UPDATE: George R.R. Martin has vehemently denied McElhinney’s claim that the books are done. Game of Thrones is almost over, but there are still two more books in the A Song of Ice and Fire book series to go. It seems that the fans might not have to wait long for the last two books to be released, as Ser Barristan Selmy’s actor is claiming that they are already finished....

Despite the massive popularity of the original anime, the live-action adaptation of Ghost In the Shell became one of the big flops of 2017 on its release last month. The film stands to lose more than $60 million, and the studio has admitted that the casting controversy affected the film’s take at the box office. Despite this, Ghost in the Shell has done reasonably well in the overseas market, preventing it from being a total failure....

A twist in Godzilla: King of the Monsters revealed that King Ghidorah is actually an alien, but this isn’t a surprising revelation for Godzilla fans, considering that Ghidorah was also an alien in the classic Toho films. The MonsterVerse made certain adjustments to King Ghidorah for King of the Monsters, but his origin story wasn’t one of them. Godzilla’s biggest enemies in the original Toho movies are King Ghidorah, Mechagodzilla, and Gigan, but only King Ghidorah has earned the right to be called Godzilla’s archrival....

Watch Ricky Gervais skewer Hollywood in his 2020 Golden Globes opening speech. Marking his fifth year as host of what is widely acknowledged as the last major awards ceremony before the Oscars, Gervais once again appeared to be in top form. Back in 2010, Gervais hosted his first ever Golden Globes ceremony and quickly established himself as both hilarious and controversial. Lacking the fear that has traditionally kept past hosts from saying exactly what they think, Gervais took aim at a variety of controversial topics in Hollywood at the time – including Mel Gibson’s struggles with alcohol and the star’s still quite sensitive arrest....

Google announced today that an update rolling out to its Google Drive iOS app will allow users to upload files from other apps as well as access custom made maps through Google’s My Maps feature. The ability to upload files from other apps into Drive is limited to iOS 8 users, and the Google My Maps integration is limited to viewing and sharing the custom maps currently. The updated Google Drive app for iPhone and iPad, version 3....

Google Adds New Private Option Previously YouTube only had two options for viewing permissions, Public and Private. The public view is the primary and most commonly used option, allowing anyone to find and watch your videos quickly. The private view is very restricted and only allows people whom you have specifically allowed to see. Unlisted, the new third option brings in a whole new element to YouTube that many people have already been using in Google Docs and Google Picasa Web Albums....

Apple’s next retail store in Italy is coming soon to Via del Corso, the famous shopping street in the heart of Rome. The restored storefront will be Apple’s first to open in the country since Milan’s Apple Piazza Liberty in 2018. Palazzo Marignoli is a historic structure dating back as far as the 1870s. The building is adjacent to Piazza di San Silvestro and within walking distance of significant ancient monuments like the Trevi Fountain, Pantheon, and Spanish Steps....

It would appear DC Comics has at last looked in the mirror and recognized its own internal darkness, much like an edgy teen after they get their first listen at some rock music. Yes, DC Comics – or Hal Jordan, at least – has owned up to its own consistently dark content in the recent Green Lantern: Blackstars #2. With plots like the ones in “The Infected,” a recent crossover event that follows infected, villainous versions of classic DC heroes Shazam!...

Add Griffin Technology on your wish list of iPhone-controlled helicopter makers (and Parrot’s AR.Drone and Keyword Shopping’s iHelicopter, if you haven’t yet). The Helo TC, announced today, works with a free iOS app that lets you control a twin-rotor helicopter by the means of touching virtual buttons or tilting your device. Interestingly, the app talks to the helicopter using an infrared battery-powered module attachable to your iOS device’s headphone jack rather than communicate via a wireless base station in your home or office....

Guillermo del Toro has one of the darkest minds in Hollywood, but he’s also one of the most talented and inventive filmmakers working today. Although he’s told such disparate stories as the romance shared by a mute janitor and a sea monster, a paranormal law enforcement agency’s quest to save the world led by a demonic superhero, and soldiers in robot suits beating up interdimensional giant monsters, you can always tell a del Toro movie....

