Sarah Basford Canales
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Here’s What Stan’s Latest Content Deals Mean For Aussie Streaming
It’s been a big week for local streaming service Stan after it announced it was ordering more than 30 new, original shows and had secured a content partnership with U.S. entertainment heavyweight NBCUniversal. It’s a lot to keep up with but here’s what it’ll mean for Aussie streaming and your library in the coming months…
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Cessnock Life Is a Simulator Not Afraid to Offend
Sometimes the best games played are also the most simple. That’s why The Oregon Trail continues to live on in some form nearly 50 years after it was first released. It also partly inspired this new simulator about life in Australia’s Cessnock, in the NSW Hunter Valley. Cessnock.Life is a simple text-based game that randomly…
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The Worst Stock Images We’ve Laid Witness to in 2020
As digital journalists, a key part of our job is to search for hero images for our stories. In our travels to search for the perfect, kissy-finger-inducing image to pair with our yarn, we trawl through stock image sites (so you don’t have to. You’re welcome.). There are often cringey entries, boring images, and ones…
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Scientists Think Poo Transplants Might Be the Key to a Rare Auto-Brewery Condition
A rare condition sees some humans developing alcohol in their gut after a carb binge, but scientists in Europe think they might have found the cure — poo transplants. The researchers from Belgium’s University Hospital Ghent detailed the story of a man who was discovered to have gut fermentation syndrome, also known as auto-brewery —…