The Google-owned DeepMind AI program AlphaStar is now better at StarCraft 2 than a mind-blowing 99.8 percent of the game’s human players, making the artificial intelligence Grandmaster level and one of the best StarCraft 2 players in the entire world. DeepMind has famously supplanted the best players in other endeavors as its most sophisticated software, AlphaStar, increasingly becomes more complex and is improved by its creators. AlphaStar was previously tested against human StarCraft 2 players this past January, when DeepMind announced that the AI was able to beat professional StarCraft 2 players ten matches in a row during prerecorded sessions....

The new vice president in charge of the firm’s LAC operations is Juan Manuel Gómez, who will oversee sales, marketing, service and operations across the countries in the region. Gómez replaces Marcelo Giampietro, who had joined Citrix as general manager for Americas from SAP in April 2021. The executive left the company a few months later, in November 2021. A Citrix veteran, Gómez joined the company 14 years ago, before holding marketing and sales roles at companies such as Latin carrier Avianca, as well as Kimberly-Clark, L’Oreal and Unilever....

The MacBook Air has been one of Apple’s more neglected product lines. The 11-inch model was discontinued in 2016, and the 13-inch model hasn’t seen any major updates since 2015. I thought I knew why Apple was keeping the machine in the lineup: it needed an entry-level Mac to bring people into the ecosystem, and at a time when most people buy laptops, the Mac mini wasn’t going to be it....

Kanye West has a storied history when it comes to offering his opinion on the music and tech industry, specifically relating to Apple and its battle for exclusive content. This time, West took time during a performance as part of his Saint Pablo tour to address the race for exclusive content between Apple and Tidal, slamming the entire station. And I actually agree with him, as scary as that is to say....

Smartphones are of great significance in one’s life in the current scenario. They have become a part of all the tasks related to our life and are still expanding their applications. Many users have started investing in gadgets that are simply amazing. However, due to rise in the demand, many smartphone makers have come to the international market and offer the best they can at the lowest possible price. This has expanded the overall number of options available for someone who wish to own a smartphone....

At certain stages, life is nothing but repeating several tasks one after another. Well, the fact couldn’t be denied that most of us have to follow similar routines. This is something that makes many people feel as if their life is completely empty. If you too are facing this situation, the time has come to pay attention to your smartphone. You might be wondering what exactly the idea which the last sentence conveyed to you....

Younger generations always look for something cool to invest their money. This makes the smartphone makers come with gadgets that are not just feature-filled but are provided with a fabulous look. In addition to the features, the style, as well as the design has become quite important to make s smartphone successful. The manufacturers are familiar with this fact already and they have started blending the style with features. Vivo Y5s is one of the perfect examples....

Consumer Reports has published its 2017 iPhone comparison and in it the publication has somehow rated the iPhone X below the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus, but there’s certainly no need to trade down if you’re an iPhone X owner. While there’s nothing wrong with either iPhone 8 model, CR points to differences in battery life and durability testing for its ranking that may not apply to real world usage....

Crackdown 3 has been a long time coming, and Microsoft Studios knows it. The publisher has been noticeably deliberate with its approach to developing the game, leaving it in the capable hands of British-based studio Sumo Digital after some early turmoil threatened to sabotage the project. For those who have forgotten - and it has been a long time, so you’d be forgiven for doing so - Crackdown 3 was announced in 2014....

However, if you’re a home user, running Outlook with a POP or IMAP email account i.e. Yahoo, Gmail, or Outlook.com, you can still create auto-replies, however, there is a bit more work involved. You’ll need to combine an Outlook email template and create a new rule to simulate an Exchange server-type solution. Just follow the steps below and you will be good to go. Create Auto Reply (Out of Office) in Outlook for POP or IMAP First, you need to create a message template....

David Cronenberg is the absolute master of the yucky when it comes to horror films. From The Fly to Videodrome, his use of body horror is absolutely disgusting in the most fascinating way. His stories are always interesting, working with themes of transformation both of the body and the mind, and occasionally, the spirit. He also makes sure to select kind of off-the-wall stories to adapt, such as his film Naked Lunch, based on an author by the ex-heroin addict and Beatnik luminary William S....

