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Gagan Dev Riar has been roped in to play the lead role in Scam 2003: The Telgi Story, SonyLIV announced on Tuesday.Hansal Mehta, who delivered the critically-acclaimed first part Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story, will serve as the showrunner and direct alongside Tushar Hiranandani.Scam 2003: The Telgi Story, produced by Applause Entertainment in association with StudioNext, will tackle the 2003 Stamp Paper fraud by Abdul Karim Telgi.Gagan, who has acted in films like Sonchiriya and Netflix series A Suitable Boy, will…

The late Nabaneeta Dev Sen is a vital figure in modern Bengali literature with more than a hundred books either written or edited by her to her credit and though she wrote a lot more prose, it was poetry that was the heartbeat of her writing. As she puts it, “…it was in the looking glass of poetry that I saw my face for the first time. Poetry was my first confidence.” In an admirable introduction, her daughter and translator, the actor and activist Nandana Dev Sen says that this is a selection from six decades of…

Introduction Attempts at hand-crafting algorithms for understanding human-generated content have generally been unsuccessful. For example, it is difficult for a computer to “grasp” the semantic content of an image - e.g., a car, cat, coat, etc....… - purely by analyzing its low-level pixels. Color histograms and feature detectors worked to a certain extent, but they were rarely accurate for most applications. In the past decade, the combination of big data and deep learning has fundamentally changed the way we approach…

New details have come to light about the upcoming Lord of the Rings game focused on Gollum. In a FAQ posted on Steam, developer Daedalic answered some of the questions asked most by fans, beginning with the question of if LOTR: Gollum is an official Lord of the Rings game.It is, the developer confirmed, adding that "all elements" of the title have been approved by Middle-earth Enterprises, the company that licenses the series. Middle-earth Enterprises is also working with Electronic Arts on a new Lord of…

Google Play is receiving new prepaid subscription plans and Console UI to improve the monetisation capabilities of the developers. The announcement was made today during the Google I/O developer conference. These changes are aimed to provide developers with more flexibility in selling subscriptions on the Play Store. They now have the option to set up multiple base plans and offers. These new changes are expected to reduce the operation costs for developers by reducing the need to create and manage new SKUs.Google has…

Genshin Impact has become a hit MMORPG with all kinds of gamers in the last two years, especially for taking gameplay elements straight out of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and implementing them into a free-to-play game. Yet for all its successes, it’s on every platform save for one: Nintendo Switch. Fear not, miHoYo confirmed on Thursday that it is still working on a Switch port of the game. As reported by Go Nintendo, the Chinese game developer confirmed that Genshin Impact would come to the Switch early…