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Hideo Kojima’s long-awaited Death Stranding will be released in 2019 - at least, according to Best Buy. Death Stranding is a game that followed in the aftermath of Kojima’s somewhat bitter breakup with longtime publisher Konami. It didn’t take long for Sony to snatch up the auteur following his exit, and they soon put him to work on the PlayStation 4 exclusive. Death Stranding also serves as a reunion between Kojima, Norman Reedus and Guillermo del Toro after all three men collaborated on the canceled sequel Silent Hills....

A new report highlights that Death Stranding’s perfect score from Japanese gaming publication Famitsu is a little questionable thanks to some choice cameo appearances within the game. Hideo Kojima’s breakthrough title has been the most talked-about moment in gaming this fall, and part of that has stemmed from the way the game liberally employs cameos from celebrities across several different mediums. Fans already knew that Death Stranding featured Conan O’Brien in an otter suit after traveling to Kojima’s studio to meet with him earlier during development....

The grey market for iPhones in China is no secret, with thousands of the devices smuggled from places like Hong Kong and the U.S. back into Mainland China for sale by scalpers. Today, Reuters reported that 26 suppliers of one of China’s largest online grey market iPhone dealers, Lanyou Shuma.com, are currently on trial in a Shenzhen court. According to local reports, many of the suppliers accused in the case are “described as housewives who frequently travel to Hong Kong....

David Leitch has birthed franchises like John Wick and taken others to new heights like with Deadpool, and with Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw, he’s not only doing both - this is a spinoff to the street racing-turned-crime stunt series - but helping a new generation get their start. As part of the media blitz for Hobbs & Shaw, a tie-in digital-only advertisement for Brisk ice tea gave up-and-coming filmmaker Evans Alexandre the chance to make his own, canon part of the Fast & Furious world....

The best comic book creators are being let loose on DC’s most iconic heroes, starting the new age of DC Black Label. Today the comic publisher announces the launch of its new prestige imprint, along with the first wave of industry-leading and Eisner Award-winning talent recruited to do it. In the spirit of groundbreaking graphic novels like The Killing Joke and The Dark Knight Returns, DC Black Label aims to produce a new generation of classics, unrestricted by canon or DC continuity....

Perhaps the biggest movie surprise of 2016 so far has been the enormous success of 20th Century Fox’s Deadpool, starring a resurgent Ryan Reynolds as the sharp-tongued, quick-witted Wade Wilson. Having made a whopping $760 million at the worldwide box office, its measly $58 million budget has ensured massive profits and at the very least one sequel that’s currently in the works. In fact, the film’s screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick were so eager to pen a sequel, they did so before it had even been greenlit....

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....

It would be hard to find a DC fan who has forgotten the vibrant posters for the 2016 Suicide Squad movie that birthed Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn and the less worshipped Jared Leto version of the Joker. The posters seemed absolutely juxtaposed to the kind of aesthetics that the DCEU had been producing up until that point. The iconic colorful poster is getting a tribute cover. Typically, DC seems to favor a darker, grittier aesthetic with a key example being Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice, which had been released just five months before Suicide Squad....

Several actors from the cast of the disappointing Green Lantern movie are getting second chances from the DCEU. Green Lantern, a film that was clearly meant to set up a trilogy, never received a sequel, but a handful of the actors associated with it are once again playing characters in the DC Universe. Directed by Martin Campbell and released in 2011, Green Lantern was the first live-action movie to feature the titular cosmic hero from DC Comics....

Marvel fans can only dream of seeing Black Panther and Deadpool fight in the movies, but their comic book battle has chosen an unlikely winner. Not only has Deadpool claimed the Black Panther suit… he’s stolen King T’Challa’s throne out from under him, as the NEW master of Wakanda’s true power. When Marvel announced the Black Panther vs. Deadpool comic series, fans knew they were in for a one of a kind battle....

The voice cast for DC’s upcoming adaptation of The Death of Superman has been revealed, bringing back a number of heavy-hitters and teasing the film’s sequel. Though Marvel has put out their share of animated films, they haven’t matched DC Comics in terms of output. The DC Animated Universe that grew out of the Justice League era was a huge hit and their new shared universe has been crafting a more mature story with lots of room for offshoots....

Although there is an excellent chance that Hideo Kojima’s 2019 game will get a sequel, Death Stranding 2 has not yet been officially confirmed. Kojima’s first non-Konami title won over both critics and gamers, thanks to its unique gameplay, story, acting and soundtrack. The star-studded title not only featured The Walking Dead’s Norman Reedus in its lead role as the game’s main protagonist, but also starred Mads Mikkelsen, Guillermo del Toro, Troy Baker, Léa Seydoux and Lindsay Wagner....

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The ability to create deepfakes has been around for a long time; however, technology has improved drastically over time. With modern artificial intelligence and growing access to audio and videos of people on the Internet, deepfakes are becoming more convincing and easier to create than ever before. How deepfakes work Modern deepfakes are made possible by sophisticated artificial neural networks (ANNs). Using a library of training data, an ANN can be taught to extract patterns and trends in the data to create the desired output....

If your iPhone is running low on storage, and you use WhatsApp, it’s possible that videos, voice messages and photos stored in the app may be taking up significant space. Although you’ve always been able to delete WhatsApp media, the process is now a lot easier … For example, media flagged as ‘forwarded many times’ won’t be personal to you, so the app will let you select-all and then delete all of it....

Those who are wanting something else to sink their teeth into besides Anthem can rejoice: Bungie has broken the silence on the upcoming Destiny 2 Season of the Drifter. According to a video put together by the company, players can look forward to any confusion around Gambit mode, end-game progression, and “Joker’s Wild” being cleared up. There’s been a bit of a lull in notable updates to Destiny 2’s quests since The Black Armory and Volundr Forge’s rollout in late 2018 as part of the Annual Pass and the Season of the Forge....

Bungie announced that the Destiny 2 Shadowkeep expansion would be delayed a few weeks in order to make sure the quality is up to snuff, and it’s a major positive for Guardians who have been holding out hope that the game would turn things around after Bungie’s departure from Activision. The decision to break off from one of the biggest publishers in the gaming industry was met with equal parts excitement and skepticism over what was in store for Destiny 2, but months later, most doubt has been erased and the game’s future looks bright....

Warning: This article contains SPOILERS for Deadpool #10 Deadpool is no stranger to pain and violence, but in this week’s Deadpool #10, the Merc With A Mouth faces off against a brand new villain - who breaks every single bone in his body. And yes, it gets even worse for Wade Wilson, but we’ll get to those details shortly. Anyone who knows the foul-mouthed anti-hero knows that he’s impossible to kill - just last year, Deadpool proved his un-kill-able-ness without a doubt when he put out a hit on himself....

A cam that can Webcams have become a hotbed of renewed interest among PC and accessory companies ramping up features such as resolution and AI-based color correction and framing. It’s also ramped up the level of interest in addressing old problems, such as improving the illusion of eye contact when one is facing the screen and not the camera. Indeed, while much of the work in improving under-display cameras, which must navigate the has focused on optimizing smartphone screen aesthetics uninterrupted by notches or punch holes, Microsoft recently shared that it is working overcoming the challenging solution that harnesses both topics and computation – in the hopes of embedding cameras in the center of a laptop’s display for more natural-looking video chats....

Apple and the government have long been engaged in a bitter war of words over encryption and security practices employed in Apple’s iOS devices, but a new Wall Street Journal report indicates that the Department of Justice is really starting to take the rhetoric to the next level. According to the Journal, a DOJ official actually told Apple executives during a meeting last month that in the future the Cupertino company could eventually be directly responsible for the death of a child....