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A LIVE-ACTION HARRY POTTER SHOW is in the works at HBO Max according to multiple reports. That probably doesn't come as much of a surprise to those familiar with the property, most of whom have been predicting that Warner Bros. would start delving more into the Potter world for quite some time now, but it appears that the launch of a new streaming service has given the studio the extra motivation...

Popular web game Among Us developer Innersloth has released a development log, promising a 2021 content roadmap and explaining why updates to the game have taken longer than might have been expected. As for what's coming now that a lot of that work is done, Innersloth says it will soon release a 2021 roadmap. The developer notes it had hoped to launch the planned 'Accounts' system for the game ear...

A $20 US bill known as the “Del Monte” note coveted by currency collectors is up for auction — and is expected to fetch tens of thousands of dollars. The 1996 banknote features a Del Monte fruit sticker with the produce code #4011, for bananas. The sticker somehow ended up on the bill in the middle of the printing process, and as a result, a portion of the treasury seal and a serial number is prin...

At some point in the not-too-distant future, pairing depth-sensing cameras with artificial intelligence will enable computers to truly understand the physical world — a vision researchers and companies have spent years working to transform into reality. Today, open source computer vision library OpenCV announced that it’s celebrating its 20th anniversary with a global competition designed to spur...

Harvard researchers have developed an autonomous, fish-inspired robot swarm. These robots can synchronize their movements like a real school of fish without any external control. In nature, schools of fish exhibit complex, synchronized behaviours without following a leader. Individual fish make decisions based on what their neighbours do. This robot collective, dubbed Blueswarm, uses a 3D vision b...

Fulfilling a decades-old quest, this week researchers report creating the first superconductor that does not have to be cooled for its electrical resistance to vanish. There’s a catch: The new room temperature superconductor only works at a pressure equivalent to about three-quarters of that at the center of Earth. But if researchers can stabilize the material at ambient pressure, dreamed-of appli...

Statistics Canada is mailing pinprick blood tests to forty eight thousand Canadians to gauge the virus’ prevalence in the country. In what is one of the first large-scale surveys of its kind in Canada, researchers are examining the blood samples for antibodies pertaining to the virus that causes COVID-19. Each participant will first be asked to fill out an online questionnaire. Upon giving consent...

A Canadian-led team of astronomers, including researchers from the University of Toronto’s Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics, has discovered that a repeating fast radio burst (FRB) originating from a nearby galaxy pulses at regular intervals. Researchers with the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) Fast Radio Burst Collaboration used the CHIME telescope in British Co...

This frozen chess game in Canada will give you chills. Toronto local Nick McNaught is part of Unbounded, a community of people testing their discipline through activities like cold exposure. Recently, McNaught added a new level of difficulty to his cold-water plunges by incorporating a game of chess. In an Instagram video, McNaught and his friend can be seen playing a five-minute game of chess whi...

Never before has “bird brain” been such a compliment: In recent years, birds have been found to make tools, understand abstract concepts, and even recognize paintings by Monet and Picasso. But their lack of a neocortex—the area of the mammalian brain where working memory, planning, and problem solving happen—has long puzzled scientists. Now, researchers have found a previously unknown arrangement...

More than 40 years ago, the world's leading climate scientists gathered in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, to answer a simple question: How hot would Earth get if humans kept emitting greenhouse gases? Their answer, informed by rudimentary climate models, was broad: If atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) doubled from preindustrial levels, the planet would eventually warm between 1.5°C and 4.5°C, a climate...

Christmas trees are part of the Christmas spirit, but when and how did this all become such a staple in the Christmas tradition? It all started before Christianity. The winter solstice in the northern hemisphere usually falls in late December. Ancient people like the Egyptians, Romans and Vikings all decorated the solstice with evergreen boughs because it symbolized everlasting life. Fast forward...

Eight-year-old Derek Prue was playing with his sisters in a hotel swimming pool earlier this month, when his dad called out to him from the pool's edge. Derek looked at his father and fell back into the water, his eyes wide and a huge smile on his face. His dad, Derek Prue Sr., unveiled a new tattoo, a replica of the birthmark that covers a large part of Derek's torso. "I was happy and I was a lit...

A team of volunteer codebreakers has cracked a mysterious cipher sent more than 50 years ago to a newspaper by the San Francisco serial killer who called himself the Zodiac, the FBI said on Friday. The Zodiac Killer – who was never caught – shot or stabbed seven people in the San Francisco Bay Area over the course of about year in 1968 and 1969, killing all but two of them. During his murderous sp...

Among Us, a game focused on uncovering who is the “suss” player is, took home the award for ‘Mobile Game of the Year’ at The Game Awards 2020. The four to ten player social deception game features simplistic visuals and launched way back on Android and iOS in 2018. However, given many people around the world are practicing social distancing amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Among Us recently sky...

