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storytext This week the NBA tipped off its new season with the biggest athlete in the world getting his third championship ring. On the same night, Major League Baseball had game 1 of the World Series between two teams that haven’t won a title in a combined 174 years. And the NFL’s big game of…
storytext 5 stunning stats about Netflix Netflix is once again a Wall Street darling after reporting strong earnings and solid international subscriber growth. But could that make the red hot company a takeover target in the rapidly changing media world? Source: Why Disney should buy Netflix instead of Twitter
storytext There’s an apartment building on Vine Street in Hollywood that is famously home to several of the most well-known faces of Vine, a social media platform that Twitter announced on Thursday it would be shutting down indefinitely. The news came as a shock to some, but the 6-second video-making residents of the building were…
Batman’s been showing a broader spectrum of emotions lately, with more trust and genuine attempts at connection coming from Bruce Wayne than he has in decades. But grief never strays too far from the Dark Knight’s side. Batman writer Tom King told io9 how the superhero is going to handle Gotham City’s latest devastating losses…
DC Comics has a lot of Green Lanterns. Thousands of them are weird-looking aliens from extraterrestrial cultures; a decent chunk of them are from Earth. Human ring-wielders fight all the time, but Green Lantern: Mosaic #5 is a classic because of how John Stewart beat his fellow Green Lantern Hal Jordan. The problem with John…
Civil War II has Marvel’s superheroes fighting each other again; this time, it’s over whether it’s better to try and stop evil when you have foreknowledge in advance. Captain Marvel is leading the charge on predictive justice and it’s a stance that’s making the heroine almost totally unlikeable. The philosophical debate tearing apart the Marvel…
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Just a month before Star Trek: Discovery is set to embark on its maiden voyage and begin filming, its captain is stepping down from his spot at the show’s helm. Variety reports that executive producer Bryan Fuller has given up his role as the new series’ showrunner, handing the reins to existing producers Gretchen Berg…
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Google is stepping up its efforts to serve speedy content to mobile internet users with its Accelerated Mobile Pages, but the initiative is getting mixed reviews from publishers as some worry about its impact on their advertising revenue. Google unveiled AMP about a year ago and hundreds of companies are now publishing AMP versions of…