FUNKY GREEN: 10/22/19

Tuesday 22 October 2019

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker trailer hits Monday, tickets already on sale - CNET

The trailer will debut during Monday Night Football halftime, on Carrie Fisher's birthday.

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Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker tickets now available for preorder - CNET

Tickets are now available from a wide variety of theaters. Here's how to get them ahead of the first screenings on Dec. 19.

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Mark Zuckerberg knows he comes across as 'robotic' - CNET

The Facebook CEO tells NBC News he's working to improve his communications skills.

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CrowdStrike CEO surprised that cybersecurity firm was called out in Trump-Ukraine call - CNET

CrowdStrike investigated the 2016 hack of the Democratic National Committee.

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What's on TV this week: 'The Outer Worlds'

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How to clean your TV screen

Not sure how to clean the LCD, OLED, or plasma display that's the cornerstone of your living room? You don't need to buy expensive cleaning solutions to clean your TV. We'll teach you how to do it with simple household items.

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Here’s how to get a free Beyond Breakfast Sausage at Dunkin’ in November

Now you can get Beyond Meat somewhere entirely new: Dunkin’. The doughnut chain has announced the nationwide rollout of a new Beyond Sausage sandwich.

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Intel’s Core i5 Comet Lake-S CPU spotted in SiSoftware database

An Intel Core i5 processor was recently spotted in SiSoftware's SANDRA database, and it's possibly a Comet Lake-S CPU packing six cores and 12 threads.

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Nvidia’s EGX is the super-computing cloud platform of the future

Nvidia's EGX cloud platform, combined with the power of Microsoft's Azure, will bring the power of AI to more businesses, from camera-driven quality inspections at BMW to automated decision-making at Walmart with IoT sensors.

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Apple releases new version of macOS Catalina Supplemental Update

No operating system is an island, but macOS Catalina is named after one.

Apple has released a new version of its macOS Catalina Supplemental Update. The first iteration of the update was made available to Macs running Catalina on October 15.

Like last week's update, of which this is apparently a new version, this Supplemental Update promises to fix problems some users encountered when there was limited disk space available. It also fixes issues with saving Game Center data that users faced when playing Apple Arcade games offline, a Setup Assistant bug, and a problem that prevented users from being able to accept iCloud terms when logged into multiple iCloud accounts on the same machine.

If you prefer to hear things in Apple's own words, here are the release notes provided by the company to accompany the update:

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It's time to get spooky with Wizards Unite Halloween

Bookmark this page for all the details on Wizards Unite's in-game events!

Like Pokémon GO before it, Harry Potter: Wizards Unite has regular events for its players to complete and, with some of the bigger events, go to and participate in. Right now in Wizards Unite, they are called Brilliant Events and they offer special shiny Foundables for your registry as well as special assignments for you to gain XP.

These events are not always active, though they do appear in your registry a little time before the launch of the event. They are also particularly important as they give you restricted section books. In fact, they are the only source of these books currently, and you need the books to complete your Profession path especially if you want to be a Professor.

This article is going to be a running primer of all the events, past and present, in Wizards Unite and will serve as your guide throughout them. We will try to include all the information we can and, with the help of the Reddit group, keep that information updated throughout the event.

What do the Events look like?

The Brilliant Events introduce new assignments to be completed, new Foundables to catch for your registry, Portmanteaus to unlock, and a set of brilliant runestones to be collected. The assignments are more like the SOS assignments than the daily assignments, in that they only end once the event has finished, so you have plenty of time to complete them. They also come in multiple tiers, with each tier offering better rewards.

The Foundables listed in the registry will change depending on the Event, but will all be available to catch. Once the event is over they won't reappear unless Niantic decides to do that event over again.

One of the most important parts of the events is the restricted section books you receive as rewards for completing the assignments. These are incredibly important as you need over 150 of them to complete each of the Auror and Magizoologist Professions, and a whopping 250 to complete the Professor skill tree. Making something that important only available during events is crazy, and I hope Niantic rethinks this as soon as possible.

The brilliant event also introduces a new distance Portmanteau, the 7KM. Like the 7KM eggs in Pokémon GO, these Portmanteau house special Portkeys that relate to the Brilliant Event. You can also collect Brilliant runestones like the one above that will let you collect the Brilliant Foundables from your Wizard Challenges.

What events are there?

Here we will keep a running total of all the Events in Wizards Unite. If you see anything that we haven't from these events please let us know and we will add it to the article.

Halloween Special Assignment

Are you brave enough to take on a spine-chilling Special Assignment this Halloween to earn exclusive limited-time rewards? First encountered in the Chamber of Secrets, Slytherin's Basilisk will be making a limited-time appearance this Halloween… just make sure to avoid eye contact with anything slithering in the dark!

Starting on Wednesday, October 30, and lasting until Friday, November 1, 2019, the Halloween event will see you pit your magical might against vampires, werewolves and the dreaded Basilisk!

There will be increased sightings of Dark Arts Family Traces, as well as Moaning Myrtle and Young Ginny Weasley Traces as well as a limited-time Halloween Special Assignment with exclusive rewards, including a new title and badge for your Ministry ID.

The big part of the Halloween event is the fortresses though. The Basilisk will be hanging out in them along with some other Dark Arts friends. You'll need to use the Dark Arts runes you have been collecting since the Fighting Forces Event to access the rooms you need.

