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| Brian Posehn, Gerry Duggan, and Scott Koblish will reunite for Halloween Party, a one-shot Image comic hitting stores in October. Halloween Party is described as a "hilarious love-letter to everything terrifying," which just so happens to be one of the Five Essential Comic Book Pitches Every Creator Needs If They Want to Land an Image Series About One of the Five Things Image Publishes Series About, along with "gods living in the world of humans," "music as a superpower," "dragon men with insatiable lust," and "the…

Being bombarded with advertisements on our YouTube, Twitter, Snapchat, and other social media feeds is already a pretty terrible experience. Now Iimagine seeing ads flooding your lock screen first thing in the morning. That’s what U.S. mobile carriers want to do to Android smartphones within the next two months. TechCrunch reported this week that India-based mobile ad company Glance has been in talks with carriers such as T-Mobile, Verizon, and AT&T about plans to launch lock screen ads on several Android phones…

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Meta Platforms Inc. is now a leader in another social media trend -- lawsuits claiming the company built algorithms in its platforms that lure young people into destructive addiction. Eight lawsuits filed in courthouses across the US over the last week allege that excessive exposure to platforms including Facebook and Instagram has led to attempted or actual suicides, eating disorders and sleeplessness, among other issues. “These applications could have…

I’m all for smartphones encouraging creativity, but providing masses of customization options under the guise of making things more functional, attractive, or individual is a dangerous path to tread. The new lock screen system in Apple’s iOS 16 software is getting very close to that line, and in doing so, threatens to ruin the wonderful simplicity of the current lock screen. At the same time, it fails to address a couple of the big complaints against it. Busy new lock screen What does the new iOS 16 lock screen let…

Breadcrumb Trail Links World Canada Author of the article: Canadian Press Marie Woolf International Development Minister and Pacific Economic Development Agency of Canada Minister Harjit Sajjan rises during Question Period, April 4, 2022. Photo by Adrian Wyld /The Canadian Press Article content OTTAWA — Russian troops have planted mines in Ukrainian fields to prevent farmers from cultivating their crops, International Development Minister Harjit Sajjan has been told. Advertisement…

There are, of course, caveats. A recent review of more than a decade’s worth of gaming studies found that adolescent and young adult gamers outperformed nongamers in a number of cognitive functions. They were better able to switch between visual tasks, divide their attention between different moving objects and remember the location of hidden objects. Some studies also found gamers to have a higher volume of gray matter, the outer layer of the brain that processes information. Other…