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Everyone Loves A Superhero Movie, But Why Do Comic Book Writers And Artists Get Left In The Dust?
When the new creative head of DC Studios, James Gunn, announced their upcoming slate of films and TV, it included many names you might expect: Superman, Batman, maybe even Swamp Thing. It also included some lesser-known and leftfield picks, such as the take-no-prisoners superhero team The Authority. The team’s co-creator, artist Bryan Hitch, found that…
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How To Spot A Potential Chess Cheat, If The ‘Anal Beads’ Saga Has Taken Your Fancy
A few years ago, the chess website Chess.com temporarily banned U.S. grandmaster Hans Niemann for playing chess moves online that the site suspected had been suggested to him by a computer program. It had reportedly previously banned his mentor Maxim Dlugy. And at the Sinquefield Cup earlier this month, world champion Magnus Carlsen resigned without…
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How To Nab A Free Xbox This Telstra Day
The telco has resurfaced Telstra Day in 2022, with the idea basically being its own little Black Friday-like sale. Here’s what you can get on August 4.
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Can You Truly Own Anything In The Metaverse? A Law Professor Breaks It Down
In 2021, an investment firm bought 2,000 acres of real estate for about US$4 million. Normally this would not make headlines, but in this case the land was virtual. It existed only in a metaverse platform called The Sandbox. By buying 792 non-fungible tokens on the Ethereum blockchain, the firm then owned the equivalent of…