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A recently released behind the scenes video of Chris Evans rehearsing for the iconic elevator fight from Captain America: The Winter Soldier shows practice was just as intense as the final filmed scene. The fight between Captain America and an elevator full of Hydra agents posing as members of S.H.I.E.L.D. is still fondly remembered as one of the most iconic moments from The Winter Soldier. Although Captain America: The Winter Soldier was released back in 2014, the film is considered one of the best in Marvel’s Cinematic Universe and easily one of the best Captain America solo films according to fans....

Bachelor Nation is buzzing with speculation - will Hannah Brown return as the next lead on The Bachelorette? Host and producer Chris Harrison hinted that she could be because “she’s a train wreck.” After a brutal conclusion to her own sort of fairy tale, Brown is back on the market again. At first, it seemed like she was going to be part of the craziness that is season 24 of The Bachelor, but now it’s looking like Brown might have another fifteen minutes of fame in the making....

Achieving a Culture Victory in Firaxis Games’ popular Civilization VI can be quite challenging at times. This is mainly because of the uncertainty revolving around its mechanism. This was an issue that the developers had to deal with in the case of Civilization 5 as well. Fortunately, a number of skilled fans have worked together to decode the underlying calculations and put forth valuable information that has helped the community understand all about Culture Victory in Civilization VI, how to achieve it, and the various factors underlying it....

Of all the technological advancements we have reached to date, Wireless connectivity has seen impressive growth in the last couple of years. Apple Airpods are the best example of this. Not only Apple, but many other OEMs are also now coming up with earbuds. These solve the same purpose as earphones but without the need for any wire. Depending upon their brand, they get various names. Most popular of that is the Apple Airpods....

Trends in the smartphone market are not stable. Whatever is made to trend in this market get outdated very soon. The reason is almost every smartphone manufacturer in the world has become highly active. This is because of the rising interest and demand of people towards smartphones in the present time. As manufacturers are becoming more and more aware with the needs of people, they are shaping their gadgets to fit such needs....

In this era of smart technology, smartphones are widely teaching humans on how to solve the most challenging problems. In other words, humans are capable to deal with more than 30% of their problems in regular life effectively because of smartphones. A study has unveiled that with the rise in demand of these gadgets, many people have a lot of comfort added in their life. This is quite true and smartphone makers like Xiaomi are widely contributing for this....

The cyberpunk genre is very much in the cultural eye at the moment, at least in the video game industry. CD Projekt Red’s upcoming Cyberpunk 2077 remains one of the most anticipated video games of the year, despite release delays. To pass the time, RuneHeads has developed a different cyberpunk experience in the form of Conglomerate 451, a roguelike dungeon-crawler which illustrates the grim, dehumanizing nature of privatized technological progress but which fails to use that technological progress to make a memorable game....

Scottish born Craig Ferguson has been a staple of American television for decades. He first appeared on the ABC sitcom The Drew Carey Show for eight seasons and then became the host of CBS’s The Late Late Show for nine seasons. In How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, he reprises his role of Gobber, the village blacksmith and mentor to the young Vikings. Screen Rant: Craig, wonderful job. It’s been a long twelve years....

Cats, the latest musical from director Tom Hooper, has confounded audiences and bombed at the box office, but one crazy theory might give the film a more cohesive narrative: the cats are already dead. The long-running Broadway and West End musical is free of a traditional structure, as it is a series of cat introductions with only one real plot event. This works for a stage production because the show’s highlights are the cats’ song and dance numbers, but for the film adaptation, Hooper and co-writer Lee Hall needed at least one narrative thread to propel the film’s action....

The Arrowverse crossover Crisis on Infinite Earths fulfilled The Flash’s prophecy that the Scarlet Speedster would die in the event, but with a smart twist. The 5-hour crossover started and finished big with its first 3 installments, with some big changes for the Arrowverse’s future. Since the series premiered in 2014, The Flash has been the series to place most seeds for the inevitable Crisis that would affect Barry Allen (Grant Gustin) in the future....

