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While there’s a newly rebooted Charmed in the world, many still remember the silliness and campiness of the original Charmed. Before the Vera/Vaughn Clan, there were the Halliwells (and Matthews) family. Over the course of eight seasons, fans followed them as they battled demons, fell in love, and saved the world a time or two. It was gloriously over the top in its emotions. At the same time, it was a show about family and sisterhood....

Chicago Fire’s new season has gotten off to a blazing start. While fans are delighted to welcome recruit Blake Gallo (Shadowhunter’s Alberto Rosende) to 51, it came at a cost of another. Many were devastated to learn that Brian “Otis” Zvonecek (Yuri Sardrov) would die after succumbing to last season’s injuries. Otis was a show favorite, with fans loving his loyal and kind attitude. It was the firefighter’s last words to Cruz (Joe Minoso) that brought tears to the fans’ eyes: “Brother, I will be with you always”....

China – long viewed as one of the key growth markets for smartphones – is now approaching saturation point, according to data being released today by IDC. The WSJ reports that smartphone shipments fell for the first time in six years, 4.3% down year-on-year in the previous quarter. Other sources say sales are still growing, but at a much-reduced rate. While the news may be bad for many smartphone manufacturers, Apple is less likely to be affected as existing owners upgrade from low-end and mid-range handsets to premium ones....

USA has renewed its alien invasion drama series Colony for a third season, with production on the show moving from California to Canada. It’s the end of the world as people know it, and Hollywood seems to feel fine, judging by the sheer number of dystopian or outright apocalyptic movies and TV series to see release with each passing year. On the small screen side, easily the flagship of this movement is AMC’s The Walking Dead, which - despite ratings drops during season 7 - is still one of the highest rated programs in all of TV....

CarX Drift Racing Online is a drift racing simulator with the most realistic physics and car behaviour. A great variety of cars, unique locations, wide customization and tuning options are available to meet your needs for true competitive play. As the game received a new update, CarX Drift Racing Online has received positive reviews; like other video games, the CarX Drift Racing Online title also has issues, such as the game Won’t Launch issue in its initial days....

Chris Evans is set to star in director Antoine Fuqua’s Infinite, an adaptation of D. Eric Maikranz’s novel The Reincarnationist Papers. Eight years after his debut as Steve Rogers in Captain America: The First Avenger, Evans is most likely on the verge of saying goodbye to the character and the larger Marvel Cinematic Universe for good. Indeed, as far as we know, Evans will be done playing Captain America after this year’s Avengers: Endgame - and if he does continue to work on the MCU, it could be as a director, rather than an actor....

Chart courtesy of paidContent.org With all three players having introduced their respective cloud music offerings, we can now pit them against each other. The above chart is from paidContent which opined that “Apple doesn’t always get it right the first time”. Author Amanda Natividad observed that in iTunes “syncing should be faster and easier” while “song quality may get a boost”. She obviously wasn’t paying attention to yesterday’s unveiling of iTunes Match, a new iTunes feature that works in conjunction with Apple’s upcoming online service dubbed iCloud....

Miley Cyrus fans were worried for a second, but despite being spotted out and about with women other than her, Cody Simpson spent Christmas with the entire Cyrus family. He even gifted his beau with a museum quality skull necklace for the Christmas holiday, driving home the point that he’s extremely into the “Slide Away” singer. The couple shared photos and videos of them enjoying tea and playing guitar by the Christmas tree....

Liam Neeson’s Cold Pursuit made just $10.8 million at the box office in its first weekend, giving Neeson his worst opening since 2010. The film’s roll out was of course clouded by significant controversy, after Neeson touched off a firestorm with his admission that 40 years ago he sought to hunt down and kill a “black bastard” after his friend was raped by a black man. Neeson’s controversial remarks, made in an interview with The Independent last week, were followed by an exercise in damage control by the actor....

The upcoming historical drama 1917 casts Colin Firth and Benedict Cumberbatch in main roles. Directed by Sam Mendes, the film will follow two British soldiers on a single day during World War I. In addition, Shazam!’s Mark Strong has joined the 1917 cast, along with Game of Thrones’ Richard Madden. In the 2010s, Mendes has only directed two films, Skyfall and Spectre. Both spy blockbusters are part of the James Bond franchise, which Mendes officially exited in 2015, and later stated that “it’s time for somebody else....

Yesterday, the credit rating agency Moody’s downgraded Nokia’s debt to near junk level citing a “sharp decline in first-quarter cell phone sales that led to a 35 percent fall in revenue.” Standard & Poor’s announced a similar downgrade in March. Nokia’s share prices plunged another 20 percent in recent days on news that it would not come close to its forecasts. Things do not seem to be looking up, either. Reuters talked to four European carriers that said Nokia phones simply could not compete with Apple’s iPhone and the Android devices already available....

The Problem Have you ever tried to Free Transform a text layer and noticed its bounds seem a bit unusual? Perhaps completely inaccurate? If you answered yes, you’re correct! Here’s what text layer transform bounds usually look like: If you look closer, you’ll see an unusual amount of space at the top and bottom of the line in the image. And even some to the right. This makes transformations and centering inaccurate....

Chicago Med is a medical drama series that has aired for four seasons on NBC. It is set to return for its fifth season this fall. The series is part of the popular One Chicago franchise that also consists of Chicago Fire, Chicago PD, and at one point in time, Chicago Justice. The series follows a medical team as they try to save lives while also navigating their own personal struggles....

Showtime has been working with Ben Affleck and Matt Damon on their upcoming Boston crime drama City on a Hill for what seems like ages, but the wait is almost over as the premium cabler has just dropped the first trailer. This isn’t the first time Affleck and Damon have teamed as executive producers to bring a television show to life, as the two worked on SYFY’s short-lived dystopian corporate drama Incorporated....

Abstract: WMIC has completed more than a decade of existence without having the limelight in terms of its features, though windows command line geeks have always had a soft spot for this embedded interface to WMI or Windows Management Instrumentation exposed in cmd.exe. Here we plan to take a look at the various commands provided and their switches. In normal cmd.exe commands we use find or findstr as a counterpart to grep to find the relevant string item often using wildcards as well....

Rejoice, meatbags, for your beloved AI overlord has finally deigned to make its way to the Mac. Despite having an infinite number of better things to do, CARROT, the sarcastic and sadistic artificial intelligence that powers a whole family of iOS applications, is now ready to provide weather information right on your desktop, since it seems you are far too lazy to get up and look out a window for yourself....

Cassandra TTL (Time to Live) using Automatic Data Expiration Cassandra provides functionality by which data can be automatically expired. During data insertion, you have to specify ‘ttl’ value in seconds. ‘ttl’ value is the time to live value for the data. After that particular amount of time, data will be automatically removed. For example, specify ttl value 100 seconds during insertion. Data will be automatically deleted after 100 seconds. When data is expired, that expired data is marked with a tombstone....

Back in June we reported that Apple was getting ready to introduce new Bluetooth Low Energy hearing aid technology it developed to significantly improve the current crop of products on the market. Apple expected partners in its MFi program to introduce hearing aid and cochlear implant products using the technology this year, and last night we got a look at the first MFi hearing aid about to launch globally this quarter during the Bluetooth SIG event at CES 2014....

You also need to worry about social media apps, voice assistants, and smart TVs from listening and recording what you have to say. Tap or click for steps to put a stop to it. Phone apps ask permission to access your camera, mic, and location. You can go into your phone’s settings to grant or restrict these permissions. Did you know you can do the same for your PC or Mac?...

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