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Ikea’s first decorative smart bulb is just $9.99 — Hue’s costs $24.99

Ikea’s first Edison-style smart bulb. | Image: Ikea

Ikea continues to expand its lineup of Tradfri smart lighting with its first decorative bulb. What’s notable is the price. At $9.99, it significantly undercuts the comparable Philips Hue bulb which sells for $25.

The E26-sized (the big socket) bulb glows warm at 2200 Kelvin, and is made to resemble those vintage Edison-style filament bulbs so popular in Brooklyn haunts. It’s dimmable via the Ikea Home Smart app or an Ikea wireless dimmer (sold separately), but the company doesn’t recommend connecting it to a hardwired dimmer — same for the Hue bulb.

Generally speaking, Hue bulbs tend to offer better dimming than Ikea bulbs, characterized by smoother transitions and a greater range of illumination. But that’s gotta be super important to...

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Nicholas Pooran Faces Four-match Suspension For Ball-tampering

West Indies keeper-batsman Nicholas Pooran has been handed four suspension points after he was charged with breaching level 3 of the ICC Code of Conduct for Players and Player Support Personnel during the 3rd ODI match against Afghanistan on Monday.

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India vs Bangladesh | Recent Test Successes Give Bangladesh Hope Ahead of India Series

Bangladesh has just won 13 matches (lost as many as 86) in their 115 Test old cricket history.

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England's Dom Sibley, Zak Crawley Slam Tons in Warm-up Game to Make Strong Case For Test Debut

Dom Sibley and Zak Crawley staked their claims for England Test debuts with unbeaten centuries in their first warm-up match in New Zealand.

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Australia Selection Hopefuls For Pakistan Series Fluff Chances in Practice Game

Australia’s hopes of resolving their batting problems in time for the Test series against Pakistan have proved forlorn.

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India vs Bangladesh | Kohli on Mental Health: I Didn't Know What to do During 2014 Slump

India captain Virat Kohli feels it is "remarkable" of Australian Glenn Maxwell to admit mental health issues, recalling a phase in his own career when he too battled "end of the world" thoughts but didn't know how to even communicate them.

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India vs Bangladesh | Tricky Bangla Challenge Awaits India In First Test at Indore

The Indian Test juggernaut will look to extend their supremacy in the ICC World Test Championship when they take on Bangladesh in the first of two Tests.

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India vs Bangladesh 1st Test Live Streaming: When & Where to Watch Live Telecast on TV & Online

India vs Bangladesh 1st Test beginning on November 14th (Thursday) will be broadcast on the Star Sports Network and live streaming will be available on Hotstar. The match will be played in Indore and will begin at 09.30 HRS IST. You can also follow all the action on our live blog (IND vs BAN).

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Asus has launched AMD-Powered ZenBook 14, ZenBook Flip 14 and ROG Strix in India

Asus has brought a new ZenBook 14 UM431 alongside ZenBook Flip 14 UM462 and ROG Strix GL10DH into India. The new machines run on AMD processors. Now, if you jog your memory, you’d recall the ZenBook 14 (review), which was launched a few months back. That one was ticking on the Intel i7 processor. Off […]

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After ODI Sweep, West Indies Look to Extend Supremacy Over Afghanistan in T20Is

After a 3-0 drubbing at the hands West Indies in the ODIs, Afghanistan have a lot to prove come the T20I series, starting November 14 in Lucknow, while the former face an uphill task of keeping up the intensity.

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Harbhajan Nemesis For Me Throughout Career: Gilchrist

Former Australia wicketkeeper-batsman Adam Gilchrist has revealed that Indian off-spinner Harbhajan Singh was one of the toughest bowlers he faced in his entire career.

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Vivo U20 with Snapdragon 675 will Launch on November 22 on Amazon India

Vivo U20 with Snapdragon 675 teased

Just last September, Vivo U10 (review) was launched and it’s not been that long and here we are days away from its successor. Vivo U20 teaser is up on Amazon India hinting at the imminent launch. Well, there’s no surprise about the launch as it’s revealed to be November 22, 2019. The Unstoppable catchphrase also […]

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IPL 2019 Was the Best Thing to Happen to Me: Deepak Chahar After Whirlwind Week

Chahar credited his growth to his learnings from the IPL 2019, where he picked up 22 wickets for Chennai Super Kings

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Hearing Concludes in Rahul Dravid's Conflict case, Verdict to Be Out Soon

The hearing in the alleged conflict of interest case involving Indian cricketing great Rahul Dravid concluded here on Tuesday with BCCI ethics officer D K Jain saying "his order can be expected soon".

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India vs Bangladesh | Bangladesh Look Up to McKenzie for Tips to Tackle Ashwin-Jadeja: Mithun

Bangladeshi batsmen are more concerned about handling spin twins Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja

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Robert Pattinson’s Batman Suit Rumored To Be Blue And Grey

With Robert Pattinson set to play Bruce Wayne in Matt Reeves’ The Batman, Bat-fans are patiently awaiting their first glimpse at him in costume as the Dark Knight. The hero’s suit has evolved a lot over the years, going from the blue and grey fabric number worn by Adam West in the 1960s to the all-black – or sometimes very, very dark grey – armor donned by Christian Bale and Ben Affleck.

