Fans of the Harry Potter film and books will be familiar with the mandrakes inHogwarts Legacy. These are one magical plant you certainly don’t want to encounter without proper ear protection, but that’s not something you need to worry about all that much in the game. Instead, actually finding a source of these screaming plants is the real task. While there are a couple of ways to get your hands on them, none are explicitly pointed out to you....

Summary When I watchMy 600-Lb Life, I feel a lot… cast members suffer on the show, and the things they go through upset me. I sometimes think about the show’s stars later on because a part of me is still feeling their pain. I’m a Pisces (i.e. an intensely emotional person) - and, in my opinion, this show is the most wrenching of them all. While I’m moved by a lot of stuff, from songs to books to films and art,watching other people deal with addiction really gets to me....

If you’re the kind of person who simply hates having to bend over to tie your shoes, then you’re going to want to take a look at the new line of footwear fromZerotie. The company created a unique mechanism that allows anyone wearing their shoes to tighten and loosen the laces without ever having to touch them at all. The secret to the Zerotie design is a wheel that is embedded in the heel of the shoe....

WoW players rage at “stupidly OP” Paladins in Season of Discovery World of Warcraft: Season of Discovery changed much of what players had come to expect from Classic Azeroth. Chief among these were the classes, which has led some to fear that Paladins have become too powerful. For those who don’t know, Paladins are exclusively available to Alliance players inClassic WoW. In standard Vanilla/Classic, this hasn’t proved to be too much of an issue, with the Horde equivalent in Shamans arguably being a more potent force....

Summary Gary Larson once offered the perfect four-word description forThe Far Side, paralleling the most frequent comments – and complaints – about the humor of his comic. Larson’s absurdist humor was a staple of newspaper comic pages nationwide through the 1980s, until the mid-90s; as the artist freely admitted, even during the peak of the strip’s run, he was often as perplexed by his own jokes as any reader. InThe Prehistory of the Far Side, Larson offered “close readings” of several of his panels, scrutinizing them in-depth in order to explain to the reader how the most seemingly minor details could make or break a joke’s impact on the audience....

Summary In the last few years, authorAli Hazelwoodhas become a significant name in the romance book genre, and though her novels are all quite popular, they can easily be ranked from worst to best. Since her debut in 2021, Hazelwood has written a total of seven books. Though these projects have varied a bit in terms of setting and audience, they are all firmly planted in the romance genre. At the start, Hazelwood wrote novels starring female characters in STEM, but more recently, she has branched out into young adult andfantasy book series....

Apple doesn’t often announce new iPhone apps, but one may be coming soon, according to9to5Mac. The recently released iOS 18.3 beta 2 update includes references to a new app called Invites. This app was also mentioned in the earlier iOS 18.2 betas, although it did not appear in the final release. Initially, the betas referred to it as the “Apple Invites” app. While nothing has been confirmed, 9to5Mac speculates that this app could be designed to help users organize meetings and in-person events, similar to features currently available in the native Calendar app....

Apple has just been granteda patentoutlining an idea for creating group selfies without everyone having to crowd around a single camera to get the shot. The tech giant calls the feature a “synthetic group selfie” that would be created automatically on an iPhone or iPad using single-person selfies submitted by those who want to appear in the group picture. In the patent, Apple describes a synthetic group selfie as “an arrangement or composition of individual selfies obtained from a plurality of computing devices into a single group image....

Dreams really can come true, if you have enough money. TheAston Martin Vanquish Zagatowowed the crowd at the 2016 Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este in Italy, but at the time Aston said it was just a concept. Yet thanks to customer prodding, the Zagato will now go into limited production, and it probably won’t be cheap. Aston says the production decision was made due to “unprecedented customer interest,” which doesn’t seem like an exaggeration, given that it’s only been about a month since the Vanquish Zagato was first shown at Villa d’Este....

High dynamic range photography is easy to overdo into harsh colors and unnatural images — but the popular HDR-focused editor Aurora HDR is now using artificial intelligence to create more natural-looking edits.Skylum Aurora HDR 2019, launching on October 4 and now available for pre-order, is the most sophisticated version of the HDR tool yet, according to the company. A Quantum HDR Engine powers the enhanced editing inside the update. The feature uses A....

Summary Below Deck Mediterraneanseason 9 has been full of issues, and even just a few episodes into the charter seasonsome of the crew members are facing major backlash after potentially faking their poor performances. AsBelow Deck Mediterraneanseason 9has ventured out into the waters of the Mediterranean Sea, the crew has been doing its best to become a well-oiled machine quickly. With difficult charter guests in the first episodes of the season, things have been tough for the Mustique’s crew, especially Chef Johnathan Shillingford and Bosun Iain MacLean....

There is almost always going to be a discussion betweenMicrosoft vs. Googleand which one has the best business and productivity tools, but Microsoft has certainly been around longer and ingrained itself in a lot of businesses, making it a standard. As such, you may want to grab yourself a copy or subscription, although Microsoft Office can get quite pricey, and while there is afree trial of Microsoft Word, it’s not really the same thing....

The cinematic landscape in 1997 looked very different than today. Jodie Foster was still considered a box-office draw; Matthew McConaughey was justthat guyfromA Time to Kill; and Robert Zemeckis was stillRobert Zemeckis, riding the post-Forrest Gumpwave. It was in this distinctive landscape thatContactpremiered in the summer of 1997, promising a mind-bending and thought-provoking spectacle for fans of thinking person’s sci-fi. The film didn’t quite deliver on its promise because while insightful and evocative, it remains distinctively cold and clinical, detached from its human characters in favor of its admittedly weighty themes....