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When one hears the title A Christmas Carol, dark and gritty aren’t usually the words that come to mind. That’s why we have the FX/BBC production to shed a little gloom and doom on the season to be merry and bright. Joking aside, this version is definitely unique and well-performed with more than a few curious touches. It’s not your mom and dad’s tale of a miser’s redemption, but it does have several clever details and callbacks worth appreciating....

Some applications are designed to run commands within the terminal of the system that they are running on. For example, a program may wish to list the files within a directory and decides to accomplish it using the ls or dir commands built into the operating system. This use of the underlying terminal creates risk. If an application uses untrusted user input when defining the low-level commands to be run, it may include a command injection vulnerability....

Alongside the launch of iOS 13 later today, Carrot Weather has received an update that brings support for the system-wide Dark Mode, full support for Siri Shortcuts including parameters and outputs, iPad multiwindow support, a fully-independent Apple Watch app, and tinted complications in watchOS 6. Available now, the latest Carrot Weather release brings a handful of nice upgrades including the headlining feature of Dark Mode support in iOS 13. That means the app will follow your system-wide Dark Mode setting for a seamless experience....

In Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Sabrina attends a magic school called The Academy of Unseen Arts. But what if she went to a different magical school? J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter books focused on Hogwarts in Britain, but Rowling also created Ilvermorny for the American witches and warlocks in the Potterverse. With houses representing the four main aspects of a witch or wizard (mind, heart, body, and soul), the Ilvermorny sorting is a little different than Hogwarts....

Chuck Liddell co-stars in D-Day, the latest action flick from The Asylum, the studio behind Sharknado and Z Nation. Unlike those campy projects, however, D-Day aims to present itself as an earnest war film, featuring historical characters and dramatizations of the real-life skirmishes of Operation Overlord. The film also features Randy Couture, Weston Cage Coppola, and prolific character actor Martin Kove. While promoting his role in the film, Chuck Liddell spoke to Screen Rant about his career, both as a Hollywood actor and his rise to stardom as a legendary mixed martial arts fighter....

Carla Gugino is a world-class thief in the first teaser trailer for Cinemax’s upcoming crime drama Jett. After taking some time off on the original series front, HBO’s little sibling is getting back into the swing of things, delivering new programs like the Bruce Lee-inspired Warrior and preparing for the final season (again) of its action-packed military drama Strike Back. And now it looks as though the network is ready to switch gears a bit (but not too much) with the crime drama Jett....

After previously announcing that the Civic Type R would make its U.S. debut this spring, Honda today confirmed that the vehicle, its latest arriving with Apple’s CarPlay stock, will go on sale tomorrow. Apple’s CarPlay features come via the Type R’s 7-inch Display Audio touchscreen that includes integrated HVAC controls and Android Auto support. The Touring trim that becomes available tomorrow will also pack in other tech including a 540-watt 12-speaker stereo, Honda Satellite-Linked Navigation System with Voice Recognition and Honda HD Digital Traffic, and a 7-inch Driver Information Interface that can display customizable performance stats like throttle and brake application, turbocharger boost pressure, lap time, shift lights, and more....

How Can Your Linux Be Hacked Using malware, worms etc? ClamAV is an open source antivirus software which is used in a variety of situations including email scanning, web scanning, and endpoint security. It provides a number of utilities including a flexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon, a command line scanner and an advanced tool for automatic database updates. Yup, ClamAV is a command-line tool only but then there is a graphical tool ClamAV available to manage ClamAV....

Captain Marvel star Clark Gregg believes some of the original Avengers may know that Phil Coulson is still alive. Played by Gregg since the 2008 debut of the MCU, the character was the common denominator in most Phase 1 films, a period which culminated with Joss Whedon’s The Avengers. However, Marvel Studios’ first ensemble film was also the final time viewers saw the fan-favorite S.H.I.E.L.D. operative appear on the big screen, after he and Nick Fury (Sam Jackson) faked his death to motivate the heroes to band together against Loki (Tom Hiddleston)....

Download Clean Master (Cleaner) from Google Play. Once installed, you’ll notice a simple straight-forward interface. It’s divided into four sections – History, Privacy, Tasks, and App Manager. The top area is reserved for showing you how much space you have available and used on your device’s internal memory and memory card. Since I’m using it on the Google Nexus 7, I’m getting the same figures for both. The History section is, in my humble opinion, the most useful, as it allows you to de-clutter your device....

