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LOS ANGELES — Stan Lee, who dreamed up Spider-Man, Iron Man, the Hulk, Black Panther and a cavalcade of other Marvel Comics superheroes that became mythic figures in pop culture with soaring success at the movie box office, died at the age of 95, his daughter said on Monday.As a writer and editor, Lee was key to the ascension of Marvel into a comic book titan in the 1960s when, in collaboration with artists such as Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, he created superheroes who would enthrall generations of young readers."He felt an obligation to his fans to keep creating," his daughter J.C. Lee said in a statement to Reuters. "He loved his life and he loved what he did for a living. His family loved him and his fans loved him. He was irreplaceable."She did not mention the...
November 13, 2018
There will never be another Stan Lee
TAIPEI — Chen San-yuan turns heads as he cycles through a suburb of Taipei, Taiwan's capital.The reason why?Attached to the front of his bicycle are 15 mobile phones which Chen, 70, uses to simultaneously play the augmented-reality game Pokemon Go.The smartphone-based game requires players to 'catch' animated characters that appear in real locations.Known as Pokemon Grandpa, videos of Chen and his fan-shaped phone setup cycling between "Pokestops" have gone viral on the internet and made him a minor celebrity in Tucheng district, where he lives."I used one cellphone and then kept playing and playing," Chen, dressed in a crisp, white long-sleeved shirt and pants, told Reuters Television on a recent outing."After a month, it became three cellphones, six...
November 13, 2018
Taiwan grandpa catches 'em all playing Pokemon Go on 15 phones
November 13, 2018
Miley Cyrus, Neil Young lose homes in Malibu fire; Gaga visits shelter
SOME 78 million miles (126 million kilometers) from Earth, alone on the immense and frigid Red Planet, a robot the size of a small 4x4 wakes up just after sunrise. And just as it has every day for the past six years, it awaits its instructions.Around 9:30 Mars time, a message arrives from California, where it was sent 15 minutes earlier.“Drive forward 10 meters, turn to an azimuth of 45 degrees, now turn on your autonomous capabilities and drive.”The Curiosity rover executes the commands, moving slowly to its designated position, at a maximum speed of 35 to 110 meters (yards) per hour.Its batteries and other configurations limit its daily drive span to around 100 meters. The most Curiosity has rolled on Mars in a day is 220 meters.Once it arrives, its 17 cameras take shots of its...
November 12, 2018
How to drive a robot on Mars
AKIHIKO Kondo’s mother refused an invitation to her only son’s wedding in Tokyo this month, but perhaps that isn’t such a surprise: he was marrying a hologram.“For mother, it wasn’t something to celebrate,” said the soft-spoken 35-year-old, whose “bride” is a virtual reality singer named Hatsune Miku.In fact, none of Kondo’s relatives attended his wedding to Miku — an animated 16-year-old with saucer eyes and lengthy aquamarine pigtails — but that didn’t stop him from spending two million yen ($17,600) on a formal ceremony at a Tokyo hall.Around 40 guests watched as he tied the knot with Miku, present in the form of a cat-sized stuffed doll.“I never cheated on her, I’ve always been in love with Miku-san,” he said, using a honorific that is commonly employed in...
November 12, 2018
Crazy in love? The Japanese
man ‘married’ to a hologram
November 12, 2018
Warhol in New York: Fresh
experience for audiences
November 12, 2018
Avengers: Infinity War,' BTS win big at the People's Choice Awards 2018
November 12, 2018
Universal sees lots of green as 'Grinch' tops box office
November 11, 2018
Spice Girls add new tour dates as fans snap up tickets
November 11, 2018
Carthage Film Festival concludes