But it’s possible – just possible – that Pattinson’s look could actually turn the clock back a little and draw from the classic iterations of Batman instead of more recent costume designs. A new rumor has just emerged from TheComixKid over on Twitter, in which it’s claimed that The Batman‘s suit will be “a modernized take on the West costume.” It’s said that the outfit will be “incorporating Blues and Greys, but no longer yellow.”

To demonstrate the sort of thing we can apparently expect, an image of the hero’s look from The Batman animated series was attached.

Like TheComixKid says, just take this as a rumor for now. Still, it’s worth noting the detail that the suit is likely to include white lenses as opposed to the typical eye holes in the cowl that we’ve had in all previous versions. This is something that’s been widely rumored before, especially as Spider-Man and Deadpool have been portrayed with animated white eyes in recent years as well.

We might not have seen it, but Pattinson has actually worn the batsuit already. It may not be the final version that’ll appear in the film, but the actor did put on a costume as part of his screening process to land the part. Unfortunately, he admitted that his first time trying on the costume wasn’t as epic as you’d think, as it took five people to help him get into it.

The Batman goes into production next year and is due in cinemas on June 25th, 2021.



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Marvel Now Has Another Defender As Bruce Campbell Blasts Martin Scorsese

Another day, another celebrity sharing their opinion on Martin Scorsese’s comments that Marvel movies aren’t cinema.

The latest defender is longtime B-movie star Bruce Campbell. While speaking with fans at the Spooky Empire horror convention, Campbell didn’t hold back in calling out Scorsese. Not only does he feel the director’s comments are harmful to the industry in general, but he also thinks he’s a hypocrite when it comes to criticizing movies with special effects.

“[Scorsese] was ragging on Marvel movies, right? Martin Scorsese is one of our greatest filmmakers, so when he says stuff like that, it hurts. Because it’s not like movies like that are easy to make, and it’s not like The Irishman doesn’t have digital effects out the ass. [The Irishman has] more digital effects than any Marvel movie, I can tell you right now. To get Robert De Niro to go from nine to 108, that’s a lot of work, that’s a lot of digital work. So [Scorsese]’s kind of full of crap in that respect.”

It’s a bit hard to analyze these comments properly without having been in the room with Campbell because the last part is quite ridiculous. Yes, The Irishman has visual effects due to the de-aging of Robert De Niro’s character. But to suggest there are more digital effects in The Irishman than any Avengers movie is ludicrous.

It’s definitely a rant by Campbell, who was clearly playing it up for an audience full of fanboys of genre flicks. And it didn’t end there. The Evil Dead star went on to say that all movies are fiction, whether they’re about gangsters or superheroes and one shouldn’t be held in higher regard than the other.

“Every movie is just as fake as the other one. Nothing is real. Guess what? You’re doing a real story about Erin Brockovich, that’s not even what Erin Brockovich looks like! It’s not a real story, even though they say it’s a real story, so nobody gets to play, ‘I am a filmmaker, you make silly Marvel movies!’ No, they’re all bullsh-t. Every single bit of every movie is bullsh-t. Good bullsh-t, lousy bullsh-t, boring bullsh-t, they’re all as fake as you can get.”

You can never accuse Campbell of being subtle.

When it comes to Marvel or Star Wars or any other popular IP, fans have always felt a certain level of insecurity when the thing they love is belittled. They feel a sense of ownership to these franchises that I’ve never quite understood.

For his part, Scorsese offered a rebuttal for his original comments. In an Op-Ed in The New York Times, he made it a point to praise the filmmakers behind superhero movies, but also says that they’re just not for him. His main argument against Marvel and superhero movies in general is a lack of stakes.

“What’s not there is revelation, mystery or genuine emotional danger. Nothing is at risk,” said Scorsese.

A perfect Marvel movie to cite is Captain America: Civil War. The famous airport fight is thrilling and cool to look at, but at the end of the day, it’s good guys fighting other good guys. There’s no stakes to the scene until the very end when War Machine falls from the sky nearly dying.

But the end of the movie is full of revelations, emotions and risk. Tony Stark discovers that the Winter Soldier killed his parents and that Steve Rogers knew and didn’t tell him. It’s one of the most powerful scenes in the entire MCU and sets up a brutal fight between the three characters that fractures the Avengers. And without that conflict, the scenes between Stark and Rogers in Avengers: Endgame would lack the same emotional impact.

I think what Scorsese fails to articulate in his Op-Ed is that it’s getting harder and harder for mid-sized films or just original ideas to get made these days. Of the 20 highest domestic-grossing releases of 2019, only two were not a sequel, remake or in someway based on a pre-existing property (Us and Once Upon a Time...In Hollywood).

It’s just the state of the industry at this moment. Audiences want some idea of what they’re getting into when they go to the theater and they know Disney movies and comic book movies.



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