Tag: Arts & Entertainment
‘Lower Decks’ mines the weirder corners of the Star Trek universe
The following contains minor spoilers for season two, episode eight of 'Star Trek: Lower Decks.' The subject of “canon” has come up a lot recently. Marvel’s What If…? is a show that plays around but still mostly adheres to it, while Star Wars Visions disregards it almost completely. Meanwhile, Star…
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The Watcher takes center stage on this week’s ‘What If…?’
This post contains spoilers for episode eight of Marvel's 'What If…?' In physics there’s what’s known as the “observer effect,” wherein an object or system is changed merely by observing it. On Marvel’s What If…? each episode has been witnessed by an apparently omniscient narrator known as The Watcher, who…
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Facebook publishes slides on how Instagram affects teen mental health
Facebook has published two slide decks detailing its research into how Instagram affects teens’ mental health. The slides were heavily cited by The Wall Street Journal earlier this month in a story that reported the company’s own researchers had found that ““Instagram is harmful for a sizable percentage” of teens,…
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Facebook will promote Instagram Reels in News Feed
Facebook’s TikTok clone is no longer just for Instagram. As of today, the social network is officially bringing Reels to the main Facebook app. With the change, users can create Reels directly from Facebook, and the company will recommend the short-form videos in all users’ News Feeds. Facebook has been…
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Facebook’s 2Africa to become the longest subsea cable in the world
2Africa, a subsea cable project funded by Facebook and several telcos, will become the longest subsea cable system ever deployed by the time it's finished. The social network has announced that the consortium of companies behind the initiative has decided to add a new segment to the structure called 2Africa…
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‘Star Wars: Visions’ breaks from canon while Marvel’s ‘What If…?’ refuses to
The following contains spoilers for episode three of 'Star Wars: Visions' and episode seven of 'What If…?' Back in the days when DVD was king, I remember there was a trend of making animated tie-ins for live-action franchises. There were direct-to-video features for Chronicles of Riddick, Van Helsing and, the…
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