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রাজনীতিতে আসছেন? কঙ্গনার মন্তব্য ঘিরে জল্পনা
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ব্যাটে ঝড় যুবরাজের, ডিওয়াই পাটিল টুর্নামেন্টে খেললেন ৫৭ বলে ৮০ রানের ইনিংস
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দেখুন: মুক্তি পেল সলমনের ‘ভারত’ সিনেমার টিজার, দেখা গেল না ক্যাটরিনাকে, জানা গেল কারণও!
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কুলটিতে লুঠের অভিযোগে গ্রেফতার ৩, ভদ্রেশ্বরে মদের আসরে বচসায় মৃত্যু, ২৩ জেলার বাছাই খবর, সব জেলার সব খবর, এক ঝলকে
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সাংবাদিকদের মুখোমুখি হয়ে কী বললেন দিলীপ ঘোষ, শুনব
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টলিউড সিন্ডিকেটের প্রথম উইকেটটা পড়ল, শ্রীকান্ত মোহতার গ্রেফতারি নিয়ে প্রতিক্রিয়া লকেটের
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এনআরএসে কুকুর নির্বীজকরণ ঘিরে উত্তেজনা পুরসভার কর্মীদের ঘিরে পশুপ্রেমীদের একাংশের বিক্ষোভ
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কেন্দ্রকে চালনা করছে আরএসএস, সঙ্ঘকে আক্রমণ করে কটাক্ষ রাহুলের
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কর্মসংস্থান তৈরি হচ্ছে কোথায়, পরিসংখ্যান তুলে ধরে মোদিকে আক্রমণ রাহুলের
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ওরা কি ভয় পেয়েছে? তাই কি মরিয়া হয়ে উঠেছে? সিবিআই নিয়ে ট্যুইটারে কটাক্ষ মুখ্যমন্ত্রী মমতা বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়ের
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চিকিত্সার গাফিলতিতে রোগীমৃত্যুর অভিযোগকে কেন্দ্র করে মল্লিকবাজারের ইনস্টিটিউট অফ নিউরো সায়েন্সেসে উত্তেজনা, হাসপাতালের কর্মীদের মারধরের অভিযোগ
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প্রিয়ঙ্কা গাঁধীকে নিয়ে বিতর্কিত মন্তব্য বিজেপি নেতার, ‘সুন্দর মুখশ্রী দিয়ে ভোটে জেতা যায় না’, মন্তব্য বিহারের মন্ত্রী বিনোদ নারায়ণ ঝা-র
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Fifties From Head & Labuschagne Help Australia Gain Control in Day-night Test
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Phehlukwayo Accepts Sarfraz Apology For "Black Guy" Taunt
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Ranji Trophy 2018-19 Semi-Finals Day 2, Live Score and Updates: Karnataka Keep Saurashtra in Check
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Have to Beat the Best to be the Best: Vidarbha Captain Faiz Fazal
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Australia vs Sri Lanka, Live Cricket Score, 1st Test, Day 2 in Brisbane: SL Trail by 162
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India vs New Zealand Live Streaming: When and Where to Watch 2nd ODI on Live TV & Online
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Ranji Trophy 2018-19 Semi-Finals Day 2, Live Score and Updates: Jackson Looks to Keep Saurashtra Ahead
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BCCI CEO Gender Counselling Matter Will be Dealt Within 10 Days: Rai
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Australia vs Sri Lanka, Live Cricket Score, 1st Test, Brisbane: Australia End With 179-Run Lead
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দ্রুত উঠে আসছে তরুণরা, দলের মধ্যে এখন প্রতিদ্বন্দ্বিতা আরও তীব্র: শিখর ধবন
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এসএসকেএম হাসপাতালে বেড না মেলার অভিযোগ, গাছতলায় পড়ে গুরুতর অসুস্থ রোগী
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মমতার সিবিআই-কটাক্ষ, রাহুলের নিশানায় মোদি, সঙ্গে আরও খবর-ফটাফট
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South African Team Pardons Sarfraz Ahmed, Not Taking Incident ‘Lightly’
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প্রিয়ঙ্কার জীবনসঙ্গী একটা দাগি লোক! কংগ্রেস উচ্ছ্বসিত হলে হোক, কটাক্ষ বিহারের উপমুখ্যমন্ত্রী সুশীল মোদির
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দেশে কৃষি সবথেকে অবহেলিত, কর্মসংস্থান হচ্ছে না, বললেন রাহুল গাঁধী, এমনই বেশ কয়েকটি খবর দেখুন ফটাফট
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ক্যানিংয়ে হাতকাটা অবস্থায় উদ্ধার দেহ, মমতার অস্ত্র উন্নয়ন, ২৩ জেলার বাছাই খবর, সব জেলার সব খবর, এক ঝলকে
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জেনারেটরের ফ্যানে জড়িয়ে গেল গলার মাফলার, শাহিদ কপূরের ছবির সেটে দুর্ঘটনায় মৃত ১
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স্বামীর সঙ্গে মুম্বই যেতে রাজি না হওয়ায়, মুখ-হাত-পা বেঁধে গৃহবধূকে ন্যাড়া করে দেওয়ার অভিযোগ, পলাতক অভিযুক্ত স্বামী
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বর্ণবিদ্বেষী মন্তব্য: সরফরাজকে ক্ষমা করেছে দল, তবে বিষয়টি ধামাচাপা দেওয়া উচিত নয়, বললেন ডুপ্লেসিস
