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After weeks of speculation, Microsoft has finally unveiled Windows 11, the new operating system upgrade coming this holiday. Boasting many tweaks to the UI, as well as few other new features, Windows 11 should bring some welcome changes to the Windows PC experience. At the forefront of the upgrade is the new Start Menu, which is now sitting at the center of the taskbar. The new Start Menu forgoes the tiles that have been a signature of the Windows experience for the past few generations of the OS....

Wonder Woman 1984 kicked off the first ever DC Fandome event, with a 25-minute event that not only dropped a new trailer, but featured insights from the film’s cast, including Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Kristen Wiig, and Pedro Pascal, as well as director/co-writer/producer Patty Jenkins. The panel was steered by Brazilian hosts Érico Borgo and Aline Diniz. Here’s everything we learned during the discussion… Wonder Woman 1984 Will Almost Certainly Release in Theaters With Disney’s decision to release Mulan as a VOD rather than in theaters, many have been speculating about the fate of other upcoming, big-budget releases, in particular Wonder Woman 1984....

Looks like Treebeard wasn’t right when he called the Ent attack on Isengard the “Last march of the Ents.” The latest mount coming to World of Warcraft is a giant lumbering tree-giant, called The Wandering Ancient. The mount will be added to the game as part of the Chains of Domination update for the WoW Shadowlands expansion. GameSpot spoke to WoW principle game designer, Jeremy Feasel, about this new mount. It turns out that The Wandering Ancient is the result of a player survey put out by the dev team in order to work closely with the WoW community....

WWE confirmed Thursday during an investor call that there will be no WWE 2K21 video game. WWE added no further comment on the subject, leaving the reasons for the WWE 2K21’s disappearance ambiguous. No comment was made regarding whether the franchise would return for WWE 2K22, either. The confirmation from WWE comes several days after a former WWE SmackDown vs. Raw game writer shared rumors that the game had been canceled....

This Wynonna Earp review contains spoilers. Wynonna Earp Season 4, Episode 8 Oh, to be a fly on the (probably Zoom) wall of the Wynona Earp writers’ room during the brainstorm session about which Halloween costumes each character should wear in this autumnal holiday-themed installment! Reader, they nailed it. Wynonna dresses as feminist hero Britney Spears (compliment of Waverly for both bringing the costume together and knowing that Wynonna would be into it), and Wonder Woman....

Xbox has confirmed you will soon be able to stream Game Pass and use all of its features using nothing more than a TV and a controller. Xbox has gone in so hard on Game Pass since the launch of the Series X|S that it keeps getting harder and harder to imagine how it will continue to improve. It keeps getting better though, and an announcement made by Xbox today might well be the biggest improvement yet....

First Xbox was forced to reveal not only the Series S’s existence and its price, but now a trailer for the compact next-gen console has leaked online. Details regarding the price of the Xbox Series X and the previously unconfirmed Series S leaked late on Monday night. Early this morning, Xbox decided to bite bullet and officially reveal the Series S. It didn’t give away much about the console, just that it will cost $299, and that it is the smallest Xbox ever....

A major criticism of Thursday’s Inside Xbox event was a surprising lack of gameplay, rather than in-engine footage and cinematics. One game that stood out as featuring clear gameplay was The Ascent, a cyberpunk ARPG that’s a console launch exclusive on the Xbox Series X. And even better, a new 12-minute gameplay video has since been released on Friday. For those who weren’t able to figure out what The Ascent really was about from its short Inside Xbox trailer, the 12-minutes of gameplay footage makes it much more obvious....

Microsoft’s holiday season isn’t looking so hot for exclusive Xbox Series X titles. With less than a week to go before the launch of the latest Xbox, developer Bloober Team has announced that its intriguing horror title The Medium has been pushed back to January 2021. While a delay of a little over one month, it still stings in a holiday season where Microsoft has seemingly nothing else. In a message on Twitter, the company explained, “After much careful thought and consideration, today we have made the difficult decision to delay the launch of The Medium to January 28, 2021....

