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There are so many possible entry points to Starz’ American Gods. The TV series adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s bestselling book about religion, immigration, and the fight for the soul of America is an embarrassment of riches when it comes to talent both in front of and behind the camera. Are you a Neil Gaiman fan? A Bryan Fuller fan? A fan of Ian McShane, Gillian Anderson, or Orlando Jones? All of those people have played a part in bringing this story to the screen....

Welcome to Vikings: Valhalla! It’s hard to believe it has been over three years since I received an email asking if I would be interested in exploring some sort of continuation of Michael Hirst’s epic series that had just wrapped after six seasons. As I sit here now it’s hard to believe my first reaction was: “No way I would do that.” Don’t get me wrong, I was a huge fan of the original series, but /Vikings/ had left the bar, in terms of character and action, so high you could hardly see it....

Thomas (Dan Stevens), a man presumed dead by the outside world, is sent to infiltrate the cult of Erisden to rescue his sister, Jennifer. Jennifer has been kidnapped by the isolated, island-dwelling group and a ransom letter was sent to their wealthy invalid father. Ignoring his disagreements with his father, a permanently brooding (and possibly addicted?) Thomas is told to keep his wits about him, and quickly sees evidence of the dark and violent nature of Erisden....

That includes a laundry list of Easter eggs. The Assassin’s Creed series has always benefited from some impressive and often elaborate Easter eggs, but we’d dare say that Valhalla features the franchise’s best collection of hidden references yet. While it’s going to be a long time before all of the game’s hidden references and in-jokes are uncovered, these are some of the cleverest Easter eggs in Assassin’s Creed Valhalla that have been discovered so far....

For 20 years Martin had taken on bit parts in the likes of The Asphalt Jungle, Kiss Me Deadly, and The Wild Bunch, his malleable and nasal Midwestern twang allowing him to play cowboys, two-bit criminals, and nuclear scientists. Then he broke through as the cruel camp boss in Cool Hand Luke, entering the American lexicon when he uttered the immortal line, “What we have here is a failure to communicate....

Now that excitement has somewhere to go. It has been announced that the newly formed Avatar Studios will “create original content spanning animated series and movies based on the beloved world of Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra.” Not only that, but we may also be getting short-form content and spin-offs! The first project set to go into production this year is “an animated theatrical film” and it seems like the primary distribution for these projects will be Paramount+ (though they may also run on other Viacom channels) and even theaters....

There’s another, more underappreciated, reason for Avatar’s success however. The series quite simply knows exactly how much story it needs to tell and how to structure said story. Avatar: The Last Airbender lasted for three brilliant seasons, each one given an appropriate subtitle (Water, Earth, Fire) to complement the “Last Airbender” portion of its name, and each one featuring 20 half-hour episodes (though the final season was generously granted one extra installment)....

You can’t just put a book on the telly; it’ll fall off. Gravity aside, page-to-screen adaptations demand change. A novel’s worth of characters and sub-plots are too great for two hours of viewing. To work as television, books require careful filleting – screenwriters to sweep their boning knife around the delicious flesh and discard the unappetising pale flab. Sarah Phelps, whose most recent literary adaptation The Pale Horse, has just aired on BBC One, is one of the best boners around....

Crypto Mining is supposed to be complicated and costly. High-performing GPUs or the ASIC miners humming the life out of the nearby living with constant, unbearable heat is how you should picture conventional mining setups. And don’t even let me start on mining investments. 🤐 Enter Helium blockchain–an open-source, distributed wireless network powering billions of IoT devices with low-cost internet. But there is a lot in the works, like a Helium 5G network in which you pay based on the data you actually consume and not some fixed monthly subscription....

The power of a simple yet efficient email inbox is incredible and decides your customer support quality. However, when the same inbox is used by multiple people for reading, managing, replying, and deleting customer conversations, things can easily spiral out of control. Hence, team email management tools have become a crucial requisite for the success of email customer service. This article shares some of the best-shared inbox tools to help you make the most of your team’s inboxes and keep them clutter-free....