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উত্তর ২৪ পরগনার বনগাঁ থানার ট্যাংরা কলোনি বাজারে দোকানে আগুন, ভস্মীভূত ২টি দোকান
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রাশিয়ার কৃষ্ণ সাগর ও কার্চ প্রণালীতে আগুনে ভস্মীভূত ২টি জাহাজ, পশ্চিমবঙ্গের একজন-সহ ৬ ভারতীয় নাবিকের মৃত্যু
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Ranji Semis: Umesh-Powered Vidarbha Steamroll Past Kerala
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Team India Receives Traditional Maori Welcome at Bay Oval
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Keeper Dhoni Worth his Weight in Gold
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To Get My First Five-For at Home is a Great Feeling: Roach
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In Numbers | Virat Kohli Fastest to 6000 ODI Runs Away From Home
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Satire: Dial K for Controversy
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India vs New Zealand | Hosts Seek Batting Improvement, India Aim Consistency
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England’s Lower Order Muscle a Template for India to Embrace
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Ranji Trophy 2018-19 Semi-Finals Day 2, Live Score and Updates: Pujara Key as Karnataka Look to Put Pressure
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Australia vs Sri Lanka, Live Cricket Score, 1st Test, Brisbane: Labuschagne Falls, Lead Crosses 100
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West Indies on Top After Roach Sends England Crashing to 77 All Out
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Andre Russell Replaces Steve Smith in Multan Sultans
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Kept It Simple and Waited for Batsmen to Make Errors: Unadkat
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Pandya & Rahul Suspensions Lifted, All-rounder to Join Squad in New Zealand
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South Africa & Pakistan Seek to Plug Holes as Series Reaches Third Stop
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Apple changes its iPhone photo contest page to say it will pay winners
For the past two days, Apple faced criticism from artists and creators over its new “Shot on iPhone Challenge,” which will use photos from 10 photographers in a series of marketing campaigns without any compensation. In our original story, I spoke to an artist about frustrations over a major company like Apple using artists’ work for their own marketing purposes without compensating the artists in question.
But around the time this story was originally published at 6:33PM ET, Apple updated the original newsroom announcement for the contest. Apple informed us after publish that it had added the following language to the bottom:
Apple believes strongly that artists should be compensated for their work. Photographers who shoot the final 10...
from The Verge - All Posts http://bit.ly/2WgItWI
Netflix reportedly developing a Resident Evil television series
Netflix is in the process of developing a Resident Evil television series as a new original program for its streaming service, Deadline reports. While almost nothing is known about the plot, and the series is far from making any conclusive casting decisions, the report states the series would follow in the path of the six-part film series created by German production studio Constantin Films, which is said to be working with Netflix on the TV project.
That means the show will likely involve zombies and the shadowy bioweapons manufacturer Umbrella Corporation, which is at the center of the RE universe’s undead outbreak. Unlike most of the games, which have mostly remained in the survival horror genre, the series may involve more splashy...
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Apple’s next AirPods will support hands-free ‘Hey Siri’ voice commands
Apple’s first beta for iOS 12.2 contains strong evidence that we’re nearing an AirPods hardware refresh. As reported by 9to5Mac, the beta includes a setup interface for “Hey Siri” that mentions hands-free voice commands on AirPods — a feature that isn’t available with the current, first-generation pair of truly wireless earbuds. No other leaks about new AirPods have (yet) been uncovered in the iOS beta released earlier today. The original AirPods hit shelves over two years ago.
