Numbers

While cinematic universes are everywhere, Warner Bros. has also been exploring comic-related stories that aren't connected to the main DCU. Chief among them is Todd Phillips' Joker, which was a huge hit and won Joaquin Phoenix a 2020 Academy Award. One of the most anticipated upcoming DC movies is definitely its sequel Joker: Folie à Deux. And the movie's cinematographer Lawrence Sher recently clarified the use of musical numbers, being quoted saying "it's not a musical per say." Let's break it all down. What we know…

In the early 1970s mathematician Donald Knuth spent a sabbatical with his wife in Norway. The time was meant to be spent relaxing. Yet one night he woke up his partner in a state of agitation. He urgently needed to write a book. Don’t worry, he reassured his spouse, it will only take a week. To concentrate on his writing, he reserved a hotel room just for himself in Oslo.There he drafted what would become Surreal Numbers: How Two Ex-Students Turned On to Pure Mathematics and Found Total Happiness. Though Knuth did not…

The NFL couldn’t have scripted it any better if they’d tried — not that we’re suggesting they did. But after several tumultuous years marked by press cycles centered around racism, police brutality, protests, sexual assault, domestic violence, shaky ratings, culture war shenanigans, and the little fact that the very game itself is destroying the brains of all those who play it, the National Football League enjoyed a 2023-2024 season where the main storyline seemed to be its mere proximity to Taylor Swift, vis-a-vis her…

Apple Cash may soon offer a "virtual card number" in the iOS 17.4 beta that can be used to shop online where Apple Pay isn't available, according to a Reddit post spotted by 9to5Mac. The new feature promises a new security code for every transaction and the number can be accessed in Safari's Autofill for easy use.In the beta, Apple Cash users are prompted to "set up virtual card number." Once that's done, you can see it via the settings menu, including the card number, expiration date and security code. The number is…

At this time last year, I ran my weekend box office column with the headline "Magic Mike's Last Dance Wins The Weekend Box Office, But The Numbers Are Rough." The named film was the only new wide release to arrive in theaters the previous Friday, and it only took $8.2 million in ticket sales to earn it a box office crown. All of the films in the Top 10 only brought in about $47 million, which is roughly what Nia DaCosta's The Marvel's made when it debuted on the big screen last fall. It was ugly... but the numbers for…

The iPhone has been around for 17 years now, but it still surprises me with little-known tricks. For example, this keyboard tweak I’m going to share with you makes typing numbers so much faster that it’ll probably change your life once you start using it.In a Reddit post, a user said they switched from an Android to an iPhone after a year. They say they forgot “how garbage the keyboard is.” While I thought this discussion would attract a ton of people arguing back and forth about the various smartphone keyboards,…

Image Source : FILE Representational Image The government has recently blocked approximately 140,000 mobile numbers due to their involvement in cyber crimes or financial fraud. Government officials, led by Financial Services Secretary Vivek Joshi, met to discuss cyber security in the financial services sector. They covered various topics, including integrating banks…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The horrific attack in Clapham, South London, has brought the issue of acid violence and chemical attacks to the fore. On January 31, Abdul Ezedi allegedly decanted a corrosive substance over a mother and her two children. Thankfully, the injuries sustained by the victims were not life-threatening, but the mother's were described as "potentially life changing." Police are still looking for the…

Director Matthew Vaughn has openly discussed his hopes to launch a franchise with the new meta spy thriller Argylle... but the first step toward making that happen was the film having a standout opening weekend at the box office, and that hasn't play out as hoped in the last three days. Thanks to an extremely slow start to 2024, the feature can presently claim to be the #1 movie in the United States and Canada, but the actual numbers suggest that audiences weren't particularly interested in the big screen offering.With…

In the real world, probability is a tough thing to characterize. If I roll a die, what does it mean to say that it has a one-sixth chance of coming up 5? We say that the outcome is random because we lack the information needed to predict which side will land facing up. But it’s not truly random. If we know all the details about how I move my hand and what forces act on the die as I toss it, we might be able to predict the outcome of the roll. Practically speaking, however, we usually lack that prediction power.…