The success of the Xbox series of consoles can at least be partially attributed to the ever-popular Halo franchise, which introduced the character of John-117, otherwise known as the Master Chief. In a world of uber-powered video game superheroes, he stands as one of the tallest. The Master Chief does face stiff competition from Nintendo’s own Samus Aran, the main protagonist of the Metroid franchise. Both are highly trained warriors with access to a unique set of skills, tools, and capabilities, but who would emerge victorious from a fight?...

Hand Destruction is an unofficial term in Yu-Gi-Oh! (sometimes referred to as Hand Looping) in which a card takes cards out of the opponent’s hand and either shuffles it into the deck or sends it to the Graveyard (or occasionally Banishes it). Cards that have Hand Destruction effects have been around since some of the earliest Sets of the game. Card advantage in Yu-Gi-Oh! is incredibly important, so losing cards from your hand can be game-ending....

With mere weeks before the launch of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, Activision and Treyarch recently decided to announce the beta dates for the first-person shooter’s new Blackout mode across all supported systems. Now, in order to better prepare potential players, the publisher and developer have confirmed a sneaking suspicion that many fans of the franchise have had for a while, with zombies officially present in the game’s forthcoming Battle Royale mode....

What Does Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) Mean? Heterogeneous system architecture (HSA) is a particular processor architecture that combines a central processing unit (CPU) and a graphics processing unit (GPU) in order to speed up processes. Techopedia Explains Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) The HSA is overseen by the HSA Foundation, which includes enterprises such as ARM Holdings. ARM Holdings pioneered the ARM instruction set architecture, a reduced instruction set (RISC) architecture for efficient processing....

What Does Linear Multiclass Classification Mean? Linear multiclass classification is a specific kind of targeted algorithm philosophy in machine learning and the field of structured prediction that uses both linear and multiclass methods. A multiclass classification is used to classify more than two classes – in contrast to a binary classification. Techopedia Explains Linear Multiclass Classification With that said, the linear multiclass classification would apply that linear combination model to more than two classes....

What Does Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Mean? Optical character recognition (OCR) refers to both the technology and process of reading and converting typed, printed or handwritten characters into machine-encoded text or something that the computer can manipulate. It is a subset of image recognition and is widely used as a form of data entry with the input being some sort of printed document or data record such as bank statements, sales invoices, passports, resumes and business cards....

What Does Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets (Sass) Mean? Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets (Sass) is an extension to Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) that adds more features, stability and depth on top of CSS. It differs from CSS in that it supports variables, nested rules, inline imports, mixins and inheritances. Techopedia Explains Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets (Sass) Sass is an advanced variant of CSS that is completely compatible with all versions of CSS. It uses Sass Script as the scripting language....

What Does Virtual Machine Hyper Jumping (VM Jumping) Mean? Techopedia Explains Virtual Machine Hyper Jumping (VM Jumping) Virtual machine hyper jumping exploits are designed to compromise a VM, which is then used to access or launch attacks against other VMs or hosts. This is usually done by targeting and accessing a less secure VM on a host, which is then used as the launch point for further attacks on the system....

Last week’s special Pokémon announcement has come and gone, and with it, many people’s hopes of a Sinnoh remake, at least for now. While a lot of people were disappointed by Pokémon Unite’s announcement, it’s worth asking ourselves: if the Pokemon Company did announce a Sinnoh remake, how would we want it to look? What would be considered “good”? Pokémon Diamond and Pearl released in September of 2006, and Platinum followed two years after....

Yakuza: Like a Dragon recently released, delighting new and old fans alike as it changed up the usual Yakuza format and instead opted for the RPG genre. As well as introducing players to a new storyline, new characters, a new area, and more, there are also new features to tie-in with the change to a roleplaying game. One of the changes is that the various challenges that Yakuza players are normally used to finding in the menu straight away, can only become unlocked when players start the Part-time Hero questline....

The third generation of Pokémon were introduced in the Ruby & Sapphire games. Over one hundred new Pokémon were introduced, starting with Treecko and ending with the legendary Deoxys. The amount of Dark and Steel-types in particular increased a fair amount. With that many of them though, it can be hard to choose your perfect companion. By matching them up with the Zodiac signs though, it can be a little easier....