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(Reuters/Tim Wimborne) As countless iPhone users have flocked to ad-blocking technology to try to escape from slow-loading, insecure online advertisements, a top trade group for advertisers is apologizing for having “messed up” the Web. The systems that allowed marketers to track and target advertisements “have slowed down the public internet and drained more than a…
Meet Maggie Goldenberger, who helplessly watched an Internet meme spawn from her awkward adolescent photo. Except, maybe the “Gershberms” girl never existed the way we thought she did? In March 2012, 23-year-old Maggie Goldenberger was in the middle of a six-month trip to India and the Philippines with her then-girlfriend. They were travelling from India’s…
The Huffington Post has seen a major decline in its monthly traffic coming from within the U.S. over the past year, while competitors such as BuzzFeed and Vice Media continue to grow, according to data provided by comScore to International Business Times. In September of last year, HuffPost pulled in around 113 million unique visitors…
Stephen Colbert thinks Tuesday night’s Democratic debate was different. There were no personal attacks, no salty language — except, from the back wall, which for some reason kept repeating ‘f CNN’” (the debate was cosponsored by Facebook and displayed its logo before CNN’s). Colbert played a video splicing all of times Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders…
R. L. Stine is best known as the author ofGoosebumps, the children’s horror-book series that in the 1990s morphed into video games, plastic toys, a Taco Bell sponsorship, a television show, and even its own land within a Disney theme park. Over the past couple decades the initialGoosebumps audience have grown into adults, but Stine has…
JOAN RIVERS, a comedian who died last year, did not let chores get in the way of a career in showbusiness. “I hate housework,” she joked. “You make the beds, you do the dishes, and six months later, you have to start all over again.” An escape from unpaid drudgery into paid work seems a…
Marlon James, the Jamaican winner of this year’s Man Booker prize for fiction, has revealed that he briefly abandoned writing after his first novel was rejected nearly 80 times. The author told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme he had not slept since A Brief History of Seven Killings was announced as the winner of the…
SIGGRAPH Asia 2015 Technical Paper VideoProject Page: http://graphics.stanford.edu/~niessne…We present a method for the real-time transfer of facial expressions from an actor in a source video to an actor in a target video, thus enabling the ad-hoc control of the facial expressions of the target actor. The novelty of our approach lies in the transfer and photo-realistic…
Jennifer Connell, center, is escorted to her car after her lawsuit against her nephew was found in his favor. (Brian A. Pounds/Hearst Connecticut Media via AP) A New York woman who came under fire this week for unsuccessfully suing her 12-year-old nephew after his overly enthusiastic hug left her with a broken wrist is now…
This article, Engineer builds ‘working’ Thor’s hammer that only he can lift, originally appeared on CNET.com. mjolnir.jpg A passerby tries to lift engineer Allen Pan’s Mjolnir. Video screenshot by Michelle Starr/CNET In Marvel comics, Thor’s legendary hammer Mjolnir is famous for being able to be wielded only by the worthy. For the unworthy, i.e., literally…