In this Cryptography and Network Security tutorial, we will introduce you to the world of cryptology and how you can secure information from falling into the wrong hands. Topics covered in this tutorial What is cryptography? What is cryptanalysis? What is cryptology? Encryption Algorithms Hacking Activity: Hack Now! What is Cryptography? Cryptography is the study and application of techniques that hide the real meaning of information by transforming it into nonhuman readable formats and vice versa....

A CSS shorthand property is simply a CSS style property that combines multiple properties into one. Instead of having more than one line of CSS, you can use one property that allows for multiple values so that you can style multiple properties without having to define each property individually. This makes CSS easier to manage. Another reason to use CSS shorthand properties is to save space which will allow for your web pages to load quicker....

CVS today joined Walmart in continuing to resist Apple Pay, instead launching its own mobile payments solution. In a press release, CVS officially announced CVS Pay, a barcode-based solution to paying for goods and prescriptions in the company’s retail locations. CVS Pay is very similar to Walmart Pay, namely in that it is operated entirely through the recently updated CVS app. Once a user adds their debit or credit card(s) to the CVS app, they present the cashier with a barcode or a pickup number displayed in the app....

Cyanogen has now announced on its blog that it’s partnering with Truecaller, believed to be the world’s largest mobile phone community for mobiles. Truecaller can find contact details globally given name or telephone number, and also has an integrated caller ID service to achieve call-blocking functionality. And now Cyanogen is interested in bringing this feature into future smartphones powered by its operating system. The company said the following: This might seem like a minor feature, but at least you won’t have to resort to third-party tools to block unwanted spam calls....

Dancing with the Stars sent home its first contestant of the season. Sadly, there will be no last dance for one of the 12 celebrity competitors after their final goodbye. While the premiere episode of Dancing With The Stars seemed to mostly be about front runner James Van Der Beek and his top-scoring dance or Sailor- Brinkley Cook’s outstanding performance only after a couple days’ notice of joining the show on account of her mother being injured in her last practice, fans had to say their first goodbye of the season to Mary Wilson....

It has been raining phone launches of late, and while most of the attention still is hogged by the design-processor-display-price quartet, a recent trend that I’ve observed in many of your events is a stress on the camera of your phones. From Samsung on the Galaxy S6 to Huawei on the Honor 6 Plus to Xiaomi on the Mi 4i (yes, yes, Hugo Barra DID talk about HDR mode), the camera suddenly has got increased importance as far as being a phone component goes....

Christina Hendricks is an award-winning actress and former model who currently leads the comedy-drama series, Good Girls. Hendricks has had success in both television and film with roles that range from an animated children’s toy in a blockbuster hit to a con artist in a cult-series. Her career spans over twenty years and during that time has become a well-renowned actress with accolades to show for it. Here are the ten best roles, so far, of Christiana Hendricks’s career according to Rotten Tomatoes....

The first trailer for Freeform and Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger season 2 shows what is next for Tandy (Olivia Holt) and Tyrone (Aubrey Joseph). The live-action series made its debut last summer and pleasantly surprised audiences with what it had to offer. The series balanced the young adult approach with maturity and found great chemistry between the budding actors playing the future heroes. It took time, but the “Divine Pairing” finally learned to use their powers to help others and not just themselves, saving all of New Orleans in the process....

The final season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars is coming soon to Disney+. However, fans will soon have another option to get their Clone Wars fix beyond just the streaming series. IDW will be releasing an upcoming comic mini-series entitled Star Wars Adventures: The Clone Wars – Battle Tales. Star Wars: The Clone Wars is an incredibly popular series in the Star Wars franchise. Beginning in 2008, Clone Wars told incredible stories featuring Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, Skywalker’s padawan Ahsoka Tano, and several more dynamic characters as they battled and fought in the raging war between the Galactic Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems led by Count Dooku....

Listening to some of the Apple Pay stats put forward by the company, you might get the impression that the payment method is taking the market by storm. In Apple’s Q1 2017 earnings call, Tim Cook told us that the number of Apple Pay users tripled year-on-year, and that transaction volumes increased by 500%. In Q2, we finally got some actual numbers, at least for the US: a total of 4....