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An anime adaptation of Devil May Cry is coming to Netflix. The news comes from Adi Shankar, who serves as an executive producer on Castlevania, another Netflix animation series. Like Castlevania, the Devil May Cry is a Capcom video game series from Hideki Kamiya that follows a professional demon hunter named Dante seeking vengeance for the death of his family. The game has since spawned multiple sequels across a variety of platforms, with a fifth installment scheduled for 2019....

Warning: SPOILERS below for Disenchantment Season 1! Season 1 of Disenchantment concluded with a post-credits scene that addresses the fate of Elfo but opens up a slew of new questions. The season finale’s title, “Dreamland Falls”, is a double entendre - it references the terrible fate that befell the kingdom ruled by King Zog while also referring to the waterfall just outside the castle’s drawbridge. Elfo’s corpse plummeted down the waterfall after he was knocked out of his casket by the “Queen Fight” between Queen Dagmar and Queen Oona....

Lost and stolen devices represent a significant threat to organizational cybersecurity. In fact, 45% of data breaches in the healthcare field are caused by lost or stolen devices. Any steps that organizations can take, like full-disk encryption, can help to reduce or eliminate the threat of these kinds of breaches. What is disk encryption? Encryption algorithms are designed to take data and a secret key as output and produce an obfuscated form of the data that cannot be read without access to the decryption key....

Disney has picked up the pitch for Sadé, a live-action fairy tale film about an African princess. The project doesn’t have a director in place just yet, but Rick Famuyiwa (the filmmaker behind the acclaimed indie hit Dope) is already attached as a producer on the movie. For the most part, the Mouse House’s recent in-house live-action features have all been remakes or re-imaginings of their classic animated movies (see The Jungle Book, Beauty and the Beast, and so on)....

During a recent behind-closed-doors event, Capcom made a mysterious announcement regarding the Devil May Cry series that may or may not be Devil May Cry 6. The well-received Devil May Cry 5 was released only six months ago, making the timing of this tease even more intriguing. Devil May Cry 5 marked a long-awaited return to form for the series and became another example of Capcom successfully revitalizing its classic properties....

WARNING: This article contains SPOILERS for Game of Thrones - The season 7 finale of Game of Thrones delivered the show’s most shocking twist yet - unfortunately, thanks to depriving fans of some key scenes, and asking them to ignore some of the biggest gaps in logic and storytelling in the show to date. Don’t get us wrong, plenty of fans will feel the trade-off was worth it for the big reveal....

Warning: SPOILERS for Guardians of the Galaxy #2 Peter Quill a.k.a. Star-Lord has been a staple member of the Guardians of the Galaxy since the team’s inception post Annihilation: Conquest in 2008. While the members of the team have changed over the years, Star-Lord has stayed fairly consistent as the team’s leader – aside from when a Punk-Rock Groot took the title. However, after years of leading the Guardians, Peter’s time may finally be up as he makes the ultimate sacrifice to destroy the floating city of Olympus while his team escapes....

The multi-hyphenate artist is a near-constant trending topic on social. Whether he’s making music, promoting a movie or launching a new merchandise venture, people can’t help but discuss what he’s up to. Sure, a swift rise to stardom as a member of a beloved boy band doesn’t hurt his cultural relevance. However, that’s not all there is to it. When you peek behind the curtain of the Harry Styles media machine, there are a ton of marketing maneuvers at play....

During its earnings report this afternoon, Disney announced that it will cut ties with Netflix in favor of creating its own streaming service. Come 2019, Disney says that it will launch its own streaming service, while the long-awaited ESPN streaming service will launch in early 2018… Disney reached an exclusive partnership with Netflix last year to bring Disney, Marvel, Lucasfilm, and Pixar movies to the streaming platform. In a press release today, however, Disney said this agreement will end with the 2019 calendar year theatrical slate, which includes films such as Toy Story 4 and the sequel to Frozen....

To celebrate its sixth birthday, Discord has unveiled a new feature to make it easier to find social audio rooms. The app is also getting a new logo, as well as a Threads feature for improved conversations. With its new app Stage Channels, which are Clubhouse-like social audio rooms, Discord announced its Stage Discovery feature that will let the user see a feed of public Stage Channels they might be interested in....