But there have been rumors of an updated set for months. Bloomberg reported last June that Apple was preparing a slight AirPods revamp with a new chip and “Hey Siri” support for release by the end of 2018 — probably to hit the holiday shopping rush. That...
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House Democrats want to know if the FCC rigged a legal fight over 5G
Leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee sent a letter to the Federal Communications Commission today demanding information concerning possible coordination between FCC officials and carriers in an ongoing legal fight.
The legal fight began last September, when the FCC issued an order to clear local regulatory barriers to nationwide 5G deployment. Democrats in the minority opposed the order, and dozens of cities and counties challenged the FCC’s move in the Ninth Circuit, which is dominated by Clinton and Obama appointees. But a wave of other challenges from carriers including AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint also gave the appeal a chance to be heard in other, potentially more favorable circuits. Both the FCC and the carriers...
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DeepMind’s AI agents conquer human pros at Starcraft II
AI agents developed by Google’s DeepMind subsidiary have beaten human pros at Starcraft II — a first in the world of artificial intelligence. In a series of matches streamed on YouTube and Twitch, AI players beat the humans 10 games in a row. In the final match, pro player Grzegorz “MaNa” Komincz was able to snatch a single victory for humanity.
“The history of AI has been marked by a number of significant benchmark victories in different games,” David Silver, DeepMind’s research co-lead, said after the matches. “And I hope — though there’s clearly work to do — that people in the future may look back at [today] and perhaps consider this as another step forward for what AI systems can do.”
Beating humans at video games might seem like a...
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Finally, an ad you can expense (ft. 2 Chainz)
The podcaster and pundit Matt Christman tweeted something prophetic on January 20th, 2017, the day Donald Trump was inaugurated as the president of the United States of America: “This is the stupidest day in American history, a record that will be broken by every subsequent day in American history.” Two years later, I can exclusively confirm that he was correct. Each day brings new horrors, a fresh level of hell to navigate. For example, today I learned that the eels in the River Thames — there are eels in the Thames? — have gone insane on cocaine from Lehman Brothers bankers, who were apparently holding a 10-year anniversary party, for some reason? This is all real. It has made me wonder who’s running the show.
As stupid as that is,...
from The Verge - All Posts http://bit.ly/2HvVNmQ
Kids’ movies are ready to escape Amblin’s influence
If you’re wondering why the vaguely generic-looking family adventure movie The Kid Who Would Be King is receiving surprisingly positive reviews, look no further than writer-director Joe Cornish. He isn’t a major marquee name in the United States, but he wrote and directed the 2011 film Attack the Block, which gave a low-budget alien / monster feature a distinctly English, class-conscious spin. His film credits since then have been scant but enviable: he co-wrote Steven Spielberg’s Tintin movie with Steven Moffat and Edgar Wright, received a story credit on Marvel’s Ant-Man (thanks to his involvement in the film’s initial development under Wright), and made a cameo in The Last Jedi.
His long-awaited second film as writer-director, The Kid...
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Apple changes its iPhone photo contest page to say it will pay winners
For the past two days, Apple faced criticism from artists and creators over its new “Shot on iPhone Challenge,” which will use photos from 10 photographers in a series of marketing campaigns without any compensation. In our original story, I spoke to an artist about frustrations over a major company like Apple using artists’ work for their own marketing purposes without compensating the artists in question.
But around the time this story was originally published at 6:33PM ET, Apple updated the original newsroom announcement for the contest. Apple informed us after publish that it had added the following language to the bottom:
Apple believes strongly that artists should be compensated for their work. Photographers who shoot the final 10...
from The Verge - All Posts http://bit.ly/2WgItWI
Netflix reportedly developing a Resident Evil television series
Netflix is in the process of developing a Resident Evil television series as a new original program for its streaming service, Deadline reports. While almost nothing is known about the plot, and the series is far from making any conclusive casting decisions, the report states the series would follow in the path of the six-part film series created by German production studio Constantin Films, which is said to be working with Netflix on the TV project.