When DC Comics launched their Rebirth line, new status quos and creative teams were brought on board. While the Batman line didn’t really need fixing the way the Superman line did, the changes made have not only been great, they’d also added something to Batman that we didn’t even know we wanted: absolute balls to the wall insanity. From Batman forming a team to fight an army of government-created Batman soldiers, to smiley-faced buttons randomly appearing in bedrock, to breaking into prisons on foreign soil, and trying raise more child soldiers, the Dark Knight hasn’t been this colorful or strange since the ’60s....

It’s Justin Timberlake! It’s Tom Cruise! No, it’s… The Joker? The latest reinvention of Batman’s greatest enemy comes courtesy of Harleen, the newest comic book released as part of DC Black Label, the publisher’s new, ‘prestige’ imprint intended for mature readers. Within its pages, Dr. Harleen Quinzel is having a new origin story told, explaining how she became the infamous Harley Quinn. But one change readers will notice has to do with the Joker–looking more like a heartthrob than a crazed criminal killer....

Hugh Jackman concludes seventeen years of playing Wolverine on the big screen (starting with Bryan Singer’s X-Men in 200o) with the theatrical release of next month’s buzzed-about X-Men film, Logan. That movie is far from the end for 20th Century Fox’s X-Men cinematic universe, of course. Currently, Fox has three mutant-based films in development, including Josh Boone’s New Mutants comic book adaptation, the next main X-Men film (aka. X-Men: Supernova) and the sequel to last year’s raunchy action/comedy hit Deadpool - all three of which may start filming sometime this year, no less....

Chris Evans is in talks to join the Little Shop of Horrors remake cast as the sadistic dentist Orin Scrivello, Audrey’s abusive boyfriend. Warner Bros. is developing a remake of the property that originally launched with the 1960 Roger Corman movie, which was adapted by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman into a stage musical. That musical served as inspiration for the 1986 cult-favorite movie directed by Frank Oz. This iteration has been in development since 2016, with DC TV producer Greg Berlanti attached to direct the Little Shop of Horrors remake....

This article provides an overview of some of the security considerations when using containers in CI/CD environments. Reproducible builds According to https://reproducible-builds.org, reproducible builds are a set of software development practices that create an independently-verifiable path from source to binary code. Let us go through an example to understand how reproducible builds can be produced. The assumption here is that a team has dockerized their python application using the following Dockerfile....

With the continuously increasing demand of smartphone, the users can always be seen in a big hope of having something fresh in the new devices. This is really very true and in the present time, many users have started investing on the brands which are not so popular. Of course, there are many new brands which are known to provide simply the best features and are good enough to be trusted for the long run....

Xiaomi smartphones need not to be introduced with those who are already addicted to technology. The smartphone manufactured by them are simply good enough to be trusted and can easily be considered for performing any task. The fact is Xiaomi has invested a lot in the smartphones and their premium range gadgets are simply the best in every aspect. They can easily be trusted and users are always free to have an experience that they never had earlier....

watchOS 6 introduces several new watch faces for the Apple Watch Series 4 including the new California option. Much like the recent Infograph face, California can be customized in a range of ways to fit your style. Apple’s new California face takes inspiration from the watch-making world, mixing Roman and Arabic numerals on a single watch face like a California dial on analog watches: By Piero7 – Own work, Public Domain...

WARNING: This article contains SPOILERS for The Flash #64 The world of superheroes is full of comparisons and match-ups, both real and imaginary. Who’s smarter: Iron Man or Black Panther? Who would win a fight between Spider-Man and Deadpool? And of course, who is faster: Flash or Superman? In The Flash #64 DC Comics has answered an often overlooked but still important question concerning the Scarlet Speedster. Who’s the better detective: Batman… or the professional CSI, Barry Allen?...