While the 2018 Halloween remake did a lot right by the franchise in general, some audiences were turned off by the excessive violence, especially when compared to the original film, but the violence was a necessary vehicle to tell a very specific story. John Carpenter’s 1978 film has been frequently credited for creating the slasher sub-genre of horror. Even so, the original film wasn’t extraordinarily violent, especially when compared to other slashers such as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Friday the 13th....

A couple weeks back, directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller began principal photography on their young Han Solo movie, the second installment of Lucasfilm’s Star Wars anthology series. At the time the cameras started rolling, a talented ensemble cast of Alden Ehrenreich, Donald Glover, Woody Harrelson, Emilia Clarke, Thandie Newton, and Phoebe Waller Bridge (with Joonas Suotamo as Chewbacca) was announced, leading some to believe that all the principal roles had been filled....

I recently got my hands on the Atomos Ninja Inferno external recorder and monitor for my Panasonic GH5. This 7-inch monitor allows you to record 4K video directly to 2.5-inch SATA SSDs. It’s a wonderful tool for my video workflow, because it allows for extra long recording times, and fast data transfers to my Mac. The only problem is that the external monitor doesn’t ship with the needed USB-enabled caddy for transferring data from the SSD to my MacBook Pro....

Google Stadia is the future of the company’s gaming endeavors, but according to vice president and general manager Phil Harrison, the notion of a gaming console is firmly in the tech giant’s past. According to Harrison, a Google console will never see the light of day, as the company simply has no interest in pursuing that particular corner of the video game market. Stadia is Google’s streaming device, the long-awaited successor to the Project Stream tests the company conducted last year that allowed users to access and play Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed Odyssey through the Google Chrome web browser....

A series of letters were sent to a total of six crypto mining companies: Riot Blockchain, Marathon Digital Holdings, Stronghold Digital Mining, Bitdeer, Bitfury Group, and Bit Digital. While the letters are personalized to each operation, their content is primarily the same list of queries: How much electricity is consumed by your operations and how much carbon is generated as a result?Do you have any special agreements in place with local power utility providers?...

In this tutorial, we will show you how to become a monk in BitLife. Right from the time you set your feet into the world all the way up to your deathbed, you might have to take some pretty challenging yet interesting decisions. After all, what would a real-life simulation game be without challenges? Talking about which, you could treat yourself to a Surprise Millionaire Challenge, Dog House challenge, Tiger King challenge, House Flipper, among others....

Not registered to the network, no signal, insert SIM card, weak signal, are just few SIM card-related weak signal or lost network issue that people face on a day-to-day basis. In this extract, we have prescribed a way to get rid of Gigaset weak signal or lost network issue and we have listed methods to resolve both software or hardware issues that could be the probable cause of the issue you are facing....

With the release of the first developer beta of iOS 8.4 this evening, Apple gave us the first look at the oft-rumored redesign of the Music app. With the expected announcement of Apple’s streaming music service happening in June, the Music app redesign has been expected for several months now. The newly introduced Music app offers a handful of new features in the first beta of iOS 8.4, as well as a redesigned interface that’s similar to iTunes on the Mac....

Following the success of Halloween 2018, which retconned prior sequels, it’s about time for other horror franchises to take the same approach. More than most genres, horror tends to live and die on the back of its ongoing franchises. Even before it became as in fashion as it is today to make constant remakes, reboots, sequels, prequels, and spinoffs, horror was full of long-running properties that fans tended to eat up for years on end....

With each new iPhone release you can always be sure that the Leather-centric folks over at Nomad are soon to follow with updated case options. Nomad sent over several new cases for the iPhone X and the iPhone 8 Plus, but since the X isn’t yet in hand, this post and video will focus on the iPhone 8 Plus. With the iPhone 8 only being a few mm thicker than the iPhone 7, most iPhone 7 case options will work for the iPhone 8 and vice versa....

