[Link] Model Claims She Was Turned Into a Sex Doll Without Her Permission

Read: 13/1/2022 www.vice.com

The doll has the same dark hair, glasses, lip freckle, and name as her. The company, called Irontech, claims that this was all a coincidence.  She first posted publicly about the doll in July 2019, on Instagram.

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[Link] AK-47 maker denies accusation that it stole a gun design from a videogame

Read: 9/12/2021 www.pcgamer.com

Real-world weapons ending up in videogames is nothing new, but IGN has an interesting and very odd report about the process going the other way.

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[Link] Tolkien estate vanquishes Lord of the Rings themed cryptocurrency

Read: 25/11/2021 arstechnica.com

The estate of JRR Tolkien, the author of the Lord of the Rings, has successfully vanquished a cryptocurrency that styled itself as “The One Token That Rules Them All.

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[Link] Parallel metaverses: Facebook’s name change is challenged by Arizona retailer Meta PCs

Read: 2/11/2021 www.theguardian.com

Meta PCs, an Arizona-based company that sells computers, laptops and software for gamers was an unremarkable retail outfit a week ago.

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