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Melonie Diaz has been cast as Mel in The CW’s Charmed reboot. It has been a year since The CW announced that it was making a reboot of the series Charmed, though the pilot only recently was greenlit. Not connected to the original series, Charmed is about three sisters who share the same initials and a recently discovered legacy of witchcraft. Writers Jessica O’Toole, Amy Rardin, and Jennie Urman have promised that the new series is “fierce, funny, and feminist,” with a college town setting and a story revolving around smashing the patriarchy....

Scientists and experts are concerned with possible implications of Artificial Intelligence. Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking and Bill Gates are just a few luminaries that publicly expressed their concerns about the future of “thinking machines”. The potential benefits are huge, but it is quite impossible to predict the evolution of Artificial Intelligence. Part of the scientific community hopes that the future society will be able to eradicate war, disease, and poverty, all thanks to AI, but another wing speculates that a generation of droids could consider human beings at risk for its survival, and for this reason the machines will declare war with the humans....

WARNING: Major spoilers for Dark Phoenix ahead. Dark Phoenix killed Mystique very early on in the movie, but despite being the only major death, it was completely mishandled. Fox issued a soft reboot of the X-Men franchise in 2011 with the release of X-Men: First Class. The film introduced audiences to the young versions of the original X-Men characters with James McAvoy’s Professor X, Michael Fassbender’s Magento, Nicholas Hoult’s Beast, and Jennifer Lawrence’s Mystique....

Anakin Skywalker’s lightsaber has been a central fixture of the Star Wars galaxy ever since Obi-Wan first presented it to his son, Luke, in A New Hope. It always held the weight of legacy in its hilt due to the legendary status of the former Jedi, only for it to be revealed that it was also the same weapon used to hunt down and destroy many Jedi Knights, including the younglings at the Jedi Temple, after Anakin turned to the dark side and became Darth Vader....

Creating these shortcuts isn’t rocket science, but this is a useful tip that we figured we’d share. If you already know how to do this, you can always share it with somebody else. Other potential use cases: If you’re planning a trip to a city and you want to see a number of different sites, you could create a couple of shortcuts for each place you want to visit and put them in a folder—then just hit the icon for the one you want to go to next and get directions no matter where you are....

Installation Adding the extension is quick and easy but you will need to confirm the installation before you can finish adding Local Read Later to Chrome. As soon as the installation has finished you will see your new “Toolbar Button” and a brief extension management message. At this point you will need to go into the options to decide how “Saved Websites” are handled after you click on them in the drop-down list....

What is P2? WordPress is one of the most popular blogging platforms, and we have looked at many ways you can use WordPress to publish content online. But WordPress can also be a great platform for microblogging, similar to Twitter or group discussion boards. Most default themes are designed around regular blogs, but P2 is a special blog theme designed to transform your site into a communications platform. It’s easy to setup and use, so let’s look at how your group can use P2 to stay in touch....

A pair of developments have emerged today in Apple’s ongoing relationship with the Cupertino government. First and foremost, the Cupertino City Council is backing away from its plan of an employee “head tax” following opposition from Apple. Further, the city is reportedly in talks to build a Hyperloop that would run right by Apple Park… As reported by The WSJ, Cupertino officials were looking to raise as much as $10 million through its proposed “head tax,” which would tax large employers based on the number of employees they had....

HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm stars its creator, Larry David, as a fictionalized version of himself who voices the concerns that he would normally keep to himself. The character is a dark mirror version of all of us, complaining about social conventions that most people just put up with, despite hating them. The supporting cast is made up of Larry’s roster of pals, but as a misanthrope who despises human contact, he gets along with astoundingly few of the people he considers to be his closest and dearest friends....

Custom app icons are the latest iPhone trend, and they look awesome. People can give their iPhones a unique aesthetic with unique icons and widgets. There’s just one problem: Custom app icons slow down your iPhone. If you’ve set up custom app icons on your iPhone with iOS 14, you’ve already seen this problem in action. But, if you’re thinking about setting up custom app icons on an iPhone or iPad, you should know what you’re getting into....