That means the show will likely involve zombies and the shadowy bioweapons manufacturer Umbrella Corporation, which is at the center of the RE universe’s undead outbreak. Unlike most of the games, which have mostly remained in the survival horror genre, the series may involve more splashy...
from The Verge - All Posts http://bit.ly/2RbRIUv
Apple’s next AirPods will support hands-free ‘Hey Siri’ voice commands
Apple’s first beta for iOS 12.2 contains strong evidence that we’re nearing an AirPods hardware refresh. As reported by 9to5Mac, the beta includes a setup interface for “Hey Siri” that mentions hands-free voice commands on AirPods — a feature that isn’t available with the current, first-generation pair of truly wireless earbuds. No other leaks about new AirPods have (yet) been uncovered in the iOS beta released earlier today. The original AirPods hit shelves over two years ago.
But there have been rumors of an updated set for months. Bloomberg reported last June that Apple was preparing a slight AirPods revamp with a new chip and “Hey Siri” support for release by the end of 2018 — probably to hit the holiday shopping rush. That...
from The Verge - All Posts http://bit.ly/2B57XNE
House Democrats want to know if the FCC rigged a legal fight over 5G
Leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee sent a letter to the Federal Communications Commission today demanding information concerning possible coordination between FCC officials and carriers in an ongoing legal fight.
The legal fight began last September, when the FCC issued an order to clear local regulatory barriers to nationwide 5G deployment. Democrats in the minority opposed the order, and dozens of cities and counties challenged the FCC’s move in the Ninth Circuit, which is dominated by Clinton and Obama appointees. But a wave of other challenges from carriers including AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint also gave the appeal a chance to be heard in other, potentially more favorable circuits. Both the FCC and the carriers...
from The Verge - All Posts http://bit.ly/2RQsDUf
DeepMind’s AI agents conquer human pros at Starcraft II
AI agents developed by Google’s DeepMind subsidiary have beaten human pros at Starcraft II — a first in the world of artificial intelligence. In a series of matches streamed on YouTube and Twitch, AI players beat the humans 10 games in a row. In the final match, pro player Grzegorz “MaNa” Komincz was able to snatch a single victory for humanity.
“The history of AI has been marked by a number of significant benchmark victories in different games,” David Silver, DeepMind’s research co-lead, said after the matches. “And I hope — though there’s clearly work to do — that people in the future may look back at [today] and perhaps consider this as another step forward for what AI systems can do.”
Beating humans at video games might seem like a...
from The Verge - All Posts http://bit.ly/2FZ5RT2
Finally, an ad you can expense (ft. 2 Chainz)
The podcaster and pundit Matt Christman tweeted something prophetic on January 20th, 2017, the day Donald Trump was inaugurated as the president of the United States of America: “This is the stupidest day in American history, a record that will be broken by every subsequent day in American history.” Two years later, I can exclusively confirm that he was correct. Each day brings new horrors, a fresh level of hell to navigate. For example, today I learned that the eels in the River Thames — there are eels in the Thames? — have gone insane on cocaine from Lehman Brothers bankers, who were apparently holding a 10-year anniversary party, for some reason? This is all real. It has made me wonder who’s running the show.
As stupid as that is,...
from The Verge - All Posts http://bit.ly/2HvVNmQ
Kids’ movies are ready to escape Amblin’s influence
If you’re wondering why the vaguely generic-looking family adventure movie The Kid Who Would Be King is receiving surprisingly positive reviews, look no further than writer-director Joe Cornish. He isn’t a major marquee name in the United States, but he wrote and directed the 2011 film Attack the Block, which gave a low-budget alien / monster feature a distinctly English, class-conscious spin. His film credits since then have been scant but enviable: he co-wrote Steven Spielberg’s Tintin movie with Steven Moffat and Edgar Wright, received a story credit on Marvel’s Ant-Man (thanks to his involvement in the film’s initial development under Wright), and made a cameo in The Last Jedi.
