooded by titles that felt like they were pulled from the future....

In Act 4, Scene 1 of The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare, the heroine Portia, posing as a male lawyer, begs Shylock the moneylender to spare her love’s friend the “pound of flesh” that he is owed. Her speech goes: “The quality of mercy is not strained. It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. ‘Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes The thronèd monarch better than his crown....

Produced by Legend of Korra animation company Studio Mir, along with Netflix Animation and Valve, this new take on the franchise is inspired by the lore found in the MOBA, but is also serious narrative expansion of this universe, introducing backstories for not only some of the characters we know from the games but the goddesses and dragons that rule the world of Dota beyond the mortal realm. The series not only serves as an origin story for Dota hero Davion, the Dragon Knight (Yuri Lowenthal), but also fleshes out many other fan-favorite characters like Mirana (Lara Pulver), Luna (Kari Wahlgren), and Invoker (Troy Baker)....