Disney is all out to make sure that they dominate the cinematic scene for 2019. Whether it comes from its distinct subsidiaries like Marvel and Lucasfilm, or with its own production studios, the House of Mouse has everything covered: superhero films, space opera, animated movies and live-action adaptations of their older animated features. No less…
In the age of the smartphone one action has become a common sight: users talking to their phones and devices and asking them to do some task or other. This is the function of the virtual assistant, software agents that interpret vocal commands into functions to activate tasks, usually accompanied by a female voice. This…
Filipinos who were in the prime of their youth during the 1990s in the Philippines would be proud to claim that they listed, while growing up, to the awesome alternative tunes of the four-man rock band the Eraserheads. In particular, they may recall hearing from the underground music scene during the early part of that…
When DC Entertainment and Warner Bros. Pictures brought out their third installment to the DC Extended Universe (DCEU) of superhero films, at first glance it felt like a risky gamble. After all, “Suicide Squad” is about an ad hoc team of incarcerated super-villains being deployed as a deniable-asset black-ops team by a corrupt government liaison,…
When it comes to affordable furniture that is ready to assemble (RTA), perhaps only one name stands above the rest in most of the world: IKEA. Founded in 1943 by a Swedish carpenter, it became something of a global leader in the development of furniture that could be assembled and taken apart easily as needed,…
Ever since the venerable real-time strategy game “Warcraft III” from Blizzard Entertainment gave rise to the mod game entitled “Defense of the Ancients”, it ushered in a new genre of networked online play called the mobile online battle arena (MOBA), where two teams engage in RTS combat to eventually reach and destroy the opposing base…
It is said that there are certain orders of magnitude when it comes to the treatment of a visit from a foreign head of state or government to a country. They could arrive as guests of the government, or come for a private visit, a working visit, or an official visit. But the highest form…
