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Amber Spencer was practically born with wheels. Her father owned a trucking company, loved watching Formula One racing, drove a motorcycle, and was thrilled to share all these passions with his daughter. Spencer started go-kart racing at age 5, and…
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Hugo Eccles grew up with a “petrol-head” amateur race car driver dad who ignited his passion for cars and motorcycles. When Eccles wasn’t “running wild” in the bucolic English countryside, he sketched cars with his grandmother, the prelude to his…
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To write this story about the metaverse, I first had to tear myself away from reading Ready Player One, which is all about, well, the metaverse. Set in 2045, this prescient 2014 sci-fi novel describes a world in which, having…
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How can you escape the harsh reality of living through the pandemic? For many of us, the answer is games. Plugging into an alternate universe offers instant psychic and emotional vacations. We can try on new identities, connect with others,…
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