After many years of a functional joint operation that bordered on symbiosis, eBay’s board of directors has decided to split the parent company from its payment division, PayPal, and make the latter its own company. eBay/Paypal Split Although the news may come as a shock to most online shoppers (or anyone familiar with e-commerce, for…
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Among Marvel’s ongoing harshest criticisms, which are just a few petty issues considering their repetitive successes, involves their lack of noteworthy villains (Loki and Winter Soldier aside). While not every film can’t have a Heath Ledger Joker, most of Marvel’s villains are as disposable and hollow as paper cups. We’ve all seen them make a…
Sherlock Holmes arrived at New York Comic Con on Friday in the form of a panel for the CBS hit show, “Elementary.” But the panel, like the season three premiere that was screened for those in attendance, focused on the eternal sidekick, Watson. Stars Lucy Liu and Jonny Lee Miller were there along with newcomer…
Benedict Cumberbatch has already won our hearts with his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes, and now he will be taking on a role in yet another classic, much-loved story, The Jungle Book. Cumberbatch proved his ability to play a villain in Stark Trek: Into Darkness, and now he will fittingly be playing another notorious villain called…
Trying to dissect immersion in a video gaming can be like writing an analysis of a comedian’s humor. By identifying and picking apart the little magic threads that turn disparate parts into a unified, (hopefully) enjoyable whole, you risk losing some of the finished product’s charm. Of course, these aren’t entirely accurate comparisons, since analyzing…
Whatever happened to art that just looks pretty? No offense to postmodernism (and, to its credit, it can be visually striking), but it’s hardly the Hudson River School (look it up) or the Michelangelo (if you need to look him up, go back to school) of the art world. Though, to be fair, Michelangelo wasn’t…
On the video game screen, geometric shapes come alive. Swiss university ECAL (also spelled éc al and stands for École cantonale d’art de Lausanne) merged an iPhone with IKEA items in order to create new ways of playing video games. The project is called OpenControllers, whose primary mastermind is Marc Dubois. In the blurb that…
In the past, Pixar has taken us under the sea, into the sky, and to other worlds, but now they are going somewhere completely new with their upcoming film: into the mind of an eleven-year-old girl. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t0A_tZGrYw] It’s been awhile since we’ve seen a new original film from Pixar, as they have been focusing…
This week, Google updated its Google Maps Street View functionality to include some breathtaking views of thoroughfares you have likely not traveled: the ancient sands of the Liwa Desert located in the United Arab Emirates. The images, which look like something out of Star Wars, were taken about 100 km south of the Persian Gulf and provide for some excellent other-worldly…
An odd form of identity theft is emerging, taking the form of a prank. According to PCMag, the threat of downloading mobile apps from legitimate sources can carry Trojans. When downloading seemingly innocent mobile apps that have malicious components, the risk lies in using text messages after the fact. The cited source, which is the…
A New Empire Star Wars Rebels premiered on DisneyXD last week to an audience of 2.74 million viewers. This much-anticipated tie-in to the movie franchise is the first addition Disney has made to the Star Wars canon, and the first glimpse we have of what is to come on the silver screen. So Rebels is significant…
Wait in limbo no more and rest your weary hearts for Robert Downey Jr. has confirmed Iron Man 4. Even though Downey gave grave notions earlier that the Iron Man franchise ended with the socially divided yet widely lucrative threequel, all seemed fine as Marvel promoted Captain America as their front runner and Guardians of…
September is typically considered one of the worst months of the box office year, but in 2014 it wasn’t so bad in terms of the quality of movies we saw. October movies look pretty good too. The variety of titles spread throughout the month, mean that you can probably find something you want to see…
Pretty much any gamer who was around in the 90s will rave about the glory days of video game publisher CAPCOM’s ultra-successful survival horror series, Resident Evil. A select group of those gamers—comprised mainly of huge Resident Evil fans and hardcore survival horror enthusiasts—will also reminiscent about a lesser known survival horror series published by…