Variety

‘Wicked: For Good’ Director Jon M. Chu Says Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo Created the Most Emotional Scene by Accident: ‘I Forgot to Call Cut’

Jon M. Chu isn’t shy about it — the second half of his two-film adaptation is the one where he tears down walls. Literally. One of the film’s most talked-about sequences — the split-door staging of ...
GamesRadar+

Kill Bill Parts One and Two are being released as one four-hour movie, including a never-before-seen animated sequence

Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair, which combines Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 into one, very long movie, will be released nationwide in the US for the first time this December. In ...
GitHub

Optimized Needleman-Wunsch Alignment Algorithm

Part of providing pronunciation feedback involves aligning a target phonemic sequence (the sounds made by the actor reference) with the user phonemic sequence (the sounds the user makes when trying to ...
Ars Technica

Apple chips can be hacked to leak secrets from Gmail, iCloud, and more

Apple-designed chips powering Macs, iPhones, and iPads contain two newly discovered vulnerabilities that leak credit card information, locations, and other sensitive data from the Chrome and Safari ...
Wall Street Journal

Big Cities Take Up Fight Against Algorithm-Based Rents

The federal government’s price-fixing lawsuit against rental-software firm RealPage could take years to resolve. Rather than wait, some cities and states are already cracking down on the company. San ...
IEEE

Application of Needleman-Wunsch Algorithm in Image Comparison

Abstract: The Needleman-Wunsch algorithm is a global sequence alignment algorithm that has traditionally been used for DNA, RNA, and protein sequencing. Image comparison is used in multiple ...