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Two big music labels have between them sold more than a billion dollar’s worth of their shares in Spotify, but one of them said that this move doesn’t reflect any concerns about the future of the company … Re/code reports that Sony sold around half its shares in the company for about $750M, while Warner Music Group sold 75% of its own stake for roughly $400M. The site says that Warner made a statement on the sale, though it carries no comment from Sony....

Black Panther and Thor: Ragnarok Are Parallel Stories In Ragnarok, Thor’s journey is a series of reckonings of his imminent crowning as king of Asgard, of his family’s dynasty within the nine realms and of his role as a hero. After Odin dies, Thor and his brother Loki are confronted by Hela, their estranged and long-imprisoned sister and Odin’s firstborn. Through Hela, they learn of the heinous, colonial past that gained Asgard its empire....

Apple officially announced its new Car Key feature at WWDC 2020 last month, teasing that BMW drivers would be the first people able to use it. Now, the BMW Connected app for iPhone and Apple Watch has been updated with support for Car Key. In the release notes for today’s update to the Connected application, BMW explains that users will be able to create their Car Key in the application, then access it from the Wallet app on their iPhone or from Apple Watch....

Lea Seydoux will return for Bond 25 after her appearance in Spectre. The James Bond franchise is known for many things, and its Bond girls are no exception. The roles have varied in their substance over the years, and Seydoux filled that spot in Daniel Craig’s most recent appearance as 007. It has not been an easy time for Bond 25 to get moving. Craig was originally against returning for another film after his long shoot on Spectre, but cooler heads prevailed in getting him back for one more movie....

The Bond 25 script is getting a rewrite from The Bourne Ultimatum scribe Scott Z. Burns. Daniel Craig’s final outing as famed secret agent 007 has encountered quite the bumpy road on its path to the big screen. Originally, Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle was set to call the shots, but he stepped down last summer reportedly due to a dispute over the film’s villain. Boyle’s version of Bond 25 was penned by his Trainspotting writer John Hodge, meaning the a new screenplay needed to be completed before production could start....

The Big Bang Theory may have centered around some of the smartest characters to ever hit the small screen, but nevertheless, it was a comedy - a comedy that ran for 12 years and is one of only 5 shows to have a stage named after it at the renowned Warner Bros Studio lot. For a sitcom that earned CBS and creator, Chuck Lorre, dozens of coveted awards, there were times when the geniuses from CalTech should’ve stuck to books and left the jokes to the professionals....

CBS’ long-running sitcom, The Big Bang Theory may be on its final season, but it remains one of the most popular shows on air having been voted as the most-loved TV series across all ages. After 12 years, the show revolving around a group of seven friends - most of them highly intellectual - is scheduled to bow out next May. But despite the limited number of episodes remaining, its massive, loyal fans continue to follow the gang’s journey until the very end....

Disney XD has revealed first-look footage from the new Big Hero 6 animated TV series at San Diego Comic-Con on Friday, and the clip has since debuted online. Disney Animation’s first exploitation of their ownership of Marvel Studios, Big Hero 6 was a fun and touching animated superhero adventure when in was released back in November of 2014. The loose big screen adaptation of an obscure Marvel comic of the same name, Big Hero 6 served as an origin story of sorts for Hiro Hamada and his band of superhero misfits, including the cuddly inflatable smart robot Baymax....

Birds of Prey costar Mary Elizabeth Winstead has confirmed the project’s filming start date and even offered some plot details. In addition to being the first DC Extended Universe film that’s designed to be R rated, Birds of Prey will be the first movie to feature Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn since Suicide Squad came out in 2016. While there are currently several other projects that feature Harley in some stage of development (including, The Joker and Harley Quinn movie), Birds of Prey will be the first one that makes it to the big screen....

T’Challa a.k.a. Black Panther is now officially part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, after having made his (by all accounts, triumphant) debut in the MCU in Captain America: Civil War. Chadwick Boseman will return as T’Challa for his own solo movie in 2018, with Creed writer/director Ryan Coogler calling the shots from a script that he’s co-writing alongside screenwriter Joe Robert Cole (a graduate of Marvel Studios’ old in-house writers program)....

