Throughout his years at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry Potter faced many dangerous creatures and formidable foes. Even after he bailed on school, he couldn’t avoid returning to throw down with his enemies. But one of the scariest and most dangerous magical creatures that he encountered was one of his earliest challenges at Hogwarts: the mighty and scary-as-heck Basilisk. The Basilisk that Harry ultimately had to face was merely a tool in Voldemort’s tool belt, but a Basilisk is a wildly dangerous and fierce challenge even on the best of days....

Luna Lovegood is definitely a well-loved character from the Harry Potter series. While she’s not a main character, she is a prominent side character. She was a loyal friend to Harry and a devoted member of Dumbledore’s Army. She was so devoted to doing the right thing and helping defeat Voldemort that she even started up Dumbledore’s Army, along with Ginny and Neville, under Snape’s reign at Hogwarts. There are also some interesting things about Luna that happened to her before and after the series started....

If you’re searching for a solid introductory view of Red Teaming, look no further! Tell us about the intrusion detection and response platform you’ve been building in your spare time. Curtis created an intrusion detection and response platform to serve home consumers. It was essentially a remote security operation center (SOC) that offered detection and response for threats on the network as well as malware removal and updating. How did you get started in computers and security?...

Live-action movie adaptations of anime/manga properties don’t have a strong track record at the U.S. box office (see Dragonball Evolution, Speed Racer), but next month’s Ghost in the Shell is aiming to change that. Set in a futuristic version of Hong Kong, the film stars Scarlett Johansson as The Major: a unique human/cyborg hybrid that leads elite cyber-crime fighting team Section 9. Costarring in the film are Pilou Asbæk (Game of Thrones) as The Major’s fellow Section 9 officer, Batou; Juliette Binoche (The 33) as one of The Major’s “creators”, Dr....

The return of the hyper-violent franchise provides players with new mythology to engross themselves in. As well as a deeply technical combat engine within God of War for PS4. The new entry in the franchise pits Kratos against the gods of Norse mythology and features a new over the shoulder style combat engine. The game provides players with a wide array of skills and gear to make the combat of the title seem both responsive and intricate....

This year’s Golden Globes may have just aired this month, but NBC already has next year’s hosts lined up: returning favorites Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. Fey and Poehler have a long-standing relationship with NBC, having both worked on network staple Saturday Night Live for several years. Both comedians have also starred in hits for the network: Fey in 30 Rock and Poehler in Parks and Recreation. Their performances on both shows were well-received, with Fey taking home the Golden Globe for Best Actress - Television Series Musical or Comedy twice and Poehler once....

At its developer conference last June, Apple announced the next version of macOS called High Sierra, will include a new version of Safari that blocks autoplaying videos. Google announced a similar change for Chrome in a blog post this week. It’s great to see more of these web browser developers are coming to their senses. Upcoming Chrome 63 Release Can Block Autoplaying Videos and Audio If it’s one thing I hate about the modern web is the onslaught of autoplaying videos and background audio....

Google’s annual fall hardware event is right around the corner, and that means this year’s rumor season is coming to a close. But thanks to countless leaks, reports, tweets, and information from our own sources over the last several months, we have a really good idea at this point what the Made by Google event 2018 has in store. We can confidently say you should expect to see the new Google Pixel 3 and 3 XL, a Google Pixel Slate tablet, a Google Home Hub Smart Display, and more....

Randomly Restarting can be a huge nuisance and is obviously problematic in terms of reliability. This problem is almost always due to a bug or corruption in your kernel, which ironically, is located in your boot image. If your Google Pixel 4 XL is behaving like this then you need to follow the below-detailed guide where we have shown a few methods to fix Google Pixel 4 XL Randomly Restarting again and again issue....

When iOS 5 came out, Google got caught with its pants down because for most users Google Voice wouldn’t even start up without crashing. We’re not certain what the Voice team was doing during that beta testing window (maybe the last minute Siri inclusion threw things off?) All of that is water under the bridge right now because Google Voice is back in the App Store and works great on iOS 5....

