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Dumbledore’s Army was made up of many of Harry Potter’s classmates from Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, and Hufflepuff. In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Hogwarts students banded together in secret to train with Harry on how to fight dark wizards and learn to defend themselves in the wake of Voldemort’s return. While all of the members of Dumbledore’s Army had something to offer in the fight against evil, some of them were more powerful than others....

What about all the info that pops up when you Google yourself? Google will remove some for you, but there are other methods for info you want to hide. Tap or click for a guide to take back your privacy. One common theme lately is from people worried someone is spying on their phones. If that rings true, keep reading. You can drop me your questions on my site here....

WarnerMedia has announced that its forthcoming HBO Max streaming service will launch on May 27. Coming in at $15 per month, the service will pack new original content, as well as a robust back catalog of movies and TV shows from the Warner Bros. library. As announced in a press release this morning, HBO Max will offer 10,000 hours of premium content. The service will include new original content on launch day as well, such as the scripted comedy Love Life, starring Anna Kendrick, documentary On the Record, and much more....

The new BPRD team arrives in the latest image from the Hellboy movie reboot starring David Harbour. The Neil Marshall directed reboot is sticking close to the comic source material created by Mike Mignola, where Hellboy will work for the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense. The character of Hellboy has already received the live-action treatment once before thanks to Guillermo del Toro and Ron Perlman. Hellboy is doing its best to differentiate itself from the two prior films by making it more violent and bloody than the cult favorites....

After appearing as a placeholder in the initial iOS 12 developer beta, Walkie-Talkie is now functional in iOS 12 beta 2. After testing it I was able to add new contacts, accept new contact requests, and both send and receive audio messages. Watch our hands-on walkthrough for a look at what to expect from this exciting new Apple Watch feature. When you launch the Walkie-Talkie app on your Apple Watch, you’ll be met with a scrollable list of all of your contacts....

Launching this week from our friends at Hyper, the latest HyperJuice product is the world’s first and smallest 100W GaN USB-C charger on the market. Below we go hands-on with the new charger to give you an early look as the company this week begins taking preorders. About the size of a deck of cards, the new 100W charger is capable of quickly charging up to 4 devices at once via its 2 USB-C ports (supporting Power Delivery 3....

It’s no big secret that the way Petunia and Vernon Dursley treated Harry Potter is pretty awful. They were overall very hateful and never wanted to have to take care of Harry. While they might have met a few of his basic needs, they were resentful about it the whole time. In a variety of ways, they were both neglectful and abusive. When reading back on the books, the things that the Dursleys do are pretty hard to swallow and completely unacceptable....

Diogo Rau, head of engineering for Apple Retail, is leaving the company after 10 years, the executive wrote on his LinkedIn page. According to Rau, he will now become senior vice-president and chief information and digital officer at Eli Lilly. In his LinkedIn profile, Diogo Rau explained his job as head of engineering for Apple Retail: With Rau and Angela Ahrendts, who left the company in 2019, Apple revamped its retail stores across the world as a place to gather, to watch sessions, and check out products even faster....

It’s always fun to imagine how the coolest characters in television and film might fit into the iconic Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and how they might carve out their own places at the alma mater of Harry Potter and his golden trio. And as a show that is already rooted in the supernatural, the characters of Hemlock Grove seem like they might be a good fit at Hogwarts....

While you may love or hate the iPhone’s Photos app, it’s the place where all your photos end up either way. With iCloud’s capabilities, it’s an easy way to keep track of your images across your Apple ecosystem. As the iPhone’s camera continues to make a name for itself, professional and amateur photographers alike keep crawling back to Apple to capture their memories. Here’s a guide to help you better understand your iPhone’s Photos app....

Last week I received the Khomo charcoal gray case for the 10.5-inch iPad Pro. This case is billed as being a perfect companion case for the iPad Pro + Smart Keyboard. Because Apple has decided not to sell a companion rear case for either the Smart Cover or Smart Keyboard, users are essentially forced to go the third-party route if they desire to protect the rear of their iPad Pro....

Aurors have without a doubt one of the most dangerous jobs in the world of Harry Potter. And with good reason – they’re basically required to go up against dangerous dark wizards. And thanks to the risks involved, many opt-out of that career path…which makes it more dangerous for those that follow the path, since they have lesser numbers. Thanks to the risks and requirements involved with being an Auror, there are certain skills that are basically a requirement for taking on the job....

Slytherins are often thought to be evil in the Harry Potter series, but that’s an oversimplification of the truth. More importantly, individuals sorted into Slytherin need to exhibit qualities such as cunning, resourcefulness, and ambition. These traits were highly valued by Salazar Slytherin, the founder of Slytherin house and one of the four founders of Hogwarts. Such qualities led students like Tom Riddle down dark paths, where he eventually became the wicked Lord Voldemort....

Christopher Nolan’s alternative marketing for Tenet may have hit a roadblock. Over the past decade of high-concept blockbusters, the director has become a master of marketing. Along with pioneering new storytelling devices, playing with audiences’ perceptions of time, championing shooting on real film and highlighting as many practical effects as possible in his movies, a Nolan picture is normally marked out by its spoiler-light marketing campaign, with drip-feed trailers that provide big ideas and bigger visuals while teasing the true subject....

The 90s brought with it a plethora of culture and fun (myself included) from breakthrough Nintendo handheld video games to pop music and weird boy bands (like Britney Spears and NSYNC). We recently witnessed NSYNC reunite, but something else from the 90s needed modernizing: Tamagotchi, the digital pet you fed and loved as a kid. That’s where Hatch steps in… err, hatches… right on your iPhone! In a collaborative effort between Impending and Realmac Software, who last teamed up to deliver Clear, the two studios deliver on what is an absolutely adorable and lovable game for the iPhone....

While the two younger generations grew up when anime was gaining a foothold in North America, those pesky Generation Xers grew up with a batch of cartoons that created a cult legacy of their own. One of those classics from the 1980s was He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, which continues to be a fan favorite. The cartoon debuted in 1983 due to a joint effort from toy giant Mattel and the studio Filmation – the characters were originally only scheduled to be a toy line....

Hell is Other Demons mixes fast-paced action against a demonic horde with a gorgeous neon aesthetic but its graphics and bugs cause gameplay issues. Hell is Other Demons is a retro fast-paced action game for Mac, PC, and Nintendo Switch that involves playing as a lone demon facing off against the hordes of the underworld in small areas while also surviving against the harsh environment and trying to avoid swarms of bullets....

Back in November, the Unicode Consortium previewed 51 emoji that are planned for release as part of Unicode 10 later this year. Now, the organization has released the full list of 69 new emoji coming with the update, which is expected to be released this June, though likely won’t come to iOS until later… Coming with Unicode 10 are a variety of new emoji, including a tyrannosaurus rex, a mermaid, and a plethora of other new ones....

Apple announced at WWDC 2021 in June a new version of its Swift Playgrounds development app with major improvements. Although the company never said when it would become available, Apple is now inviting some developers to try out Swift Playgrounds 4 ahead of the official release of the update. For those unfamiliar, Swift Playgrounds is an Apple app to help developers and students learn the company’s Swift programming language. Here’s how Apple describes the app:...

An interesting story about the history of the new cheese grater lattice design of the upcoming Mac Pro and Pro Display XDR points to Apple coming up with the idea almost two decades ago for the PowerMac G4 Cube, but the hemispherical design didn’t make it into that desktop. However, a reminiscent design was used… As noted by Stephen Hackett on 512 Pixels, a recent episode of the Accidental Tech Podcast covered a conversation between Tim Cook and Jony Ive that happened at WWDC after the keynote....