Colossal Cave Adventure Preview: Digging Into the Wreck

Colossal Cave Adventure Preview: Digging Into the Wreck

When Colossal Cave Adventure was first circulating among computer enthusiasts in the ’70s, I wasn’t even born yet. I’ve never had the pleasure of experiencing the original spelunking adventure, but I’ve certainly enjoyed the fruits of its success. Colossal Cave’s legacy has spawned not just more text-based adventures like the…

Meta announces Facebook and Instagram users can post NFTs from digital wallets

Meta announces Facebook and Instagram users can post NFTs from digital wallets

Facebook and Instagram users can both post nonfungible tokens, or NFTs, and digital collectibles to their accounts by linking their wallets. In a Monday update to a May 10 blog post, Facebook’s parent company Meta said the social media platform’s roughly 2.9 billion users will have the ability to share…

Opinion: Netflix’s BioShock Movie Should be a Prequel, Not an Adaptation

Opinion: Netflix’s BioShock Movie Should be a Prequel, Not an Adaptation

After years of false starts and being trapped in development hell, it seems the BioShock movie is finally becoming a reality. Netflix has snatched up the rights to this iconic sci-fi shooter franchise, and the movie now has a director in The Hunger Games’ Francis Lawrence. Unfortunately, if the past…

Serena Williams Shares Daughter Olympia’s Reaction to Her Retirement

Serena Williams Shares Daughter Olympia’s Reaction to Her Retirement

Serena announced that she would being saying goodbye to tennis in an essay for Vogue earlier this month. “I’m here to tell you that I’m evolving away from tennis,” she wrote in a cover story for the magazine’s September 2022 issue, “toward other things that are important to me.”  She also…

Conn. estate of late songwriter Lee Pockriss lists for M
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Conn. estate of late songwriter Lee Pockriss lists for $3M

The Bridgewater, Connecticut, estate of the late ’50s and ’60s hit songwriter Lee Pockriss — of “Catch a Falling Star,” “Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini” and “Johnny Angel” fame — has hit the market for $3 million. The charming property at 137 Skyline Bridge Road spans 10 acres surrounded by…

Sam Bankman-Fried denies report FTX plans to purchase stake in Huobi

Sam Bankman-Fried denies report FTX plans to purchase stake in Huobi

Global crypto exchange FTX will not be acquiring a majority stake in Huobi, according to CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, or SBF.  In a Monday tweet, SBF explicitly denied a Bloomberg report that claimed FTX was planning to purchase crypto exchange Huobi. Cointelegraph reported on Aug. 12 that Huobi co-founder Leon Li was…