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via Lucasfilm One of the action genre’s best tropes is to open with a grandstanding action sequence, one that immediately hooks the audience’s attention – showcasing that they’re in for two hours of nonstop thrills. Plenty of classic movies have opened with a rousing set piece, and a few duds have even gotten away with it, too, but have any of them ever bettered Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade? It’s not just the stunts, either, but the entire scene as a whole. Doubling as a mini-prequel, origin story, and…

At least we’re getting a compilation next year While any given year for Mega Man can be a dire situation, there’s at least something on the horizon for the 35th anniversary: the Mega Man Battle Network Legacy Collection in 2023. Of course, the Mega Man 35th anniversary celebration is mostly centered around merch for now. As reported by Rockman Corner, the “first collaboration” for the 35th anniversary of the Blue Bomber is…an expensive t-shirt line. In a partnership with Japanese company Avirex, Capcom is putting…

Monitoring jobs that run in a Databricks production environment requires not only setting up alerts in case of failure but also being able to easily extract statistics about jobs running time, failure rate, most frequent failure cause, and other user-defined KPIs.The Databricks workspace provides through its UI a fairly easy and intuitive way of visualizing the run history of individual jobs. The matrix view, for instance, allows for a quick overview of recent failures and shows a rough comparison in terms of run times…

After Foxconn reported a “storming demand” on iPhone 14 Pro production, TSMC is another manufacturer to benefit from the new iPhones as it revealed a higher-than-expected quarterly revenue. This comes at a time when the rest o the industry expects a slowdown. TSMC, the largest contract chipmaker, rose 48% to about $19.4 billion in the third quarter, according to Bloomberg’s calculations while other manufacturers warned that they are facing “a tougher market as inventories build up and orders are being cut by…

All products recommended by Engadget are selected by our editorial team, independent of our parent company. Some of our stories include affiliate links. If you buy something through one of these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. All prices are correct at the time of publishing.Amazon's Prime Early Access Sale is coming next week and we've already started to see a number of preview deals pop up. Devices like the Echo Show 5, Fire TV Stick 4K Max and Kindle Paperwhite have been discounted ahead of the event, and…

The hiring freeze includes all corporate and technology positions for Amazon’s retail and operations, which account for the bulk of Amazon sales. However, Amazon’s more profitable cloud computing division won’t be affected. Student hiring and field positions are also exempt from the pause, and Bloomberg notes the warehouse network will not be affected, either.The announcement comes from an internal memo sent to Amazon recruiters, who were instructed to tell potential candidates that Amazon was not in a hiring freeze and…

All products recommended by Engadget are selected by our editorial team, independent of our parent company. Some of our stories include affiliate links. If you buy something through one of these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. All prices are correct at the time of publishing.The week may be almost over, but there are still plenty of offers to be found. Apple's 512GB MacBook Air M2 has hit a new low price, the Samsung Galaxy Watch 5 is down to just $250, you can pick up an Xbox controller from $45 and Lenovo's…

Based on an analysis of just under half a million records in the UK Biobank, people who drink two to three cups of coffee each day tend to live longer and exhibit less cardiovascular disease compared with those who abstain from the beverage.While the research doesn't claim drinking more coffee adds years to your life, it's nevertheless an intriguing association that scientists are keen to investigate further. It's also important to weigh the findings against previous studies linking brain shrinkage and an increased risk…

Monitor the health of every device on your systemIntroductionAPIs are great for offloading computation and running processes that are not easily done in a given programming language. In the first part of this series, REST APIs on Industrial PLCs¹, we implemented a simple API that adds and retrieves entries from a SQL database. The data entered into the database is for training a Machine Learning model to detect anomalies in the servo drives connected to the controller.In this example, we will run a basic training loop for…

via Marvel Studios Marvel successfully pulled the wool over our eyes when it came to Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Despite the marketing leading us to think that Wanda Maximoff would be a secondary protagonist and ally to Stephen Strange in the Benedict Cumberbatch sequel, it quickly became apparent in the movie itself that she was actually its main antagonist, with the film’s big early twist unveiling that Scarlet Witch had became corrupted by the Darkhold since the events of WandaVision. It…