Month: November 2019

This My Hero Academia review contains spoilers. “Regret and failure are a part of life, but what’s important is what you do after…” Several times now over this season, My Hero Academia has demonstrated that Sir Nighteye is a highly methodical character who thinks it’s important to take his time towards the takedown of Chisaki and
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This Van Helsing review contains spoilers. Van Helsing Season 4 Episode 10 “I can’t believe we’re negotiating with a moron in the goddamn apocalypse.” After last week’s solo mission into Jack’s past, “Together Forever” gets the larger Van Helsing narrative arc back on track and introduces an element that up to now has remained in
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80 years in and Batman is as popular as ever. Even as you read these words, work is underway on the next cinematic adventure for the Dark Knight, and Joker is still going strong in theaters — so much so that Joaquin Phoenix and Todd Phillips are hiding away crafting the character’s next solo film.
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Release Date: November 15, 2019Platform: SwitchDeveloper: Game FreakPublisher: NintendoGenre: RPG When you replay Pokémon games, you realize just how formulaic they are: you’re always catching critters, battling rivals, and working your way to a clearly signposted prize at the end. With that in mind, it’s no small achievement that Pokémon Sword and Shield feel fresh and interesting as new games in
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Created by Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland, Rick and Morty is more than just a brilliant Adult Swim series, it’s a full-fledged pop culture phenomenon. With the show’s fourth season currently underway, the dimension-spanning adventures of the duo are bigger — and stranger — than ever before. Here’s our picks for the Rick and Morty
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MIT researchers have devised a novel circuit design that enables precise control of computing with magnetic waves — with no electricity needed. The advance takes a step toward practical magnetic-based devices, which have the potential to compute far more efficiently than electronics. Classical computers rely on massive amounts of electricity for computing and data storage,
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This South Park review contains spoilers.  South Park Season 23 Episode 8 Though South Park’s bread and butter is, and has been for a long time now, satirically skewering current issues and recent trends, when they take a break for pure, unadulterated stupidity, without worrying about imparting any sort of moral at the end, the results
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We’ve searched far and wide to bring you the best shopping recommendations! Just a note: Den of Geek may receive a small commission from links on this page. Prices & stockage are accurate as of time of publication. Tis the season… for buying books for your friends, family, and colleagues! We’ve compiled a list for
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PlayStation Plus is Sony’s membership club for those of us who use the PS4, PS3, and/or PS Vita consoles. Sony’s current pricing structure offers 1-month membership at $9.99, 3-month membership at $24.99, and 12-month membership at $59.99. You can also buy PS Plus memberships through places like Amazon. And what do you get for your money? Well,
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Popular-music-focused dramatizations seem to have found new life, thanks to recent cinematic offerings like Bohemian Rhapsody and Rocketman, with many more currently on the industry docket. It’s a notion that Netflix might have taken into consideration with a television project it just unveiled, set to chronicle the story of Selena Quintanilla, the 1990s Mexican-American crossover pop
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This article is sponsored by Tor Books. The opinions reflect those of the writer. As readers are preparing to dig into fantasy epic The Wheel of Time all over again with Amazon Prime’s forthcoming television adaptation, they’re also given the treat of experiencing a “new” Robert Jordan book.  After forty years of sitting on the shelf, Warrior
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Researchers from the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil have developed a strategy for treating the most aggressive type of brain cancer in adults that combines a photoactive molecule and a chemotherapeutic agent – both encapsulated in protein-lipid nanoparticles. Results of the research, supported by São Paulo Research Foundation – FAPESP, were presented during
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Scientists from Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU), Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology, and Melbourne Center for Nanofabrication developed an ultrasensitive detector based on black silicon. The device is able to detect trace amounts of nitroaromatic compounds and can be applied to identify the majority of explosives or
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IMAGE: McMaster University researcher Tohid Didar, a mechanical and biomedical engineer, led a team that has created a coating to make synthetic vascular grafts less prone to infection and clotting and… view more  Credit: Georgia Kirkos, McMaster University HAMILTON, ON, Nov. 27, 2019 – Researchers at McMaster University have created a new coating to prevent clotting
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Scientists have added a crucial tool to the atomic-scale manufacturing toolkit with major implications for today’s data driven–carbon intensive–world, according to new research from the University of Alberta in Canada. “Computers today are contributing one gigatonne of carbon emissions to the atmosphere, and we can eliminate that by enhancing the most power-hungry parts of conventional
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A new technique in chemistry could pave the way for producing uniform nanoparticles for use in drug delivery systems. Scientists have been investigating how to make better use of nanoparticles in medicine for several decades. Significantly smaller than an average cell, nanoparticles are more similar in size to proteins. This makes them good at interacting
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Things have been far too quiet on the MST3K front lately. It has been over a year since Mystery Science Theater 3000 season 12 hit Netflix, and since then, we’ve heard nary a peep about production on new episodes. Sure, series creator Joel Hodgson has been busy with the live tour and various other efforts,
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Influential cartoonist Gahan Wilson, who’s worked darkened Colliers, Playboy, National Lampoon and The New Yorker, died of complications of dementia on Nov. 21 in Scottsdale, Arizona, according to the Associated Press. He was 89. “The world has lost a legend,” his stepson Paul Wilson posted on the artist’s Facebook page. “One of the very best
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Square Enix has confirmed that they are adding new bosses (and possibly other surprises) to Final Fantasy 7 Remake. “With regard to new characters, of whom I said during past interviews that there would be ‘none’,” says director Tetsuya Nomura via a blog post. “Though they aren’t main characters, their numbers ended up growing considerably in
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