The latest season of Netflix's The Witcher has landed - with one big difference. Former lead actor Henry Cavill has been replaced as main character Geralt of Rivia by Liam Hemsworth. The Australian has stepped in for the final two seasons of the fantasy show, based on a popular series of novels and video games. Previously, British actor Cavill had portrayed the title character, a monster hunter with supernatural abilities known as the White Wolf. When he announced he was passing the torch to Hemsworth in October 2022, describing him as a fantastic actor, not all fans agreed.

The last time we saw Imperator Furiosa, in the dystopian chase thriller "Mad Max: Fury Road" (2015), she had just returned from the heat of battle, her face streaked with blood, one eye swollen shut, her body so fatigued and battered that she could hardly stand. Furiosa, played by a stupendous Charlize Theron, had spent several days and nights driving an enormous truck, the War Rig, across miles of open desert, withstanding fiery assaults, a lethal sandstorm, and the surly company of a reluctant ally named Max (Tom Hardy). But triumph, at last, was hers: the vile warlord Immortan Joe (Hugh Keays-Byrne) lay dead at her feet, and hundreds of newly liberated desert dwellers were erupting in celebration. Amid the chaos, Furiosa scanned the crowd for Max and caught him slinking away. For a moment, he looked back and gave her an approving nod--then turned and vanished into the throng.

Chris Hemsworth is a well-known actor who is admired for both his tremendous talent and his exquisite appearance. Hemsworth has established himself as one of the most diverse and committed actors in the business throughout his more than ten-year career. Have you seen any of his Marvel Cinematic Universe performances? With his portrayal of Thor, he gave the character a new depth and complexity that captured the hearts and minds of the public. Hemsworth, however, is not only cast in action movies, as his tragic performance in "In the Heart of the Sea" demonstrates.

Microsoft has recently released a set of Cognitive Services that make it easy to add powerful machine intelligence to your applications with just a few lines of code. Since these services are hosted in the cloud, they can easily be consumed by applications running on any platform. I'll also describe some practical scenarios on how these technologies can be used. We've all seen at least one movie or TV show where a bad guy is magically identified using software and a single photo or frame of video. While things in the real world don't work exactly the way you see in the movies, the Face API provides technology that can be used to power this type of software.