There will also be a free store bundle available in the Diagon Alley shop with Dark Arts Runestones and Spell Energy to help you across the two days.

It's nice to see these smaller events happening in Harry Potter. Most of the events are week-long affairs that take a lot of time. This is more a mix between a Brilliant Event and a community day.

Fighting Forces Event

Get ready to earn more Restricted Section Books and unlock a new Portkey location with October's Brilliant Event: Fighting Forces!

October will see a new Brilliant Event called Fighting Forces. Based around the Dark Arts and Oddities, part one of the event will start on October 8, 2019, and finish on October 14, 2019. Part two of the event starts October 22, until October 28 and will have new traces to find.

New Foundables

This event will see new Foundables appear in the world that are connected to the Malfoy Manor event page. They can be found through different activities and the official site gives a list of the places they are likely to drop:

Brilliant Oddity Encounters: Brilliant Death Eater and Brilliant Azkaban Escapee
Wizarding Challenge Reward using Brilliant Event Runestone: Malfoy Family Crest
Quest Rewards: Death Eater Mask and Azkaban Prison Number
Portkey Rewards: Ollivander in Chains

Increased Oddities

Over the course of the event, we will see an increase in some of the Oddities that appear on the map. No word yet if they will appear during the day, but if you don't get to go out at night very often this might be a good way to catch up on them.

The Oddities that are increasing are:

Death Eater
Azkaban Escapee
Pixie
Erkling

So no more vampires, unfortunately, but you have a good chance of filling out some of your Oddity Family.

Potions

For the first time, Potions will see a decrease in brewing time over the course of the entire event. You can expect a 25 percent decrease in Estimulo Potion, and Healing Potion brewing times, so make sure you stock on them while you can.

It would be a good idea to get some time in the Fortresses while the potions are so abundant, especially the higher level rooms where a lot of potions can help win the day.

Flora and Fauna Event

The first brilliant event is upon us — Brilliant Event: Fantastic Flora and Fauna — will run starting next week (Wednesday, July 3, 2019), and players will be able to grab Restricted Books, find new Foundables, get special Runestones, and complete special tasks.

While New Zealand and Australia were busy Beta testing Wizards Unite for the rest of us, they were also given their own Event to try out and while we can't say for sure the event will run the exact same now that the game has fully launched, we can give you an idea of what you might be able to expect based on what happened in the beta.

The main push of this event was to complete 4 separate sets of assignments, each one more difficult than the last, to obtain restricted section books, and other rewards.

You also had six brilliant Foundables to collect, including a shiny purple Unicorn, and a shiny Buckbeak! These Foundables could be found in the world as well as in the Fortresses, and require the same kind of fragment collecting as normal Foundables.

It seems the best way to collect the Foundables was through the Fortresses, though of course, you needed to catch them normally to collect the Brilliant Runes needed to access the Wizard Challenges. The 7KM Portmanteaus also gave good amounts of fragments so it will be worth traveling with them in the events.

The combination of Foundables, Fortresses, and Portmanteaus was enough for a lot of people to complete the event and get the maximum number of restricted books possible so it seems Niantic may have already found a decent balance.

Let us know what you know

Have you more details about an event that we don't know? Perhaps you have already done one and can tell us more. Feel free to leave us any comments, and if we can verify it we will add it to the article.

Harry Potter accessories we love

Hogwarts phone case

$10 at Amazon

Show your love of the Potterverse, and protect your phone with this beautiful faux-leather case. The Hogwarts crest burns bright on the front with plenty of room inside for some cash and cards too.

RAVPower Ace

$40 at Amazon

You don't want to run out of juice while battling baddies in Fortresses, now do you? Make sure you've got backup power with this quality but inexpensive

Hogwarts House PopSocket

$15 at Amazon

Represent your house with a secure way to grip your phone while walking on your magical adventure casting spells and securing Foundables.

Harry Potter Over The Ear Headphones

$25 at Amazon

Show your love of Harry Potter to the whole world, while shutting that same world out with these funky headphones from ihome.

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Adobe may reveal Illustrator for iPad in November

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Star Wars Episode 9: The Rise of Skywalker -- trailer, release date, plot, cast and rumors - CNET

The Rise of Skywalker is coming to theaters this December. Here's everything we know so far.

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Tim Cook named chairman of Chinese business school - CNET

Apple's CEO has served on the school's board since 2013.

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Pokemon Go will let you battle other players online in 2020 - CNET

Finally.

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IBM Says Google’s Quantum Leap Was a Quantum Flop

A paper from Google leaked last month claimed its researchers had achieved “quantum supremacy.” Now, IBM says Google rigged the test.

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How to make a collaborative playlist in Spotify

You don't even have to be in the same room as your friend to edit the same playlist on Spotify.

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Nvidia and Ericsson announce the first GPU-powered 5G mobile network

Though Nvidia's GPUs are commonly found on some of the most powerful gaming systems today, it may also soon find a home in an unlikely place: 5G networks. Nvidia is pushing its GPU-accelerated EGX server to help drive 5G networks.

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The best Ethernet cables for 2019

While our world may be transitioning to wireless connectivity, Ethernet connections are still faster and less prone to lag times than traditional Wi-Fi networks. Here are five of the best Ethernet cables you can buy.

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