After three seasons and a multitude of question marks, the return of FOX’s Gotham means that one of Batman’s greatest foes, The Riddler, is finally getting his proper costume. After an extended hiatus of nearly three months, Gotham is back and bringing back a whole new rogue to the gallery. When we departed the dark streets of Gotham last, it appeared that Edward Nygma had killed his partner in crime, Oswald Cobblepot aka....

There is no doubt the power button is at the supreme authority when it comes to using it to do countless tasks. This is why power button not working problem can introduce a hoard of issues preventing users from actually turning on the phone, turning it off, lighting up the display, take a screenshot, disconnect the call, snooze an alarm, silent a call, and all those things that were possible when the button was in a working state....

Created by former Twitter for iOS tech lead Ben Sandofsky and ex-Apple designer Sebastiaan de With, Halide is a beautiful iPhone camera app with gesture-based pro controls that launched earlier this year. With the release of the all-screen iPhone X tomorrow, Halide is out with a major update featuring a new user interface designed from scratch for the new device. Halide 1.5 for iPhone X goes edge-to-edge by using the top left and right corners (on either side of the sensor housing) to display exposure values, histogram data, and other data points....

This week Benjamin and Zac discuss running a half marathon with Apple Watch Series 3 and AirPods, Apple’s first Folio Case for iPhone X, Jony Ive returning to lead day-to-day design, a quick TV app review, Apple buying Shazam, HomeKit’s vulnerability and iOS 11.2.1, and the iMac Pro’s debut. New episodes of Happy Hour are recorded every week. Subscribe to our podcast to guarantee new episodes are delivered as soon as they’re available....

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the fifth film in the series, chronicles Harry’s life at Hogwarts as he deals with witnessing Cedric Diggory’s death and Voldemort’s return while the Ministry of Magic feigns ignorance of both. On top of that, The Daily Prophet slanders him and Dumbledore on the orders of the Ministry, and the new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor psychologically and physically abuses students....

Even though the device is not yet available, an early unboxing gave us a hands-on look at Apple’s upcoming 12-inch Retina MacBook this morning, and now Geekbench results (cached) from the device have emerged giving us a look at what kind of performance we can expect from it. As we predicted, the Geekbench process tested the performance of the entry-level 12-inch Retina MacBook, which packs an Intel Core M-5Y31 processor clocked at 1....

Intego Mac Internet Security X9 premium bundle for $59 (Reg. $84). Or get a free trial. Designed for and by Mac users, the Intego security bundles includes a comprehensive suite of 5 apps for securing, backing up, and protecting your Mac in real-time against malware and other security threats. It also includes ContentBarrier for advanced online parental controls, and the Mac Washing Machine X9 app for cleaning and speeding up your Mac....

Gamers might not be familiar with Indonesian video game studios, but Lentera Nusantara’s Ghost Parade seeks to change that in the coming months. Their debut release, set to be published by Aksys Games, is an ambitious and elegantly animated metroidvania whose style and themes draw inspiration from films like Studio Ghibli’s Spirited Away, the animated indie hit Ori and the Blind Forest, and the wide array of unique recruitable creatures to be found in Pokémon....

In the coming month, the search giant will introduce age verification checks where users are asked to provide additional proof-of-age when attempting to watch mature content on YouTube or downloading content on Google Play. The move is to provide users with “age appropriate experiences,” Google government affairs and public policy senior manager Samantha Yorke explained in a blog post. “As part of this process some Australian users may be asked to provide additional proof of age when attempting to watch mature content on YouTube or downloading content on Google Play....

The latest version of the Google Maps iOS app has been given some Google Now functionality: when you click on an airport, hotel or restaurant, the app will display any reservation information it can find in your linked gmail account. This functionality was previously only available in the desktop app. Although Google has added a succession of features to the app, data last month showed that most iPhone users were using the pre-installed Apple Maps....