- Pixar to debut new short film in upcoming Inside Out movie (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Pinewood Studios, home of Harry Potter and the latest Star Wars, gets permission to double in size (The Guardian)
- New boardgame teaches you how to code (Mashable)
- Flashback Friday: Remember the Game Boy Camera? (Wired)
- An unusual history of kid-friendly brands Hasbro and Nintendo (Business Spectator)
- Sorry Pinocchio, new study finds moral stories do not encourage kids to tell the truth (The Huffington Post)
- Inside Harry Potter’s new Universal Studios home (The Telegraph)
- The mobile space heats up with Amazon’s new Fire Phone (The Wall Street Journal)
- Apple settles eBook price-fixing lawsuit out of court, avoids facing more than US$800 million in claims (The Globe and Mail)
- Shake It Up! star Zendaya Coleman lands role in Lifetime biopic (TIME)
- The numbers are in: Top YouTube videogame reviewer grossed US$4 million in 2013 (The Wall Street Journal)
- Godzilla blows up opening weekend in China with US$37 million in box office sales (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Do brightly colored kindergarten classes encourage or hinder learning? A new study attempts to find out (The New York Times)
- E3 virtual reality gaming news: Oculus Rift vs. Project Morpheus (CNET)
- Children are better lie detectors than you may think (TIME)
- By 2017, more than a third of the world’s population will be smartphone users (eMarketer)
- Disney Junior’s jump from TV to toyland (The Wall Street Journal)
- E3 news: Playstation TV coming to North America this fall (TechCrunch)
- The end of Radio Shack? (Business Insider)
- Ohio-based startup claims its trucks and optocopters plan would be a faster, cheaper solution for Amazon’s drone delivery concept (Wired)
- US online video consumption increased 57% from 2013, and other staggering streaming stats (StreamDaily)
- Calvin and Hobbs creator comes back to cartoons (The Guardian)
- Why software and virtual reality will be the talk at E3 this week (Tech Crunch)
- Should adults be embarrassed to read young adult books? (NPR)
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