Marvel Announces New Captain America on 'The Colbert Report'

The announcement, long-rumored in comic book fandom, was made by Marvel CCO Joe Quesada on Comedy Central’s "The Colbert Report" on Wednesday night.

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Emmy Nominations: The Complete List

"Game of Thrones" and FX miniseries "Fargo" scored the most mentions with a respective 19 and 18 nominations a piece.

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R.I.P. Paul Mazursky

The prolific Oscar-nominated screenwriter and director whose films include Harry And Tonto, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice and Down And Out In Beverly Hills, died yesterday in Los Angeles of pulmonary cardiac arrest. Paul Mazursky was 84.

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R.I.P. "Hey Arnold!" writer and voice actor Steve Viksten

In addition to working on "Hey Arnold!" (the movie adaptation of which he also wrote), Viksten scripted episodes of "Rugrats," "Recess," and "Duckman."

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How Sega Nearly Won the Console Wars

Console Wars has arrived with much fanfare; it’s already being adapted into a feature film by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, who provide the book’s foreword. The book itself is a fast-paced page-turner that anyone with an interest in classic gaming history will want to read for its unique behind the scenes insight into Sega, Nintendo and Sony through the eyes of its former employees.

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How Will Vinton Lost His Studio to a Rapper Named Chilly Tee

With no knowledge of animation, Travis Knight was assigned “mop duty” -- he started out in the doldrums of the CGI department, rendering whiskers on "The PJs"’ Thurgood Stubbs. Nobody at Vinton Studios knew he was the heir to a man worth $9 billion ($16.3 billion today) -- a man who’d just purchased 15% of the company.

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How Netflix Is Transforming the Economics of the Web

In the past, a transit networks like Level 3 would trade traffic with home ISPs like Comcast without either party paying a fee. This is called “settlement free peering.” These arrangements worked because both parties were sending and receiving similar amounts of traffic. But that changed when networks like Level 3 started carrying Netflix’s streaming video, and they were delivering more traffic than they were receiving. This led to what’s called “paid peering,” where the transit network must pay for the delivery of its extra traffic.

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