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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Ms. Marvel’s First Trailer Brings a Radical New Kamala Khan to the MCU
The first full-length trailer for Ms. Marvel is here and it’s as adorable, fun, and exciting as the comics. Full of absolutely excellent directorial decisions and featuring Iman Vellani as Ms. Marvel, the new series looks like a tone-perfect mashup of Scott Pilgrim vs. The World and Sky High.
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Oculus Founder’s Vision for Military AI, Which He’s Helping Build, Is Kinda Yikes
One of the founders of Oculus, now called Meta Quest, has been busy since being pushed out of the company in 2018. In a frustratingly coy interview with Wired, Palmer Luckey skirted around the question of whether or not technology from Anduril Industries, a military technology company Luckey founded in 2017, is being used in Ukraine. “There’s…
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Big Rocket Energy: Pete Davidson Scores Free Seat on Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin Flight
A crew of six, including Pete Davidson of Saturday Night Live, will attempt to venture past the Kármán line on March 23 aboard a Blue Origin rocket.
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Report: Obi-Wan Kenobi Almost Brought Back Darth Maul
It’s probably for the best that Darth Maul isn’t the big bad in the upcoming Disney+ Obi-Wan Kenobi series, avoiding a retread of the character’s terrific bow on Star Wars Rebels. But director Deborah Chow and original writer Hossein Amini pitched a much darker take in which the character would return, but it was paused by…