Author: Awais
Following the surprise announcement that Milla Jovovich is joining Hitman: World of Assassination and Gemma Chan’s upcoming turn as Selina Tan in 007 First Light, the entire energy in the room changed when Lenny Kravitz stepped onto the stage at IO Interactive’s showcase. This was fresh off the reveal of his swaggering new character, the pirate king Bawma, in the next James Bond adventure.IOI wants to redefine how players connect to the Bond mythos in 2025 and beyond. During our conversation, Senior Licensing Producer Theuns Smit made one thing clear: Kravitz didn’t just join the world; they built part of…
Most folks believe that Wi-Fi security begins and ends with a strong password. It’s a vital part of Wi-Fi security, of course, but don’t let a long and confusing cryptic string trick you. Your Wi-Fi router has a heap of other security settings you should be paying attention to, and one that you need to make sure is switched off. Wi-Fi Protected Setup, better known as WPS, can bypass even the strongest Wi-Fi passwords, and your router might have shipped with it switched on. What WPS is supposed to do Theoretically, WPS is super useful Conceptually, Wi-Fi Protected Setup is…
You can almost turn any dessert into a bar. That’s the beauty of this kind of dessert. And during the holidays, where cookie tables pop up at every celebration, showing up with a cookie in bar form is a perfect way to offer something different. There’s nothing like a brookie (a brownie and cookie) and scotcharoos will always be a holiday classic. If you want to bring a treat that combines three classic ingredients—shortbread, chocolate, and caramel—then millionaire’s shortbread is for you. What Is Millionaire’s Shortbread? If you bake this recipe, we can’t say for certain if you will become…
In the same month that Grok opted for a second Holocaust over vaporizing Elon Musk’s brain, the AI chatbot is on the fritz again. Following the Bondi Beach shooting in Australia during a festival to mark the start of Hanukkah, Grok is responding to user requests with inaccurate or completely unrelated info, as first spotted by Gizmodo.Grok’s confusion seems to be most apparent with a viral video that shows a 43-year-old bystander, identified as Ahmed al Ahmed, wrestling a gun away from an attacker during the incident, which has left at least 16 dead, according to the latest news reports.…
This week we’re following a bit of a theme and discussing some of the top recommended TVs available. These questions came from viewers of our previous best TVs video, so think of this as a continuation. That video covered our picks in three different price tiers. As many have pointed out, there might be some holes, so I recommend watching that one as well to get the whole picture. This probably won’t be the last time we revisit the topic. It’s shopping season, and once the 2026 TVs are announced and become available, the best 2024 and 2025 TVs could…
This three-ingredient appetizer can be prepped up to three days ahead for convenience.Using large fresh sprouts and thin, smoky bacon ensures great taste and texture.Maple syrup caramelizes in the oven, adding a delicious glaze to each bite. Every family has a dish that is so beloved that it doesn’t feel like a holiday if it’s absent. My family’s Christmas must-have is a quirky appetizer called “sprouts in blankets.” Essentially bacon-wrapped Brussels sprouts brushed with maple syrup, my mom came up with this three-ingredient treat when the tiki bar appetizer rumaki was all the rage in the Midwest. Rumaki is made…
The days of using your phone as a Netflix remote are effectively over. In a move that’s confused subscribers since reports first surfaced on Reddit in early November, Netflix appears to be blocking the ability to beam content wirelessly from your phone to your TV. CNET testing confirmed the option has vanished from newer setups, like LG TVs, though some people say that it can still be accessed via older versions of the app and legacy Chromecast dongles. A representative for Netflix didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. However, on a Netflix Help Center page, the company appears to be nudging customers in the direction of using built-in…
Toshiba maps path for hard disk drives from 24TB capacity to 55TB & beyondStorage giant targets 40TB drives as early as next year with new technologiesTwelve platter design underpins Toshiba’s push toward higher capacitiesToshiba has outlined plans to push hard disk capacity far beyond today’s limits, with new slides showing a path to 40TB models and an eventual move toward 55TB and beyond.PC Watch says the company detailed its roadmap at a recent symposium in Japan, describing advances in platter counts, recording technologies, and materials that will shape its next generation of data center drives.There has been a steady rise…
With Logistic Regression, we learned how to classify into two classes. Now, what happens if there are more than two classes. n is simply the multiclass extension of this idea. And we will discuss this model for Day 14 of my Machine Learning “Advent Calendar” (follow this link to get all the information about the approach and the files I use). Instead of one score, we now create one score per class. Instead of one probability, we apply the Softmax function to produce probabilities that sum to 1. Understanding the Softmax model Before training the model, let us first understand…
Absynth is something of a cult classic in the soft synth world. It was originally released in 2000, and quickly found an audience among the growing cadre of people making music on computers. But its last major update, Absynth 5, was released in 2009, and Native Instruments officially discontinued the instrument in 2022, citing a lack of resources to continue supporting software in desperate need of modernization. But now the Absynth is making a grand return with version six, created in collaboration with the original designer Brian Clevinger, and featuring presets from Brian Eno and Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith.The core of…