Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (or Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone if you’re used to the American version of the book) was the book that started it all. While this book might be smaller and a little less complicated than some of the other Harry Potter books, it’s still an essential read because it’s the foundation of everything we know and love about the wizarding world. As such, there are a lot of important details that are exclusive to the book....

The Harry Potter franchise introduced a world inside a school for wizards. Several of the teachers were mainstays, there for the kids through their entire journey through the education system. However, there was one teacher that changed year after year. The Defense Against the Dark Arts professors seemed to change every year. The reason for that is simple. Tom Riddle, who later became Lord Voldemort, wanted to take on the role of the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor but was rejected....

Google has been adding Single Sign-On support to lots of its iOS apps in recent months, making it easier to sign into Google apps on their iPhone or iPad. With Single Sign-On, users can sign in once in any Google app supporting the feature and will automatically be signed into all the other apps. The idea is to eliminate having to sign-in multiple times to the same Google account for different apps....

Serena spent a lot of her time in Gossip Girl being confusingly nice and mean at the exact same time. You never really knew where you stood with her, whether she was being the girl who would go out of her way to make romantic gestures to Dan, or she was devising plans to make him jealous. Either way, at the center of so much attention, she was pretty much forced into living a life of shamelessness, dishing out brutality and boldness in equal measure through her actions....

After one of his most incredible years as The Green Lantern, Hal Jordan has been restored along with the rest of the Green Lantern Corps in DC’s Universe. But any fan who assumed that meant a return to normal was sadly mistaken. Not only is Hal Jordan’s army about to lose its commanders, but his power ring is about to get some brand new abilities in The Green Lantern: Season Two....

DC Films’ Green Lantern Corps writer Geoff Johns will be pulling double duty with the Emerald Knight for Warner Bros. on the big and small screen as the longtime DC Comics writer is boarding Greg Berlanti’s upcoming series for HBO Max. Since their initial announcement back in 2014 of the DC Films slate, a Green Lantern reboot has been a priority for the studio after the 2011 installment failed to click with moviegoers....

While Cristina Yang (Sandra Oh) is known for her tough personality, it’s fair to say that the Grey’s Anatomy character with the strongest, no-holds-barred attitude is Miranda Bailey (Chandra Wilson). Over the course of the hospital drama, which just began airing its 16th season, fans have gotten to know Bailey and have realized that she’s actually a real softie. Whether she’s chewing out her interns (in the name of teaching them, of course) or displaying her vulnerability, Bailey is the greatest and she always has awesome things to say....

Smartphone manufacturers continually innovate and introduce new features and elements in a smartphone and that is why a touchscreen swap the keypad and now, there are only three or maybe four buttons on a smartphone of which, the power button is multifunctional. It enables users to turn off the phone, restart it or disconnect a call, turn on the screen or turn it off again and other tasks that wouldn’t be possible without a power button....

Regional consumer electronics/home appliance retailer H.H. Gregg has just announced that it will be offering in-store pickup of Apple devices for the first time ever. Now, this may not be earth-shattering news since major retailers like Best Buy and Apple have been doing this for years, but to mark this milestone H.H. Gregg will be offering sizable discounts on some of Apple’s most popular products. From now until February 1, customers can save $40 on a 32GB WiFi iPad Air ($559....

Move out of the way Luke Cage, Master Chief is stepping back into the spotlight for the next iteration of Halo. The mighty Xbox exclusive shooter franchise will re-focus its next story campaign around its faceless franchise poster boy Master Chief in Halo 6 according to 343 Industries boss Frank O’Connor. O’Connor, who made headlines recently for claiming Xbox’s Project Scorpio console is even “beefier” than he and his dev teams thought, spoke with Games™ magazine in its latest issue about the feedback and learnings of Halo 5....

Screen Junkies’ Honest Trailer for 2017’s comedic slasher Happy Death Day manages to get itself stuck in an amusing time loop of its own. While the go-to example for most is director Harold Ramis’ brilliant 1993 film Groundhog Day - starring Bill Murray as arrogant weatherman Phil Connors - time loop plots are by no means rare in entertainment. When done well though, the setup can lead to a satisfyingly creative final product, which is exactly what happened with Blumhouse’s Happy Death Day....

Harrison Ford has returned to playing a handful of his iconic characters in recent years, so perhaps he should also return to the role of Jack Ryan. After appearing one more time as Han Solo in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, Ford will soon reprise his role as Dr. Henry Jones, Jr. in Indiana Jones 5, which will be filming soon and releasing in 2021. Ford portrayed Jack Ryan, the character created by Tom Clancy, in Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger in the early 1990s....

Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy were natural antagonists in the Harry Potter series. Though by the end of the series they had reached a kind of truce (and built a warmer relationship in follow-up play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child), some of their fights were hard - and as the stakes rose and pressures on each intensified, sometimes they were brutal. Here are the five worst things Draco did to Harry - and five worst things Harry did to Draco....

Dobby the house-elf made his first appearance in The Chamber of Secrets and instantly became one of the most loved characters in Harry Potter. Though he is initially trying to stop Harry from returning to Hogwarts, it soon becomes clear that Dobby cares deeply for Harry and is such a sweetheart. Following him throughout the books, we get to see him become a free elf finally and really become everything that he wanted....

When discussing Harry Potter, we generally mention the wizards and compare them based on their abilities, intelligence, and courage. The muggles from the story rarely garner any praise as they are simply ordinary people like you and me. We never to stop to think about their intelligence and how they fit into the grand scheme of things. We have identified the ten brightest muggles who were in the Harry Potter series based on their jobs and actions in certain situations....

Many elements in Harry Potter’s Wizarding World mirror those in the muggle world, but what if some of these are not mere coincidence or just the magical version, but a consequence of a battle between wizards and muggles? And one where wizards were somehow defeated by muggles. J.K. Rowling introduced readers to the Wizarding World in 1997 with Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, the first entry in a series of seven books....

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Apple prototypes going up for auction has become common over recent years, but something we don’t see as often are prototype iPhones. Today, a prototype first-generation iPhone has hit the auction block through eBay – and it’s already above $1,000… The seller of this prototype iPhone is a small account out of Portland, Oregon. They don’t make the origin of this device clear, but various markings and the operating system match other prototype first-generation iPhone units that we have seen....

Set in a future where the line between robots and humans has blurred, Ghost in the Shell follows Major Mira Killian (Scarlett Johansson) and the black-ops team of Section 9 when they are tasked to investigate a string of murders linked to a mysterious figure only known as Kuze. For all the negative reviews that it got, the live-action Ghost in the Shell is actually Hollywood’s most accurate and faithful adaptations of a well-known anime and/or manga....

For seven seasons, and a Netflix produced revival mini series, the world of Gilmore Girls has enthralled viewers all over the world. With characters who talk too fast and drink way too much coffee, the series is unlike many other shows on television, and driven by an amazing lead cast of female characters to boot. The series’ fan base remains endlessly devoted even almost two decades after it first premiered on The WB in 2000, and debates about characters and relationships rage hotter and hotter thanks to the advent of social media....