His long-awaited second film as writer-director, The Kid...
from The Verge - All Posts http://bit.ly/2FMhbCK
মোদির কেন্দ্র বারাণসীতে প্রিয়ঙ্কাকে প্রার্থী চেয়ে পোস্টার, স্লোগান, ওঁকে উত্তরপ্রদেশে পরেরবার কংগ্রেসের সরকার গঠন নিশ্চিত করার টার্গেট দেওয়া হয়েছে, জানালেন রাহুল
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একা রাজনীতিতে পারছেন না, তাই সাহায্য করতে প্রিয়ঙ্কাকে নিয়ে এলেন রাহুল! কটাক্ষ সুমিত্রা মহাজনের
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কেউ বন্ড দেয়নি, জামিন পেলেও ভারত-বাংলাদেশ সীমান্তে আটকে থাকা ৭ রোহিঙ্গা মহিলা, ১৭ শিশু ত্রিপুরার জেলে
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পরিবারের অমতে বিয়ে করা প্রাপ্তবয়স্কদের রক্ষায় হেল্পলাইন খুলল রাজস্থান পুলিশ
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কেন্দ্রকে নোটিস, জেনারেল ক্যাটাগরির গরিবদের চাকরি, শিক্ষায় ১০ শতাংশ সংরক্ষণের সিদ্ধান্ত খতিয়ে দেখবে সুপ্রিম কোর্ট
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কেন্দ্র ভোট অন অ্যাকাউন্টের বদলে পূর্ণাঙ্গ বাজেট পেশ করতে চাইলে সংসদের ভেতরে-বাইরে তার বিরোধিতা করা হবে, জানালেন কংগ্রেস মুখপাত্র মণীশ তিওয়ারি
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উচ্চবর্ণে সংরক্ষণের বৈধতা খতিয়ে দেখবে সুপ্রিম কোর্ট, কেন্দ্রকে নোটিস পাঠাল সর্বোচ্চ আদালত
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কাল থেকে আবার টিভিতে আমির খান, বেলা ১১টায় প্রিমিয়ার
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রাহুল একা সামলাতে পারছেন না, তাই দলে আনতে হল প্রিয়ঙ্কাকে, খোঁচা লোকসভার অধ্যক্ষ সুমিত্রা মহাজনের
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বারাণসীর মানুষ এখনও প্রধানমন্ত্রী মোদির উপরেই ভরসা রাখেন, দাবি বিজেপির শরিক জেডিইউ নেতা কে সি ত্যাগীর
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রাজনীতিতে প্রিয়ঙ্কাকে স্বাগত, কিন্তু এবার তাঁকে জবাব দিতে স্বামী রবার্ট বঢরার বিরুদ্ধে ওঠা দুর্নীতির অভিযোগের, খোঁচা বিজেপির মনোজ তিওয়ারির
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শ্রীকান্ত মোহতাকে ভুবনেশ্বরে নিয়ে গেল সিবিআই, রায়বরেলিতে প্রার্থী প্রিয়ঙ্কা? সঙ্গে আরও খবর-ফটাফট
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পুরনো মুদ্রাকে বিক্রি করা হত মোহর বলে, বীরভূম থেকে গ্রেফতার ৫, এমনই একগুচ্ছ খবর দেখুন এক ঝলকে
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দাঁতন ও নেকুড়সেনি স্টেশনের মাঝে রেললাইন থেকে উদ্ধার গুরুতর আহত যুবক, হাসপাতালে নিয়ে গেলে মৃত বলে ঘোষণা
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কঙ্গনার জন্মই হয়েছে লক্ষ্মীবাঈয়ের ভূমিকায় অভিনয়ের জন্য, বললেন প্রবীণ অভিনেতা মনোজ কুমার
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Redmi Go, Xiaomi’s First Android Go Smartphone Leaked Online
Day in and Day out you get to see one or the other Xiaomi product, most of which are smartphones. And this morning our Twitter bird’s eyes opened to Xiaomi’s first Android Go Smartphone, a.k.a Redmi Go. Since, its from the Chinese giant that brings good phones at an affordable price tag, we expect nothing less […]
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Mark Hamill Goofs Around On Set In Empire Strikes Back Throwback Photo
The Empire Strikes Back may be one of the darkest chapters in the Star Wars saga, but that doesn’t mean Mark Hamill can’t see the funny side of things, taking to Twitter to share a behind-the-scenes photo of himself in the role of “Darth Doofus.”
The image is taken from the famous scene on Dagobah where Luke Skywalker is confronted with a vision of Darth Vader, prompting the Jedi to slice off the aggressor’s head only to find he was really fighting himself. In the newly shared pic, however, the Vader version of Luke doesn’t seem too sad about being decapitated, posing a goofy smile that Hamill’s tweet explains as follows:
“If you can’t have fun at work, you’re in the wrong business.
