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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Swishable, Swackable Lightsabers Have Dominated NYCC’s Show Floor
Walking around New York Comic Con’s show floor, I’ve seen an incredible number of glowing tubes sticking out of backpacks or cradled in the hands of con-goers. Everyone at NYCC, it seems, wants a lightsaber, one that feels, looks, and sounds (wwooom) like the one they know from the movies and shows.
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The Peripheral Digs Into William Gibson’s Thrilling Virtual Reality Mystery
A decade from now, a young woman taps into her talent — she is scary-good at VR games, to the point that wealthy clients hire her to play in their stead — to scrape up cash for her family. The Peripheral, which stars Chloë Grace Moretz as the gaming whiz, asks: what if that futuristic…
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Artist Joe Quesada Jumps from Marvel to DC Comics
Comic book writers and artists tend to alternate between working at Marvel and DC Comics fairly often, assuming they don’t break off to do their own stuff. Soon to be joining DC is former Joe Quesada, writer and artist who previously served as the editor-in-chief for Marvel the during the early 2000s.
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V/H/S/99’s Trailer Promises a Gleefully Gory Good Time
Found-footage horror — which once felt like a gimmick on its way to obscurity — just keeps finding new ways to reinvent itself. One big reason is the V/H/S series, which revived itself with last year’s sickeningly entertaining V/H/S/94. A new entry (set five years later) hits Shudder just in time for Halloween.