Gotham’s fifth and final season will feature an older version of Ben McKenzie’s Jim Gordon, but the actor’s facial hair won’t quite be the real article. Following the conclusion of Gotham season 4, Fox green-lit production on another run, but with the caveat that season 5 would be the show’s swansong, and consist of a reduced 12 episodes. Since first premiering in 2014, Gotham has revolved around a younger Jim Gordon during his days as a rookie detective and with each passing season, Ben McKenzie’s character has gradually transformed into the Gordon figure fans know and love from the Batman comics....

With only two episodes remaining, Bruce Wayne is almost ready to become Batman in Gotham, although there’s still a couple of things that need to be addressed first. Gotham’s primary focus has always been on Jim Gordon, but the development of David Mazouz’s young millionaire has been given just as much prominence in the narrative, particularly during the show’s later seasons. Starting out as a timid young boy trying to process the tragedy of his parents’ deaths, Bruce has transformed into a mature, wise and intelligent figure in Gotham City, trusted by many powerful people to get things done....

GRID Studio sells multiple framed devices for those who like to use technology as decoration for their home. The list includes iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4S, the second generation iPod touch, and even a BlackBerry Bold 9000. Apple fans will be thrilled to know that the company will now offer a framed Apple Watch for the first time. Just like other frames, GRID Watch 1 features an Apple Watch completely disassembled with each part named and organized....

What is a vector image and how is it better than a raster one? A raster image is just a regular pixel-by-pixel representation of a certain item, photo or whatever you’re dealing with. Raster images are easy to create, but if you need to work with large monitors and if you need to transfer your work to higher resolution image files you may find distortion and low quality-looking pixely (is that a word?...

HTB is an excellent platform that hosts machines belonging to multiple OSes. It also has some other challenges as well. Individuals have to solve the puzzle (simple enumeration plus pentest) in order to log into the platform and download the VPN pack to connect to the machines hosted on the HTB platform. Note: Only write-ups of retired HTB machines are allowed. The machine in this article, named YPuffy, is retired....

The official Twitter account for Google Stadia has been beset by users asking about the possibility of Half-Life 3, Pokemon, and other gaming memes on the service, but the account continues to obliviously respond to the jokes. This has actually been going on for a little while now, with a number of posts dating back to late last year. Google hasn’t been doing a very good job of communicating with users ever since the launch of its Stadia cloud gaming service....

What is Two Factor Authentication? Unless you’re the geeky type or a long-time reader of groovyPost, you probably have no idea what people are talking about when they tell you to enable two factor authentication to tighten up your online security. The funny thing however, is you’ve probably been using two factor authentication your entire adult life and didn’t even know it! To answer the question — two factor authentication requires you to both know something and have something in order to prove your identity....

For years, one of the characters that DC and comic book fans have been asking to see on the big screen is John Stewart, one of the other human Green Lanterns, who has become a fan-favorite over the years thanks to his growing role in the comics books, and his place as the Green Lantern on the 2000s Justice League animated series. After DC released a failed Green Lantern film back in 2011, starring Ryan Reynolds as Hal Jordan too, it seemed like it was almost inevitable that the studio would choose to focus on John Stewart when they rebooted the franchise with Green Lantern Corps in the DC Extended Universe....

Michael Myers actor James Jude Courtney teases “pumped up” action and horror in Halloween Kills. John Carpenter crafted his horror masterpiece, Halloween, back in 1978, starring Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode. The franchise quickly went off the rails after the first film, resulting in seven lackluster sequels as well as two films from director Rob Zombie. In 2018, David Gordon Green released his sequel, which took place 40 years after the original and retconned all of the past sequels....

Anyone who has ever misplaced an iPad and felt a sudden urge of panic —or better yet, anyone who has ever watched an iPad’s battery drain without access to power while on a long trip— can now rejoice, as there is a solution to both problems in one, nifty case. Wireless NRG developed a renewable charging resource for the iPad by simply converting the sun’s rays, indoor lights, and practically any other luminescent substance into a perpetual stream of free energy....