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Tech Tuesday: Why You Should Care About DDoS Attacks (and What You Can DDo About Them)
Player 1: “Everyone attack the boss NOW!” Player 2: “We’re almost there! He’s at 10%!” Player 3: “Healer, I need help! I’m almost out of

Hobbs & Shaw is First and Furious
Luke Hobbs and Deckard Shaw have never liked each other much. But when did a little mutual loathing ever get in the way of success?

With MAD Magazine Gone, is the Future of Satire … Christian?
MAD Magazine, after 67 years of serving as America’s gap-toothed jester-king of satire, is no more. Oh, it’s not completely gone. Its creators say a

Culture Clips: Lil Nas X is Music’s New Record-Setting Sheriff
The music industry has a new top dog: “Old Town Road.” It took 24 years to beat “One Sweet Day” by Mariah Carey and Boyz

Tech Tuesday: Make Money at Home! Play Fortnite!
This just in: Fortnite Battle Royale, the wildly popular online shooter game, isn’t as wildly popular as it once was. Part of that dip is

Lion King Roars to Another Win
Quentin Tarantino’s Hollywood (circa 1969) is a place of beauty, decay and brutality. A little like a jungle. But while his characters fit in that

Vodcast: God in The Handmaid’s Tale
Hulu’s Emmy award-winning series The Handmaid’s Tale takes place in a dystopian future in Gilead, the former United States, where women are subject to the

Culture Clips: Will a Curious Trailer Kill These Cats?
In case you missed it, the new trailer for the upcoming movie musical Cats came out this week and audiences are … unsure about how

Tech Tuesday: What’s the Real King in The Lion King? Technology.
The original Lion King, released in 1994, was a cartoon of the highest order—perhaps traditional Disney 2D animation at its peak. Hand-drawn manes flowed in

The Lion King Takes the Throne
King of the Jungle? Try King of the Box Office. The Lion King, the computer-animated remake of Disney’s classic cartoon, felt the love of its
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