The Harry Potter series is noted for bringing us a protagonist who was never played out to be all-powerful and had to rely on luck and outside factors to overcome Voldemort. Had the smallest of things gone another way, then Deathly Hallows wouldn’t have been possible. While we know most of the major moments, such as Voldemort choosing Harry instead of Neville to kill as a baby, there were relatively minor moments that turned out to have huge impacts in the lead-up to the final book....

After years of essentially waiting to be attacked and just hoping that he could weather whatever storm was coming his way, Harry Potter finally decided to be a bit more proactive by creating the Dumbledore’s Army. When the dark lord returned, the world didn’t want to accept it. But Harry knew that he had to prepare himself for the reality of the situation. But instead of just readying himself for war, Harry decided to teach many of his fellow Hogwarts students how to defend themselves and fight against the coming darkness too....

The Harry Potter franchise might be seen as a family adventure, for the most part, but that doesn’t mean that there aren’t some scary moments thrown into the series. It might have some uplifting and fun magical moments, but the movies also have a dark side. The later in the series you get, the darker the films become as it is clear that the dark side is beginning to take over the wizarding world....

One of the best things about Gilmore Girls is its characters, but there’s one who was actually hated by fans of the show - April Nardini (Vanessa Maarano). Gilmore Girls started its run in 2000, telling the story of Lorelai (Lauren Graham) and Rory (Alexis Bledel), following the mother-daughter duo in the town of Stars Hollow, with all its weird and wonderful inhabitants along for the ride. April was introduced in Gilmore Girls season 6, first appearing in the ninth episode of that year, “The Prodigal Daughter Returns”....

When it comes to nostalgia fuel, look no further than the classic The Golden Girls. Though it originally aired every Saturday night in the late 1980s and early 1990s, it’s now available to stream and binge-watch anytime, anyplace. With thirty years between the original air dates of episodes of The Golden Girls and now, it’s interesting to watch and see how well the show holds up now. In some cases, the show excels; in other cases, though, the show tends to show its age, and aged fairly poorly in those situations....

According to a new report on The Information, Google is developing an operating system for low-power IoT devices. These low power devices are powered by as little as 32MB RAM. Codenamed “Brillo,” the operating system is likely to be put under Android brand name as it is being “linked to company’s Android unit.” Perhaps, it is a lighter variant of Android. The operating system will be made available for free, the report adds....

We’ve shown you ways to customize the New Tab page before, and here’s another quality extension to add that allows you to add a to-do list, notes, custom backgrounds, and more. Awesome New Tab page in Google Chrome To get started, install the Leoh New Tab extension to Chrome. This allows you to replace your current New Tab page with a customizable homepage with features like a clock, weather, bookmarks, notes, to-do lists, and a lot more....

Google Glass has seen a number of developments in recent weeks with the most significant being a wider launch of the Enterprise Edition. Meanwhile, the Explorer Editions and the Android companion app received their first updates in nearly three years. Over the weekend, Google has gone ahead and updated the iOS version of MyGlass with 64-bit support. The last update before Saturday’s was nearly three nearly three years ago on September 17, 2014....

Apple Maps icon compared to Google Maps iPhone web app icon According to AllThingsD, Google plans to release its long-rumored Google Maps for iOS application tonight. The report does not share any details about the application’s features, or which Apple devices it will work with. However, previous rumors point to the application including the turn-by-turn navigation support that Google would not offer in Apple’s Google Maps app in iOS versions prior to iOS 6....

The new monthly storage plans and their previous prices are as follows: $1.99 for 100GB (previously $4.99), $9.99 for 1TB (previously $49.99), and $99.99 for 10TB. Google says that one terabyte is enough for you to “take a selfie twice a day for the next 200 years and still have room left over for”. But I’m sure that you have many other important pictures that you will want securely saved on the cloud....

In contemporary times, reality shows have taken many different forms, and while the most cringe-worthy ones might be shows like Keeping up with the Kardashians, there are talent-based shows which aren’t all that bad to watch. American Idol’s enormous success made Idol a franchise around the world, but while that show’s brand value faltered quite a lot over the years, the Got Talent brand has always stood quite strong. Nowadays, there are dozens of versions of this show across countries, and you can just about find a Got Talent show in every country with a major television network....

Grown-Ish is a spin-off series of the sitcom Black-Ish. Black-Ish is a show that follows the life of the Johnson family, an upper-middle-class family that is made up of Dre and Rainbow Johnson and their children. Zoey, the oldest of the Johnson children, is the main focus of the series Grown-Ish and is played by Yara Shahidi. It follows Zoey’s life after she moves away to college and is on her own for the first time....

Everything is political. There’s no escaping the politics of life when people with power see those without as lesser beings, numbers to be moved around on a sheet, rather than human beings with hopes and dreams of their own. Motherless Brooklyn is all about the dynamics between those people, and how the very act of living can be a political act. Set against the backdrop of New York City circa 1957, Motherless Brooklyn follows Lionel Essrog, a private detective with an aggressive case of Tourrette’s Syndrome who doesn’t let his personal issues get in the way of his quest for the truth....

Tyupkin is just one of the different strains of malware used in the cyber criminal ecosystem to hack ATMs. In May 2013, security experts spotted another ATM Trojan dubbed Padpin; meanwhile in October 2013, malware researchers isolated samples of another malware dubbed Ploutus that was circulated to compromise banking machines and steal cash from them. In this post, we will try to analyze each of the above ATM malware, suggesting countermeasures to defend the Automated Teller Machines....

Halloween Kills slashes into theaters in October 2020, but its first trailer will arrive well before that, and here’s when we think that might be. To say that writer/director Rob Zombie’s pair of Halloween films proved to be divisive would be a massive understatement. One assumes that the negative reaction from both critics and fans to Zombie’s Halloween 2 in 2009 is most of the reason Michael Myers sat on the horror bench until 2018....

Today Hyper is launching its latest USB-C hub, the HyperDrive Power 9-in-1, and in the video below we give you an early hands-on look. For a limited time, you can get the drive for $30 off retail during BestBuy’s Black Friday in July event on today and tomorrow. That makes it $69.99 versus the normal $99.99 price it will launch with following the sale. The new 9-port HyperDrive USB-C hub was specifically designed for iPad Pro and MacBook Pro/Air and features an extended USB-C cable....

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNKvlIUL-I8] Today we get our best look yet at Apple’s new CarPlay iOS feature running in new vehicles from Volvo and Ferrari. Both debuting this week at the Geneva Motor Show, Ferrari is showing off the feature in its new FF (below), while the video above from Mac4Ever gives us a hands-on demo of the feature in the new Volvo XC90 SUV. Comparing the videos, we can see that the implementation of CarPlay varies from manufacturer to manufacturer....

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“Potterverse” is not an exaggerated term for the world J.K. Rowling has created. The Harry Potter series introduces the reader to hundreds of complex characters. Each could have their own series written about them, and they would be as deep and complex as the tales of Harry Potter. We’d especially love a series devoted to the Longbottom family. Neville Longbottom has been a fan favorite since the first book debuted. Who doesn’t love an underdog story?...

J.K. Rowling finished writing her celebrated Harry Potter series over a decade ago. Yet, the saga of the young wizard Harry and his friends and their ultimate triumph over evil fascinates the world even today. One of the most complex relationships of the series, as Potter fans would surely agree, was that between Dumbledore and Snape. Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore, the Headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and Severus Snape, the embittered potions master and perceived-villain-turned-anti-hero of the series, had a much more curious relationship than Harry and the readers were made to see for the most part....