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Warning: contains Young Wallander finale spoilers. Kurt Wallander’s first murder case left him disillusioned and questioning the point of it all. He’d solved the murder and identified the culprit, but was justice done? Was it hell. After spending weeks discovering who was behind the murder of Malmo teenager Hugo Lundgren – time in which he was beaten up, stabbed, saw his best friend in Intensive Care, and lost his mentor – Wallander was left wondering if any of it had made a jot of difference....

Although Cyberpunk 2077 has been faced with its fair share of controversies as of late, there’s no denying that it is an impressive game and lives up to many of its promises when being played on the right hardware. The game’s rough launch has been filled with many ups and downs, but gamers everywhere are still trying to make the most out of the tricky situation. While it’s become clear that Cyberpunk 2077 is a demanding game in many ways, some gamers can’t help but wonder what taking the most anticipated game of 2020 on the go would be like....

What is Google Lens? What can Google Lens do? Translate: You can point your phone at text and, with Google Translate plugging in, live translate text in front of your very eyes. This can also work offline. Smart Text Selection: You can point your phone’s camera at text, then highlight that text within Google Lens, and copy it to use on your phone. So, for instance, imagine pointing your phone at a Wi-Fi password and being able to copy/paste it into a Wi-Fi login screen....

What Does Neuroimaging Mean? Neuroimaging is defined as the use of “techniques to either directly or indirectly image the structure, function or pharmacology of the nervous system.” It’s a general way to advance neuroscience through principles of observation and direct application. It comes in many forms, from digital neural networks to direct mechanical interactive technologies. Techopedia Explains Neuroimaging Some neuroimaging tools focus on mapping the physical brain, where others are aimed at identifying brain activity....

What Does Rapid Mobile Application Development (RMAD) Mean? Rapid mobile application development (RMAD) is a specific type of rapid application development (RAD) that affects mobile designs. It is based on the idea that application development can be expedited with various streamlining approaches. Techopedia Explains Rapid Mobile Application Development (RMAD) One aspect of rapid mobile application development is the use of “low code/no code” tools – in other words, platforms that offer GUI interfaces for design that get around some of the benchwork involved in programming....

What Does Remote Desktop Support Mean? Remote desktop support is support rendered to access a specific computer/device from another computer/device with the help of networking or the Internet. It can provide access to the files, applications and network resources associated with the device from the remote device. Remote desktop support can be used for diagnosing and resolving hardware and software issues of a computer/device located at a distant location. Techopedia Explains Remote Desktop Support Remote desktop support is considered a component of efficient application service management....

What Does Vim Mean? Vim, which stands for Vi Improved, is a popular open source text editor. It is a clone of the Unix text editor Vi. Originally written for the Amiga in 1988, it is available for almost every operating system. Vim is particularly popular with Linux users. Techopedia Explains Vim Vim is a text editor originally written by Bram Moolenar. The editor is a clone of Vi, a Unix text editor written by Sun Microsystems cofounder Bill Joy while he was a graduate student at UC Berkeley in the late 1970s....

Over the 4th of July weekend, Final Fantasy 14 broke its concurrent players record on Steam. That record-setting weekend comes on the heels of reports that suggest Final Fantasy 14 may have more active subscribers than the apparent king of the MMORPG genre, World of Warcraft. You can call it an anomaly, but it’s more than that. While you shouldn’t buy into the ridiculous idea that WoW is somehow dead and being replaced by Final Fantasy 14, there is certainly something happening here that goes well beyond a blip on the radar....

The word “visionary” gets tossed around pretty easily in show business, too often applied to creators who appealed to a broad market more than they broke new ground. But few would disagree that the word is an apt descriptor for Bryan Fuller. Not only did Fuller work on cult hits like Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Heroes, but he also created some beloved oddballs, including the sweetly macabre Pushing Daisies and Hannibal, the audacious adaptation of Thomas Harris’s novels....

This RIVERDALE review contains spoilers Riverdale Season 6 Episode 1 Last season, Riverdale jumped ahead in time to skip over the gang’s college and re-contextualize their relationships with each other. That, meshed with subplots about everything from Mothmen to murderous truckers to Mr. Lodge’s latest (and for now at least, last) criminal scheme, resulted in the most uneven season of the series to date. In short order, the standard weirdness of Riverdale had become rote....

