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One of the headline features of the dual camera system in recent iPhones is Portrait Mode, an effect that simulates a DSLR-style shallow depth of field by intelligently blurring the background of your photos. Apple took the feature a step further with the iPhone X, adding Portrait Mode selfies and introducing simulated Portrait Lighting. While these features are currently limited to still photos, future iPhones could someday use the same technology to bring the depth effect to videos, a stunning look currently only possible with high-end video gear or a considerable amount of work in post-production....

Rubeus Hagrid is definitely one of the most beloved characters from the Harry Potter series. He acted as one of Harry’s most consistent parental figures throughout his years at Hogwarts. While Hagrid might not have always been the professor with the most common sense, he does have a good heart, and he clearly cared a lot about Harry. While many fans love Hagrid, he definitely had some flaws and did some things that haven’t aged well....

Heather Dubrow said The Real Housewives of Orange County is like football “but with more brain damage.” The OC alum poked fun at the show that made her famous thanks to a chance at learning stand-up comedy. The wife of a plastic surgeon, Dubrow made a household name for herself when she appeared on season 7 of The Real Housewives of Orange County, but left after the 11th season ended. The reality star was known for her straight talk and designer outfits, which were always impeccably worn....

Flip or Flop star Tarek El Moussa’s new girlfriend Heather Rae Young, from Selling Sunset, talks about how she feels that Tarek is filming his HGTV show with his ex-wife, Christina Anstead. Terek and Christina are continuing with season 8 of Flip or Flop in spite of them getting divorced. The new couple, Tarek and Heather, have a lot in common; they’re both real estate experts, reality TV stars, and residents of Los Angeles....

Hell Warders combines the tower defense and action RPG genres and adds nothing original to either of them, resulting in a mostly dull experience. Hell Warders is an interesting experiment in the tower defense genre. Instead of placing players in an outsider-looking-in perspective and tasking them with placing various defenses around a specific area, Hell Warders takes a different approach. Before starting the (admittedly short) campaign, a hero character is chosen with attributes (like health and damage) similar to what you’d see in a standard RPG....

Removed Windows 10 Features Here is the full list of features being removed from Windows 10 1809 and what you can use instead: Business Scanning, also called Distributed Scan Management (DSM): We’re removing this secure scanning and scanner management capability – there are no devices that support this feature.FontSmoothing setting in unattend.xml : The FontSmoothing setting lets you specify the font antialiasing strategy to use across the system. We’ve changed Windows 10 to use ClearType by default, so we’re removing this setting as it is no longer necessary....

As you probably already know, the new 24-inch iMac M1 outperforms nearly every entry-level iMac previously sold by Apple. However, YouTuber Luke Miani has modified one of these older machines with an Intel Core i9 processor to compare it to the M1 iMac — and the results are quite interesting. Just like other devices with the Apple M1 chip, such as the MacBook Air and the new iPad Pro, the M1 iMac with an 8-core CPU achieves single-core scores of around 1,700 and multi-core scores of around 7,400 on Geekbench....

Apple’s HomePod went on sale this morning in the U.S., and customers who preordered the smart speaker are receiving their shipments across all three countries where the device is available, including Australia and the United Kingdom. One of the unanswered questions leading up to HomePod’s launch has been how Apple’s retail stores will display the speaker. Apple has marketed HomePod’s superior audio quality as its defining feature, and some have wondered how well the speaker will be able to project itself in retail settings which are often noisy and crowded....

It should surprise no-one that Apple is poised for a huge growth in China. It’s the 1.3 billion people market, folks. Yes, Apple had been neglecting China for years. That changed when iPhone came along, providing Apple with financially sound incentives to launch retail operations in China, including the latest spectacular glass tower in Shaghai’s Pudong district. Four Chinese stores are just the beginning as Apple put to work a plan calling for an aggressive retail expansion....

UPDATE: Harley Quinn is expected to appear in The Suicide Squad after all, according to sources affiliated with the film. - Harley Quinn isn’t expected to appear in James Gunn’s new Suicide Squad movie for Warner Bros. and DC Comics. 2016’s Suicide Squad performed well at the box office, especially internationally, but it was not received well critically. The movie is considered one of the weaker entries in the DCEU. Of the film’s various elements though Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn was widely considered a high point....

