All Things Internet: The Big Players & The Issues
The world has grown increasingly connected over the past few decades and a huge chunk of our lives are online. We cover the companies you care about: YouTube, Google, Amazon, and the issues you care about: NBN, IoT, social media, privacy and security.
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Amazon Wants to Make Lara Croft Into a Tomb Raider Universe
Yesterday, the news broke that Phoebe Waller-Bridge was creating a TV adaptation for Crystal Dynamics’ long-running Tomb Runner franchise for Prime Video. On its own, that information wouldn’t be terribly surprising; Amazon’s making a habit of adapting things, and we’re in a period where any and every game seems up to become a TV or…
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Cowboy Bebop Creator Shinichiro Watanabe Has Thoughts on the Live-Action Version
Shinichiro Watanabe is responsible for making the coolest anime of all time — so cool, in fact, it’s been regularly airing on Adult Swim for the last two decades, and is still being watched. It’s a testament to how great Cowboy Bebop is that it still enraptures audiences all these years later — something Netflix’s live-action…
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Oxytocin’s Reputation as the ‘Love Hormone’ Might Be Overrated
New research Friday might complicate the perception of oxytocin as the so-called “love hormone.” Scientists have found that prairie voles that were genetically bred without oxytocin receptors can still mate with others and breastfeed their children — behaviours long closely linked to the hormone. While oxytocin is still important to voles and other animals, including…
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Doctor Who’s Budget Is Getting a Disney Bump, But Not as Big as Rumoured
Doctor Who has always rather infamously been a show with ideas far beyond the budgetary constraints of an ailing public broadcaster — a mainstay in the realm of wobbly sets and dodgy alien costumes. It’s a reputation that’s persisted even into its modern era. But as sci-fi TV becomes more and more lavish, that’s about…