Britney Spears is one of the most-covered and least-known celebrities of the modern era. She is a millennial icon whose songs were the soundtrack of a generation. A choreographed contradiction from her earliest burst onto pop stardom, the singer became a blank canvass for anyone carrying a paint brush. The FX docuseries The New York Times Presents “Framing Britney Spears” is an attempt to find the artist’s place in the gallery....

The recent Elden Ring trailer revealed quite a bit of information about the upcoming collaboration between Dark Souls developer FromSoftware and Song of Ice and Fire creator George R.R. Martin, but it still left many fans with unanswered questions about the game’s multiplayer options. Traditionally, games in the Soulsborne series (Demon’s Souls, the Dark Souls games, and Bloodborne) have included some kind of multiplayer option. In fact, one of the elements that define those games is the ability to open your world to other players so that they can assist you or even just try to kill you....

The votes are in, and the Pokémon which will be spotlighted for Pokémon GO’s next two Community Days have been decided. Pokémon GO’s latest Community Day took place over the weekend. Thankfully for fans, Niantic has continued to hold the monthly event in-game despite the COVID-19 outbreak. The rewards and bonuses have had to be tweaked due to the global pandemic, a trend that started in April via Abra’s delayed Community Day....

World of Warcraft: Shadowlands has just released, with Anduin Wrynn becoming an increasingly important character over the course of the World of Warcraft expansions. When his father was missing between the vanilla release of the MMO and the second expansion, Wrath of the Lich King, Anduin reigned as King of Stormwind under the regency of Lady Katrana Prestor and Bolvar Fordragon. Lady Prestor would turn out to be the Black Dragon Onyxia in disguise, while the end of Wrath of the Lich King saw Bolvar take up the Helm of Domination to become the new “jailer of the damned....

The Marvel Cinematic Universe has flourished with long-form storytelling, to the point that the movies are evolving and adding new characters as much of the old guard is leaving after Avengers: Endgame. Disney has purchased the rights to Marvel properties once owned by Fox, including the X-Men, but even though Sony still has prominent control over Spider-Man that hasn’t stopped WWE wrestler Paul “Big Show” Wight from wishing for a particular MCU role....

The original Xbox came out in 2001, putting Microsoft in the gaming scene for over 15 years now. They’ve spent years putting their brand side by side with quality and raw power. They were the first ones to get online console gaming to the masses (and do it well). Innovation was made with the Xbox 360, which became one of the best-selling consoles of all time. Now we have the massive Xbox One to sink our teeth into....

Update: Xbox Live is now functioning normally. The original story follows: Xbox Live is a lot of things, but it certainly isn’t perfect, and with that imperfection comes downtime. As of this writing, some users are reporting issues signing into the service, causing problems for people attempting to access some of their Game Pass games and other online content. Microsoft has acknowledged the issues and sent word to their engineering team to try and solve the problem, though no estimated time has been given as to when players will be able to get back online....

After a strong 2015, the Xbox One looks to have another year full of high quality exclusive games, thanks to titles like Gears of War 4, Sea of Thieves, and more. At E3, Head of Xbox Phil Spencer proudly declared 2015 as having the strongest lineup in Xbox history. With heavy hitters released such as Forza Motorsport 6, Halo 5: Guardians, Rise of the Tomb Raider, and more, it’s a claim that’s hard to argue with....

It should come as no surprise, but Phil Spencer has confirmed that the current Xbox Series X|S models on the market will remain the only models for the next several years. Spencer went on to reassure Xbox fans that they won’t miss out on any new developments in 2022 if they decide to pick up a Series X or Series S in 2021. In a recent discussion with IGN, Spencer talked about plans to release new Xbox consoles in the coming years – similar to how Xbox One saw the Xbox One X and Xbox One S....

CD Projekt Red is struggling with some of the ongoing criticisms of Cyberpunk 2077’s quality on consoles. Therefore, it may surprise the team to know that Yakuza producer Hiroyuki Sakamoto put the action-RPG in his list of favorite 2020 games. Speaking to Giant Bomb, Sakamoto listed four of his favorite games from last year - and Cyberpunk 2077 making the cut was unexpected. Despite its rough launch on last-gen systems, Cyberpunk 2077 still received favorable reviews from next-gen users, and we labeled it as a “future (almost) perfect” title in our review....