From the moment Harry Potter stepped onto Kings Cross Platform, he was aided by a family of redheads who would go on to change his life, as well as the history of the Wizarding World. They are powerful, smart, determined, just, and extremely loyal. They are, of course, the Weasley family. The Weasley’s have been a part of Harry’s adventure since the very beginning, and have shown him (and the books’ readers) the wonders of the Wizarding World....

One of the longest-standing franchises in the world, Harry Potter continues to capture hearts worldwide. The very first movie is especially dear to Potter-heads, because that is where all the magic began. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone was where much of the lore of wizards and Hogwarts was established, and the young wizard found out about his roots and the Dark Lord who gave him his scar. As fans celebrate 25 years of magic and mayhem since the release of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone book, it’s time to look back at the debut novel and movie with fresh eyes....

Dudley Dursley may be the “finest boy alive” in the eyes of Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon, but to the rest of us, he is a little brat. Unfortunately, “Duddykins” is led to believe that he is the best kid to ever exist because this is what his parents teach him. When a kid is spoiled this much by his parents it’s hard to believe the child will turn out to be a saint, yet if we look close enough, we can find a few redeeming qualities about Dudley....

Although the entire film and book series of Harry Potter takes place within the wizarding world that is hidden within our own, there are still a lot of normal people who exist and populate this fictional universe. In Harry Potter-speak they’re called muggles, but we would just call them people who don’t have magical powers. And these muggles find themselves entwined with the wizarding world for all manner of different reasons....

Executive Summary DDoS, or Distributed Denial of Service, is a cyber-attack in which an attacker tries to bring the functioning of a computer system that provides a service, such as a website, to the limit of its performance, generally working on one of the input parameters until it is no longer capable of delivering the service. This technical definition often results in a significant loss of money, caused by the inability of a hypothetical company to profit from their online business....

Warning: SPOILERS for Watchmen episode 9. HBO’s Watchmen season 1 finale saw the end of Doctor Manhattan (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) - but, because “nothing ever ends”, a new Doctor Manhattan may have been created in his wife, Detective Angela Abar AKA Sister Night (Regina King). In its 9-episode run, executive producer Damon Lindelof’s “remix” of the classic graphic novel by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons furthered Watchmen’s story, setting it 34 years later in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and examining the Watchmen universe through the lens of racial injustice in America....

The COVID-19 pandemic is a circuit breaker shining a harsh light on the challenges facing higher education. It raises questions about the importance of access, cost, and digital infrastructure relative to the role of massive campuses, facilities, dorms, and thousands of support staff built up over the last 50 years. We believe the challenges come from location-centric thinking that is pervasive in higher education: Universities expect students to come to campus rather than go to where they need the education....

The declining player base of Anthem is causing problems for those players who continue to stick around to play the game. Although BioWare seems to be treating the release of Anthem as early access (meaning that new content will get delayed to fix issues), players have been frustrated since day one due to an overwhelming amount of bugs and glitches, as well as not seeing content that was initially promised....

2020 is set to be an exciting year for television - and the most exciting new show is Lovecraft Country. A number of great shows will return for another season, including AMC’s Better Call Saul, HBO’s Westworld, and even Adult Swim’s absurd The Eric Andre Show. In addition, there are dozens of new shows to get excited about: Disney+ has two Marvel TV shows on the horizon, Patrick Stewart returns for CBS’ Star Trek: Picard, and FX will finally air the long awaited TV adaptation of Y: The Last Man....

Netflix and Mattel Television are co-producing a new He-Man and the Masters of the Universe animated series. Originally airing from 1983 to 1985 and consisting of two sixty-five episode seasons, the first iteration of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe was repeatedly shown on various networks in syndication before the rights to the show were bought by USA Network, who continued to run the series until 1990. Netflix has slowly been rebooting a number of classic animated shows from the 1980’s and 1990’s....