A Disney casting call appears to suggest Marvel is looking to cast the character of Kamala Khan. According to the casting call, Marvel intends the hero to star in a standalone Ms. Marvel film, to begin production next year. Marvel visionary Kevin Feige recently revealed that the studio has plans for the character of Kamala Khan, aka. Ms. Marvel. “Ms. Marvel is definitely in the works,” he revealed, to the delight of the young hero’s many fans....

Disney Parks have a marvelously magical way of bringing our favorite animated films and adventures to life. You can sail with Captain Jack on Pirates of the Caribbean, soar over London with Peter Pan, or visit a house full of 999 Happy Haunts. But one of the most recent additions takes guests to a galaxy far, far, away. If you’ve not had the opportunity, Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge is Disney’s new park area dedicated to the famous space opera....

As the writer and co-creator of a staggering number of the original Marvel Comics superheroes, Stan Lee is credited as the brains behind what are now some of the most powerful intellectual-properties in existence. However, while he remains affiliated with Marvel, he has not actively worked at the company for decades and has spent many of the intervening years developing new properties and characters of his own - to varying success....

This post contains spoilers for Batman V Superman & Justice League. Justice League has finally arrived, and it continues the story that left off with Zack Snyder’s 2016 film, Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice. But does that mean you need to see the filmmaker’s previous movie in order to understand Justice League? Definitely. Batman V Superman - a follow-up to Snyder’s 2013 film, Man of Steel - officially launched Warner Bros....

Last month at WWDC, Apple officially named Catalyst as its new framework for allowing developers to bring their iPad apps to Mac and we’ve heard more information trickle out about the software over the last few weeks. Now, Ars Technica has put together a highly informative deep dive on Catalyst ahead of its release with macOS Catalina that includes detailed insight from Apple executives and third-party developers who have already been using the software....

Quentin Tarantino’s 9th film is taking an important step towards production and could reunite the maverick director with some of his favorite leading actors, including Leonardo DiCaprio. The news comes after Tarantino’s very public split with The Weinstein Company, following the Hollywood-shaking revelations surrounding Harvey Weinstein. With the script for his ’70s-set movie complete, the film is now reportedly being passed around major movie studios with the aim for shooting and casting to happen pretty quickly....

Xiaomi has recently launched a new device for gamers who want to play graphic intensive games on their smartphone. This year, the smartphone gaming market is booming up so rapidly that more and more companies are trying to make great gaming devices for users. The latest Xiaomi Black Shark Pro comes with killer specs and great build design. Being a flash shop device, it costs more than any average Xiaomi device....

Star Trek: Discovery ended season 2 by upending one of the franchises most heavily leaned-on tropes. By sending the USS Discovery 950 years into the future (and about 50,000 light years from home), Star Trek took the reset button used by earlier series to keep stories contained within a single episode and employed it brilliantly to flip the show’s premise. Previously, the reset device had been used to ensure game-changing developments just like that one wouldn’t happen....

Good news for DJI drone pilots using iPhone X as your controller’s viewfinder: DJI 4 for iOS now goes full screen on the larger 5.8-inch Super Retina display. DJI’s iPhone app has been letterboxed on the flagship iPhone since it launched in early November. iPhone X screen optimization starts on the launch screen and extends to the video editor, community gallery, and profile screen. Both live photo and video feeds from your drone’s camera will still be boxed during flight just like the iPhone X’s Camera app since the capture aspect ratio is different than than iPhone’s display and cropping would omit content from the viewfinder....

ICONIQ Capital led the funding round, with participation from Amasia, GV, OMERS Growth Equity, Work-Bench, Section 32, and T-Mobile Ventures. See also: The great pull-forward: Dialpad rides the work-from-anywhere wave. All told, Dialpad has now raised $418 million in capital. Its momentum reflects the growing relevance of unified communications platforms as organizations seek to accommodate hybrid workforces. Up against competitors like Five9 and RingCentral, Dialpad offers AI-powered communications, collaboration and contact center tools on one unified platform....