Often source code repositories and version control systems are considered the same, but they are two different things. Source code repositories are third-party web applications that host, embed, and enhance version control systems which are the low-level command-line tools used to manage changes in the development life cycle. Despite these differences, one can’t properly function without the other. The main objective of these tools is to store sets of data files and keep track of the changes, revisions, and versions that have occurred in them, the set of committed objects, and the history of related references (heads)....

We’ve all been there. A friend or co-worker raves about how amazing the new Apple TV+ drama is, but there’s no room in your streaming subscription lineup to add another monthly charge. Or you add Peacock to the mix just to watch one show and then forget to cancel, paying for months you don’t even use. How is anybody supposed to remember when and why to change from one streamer to another without wasting a fortune?...

BoJack Horseman Season 4 The marketing for this most recent season of BoJack Horseman has centered around the question of “Where’s BoJack?” However, the question that this season is really exploring is “Who’s BoJack?” Granted, every season of this increasingly deep series has posed this question, but never before like this. Previous years have shaken the branches of BoJack’s family tree, but this year forcefully yanks out its roots and digs deep....

But Kore-eda is a sorcerer of human emotion. Through tender, attentive observation and a fair dose of sentimentality, Broker’s protagonists become the bedrock of a strange little family, an odd band of misfits we root for, even as a sense of dread tugs at the heart. A forlorn story injected with so much love and far more comedy than one might expect, Broker is a tale of family more than one of crime or human trafficking, though it is both of those too....

“It’s very earthy; the texture of that world,” says Tom Conroy of Vikings: Valhalla. “Sometimes we work in these miserable weather conditions, and we’re all thinking, ‘Oh God, this looks terrible.’ And yet… it all makes it look more visceral; more real.” Bringing this new world to life is a grueling collaborative effort, but if—as they say—the first bite is with the eye, then Conroy is the man responsible for making your mouth water; the man whose work cements the bond of verisimilitude with the audience....

The Yellowstone fandom, much like the show itself, is strong-willed and fiercely loyal. This writer will admit, I have dived into the deep end in a few different online forums to see what other fans of the show are talking about, and often share in the joy the show brings to us every Sunday. For most of us, the show is a strange, dark, and violent catharsis – which explains the rabid response to characters like John (Kevin Costner), Beth (Kelly Reilly) and fan-favorite Rip (Cole Hauser)....

Consisting of three separate films, Celebrating The Sopranos is a series of conversations held by critics Matt Zoller Seitz and Alan Sepinwall, and cast members Federico Castelluccio (Furio Guinta), Arthur J. Nascarella (Carlo Gervasi), Vincent Pastore (Salvatore “Big Pussy’ Bonpensiero), and Vincent Curatola (Johnny ‘Sack’ Sacramoni), in restaurants that meant something to the show. For dessert, they serve up an interview with the creator, David Chase, but he only drinks coffee....

I believe there should be a standard way to check the version of all the software, but unfortunately, it doesn’t exist. I can guess it’s not possible as not every software is made from the same programming language. Sometimes, it is a struggling moment to find out the software version installed on your server or PC. Here I try to consolidate some of the popular ones, hope you will like it!...

On July 8, 1947, the Roswell Army Air Field (RAAF) distributed a press release claiming they had recovered the remains of a “flying disc” crashed in the New Mexican desert outside of Roswell. The news made headlines, but the media’s enthusiasm was short-lived. The next day the US Army released a second statement claiming the recovered object was just a weather balloon. The incident would have been lost to the dustbin of history had it not been for Jesse Marcel, a former intelligence officer stationed at RAAF in 1947....

What is CISSP Certification? Regardless of their size, corporate data is always at risk, but security professionals ensure unauthorized access to the data and information network. Professionals holding the CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional) designation are in high demand for corporate data protection. CISSP certification is globally recognized and validates proficiency in technical expertise and managerial abilities. It also demonstrates mastery in conceiving, designing, executing, and managing the enterprise’s comprehensive security framework....