After the recent update for Call of Duty Warzone, players have reported that they are encountering a new item in the game. This is the Red Access Card, and it has started appearing in Verdansk. Different speculations have surfaced online about this access card in this short interval of time. So for all these players who are confused about what this card is, we have compiled this piece. Now the game developers have not revealed anything about this item....

Over the past few weeks, I’ve watched two long-standing apps release new versions with business decisions that led to an outcry from many users. Pocket Casts went free but introduced Pocket Casts Pro as an optional subscription that included Desktop applications access to the web player. Customers who had previously paid $9 to unlock the web player were frustrated because they were awarded three years of Pocket Casts Pro but would need to subscribe after that to keep access to the web player....

Update: I was wrong – Apple won. If you’re new to Change My View pieces, please check out our guide. What we’re looking for in the comments are respectful rational arguments either for or against the motion. The Apple versus Samsung patent trial that began in 2011 returned to court last week. Closing arguments were made on Friday, and it’s now up to a jury to decide whether the damages awarded to Apple will be increased, decreased or remain unchanged....

A Chinese app ban in the US is still very much on the cards, despite President Biden overturning the previous administration’s planned bans on WeChat and TikTok. Biden replaced the specific executive orders with a more general one designed to protect the data of US citizens, and a report today says early indications point to some Chinese apps remaining at strong risk … Background Trump introduced an executive order imposing specific bans on WeChat and TikTok downloads within the US....

A recently released behind the scenes video of Chris Evans rehearsing for the iconic elevator fight from Captain America: The Winter Soldier shows practice was just as intense as the final filmed scene. The fight between Captain America and an elevator full of Hydra agents posing as members of S.H.I.E.L.D. is still fondly remembered as one of the most iconic moments from The Winter Soldier. Although Captain America: The Winter Soldier was released back in 2014, the film is considered one of the best in Marvel’s Cinematic Universe and easily one of the best Captain America solo films according to fans....

Bachelor Nation is buzzing with speculation - will Hannah Brown return as the next lead on The Bachelorette? Host and producer Chris Harrison hinted that she could be because “she’s a train wreck.” After a brutal conclusion to her own sort of fairy tale, Brown is back on the market again. At first, it seemed like she was going to be part of the craziness that is season 24 of The Bachelor, but now it’s looking like Brown might have another fifteen minutes of fame in the making....

Achieving a Culture Victory in Firaxis Games’ popular Civilization VI can be quite challenging at times. This is mainly because of the uncertainty revolving around its mechanism. This was an issue that the developers had to deal with in the case of Civilization 5 as well. Fortunately, a number of skilled fans have worked together to decode the underlying calculations and put forth valuable information that has helped the community understand all about Culture Victory in Civilization VI, how to achieve it, and the various factors underlying it....

Christina Hendricks is an award-winning actress and former model who currently leads the comedy-drama series, Good Girls. Hendricks has had success in both television and film with roles that range from an animated children’s toy in a blockbuster hit to a con artist in a cult-series. Her career spans over twenty years and during that time has become a well-renowned actress with accolades to show for it. Here are the ten best roles, so far, of Christiana Hendricks’s career according to Rotten Tomatoes....

The first trailer for Freeform and Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger season 2 shows what is next for Tandy (Olivia Holt) and Tyrone (Aubrey Joseph). The live-action series made its debut last summer and pleasantly surprised audiences with what it had to offer. The series balanced the young adult approach with maturity and found great chemistry between the budding actors playing the future heroes. It took time, but the “Divine Pairing” finally learned to use their powers to help others and not just themselves, saving all of New Orleans in the process....

The final season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars is coming soon to Disney+. However, fans will soon have another option to get their Clone Wars fix beyond just the streaming series. IDW will be releasing an upcoming comic mini-series entitled Star Wars Adventures: The Clone Wars – Battle Tales. Star Wars: The Clone Wars is an incredibly popular series in the Star Wars franchise. Beginning in 2008, Clone Wars told incredible stories featuring Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, Skywalker’s padawan Ahsoka Tano, and several more dynamic characters as they battled and fought in the raging war between the Galactic Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems led by Count Dooku....