目前加拿大进入covid-19第二波大流行，ontario全省新确诊人数连续几天都超过1000例/天。戴口罩、保持社交距离、禁止聚会等措施越来越严格。所以今年的万圣节格外与众不同。 节日前夕，政府、学校、媒体都在呼吁小朋友们停止挨家挨户的敲门、要糖等活动，因为那会带来近距离接触，增加疾病传播风险。 但是，万圣节是每年一度的狂欢日，尤其对于小朋友而言，没有了装扮和要糖的节日会让他们大失所望。 昨晚的万圣节，在我居住的社区...

The owner of a former Cold War-era bunker is offering a $1,000 reward for anyone who can guess the combination to a mysterious locked safe. Jonathan Baha'i bought the underground bunker near the farming community of Debert, N.S., in 2012. It's about 100 kilometres north of Halifax. The bunker reopened to the public in early 2019, with escape rooms, laser tag and a birthday party room. But the COVI...

After multiple cancelled flights, Georgia and Greg King's dogs will be flying from Canada to their home in Australia before them. That's because strict pandemic-era rules on international arrivals have limited the number of people who can fly into the country — including citizens — leaving 38,200 Australians abroad, around 640 of whom are in Canada, according to Australia's government. Only a few...

Plastic is polluting our rivers, lakes, and oceans, harming wildlife, and generating microplastics in the water we use and drink. That’s why the Canadian government is promising to ban single-use plastics in 2021. Every year, Canadians throw away 3 million tonnes of plastic waste, only 9% of which is recycled, meaning the vast majority of plastics end up in landfills and about 29,000 tonnes finds...

21，哈利波特系列最后一部电影中，哈利波特看到ron和hermione在睡觉时相互握手，Hermione的patronus是河狸，河狸睡觉时也是如此。 22，有一个咒语，expecto patronum，在拉丁文中是我在等待守护神。 23，hermione的演员只需要一次表演就可以通过导演的审核，这也说明了她的聪明。 24，professor mcgonagall的演员是JK罗琳亲自挑选的。 25，barty crouch jr 偶尔喜欢吐舌头，这些动作不是剧本和故事的设计，而是演员自己的习惯。

16，最后一部哈利波特系列电影中，有一个scene需要同时出现7个哈利波特，拍摄超过80次，因为难度很大。 17，在哈利波特系列电影开拍之初，化妆人员曾尝试给哈利波特佩戴绿色隐形眼镜以获得绿色的眼睛，但演员对镜片过敏，不得不放弃。 18，虽然魔法学校的所有老师都说哈利波特是个法力强大的魔法师，但是在哈利波特刚到魔法学校时没有说出任何一个咒语。 19，邓布利多校长的名字，在老鹰语中实际含义是黄蜂，作者给他这个名字是想...

11，在英国有一个kings cross station，很多粉丝去这个火车站的9站台和10站台之间寻找书中描述的9又4分之3站台，后来火车站索性设置了一个9又4分之3站台标志以满足粉丝的愿望。 12，Tom Felton是扮演Draco的演员，他来试演这个角色时还未曾读过任何与哈利波特有关的书籍。 13，在所有的horcrux里，哈利波特自己只摧毁了1个。 14，dobby说的第一句话和最后一句话，都是哈利波特。 15，扮演tom riddle的演员，实际上和扮演伏地魔的演...

6，在拍摄哈利波特魔法学校的大餐厅时，开始用的是真实的食物，但后来由于拍摄时间太长，食物腐烂，最后不得不用虚假的塑料食物代替。 7，Ron非常害怕蜘蛛，其实扮演Ron的演员本人就很害怕蜘蛛，所以表演这个环节时完全本色表演。 8，在哈利波特与密室中，hermione本应拥抱harry potter和ron，但最终只拥抱了harry，因为扮演hermione的演员有点害羞。 9，ron的哥哥Fred与George唯一一次在年老时见面，发生在往火焰杯里放自己名字时...

1，希腊神话中有一个预言家Cassandra，由于被神诅咒了，所以其预言没人相信。巧合的是，魔法学校也有一个魔法老师，其祖先的名字也是Cassandra。这位老师的预言同样没人相信。 2，在死亡圣器中，harry potter和hermione接吻时，站在旁边的ron并不生气，反而在哈哈大笑。 3，扮演harry potter和ron的演员，都承认在拍摄哈利波特系列电影时，偷偷的喜欢hermione的扮演者。 4，火焰杯这本书比哈利波特系列前几本书内容和字数都更多，...

哈利波特中的Hogwarts有很多老师，但他们的魔法能力并不相同。今天就来做一个排名。 NO.10, GILDEROY LOCKHART While Gilderoy Lockhart was a useless buffoon, there's something to be said for the potency of his Memory Charms. He managed to use them so well that he wiped the memory of witches and wizards much more powerful than himself. However, his lack of knowledge regarding any other facet of magic made...