Christopher Nolan’s version of Gotham City in The Dark Knight partially inspired the depiction of Wakanda in Marvel’s Black Panther. While much of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (and Marvel Comics, for that matter) exists in real-world locations such as Los Angeles, New York, and London, a significant portion exists in fictional places such as Asgard, Sokovia, and of course, Wakanda. But that doesn’t mean they can’t appear somewhat real. Even though the MCU continues to increase its number of cosmic stories, parts of the shared universe are still in some ways grounded in reality, thanks to films such as Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Spider-Man: Homecoming....

Marvel Studios’ Black Panther won the night at the 2018 Golden Trailer Awards. The trailer titled “Crown” won the top honor of Best In Show - one of the four awards Black Panther claimed in total. The Golden Trailer Awards were created in 1999 by sisters Evelyn Brady-Watters and Monica Brady as a means of honoring excellence in feature-film trailer editing and the best movie marketing campaigns of each year. Awards are given to trailers in specific genres of film, such as action movies, comedies, dramas and documentaries....

Blackarch Linux is an Arch Linux-based penetration testing distribution for penetration testers and security researchers. The Blackarch comes with a tool repository that contains over 1800 tools with new ones being added quite frequently. Let us take a brief look at this Linux distro. Download & Install BlackArch Installing on top of ArchLinux ​BlackArch is compatible with normal Arch installations. It acts as an unofficial user repository available for installing on top of ArchLinux....

The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) has announced that it has updated its Bluetooth specification to 4.1 with new features for both developers and users of Bluetooth Smart enabled devices. The update brings coexistence support for LTE, better connections, and improved data transfer, all of which lets you connect, stay connected, and interact with your Bluetooth 4.1 devices faster and more reliably. The improved connections, for example, means developers can control reconnection intervals so your devices will automatically disconnect when you leave the room and then reconnect when in close proximity....

Not only did Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse introduce the world to the first ever feature film version of Miles Morales, it also won a well-deserved Oscar for its efforts. Fans can relive the magic at home by purchasing a digital copy on February 26 or a Blu-ray version on March 19, but first the directors responsible for the animated phenomenon - namely Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey and Rodney Rothman - shared their thoughts on the importance of Miles as a character, as well as the ways in which they relate to him most....

It’s fairly commonplace these days for a procedural crime series, no matter how procedural it may be, to have central romances that keep audiences watching. No matter how committed a fan of the crime genre you may be, there still has to be an element of characters worth rooting for to keep you tuning in on a weekly basis. The long-running FOX crime drama series Bones was certainly no exception to this unwritten rule of television....

Now that Beverly Hills, 90210 is back with a reboot this month, it’s time to take a look back at this fun and dramatic teen drama. For ten seasons, the series discussed everything from intimacy, dating, friendship, class issues, teen/young adult pregnancy, and more. The gang stuck together through it all: siblings Brenda and Brandon Walsh (played by Shannen Doherty and Jason Priestley) along with their friends Kelly Taylor (Jennie Garth), Donna Martin (Tori Spelling), David Silver (Brian Austin Green), Dylan McKay (Luke Perry), Steve Sanders (Ian Ziering), and Andrea Zuckerman (Gabrielle Carteris)....

Anthem is fun. It really is. BioWare dropped the ball with Mass Effect: Andromeda last year, but it looks like they are starting to get back on the right track with next year’s Anthem. The game has been described as a multiplayer action RPG, but not an MMO. Sound familiar? It should, because that’s pretty much what Bungie was trying to do with Destiny, just without the RPG stuff. Instead, they wanted to bring the first-person shooter genre into an open world adventure that could be played with friends as an everlasting experience....

German newspaper Handelsblatt managed to obtain the internal report that said Oiltanking’s “systems were compromised by the BlackCat ransomware through a previously unknown gateway.” Claudia Wagner, head of communications for Oiltanking GmbH, would not confirm that BlackCat was behind the attack but said they discovered the initial cyber incident on Saturday, January 29th. “Upon learning of the incident, we immediately took steps to enhance the security of our systems and processes and launched an investigation into the matter....

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arhBRouSmWs] Technology got only the briefest and vaguest of mentions in last night’s State of the Union address, with little in the way of new commitments. President Obama promised six more “hubs for hi-tech manufacturing,” adding to the two hardly anyone had heard of in Raleigh and Youngstown that “connected businesses to research universities that can help America lead the world in advanced technologies.” The government apparently kicked in $100M in funding for research into 3D printing and energy-efficient chips....