Initial Setup Once you have installed the extension and restarted your browser, you will see the following window before Firefox itself will finish loading. You will need to decide which Tab Bar layout best suits your needs. Notice that you have the option to continue using the default Tab Bar layout in Firefox. Options for Tab Kit Once Firefox has finished loading, it is time to have a good look at the options that are available with Tab Kit....

Long-time X-Men film producer and Dark Phoenix director Simon Kinberg picks Iron Man as the Marvel hero he wants to see crossover with the mutants the most. Disney’s recently finished acquisition of Fox’s TV and movie assets effectively brings back the rights to the X-Men, Fantastic Four and all their tie-in characters to Marvel, which means that Marvel Studios and Kevin Feige can now integrate them into the MCU. And if Kinberg has any say on future plans regarding these superheroes, he will start with Robert Downey Jr....

We can easily import Laravel classes anywhere in the application. It is equally easy to do if you are thinking of creating your own classes and functions in Laravel. One of the reasons we may want to create our own classes is to have customized functionality in our Laravel app. Though we can write code in the controllers, it’s recommended to extract extra functionality from controllers to other classes or functions....

Apple will start selling the new Mac Studio this Friday. Fortunately, a lucky customer was able to get the new desktop a few days before its official release. With that, he shared some photos of this new pro-machine. Simon, the lucky customer, is a reader of the French blog Mac4ever, and, according to him, the shop he bought the Mac made a mistake and shipped the Mac Studio to him before it was supposed to....

The already sprawling cast of the upcoming Arrowverse crossover, Crisis on Infinite Earths, just got devilishly more so - with Lucifer star Tom Ellis reportedly joining the action. The annual crossover has become a staple of the DC/CW shared-universe. This year’s event will ambitiously attempt to adapt Marv Wolfman’s seminal 1985 storyline and is set to air across five hours. The saga will see the heroes of Arrow, The Flash, Legends of Tomorrow, Supergirl, and Batwoman unite to combat the multiverse-destroying threat of the Anti-Monitor....

Apple fans are a dedicated bunch. Many of us diehards run out and buy every new gadget, making it nearly impossible for friends and family to come up with an original gift idea related to one of our biggest passions. My holiday gift guide includes items that you can’t buy from your local Apple store, but are sure to delight any fan of the company. These aren’t complementary products like a nice iPhone stand or Apple Watch band, but rather hard-to-find swag and collectibles that only real Apple fans would appreciate....

When Marvel began expanding the reach of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the phrase “It’s All Connected,” became the unofficial tagline of the growing universe. While the films have done a great job at referencing one another on a regular basis, the launch of television programs has seen that relationship be strictly one sided - where the TV shows reference the films, but get no attention in return. Some of these inabilities for crossovers can be explained away with contracts, but smaller references to names, events, or appearances of locations are still possible....

Dark Phoenix producer, Hutch Parker, is excited to see Marvel Studios take on the X-Men. Parker has been working on the franchise since 2013, beginning with The Wolverine. After many years under Fox’s ownership, Marvel’s Marvelous Mutants have finally returned home, thanks to Disney’s acquisition of Fox’s assets. Although New Mutants, whose release date was recently pushed back to 2020, will be the final Fox X-Men film, this month’s Dark Phoenix is the last to center on the main team....

The Crisis On Infinite Earths story to be featured in the upcoming seasons of the Arrowverse shows will air as a five-hour event spread over two quarters. The story is the title of this year’s crossover event of the CW superhero shows, inspired by the 1985-1986 comics saga of the same name. Crossovers have been a staple of the Arrowverse ever since The CW began adding new shows to its shared universe of series....

One of the challenges Apple has faced in making its services truly personal and proactive is its focus on privacy. While Google unashamedly collects masses of data about its users, even going to far as to scan emails for boarding passes and restaurant reservations in order to provide automated reminders, Apple has been extremely conservative in the amount of data it collects. We even learned a few months ago that any collection of customer data requires sign-off from three ‘privacy tsars’ and that getting permission can take a year....