The Year in News: What Happened Next (Stories From May-June 2014)

Continuing our look back at the stories we covered in 2014 and their subsequent developments, we turn to May. Despite finally bringing in a deadline to stop issuing security updates for the 13-year-old Windows XP, Microsoft issued a patch for Internet Explorer on the system, vowing it was a one-off. It has since stuck to […]

The Year in News: What Happened Next (Stories From March-April 2014)

As we continue our look back on the stories we covered in 2014 — and the subsequent developments — we reach March. A group of more than a million players joined forces to beat Pokemon Red/Blue through a project that translated chat room comments into commands on a game broadcast over Twitch. That inspired similar […]


“Atterwald” is Young Adult Fiction Girls Can Look Up To

Kelley Swilley Ceccato was sick and tired of reading sci-fi and fantasy books that treated women and girls as second fiddles. Under the pen name Nan Monroe, Ceccato, a writer/performer with the Atlanta Radio Theatre Company, decided to write a young adult fantasy novel specifically for girls. Published by Gilded Dragonfly Books, the 300-page Atterwald tells the story of […]

The First Ever (And FANTASTIC!) Quebec City Comic Con in Pictures – Part I [Gallery]

For me, Quebec city is one of the most beautiful cities in the world, and even though many would argue that the climate here kind of sucks, it totally feels like home to me. So I guess you can imagine my excitement when I learned a few months ago that there would be a Comic […]