#DarthDoofus”
Evidently, Hamill has no problem poking fun at himself, though much of his social media activity is dedicated to trolling his fans instead, with the actor regularly taking pleasure in sharing fake titles and fake trailers for Star Wars: Episode IX, while staying tight-lipped on the actual content of the upcoming trilogy-closer.
Of course, given Lucasfilm’s notoriously excessive spoiler security measures, Hamill would be in no position to spill secrets on Luke’s next outing even if he wanted to. Just last month, the actor compared working on the new Star Wars movie to being in the CIA, explaining how he’s only allowed to see the script under heavily monitored conditions and isn’t able to keep it with him overnight. By contrast, Hamill recalled how he was at liberty to share the script for the first Star Wars film with all his friends because “back then nobody cared.”
Clearly a lot’s changed since the days of the Original Trilogy, but we’ll find out what secrets Hamill has to hide when Star Wars: Episode IX hits theaters on December 20th, 2019.
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How Disney’s Star Wars Canon Purge Fixed A Rather Big EU Plot Hole
Few fanbases are more fastidious about the content of the canon than that of the Star Wars franchise, which is why Disney’s announcement back in 2014 that all stories outside of the six core movies and The Clone Wars TV show would be struck from the continuity was met with some backlash.
But what’s a little ironic about this literal-minded fixation on what did and didn’t “really happen” is that the Expanded Universe mythology didn’t always add up to a particularly coherent world. A new piece from Screen Rant, for instance, observes how the character of Ki-Adi-Mundi was riddled with contradictions before Lucasfilm wiped the slate relatively clean.
To elaborate, material accompanying The Phantom Menace described this long-headed member of the Jedi Council as a Jedi Knight. However, a few years later in Revenge of the Sith, the idea of a Knight on the Council is shown to be pretty much unheard of, hence Anakin Skywalker’s outrage at not being made a Master when he’s appointed. Similarly, the 2000 comic Star Wars: Republic: Prelude to Rebellion depicts the character as married and with children, but as Attack of the Clones would later indicate, Jedi are forbidden from forming such attachments.
In both cases, George Lucas pretty much ignored the content of all the tie-in fiction to follow through with his own vision, and in response, the Expanded Universe had to bend over backwards to retcon itself. Specifically, the new canon became that Ki-Adi-Mundi’s Master status hadn’t yet come into effect yet during the events of The Phantom Menace, and that due to a population crisis among the Cerean species, the character was made exempt from the celibacy rules.
These are just a couple of examples of how the Expanded Universe was constantly required to monitor and ‘fix’ itself as its body of work grew increasingly large and elaborate, but with Lucasfilm striking all this material from the record, the franchise was suddenly freed up to take alternative paths. Of course, as the post-2014 Star Wars canon continues to grow, it may well find itself entangled in a similarly messy web of continuity, but if the continuity can be purged once, then what’s to stop them from doing it again?
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Billy Dee Williams Shares Photo Of His Star Wars: Episode IX Training
As Star Wars: Episode IX wraps up the arcs of a few Original Trilogy regulars, J.J. Abrams’ next film will also be reintroducing us to one Landon Calrissian, with Billy Dee Williams set to reprise his role for the first time on the big screen since 1983’s Return of the Jedi.
To stay in shape for the part, Williams has undergone regular physical training, and in a recent social media post, the actor shared a photo and a message suggesting that the 81-year-old is currently in pretty good form, tweeting the following update:
“The force is still strong with this one! Thank you [Dr. Philip Goglia]”
While we probably shouldn’t expect anything too physical from Williams’ performance later this year, it’s still a safe bet that Lando’s role in the upcoming trilogy-closer will go well beyond a quick cameo, seeing how Lucasfilm chose to announce his comeback in advance rather than saving it as a surprise.
As it stands, little is known about the scenes lined up for Williams, but a report from last year at least indicated that he’ll be wearing one of his patented capes, as if there was a chance that the famously nostalgic Abrams would pass on that tradition.
Meanwhile, a prominent rumor that should probably be approached with a fair amount more skepticism is that Naomi Ackie will be playing Lando’s daughter Vera. At the moment, we have little more than unusually persistent hearsay to back up the notion, but at the very least, Lando’s extended absence from the series would certainly give him more than enough time to start a family of his own, and a daughter would be a very on-brand way for the Star Wars films keep the character’s legacy alive.
In any case, we’ll find out what developments await Lando and his fellow Original Trilogy alumni when Star Wars: Episode IX hits theaters on December 20th, 2019.
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