HTB is an excellent platform that hosts machines belonging to multiple OSes. It also has some other challenges as well. Individuals have to solve the puzzle (simple enumeration plus pentest) in order to log into the platform and download the VPN pack to connect to the machines hosted on the HTB platform. Note: Writeups of only retired HTB machines are allowed. The machine in this article, named SolidState, is retired....

The Harry Potter movies do, for the most part, do a brilliant job of staying to the source material written by JK Rowling. However, Warner Bros chose to alter some things from the books in order to make things even better for those learning about the Boy Who Lived and his battle against Lord Voldemort via the big screen. That means that even deaths of some characters were altered in some ways....

Especially in the earlier Harry Potter books and films, Professor Albus Dumbledore is depicted as an odd man. From offering lemon drops to Minerva McGonagall in the wake of the Potters’ demise to telling Harry he merely desired a pair of woolen socks when looking into the Mirror of Erised, though the latter turned out to be a lie. As the series continued, more of Dumbledore’s backstory was revealed and proved to be darker than the wizarding world made it out to be....

Apple’s latest desktop operating system, OS X Mavericks, is available today. In this post, we’ll take you through the steps required to protect your data by backing it up, upgrading the OS, and getting started with the latest version of OS X. Before you get started, you’ll want to make sure you have everything you need. To backup your data, you’ll need an external hard drive with at least the same amount of storage as your hard drive (or a Time Capsule)....

Features offered in regards to team project handling include; GitHub Flow and GitHub Pages. These functions make it easy for teams with regular deployments to in handling the workflow. GitHub pages, on the other hand, provides a place for showcasing open source projects, displaying resumes, hosting blogs among others. Individual projects can also be easily handled with the aid of GitHub as it provides essential tools for projects handling. It also makes it easier to share one’s project with the world....

New footage from Godzilla: King of the Monsters shown at CinemaCon features more Titan battles. Warner Bros. has been building the MonsterVerse since 2014 after the release of Godzilla, and now it’s almost time for a true sequel to arrive. The new entry in the franchise is directed by Michael Dougherty, and has been the recipient of some great marketing so far. The studio launched the first trailer to a great response at San Diego Comic-Con last summer, and the good will has only continued since then....

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCo3zZ0P4vU] After first launching its new Inbox app as an alternative email experience to its main Gmail service last year, Google today announced that Inbox is now open to all sans the original invite system while it also introduces a number of new features for the service. As for features, Google highlighted a new “Trip Bundles” feature that keeps emails related to travel in one place, and improved controls for things like Undo Send, Signatures, and Swipe to Delete:...

There aren’t too many cool apps that launch first on Android, but Google Spotlight Stories is one. It plays sweet, animated stories using a mix of 2D and 3D imagery – the cool part being that you can ‘look around’ the scene simply by rotating your phone. There’s some heavy-duty talent behind the creation of the stories, the debut story Windy Days being created by former Pixar animators, and Help by Justin Lin, director of The Fast and the Furious … Immerse yourself in a world of storytelling made just for mobile....

Gossip Girl ran for six seasons, chronicling the lives of teenagers from the Upper East Side, considered New York and Manhattan elite. Along the way, we meet other characters, such as their parents, enemies, and allies. However, for the most part, the TV show stays focused on Serena, Blair, Nate, Chuck, and Dan (the outsider). For many of the seasons, two other outsiders, Jenny and Vanessa also serve as the main cast....

Warning! Spoilers for Gretel & Hansel below. Oz Perkins’ Gretel & Hansel is as gorgeous as it is strange, putting an even darker twist on a 200 year fairy tale. This is the third film from the director, following 2015’s The Blackcoat’s Daughter and 2016’s I Am The Pretty Thing That Lives In The House. The slow-burner stars Sophia Lillis as Gretel, Sammy Leakey as Hansel, and Alice Krige as Holda/The Witch....